A crash course in changing the world.
For my act of monetary courage I went and helped this project on Kickstarter.com with a small amount of cash
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/OurGoods/trade-school-0
I was fascinated by the project bc I'm on an education kick now at work but the "school" itself had interesting future principles. If you have to give up something to learn something, you immediately have more invested and are not disengaged from the process.
But more than that, the exchange assumes that students have something of value to give up - they are not worthless before they come to class, and they can help out the wh*** in some way. And in this context of trading and barter, it means that people see ways to achieve what they need to without money. My other blog post talked about social value and trust - it will be interesting to see if Trade School makes its goal.
For me, the kickstarter site used a "currency" I am sadly already addicted to - my amazon.com account. Which funnels straight to a credit card of course - very traditional there - but I was glad I didn't have to give financial info to yet another Web site.
I suspect it will be a mix of old and new "money" that will make the world go round.
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