Comments on: Transitioning from a fire economy to a water economy https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/transitioning-from-a-fire-economy-to-a-water-economy/2009/01/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:58:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Zbigniew Lukasiak https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/transitioning-from-a-fire-economy-to-a-water-economy/2009/01/02/comment-page-1#comment-358434 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:58:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2274#comment-358434 How is it really different from a currency with hight inflation?

]]> By: Sepp Hasslberger https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/transitioning-from-a-fire-economy-to-a-water-economy/2009/01/02/comment-page-1#comment-358338 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:07:38 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2274#comment-358338 A very good explanation of demurrage.

What Ran Prieur doesn’t say (at least in the bit quoted here) is that the proceeds from demurrage could and should be immediately “ploughed back into” the economy, either by giving a living wage to everyone, or by financing government spending, in which case demurrage could make (most) taxes superfluous.

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