Saturday, September 17, 2011

Maybe The Revolution Won't Be EITHER On Television Or The Streets

Maybe it will be in finding new ways of valuing work, such as the modern system of time banks.  In time banks, participants receive credit for work donated, which they can use to receive various services from other donors.  Okay, it's really an old idea (bartering), but organized with latter-day efficiency and planning.  And with one radical component:  all work is valued equally.

It's work, after all, that has consistent value.  A good teacher is just as useful in one century as in another, for example.  Money, which is always controlled by a minority, always has relative value.  And yet, it's the party of the moneyed class that accuses the rest of us of being relativists.

Sorry.  That dog doesn't hunt.  Nothing you can do can stop us from working and building the future--and changing the things your dollars chase.

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