Living, Part III: Money and barter
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FRNS may go south. (It's about time!) Gold is great, but it's hard to buy a loaf of bread with it. The new types of digital money are going to be a privacy blessing someday but will they glitch out when y2k comes?
What are your thoughts about money, trade and barter in a Gulch community?
Here's one city with an interesting system:
Ithaca Hours http://www.lightlink.com/ithacahours/
You'll also find tons of information on alternative money systems (including
e-money) and barter on the Web pages of R.D. Davies:
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/money.html
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/barter.html
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