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**ultramDoctoo** · 11-02-2011, 03:59 PM

The primary motive of the 99% segment of the Greeks is to use money in a way to beat the taxation the government is unfairly trying to burden them with. I am not sure if they have an alternative system of exchange (other than barter) or if there is no system and they adapt themselves individually to ad hoc deals. But this story resurrected an idea in my memory that I think would work in Greece or anywhere else:

http://www.michaeljournal.org/localmoney.htm

If the standard for adopting something like this is the desire to show TPTB that we don't need their money--then using something like this would meet that standard. This system would effectively create an alternative money supply that the elite had absolutely no control over--and they would not be able to suppress it if everybody preferred it and used it to effect exchanges of value. It's a great expression of the idea that "We don't need their money or their controls."

In my mind, making TPTB irrelevant has great appeal. We should use their financial crisis as an opportunity to shake free of them entirely and restore a sane economic system as well as a healthy political system.

Hatha

11-02-2011, 03:59 PM	#13
ultramDoctoo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 461 Senior Member	The primary motive of the 99% segment of the Greeks is to use money in a way to beat the taxation the government is unfairly trying to burden them with. I am not sure if they have an alternative system of exchange (other than barter) or if there is no system and they adapt themselves individually to ad hoc deals. But this story resurrected an idea in my memory that I think would work in Greece or anywhere else: http://www.michaeljournal.org/localmoney.htm If the standard for adopting something like this is the desire to show TPTB that we don't need their money--then using something like this would meet that standard. This system would effectively create an alternative money supply that the elite had absolutely no control over--and they would not be able to suppress it if everybody preferred it and used it to effect exchanges of value. It's a great expression of the idea that "We don't need their money or their controls." In my mind, making TPTB irrelevant has great appeal. We should use their financial crisis as an opportunity to shake free of them entirely and restore a sane economic system as well as a healthy political system. Hatha
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