Skip to main content

Home/ Care and Share Time Bank/ Group items tagged value

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Steve Bosserman

Time Banking Within the Natural History of Debt « Volatility - 0 views

attempter.wordpress.com/...in-the-natural-history-of-debt

time_banking debt true_economy

shared by Steve Bosserman on 03 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Bosserman on 03 Feb 12
     
    Time banking is a formal framework for organizing the true economy (everything devalued by the money/debt system, including what's written off as the "informal economy") along the lines of reciprocal gifting of work. It's especially versatile for the exchange of services, but can be used for goods as well with a version of the labor measure of value. Goods can be valued according to the time that goes into manufacturing them.   This framework is enfolded within the concept of co-production, which is a transitional concept between capitalism and full economic democracy. Time banking as a framework and time dollars as a measure are part of this transition to such consciousness of economic community and freedom that we can dispense with formal measurement completely and restore the wholesome primal system of social credit which originally preceded money for tens of thousands of years.
Steve Bosserman

California Federation of Time Banks - 0 views

cafederationoftimebanks.org

time_banking california federation

shared by Steve Bosserman on 18 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Steve Bosserman on 18 Feb 12
     
    The California Federation of Time Banks is a collaborative network committed to connecting, sharing information, and supporting the expansion of Time Banking in the state. From the largest cities to the smallest towns, we celebrate the many innovative ways time banking can address social issues and creatively fill the gaps by strengthening relationships in our neighborhoods. Based on the fundamental values of respect and reciprocity, we are a creative learning community that shares experiences, trades best practices and empowers each other to work for a healthy, sustainable future.
Steve Bosserman

Falling through the gaps: insecure work and the social safety net | openDemocracy - 0 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...ure-work-and-social-safety-net

work value labor market

shared by Steve Bosserman on 15 Aug 17 - No Cached
  • There is scope, in better delivery of work support, to challenge the atomisation and isolation of workers and the loss of social capital and networks of new working models. The precarity of insecure work needs to be addressed, rather than exacerbated, by the systems set up to support people through their working lives. In roles where working hours are flexible or unpredictable, the division between private and public lives can be complex. The interaction between the individual and the state needs to understand that complexity and support people to navigate through their working lives rather than leaving them without a compass or adequate map.
  • Steve Bosserman on 15 Aug 17
     
    Rationale for a time-based economy...
Steve Bosserman

How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation - Evonomics - 0 views

evonomics.com/le-route-social-transformation

commons communities governance

shared by Steve Bosserman on 18 Mar 17 - No Cached
  • A commons is an asset over which a community has shared and equal rights. This could, in principle, include land, water, minerals, knowledge, scientific research and software. But at the moment most of these assets have been enclosed: seized by either the state or private interests and treated as any other form of capital. Through this enclosure, we have been deprived of our common wealth.
  • The restoration of the commons has great potential not only to distribute wealth but also to change society. As the writer David Bollier points out, a commons is not just a resource (land or trees or software) but also the community of people managing and protecting it. The members of the commons develop much deeper connections with each other and their assets than we do as passive consumers of corporate products.
  • Managing common resources means developing rules, values and traditions. It means, in some cases, re-embedding ourselves in the places in which we live. It means reshaping government to meet the needs of communities, not corporations. In other words, reviving the commons can act as a counterweight to the atomising, alienating forces now generating a thousand forms of toxic reaction.
Steve Bosserman

The Time Based Economy - Amar SINGH Kaleka - Medium - 1 views

medium.com/...e-great-atonement-f0b089f050de

time-based economy

shared by Steve Bosserman on 26 Jul 17 - No Cached
  • If it works, then why in the world are we not basing our whole economy on the finite construct of “time”? It would nearly be infallible, versus the legacy commodities model, which is full of holes and reject-able logic.A “time based economy” can be used with any nation state, group, or community based economics model. To make it simple, the value at the transaction would be time dollars in the form of a digital debit.
  • In the time based economy, each person enrolled, anywhere in the world would have an online account which is controlled by the debit card (not a citizenship card).
  • The time based economy primarily functions through the education, civics, and knowledge sector.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • This new education model would then become the basis of the global economy, like the base of a pyramid. During these years, and throughout their education, each child would pay for their own education through “time dollars”.
  • It would become the first global economy which standardizes and binds the economic trade of all market forces, known and unknown, to the only universal equality on this planet: time.
1 - 12 of 12
Showing 20▼ items per page