https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-thackaras-intimate-tour-of-the-emerging-new-economy/2016/10/24 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 25 Oct 2016 04:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/john-thackaras-intimate-tour-of-the-emerging-new-economy/2016/10/24/comment-page-1#comment-1577865 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 04:21:00 +0000 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=60841#comment-1577865 Dear David Bollier,
I love your work and support the entire gamut of projects by CSG and P2P. My only problem is why people don’t understand this new frame of economic and social value. It is so natural but still it is so difficult. With my own experience in India, the debt burden has locked people in such a way that they cannot go out of monoculture of fiat money. From schools to businesses, from courts to rights, everything is so hegemonic that we are forced to wait for the ultimate demise of the fiat money structures. I think that if people are shown how to replace one kind of money with the other one, things would be far more easier to communicate. I think that in this sense, some of the crypto-currency experiments need to be investigated. I know that there is a serious speculative force working there too but the developer community can be found around these projects who see real value there. Synereo, Agora Tokens, Maidsafe, Bitshares, Dash are the projects that can throw some serious insights into how monetary shift (in individual cases) can be eased out.

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