We’ll Never 'Exit' to a Better World
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Claim: universal money erodes communities, and a better approach is local, programmable currencies that tie rights to shared assets. The talk lays out a prototype: a community treasury holding things like an espresso machine, partial common ownership tokens that grant use rights, programmable rules such as an exit tax to discourage cashing out, and identity-linked soul-bound tokens to limit gaming. It proposes democratic money creation (e.g., quadratic-style grants), shared data or real estate as backing, and reports ongoing experiments with governance tools rather than abstract rhetoric.
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