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kleinbl00 · 3175 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is the local economy the solution to a post-capitalist world?
Sounds like the Craigslist problem: the people wishing to pay via barter generally have the least financially-valuable skills and products. I think this is where most microcurrencies fall down: those whose products and services are adequately priced in regular currencies have no incentive to adjust to a microcurrency that suddenly makes one massage worth five oil changes.
user-inactivated · 3175 days ago · link ·
The COOP I worked at took the currency, and gave it to the employees. That was way before I worked there. At the end of it there was a dentist burried in a colapsed note. Reading about MMORPG economies and balancing them sound impossible to me, can't imagine pulling strings on actual markets.