Wednesday, December 10, 2014

#18

Money is de-emphasized.

Internally:
Everyone who is a member if the community is given the same amount for regular work, and extra work is rewarded with extra benefits rather than more money. Food, water, shelter, and power are all taken care of just by being part of the society, and all come from inside, so that no one need to pay for them with anything other than work-time. A lot of stuff is community property--food, most entertainment and tools, etc--so personal property needing money is mostly just stuff we can't make at home. 
The rest of everyone's income goes into the community fund for upkeep and expansion and improvement.

Externally:
There is always a fund for a certain number of people to go to school or travel or work outside the community, so long as they bring their knowledge and experience back. People who work outside mostly do so to feed the fund and the community bank, or to acquire stuff we can't make ourselves.

In daily life, the goal is to not need money for regular interactions, and for the community as a whole to mostly check out of consumerism, except where we would choose--in selling exports, for example, or for funding travel to other countries.

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