Matthew Slater @matslats@social.coop
- https://twitter.com/matslats
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Complementary #currency engineer
#altmoney #drupal #nomad #gifteconomy
Joined Oct 2017
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@cy For a definition of The Gift read Marcel Mauss. A system of credit indicates obligation, often legally enforced, to return a specific amount.This is very far from gifting.
What should small US nonprofits be using these days instead of PayPal?
really helpful sensemaking of the pandemic so far and the innappropriate government response. https://worlddoctorsalliance.com
@cy Then you promise to give something later. The unit of account on the ledger is the record of the difference between what you have received and what you have promised.
Some people call it credit money.
@cy Definitely NOT like a gift economy. Its an exchange system, with a precise unit of value. Instead of minting tokens and pretending they are valuable, members just promise to give as much as they receive.
@cy mutual credit systems another paradigm from blockchain and silver monies. I have much work to educate the public in this largely forgotten/ignored paradigm. Sometimes they are called moneyless systems because the credit members created is only accepted by other members. Hence 'mutual'. Its no microloans because its not money. All members have is the goods and services they produce and their promises.
@cy at the moment, as with all CC's, there are much bigger hurdles to adoption than government.
@cy
well aware of those concerns thanks. Yes its not designed for tax avoidance but avoidance of money/credit and banks.
KYC problems are handled because it is in the interests of each group to police their members or the whole group is liable.
Credit Commons protocol - reference implementation now available.
https://creditcommons.net
@jdaviescoates I believe not
Matthew Slater
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Why haven't "buying clubs" become more common with internet?
For example, 100 cat owners could join together, approach different cat food providers and bargain a discount through joint-purchasing.
My guess is that the venture capital model makes us only think in terms of what works as a capitalist firm.
Ventures like buying clubs make more sense as #coops or mutuals. The largest hardware store chain (Ace Hardware) and carpet flooring firm (CCA Global) in the US are both purchasing coops.
@arran To "alphabet" doesn't work for me.
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angry woke nonsense
It's not conservative vs liberal
It's not LGBTQ vs cishet
It's not even PoC vs white supremacists
It's RICH vs POOR, and one side is buying propaganda to make us fight over every divide EXCEPT for the class divide. Can we all just step away from each other's throats for ten fucking minutes, kill all of the landlords, and then get back to your regularly scheduled social war?
Matthew Slater
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Looks like #Drupal sites can now be part of the fediverse! Congratulations swentel!
Why do I hate capitalism?
@brainblasted I realised that even the worthwhile work was passionless once it was renunmerated with money. Money makes us replaceable part and that really kills passion.
I'm building some microservices in php and having problems sharing $_SESSION between them.
session.cookie_domain seems to be set. But I'm missing something. Can someone give me a few minutes to diagnose?
@anaulin thanks a lot ana they'll be in touch.
Vegan Australia are looking for advice and then a contractor to upgrade their database from txt files + python script.
https://www.veganaustralia.org.au
Does anybody have an hour to talk to them?
- https://twitter.com/matslats
- Web site
- https://matslats.net
Complementary #currency engineer
#altmoney #drupal #nomad #gifteconomy
Joined Oct 2017
