#mutualism — Public Fediverse posts
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What if money could emerge from relationships of trust rather than being issued first and circulated afterward?
Mutual credit treats money as an accounting system for reciprocal obligations between productive participants. Its roots reach back through credit traditions and mutualist thought, while digital networks open new possibilities for coordination.
But mutual credit brings its own challenges: scalability, free riders, external purchasing power, liquidity, regulation, and the unit of account.
Its deeper promise may be organizational. Cooperatives and DAOs could develop monetary infrastructure connected directly to their own productive relationships.
Read the full essay: Circulating Trust as Money Architecture - The Mutual Credit Tradition - https://mutualhorizons.manifoldclub.com/posts/mutual-credit/
#Mutualism #PostLabor #Cooperation #Decentralization #Solarpunk
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Amerika Ist Wunderbar
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A tiny, nearly-blind shrimp with a claw hot enough to rival the sun's surface teams up with a goby fish for the ultimate roommate deal: the shrimp builds and guards the burrow, while the goby keeps watch and signals danger. It's a real-life example of mutualism
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"When two species interact to the benefit of both, biologists speak of “mutualisms.” But nice as these relationships may sound, they are rarely perfectly harmonious — in fact, they can evolve to become unbalanced and exploitative.
Species can cheat or manipulate each other, or downright endanger each other’s health and survival. To stop that from happening, they’ve evolved a variety of mechanisms to control or even punish each other."
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New patch for my bag. This one is sparkly, because my daughter asked me.
#anarchafeminism #mutualism #anarchism #anarchy #punk #patch #diy
