My personal vision for the future of money is that people find a way to live without it, or at least with less of it. I envision individuals creating their own patchwork economies based on barter, LETS/timebank programs, local currencies,
whuffie, recycling, DIY, communal resource sharing and so on. Each person would be able to customize a system that works best for them, maybe using local currencies to buy food from a farmer's market and trading time bucks for needed services. People would only have to resort to hard currency for non-negotiable payments such as taxes, rent and so on. But with creativity, even this need could be reduced to a bare minimum via co-housing, income minimizing, self-sufficient/off-grid lifestyles, etc.
One of my favorite new concepts I picked up from the book, No Impact Man. In it, the author made the comment that we're not here to serve the economy, the economy is here to serve us. This completely changed the way I look at my own economic activities and I am now striving to find ways to stop blindly serving the economy and to make it work for me in the way I want it to.
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