Currency…

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Chris Corrigan spotted this interesting thought from Jack/Zen:

What’s interesting is that anonymous monetary currency doesn’t build community. It only as Jean suggests, “outsources connections.” When I trade my time helping someone start a wiki website for their business for their time doing plumbing or editing for me, a relationship builds. When I hand someone ten dollars for an item at Target or Whole Foods, no relationship builds in that transaction. In a monetary currency economy, flow occurs without the building of relationship. In a gift and barter economy, relationship is formed.

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