Jill Harrison
Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read

While I really love the club model with designing the opt in features that make it accessable for expansion, I’m wondering if a transformational model can be successfully tried with a more ‘uninvolved’ population in terms of understanding & buying in to the mission.

I have long wanted to see Baltimore try a pilot program of circulating a currency that taxes money storage rather than flows and begins building a local commons that protects members from rentier extraction by establishing land trusts & cooperatively owned businesses. This would directly model Silvio Gesell’s notion of demurrage currency with all rent & interest going to the public. However the starting point usually involves picking a population based on unemployment or a neighborhood that has extreme needs.

I’m not sure the path a pilot program would take if the participants don’t have some understanding or buy in to the experiment however.

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