I am at the TEM here in Greece, and that is an exchange without money, but with TEM . In my experience the problem that people can have is that they do not get payed for the costs, like i get TEM but i can not buy my perlite or vermiculite with TEM, or I make natural champoo for instance but i do not sell it for TEM since every champoo costs me 2.50 to make for instance. I don't know how your system works, but it makes me think of TEM. If it is something like that you have to realise that for instance somebody poor can not put things that have costed money , somebody who has money will therefore not be interested in what this person has to offer. I am introducing in the TEM something new , its called giving, I will put the ground full of usefull plants,( most of wich the uses are unknown, so nobody can say hey you are a farmer without papers?) And i see that even with people who are so conditioned in the moneysystem and were before trying to get as much TEM they could (as if they could put it on the bank for their old days or something) are suddenly thinking, he what can i give, what can i do.
The TEM is much better than the money system, but it is still earning, trying to get more for most people.The power of TEM is that it is you might call an exercise in democracy. It is the first step away from money, and it teaches us that anybody can make a moneysystem, that money is just paper that we all agreed on has a certain value. If a small group of people are able to have most of the money in their possesion, making us so poor that we have nothing to eat, we can simply decide all together that something else has exchange value now.(It will still take a long time before people realize that though) It can be bananabucks, TEM or anything, or we might come to the conclusion that we live much better when we just give where it is most needed. About your bananabucks i have mixed feelings, i mean do we need to get rewarded for saying welcome? I liked it so much that so many people said welcome,(thanks all of you by the way) if i would learn they are getting bananabucks for it, i would feel half as nice.
I do not say it is a bad idea, but for me you should discuss the pro and the contra to make a model that keeps for instance the welcomes warm, that things will not become about making money or other bucks. That you don't deminisch your good idea of the welcomes with buckmaking for instance. I am new here on this site, and i want to really compliment you. I will tell all my friends to become a member, i will find some pictures of bananas somewhere, and say welcome and thanks as much as we can , if we work on it as a group, we get 5 and 5 plants and have a plantage in no time. Thank you thank you thank you.
Before you see this as an attack , it is not meant that way, i honestly really love this site,I think you did a great job on it, i really would hate it if it would get spoiled, and greed can spoil a lot, it is the main problem of the times we live in. You can invite greed with bananabucks, i think you should work on the idea a little longer, to make it in a way greed stays out of it. I think good behaviour is not learned by rewards, i think it is learned by opportunity.
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