6.10 Alternative money

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What if you were put in charge of the World tomorrow? How would you run the planet?

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This globally popular educational and research website (stolen from www.12-12-12.org) lists every national and international problem in the world in a rather unusual and entertaining way, so remember to bookmark www.harryrings.org in your favourites folder! For the record: Harry Potbelly Lord of the Onion Rings has decided to take over the World because it is in a mess. He has decreed that by December 12^th 2012 there will be global peace and no more poverty. Stop doing what you were going to do today and read on.................

Harry Potbelly Lord of the Onion Rings as Director of the Human Race and Manager Planet Earth commands and Andronicos "The Cynic" responds as follows.........

I invite every politician, economist and businessperson to read the well presented, easy to understand book "The future of money"¹. It lists proven alternatives and complementary money systems to the existing global paper based confidence trick everyone uses and falls for called "cash". Here are some of these alternatives:-

Commodity Money: A piece of paper fully backed by a commodity such as coal. A small monthly stamp fee pays for the storage of the coal.

Stamp Script Money: If you have thousands of unemployed people all willing to work in a local region but there is only a small amount of liquid capital, pay them in this way. For every month they don't spend their virtual money, a tax of 1% per month has to be paid. The incentive is therefore to spend spend spend the script money as quickly as possible with unemployed people, which will create much needed employment!

Lets (Local Exchange Trading System): Put very simply, in areas where there is not much "real" cash, it’s a computerised electronic notice board which offers various goods and services for barter: often involving real cash and "Lets" computer money. It is worth noting some tribal states allow such transactions to be tax-free.

Time dollars, Ithaca hours, Pen exchange, The Curitiba, The Tlaloc and the Bia Kud Chum are other variations of the theme.

Anyway, I have decided that where legal, local communities experiencing high unemployment should instigate similar systems. I direct community leaders address this issue immediately.

I further direct that initially War Bond corporations fund day to day life in their Kibbutz villages with a hybrid complimentary currency system such as listed above. Why? Because American dollars, Eurodollars or any other tribal currency is not very useful if there's no one within several hundred kilometres who can (initially) afford to buy anything with traditional money.

I envisage a day, not that far away, when money is no longer used in the way it is today.

External links relating to topics found in the 12-12-12 book and website

Many external links have been included which voice various opinions on the subject matter. They are an invaluable tool for research and general discussion.

This NCN Alternative Money System
http://www.newciv.org/ncn/moneyteam.html

This NCN Alternative Money System team was created to collect information on what schemes already exist, to discuss the prospects of doing away with money systems and using a resource-based system instead, and ways of financing new civilization projects, implementing experimental schemes, and more

Where will the trillions of dollars needed to eradicate extreme poverty by December 12^th 2012, come from?
How will this stop ALL wars by December 12^th 2012? (Show me ALL wars and national disputes in the World)
How will some of the money be spent to make the above happen?
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How can my family and I help the 12-12-12 initiative, without it costing us one penny? (one page PDF download)
Show me ALL environmental problems in the World
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