Comments on: Valuing Nothing http://timhowgego.com/valuing-nothing.html Thoughts, Ideas, Analysis Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:56:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jo Walsh http://timhowgego.com/valuing-nothing.html#comment-1356 Jo Walsh Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:58:01 +0000 http://timhowgego.com/?p=162#comment-1356 So, currency as means of exchange will wither away, if in small networks, we retain porous enough edges that some inlet can be established, con-currency of mind without a token. Here-to-there raises its head again. To wait for a singularity, deus ex machina is to give up reason, which remains pretty useful. Been told that LETS communities tend to die out over time, when enough intensity of relation is established that exchange is done without the need for explicit token of value. Then new people can't get in, the network fades back rather than reaching out. I would say that from There, the question and the answer look like the same thing. How can that that help us Here? Do we gain more by asking than by fishing? In the hope that i am making at least some sense, jo So, currency as means of exchange will wither away, if in small networks, we retain porous enough edges that some inlet can be established, con-currency of mind without a token.

Here-to-there raises its head again. To wait for a singularity, deus ex machina is to give up reason, which remains pretty useful.

Been told that LETS communities tend to die out over time, when enough intensity of relation is established that exchange is done without the need for explicit token of value. Then new people can’t get in, the network fades back rather than reaching out.

I would say that from There, the question and the answer look like the same thing. How can that that help us Here? Do we gain more by asking than by fishing?

In the hope that i am making at least some sense,

jo

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