Villages are a very good size for a community to establish a new economy, but those villages can be virtual. The Open Source 'village' has been cooperating and sharing wealth for decades giving us the internet protocols and infrastructure software we all depend on. Their medium of exchange has been code rather than money, and access to the huge reservoir of communal wealth they have built.
Villages are a very good size for a community to establish a new economy, but those villages can be virtual. The Open Source 'village' has been cooperating and sharing wealth for decades giving us the internet protocols and infrastructure software we all depend on. Their medium of exchange has been code rather than money, and access to the huge reservoir of communal wealth they have built.
There's certainly something to be said for the virtual village. I have something of that here, where my community of writers/thinkers shows up. We never meet in my local town :)
Villages are a very good size for a community to establish a new economy, but those villages can be virtual. The Open Source 'village' has been cooperating and sharing wealth for decades giving us the internet protocols and infrastructure software we all depend on. Their medium of exchange has been code rather than money, and access to the huge reservoir of communal wealth they have built.
There's certainly something to be said for the virtual village. I have something of that here, where my community of writers/thinkers shows up. We never meet in my local town :)