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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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TimeBanks USA is your home for joining a TimeBank, starting a TimeBank, connecting with TimeBanks, and learning about TimeBanking. Founded by Dr. Edgar Cahn. 
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Timebanking is a tax-exempt alternative currency system that works like this: if I spend one hour helping you build your website, I earn one credit, or time dollar. You can then turn around and exchange that time dollar by giving it to someone who fixes your refrigerator, coaches you on your resume, or gives you a ride to the airport.
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Jeremy Rifkin's new book, "The Zero Marginal Cost Society," brings welcome attention to the Commons – which lies at the heart of a major cultural and social shift now underway.
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During the last two great depressions in the US, hundreds of thousands (possibly millions) of people organized to meet their basic needs when the mainstream economy and centralized monetary system failed them. Unemployed poor folks got together to create time dollar stores, cooperative mills, farms, healthcare systems, foundries, repair and recycling facilities, distribution warehouses, health care systems, and a myriad of other service exchanges.
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December 8, 2014 7:17 PM
Timebanking has been around for decades, though not necessarily in this salient form. Through both depressions where the monetary system essentially failed, forms such as Timebanking and bartering rose to meet the needs of the masses. Cooperatives and increased interdependence were a secondary product of these alternative forms of exchange. These increases inevitably contribute to aiding the underprivileged, and fostering reciprocity. The process of Timebanking involves participants signing up to it, and then the system matches people whom can meet each other’s needs. The “hours” can be banked, and then redeemed at a later date. |
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The municipal government of Nanjing in east Chian's Jiangsu province is setting up "time banks" where volunteers can 'deposit' their time by helping the people in need and 'withdraw' it when they need help.
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This is a prototype mutual credit system created on ethereum.
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User view: By entering or searching the space of any user ( www.yourwordpress.com/timebank) you can see the list of sales and purchases of that user. The status of their transfers, rating and comments of each transaction. All users after purchasing can rate and review the product or services. (Kind of eBay). If you enter to your user space, you can create new transfers, accept or reject transfers, comment and rate transfers.
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Linda Hogan and Terry Daniels of hOur World talk about Time Banks in a presentation for PODER in San Francisco October 11, 2011. Time Banks are a way to get and receive services without total dependence on cash. Their roots reach deep into our history and saved many during the Depression of the 1930's. Time Banks are making a giant comeback- and this time may be here for good!
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The monetary, debt-based system is an artificial resource, different from natural resources, with which the alternative, time-based economy turns the tables to exploit capitalism itself, in order to create a society with the values of gifting and sharing as opposed to taking and exchanging.
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