Chapter 2: Revealing Civic-Labor / If wage labor is unraveling and UBI is insufficient, my hypothesis is that the next market of value rests in the domain economists call the informal economy, and within that, a more specific subset of it around civic-labor. Civic-labor includes all the forms of work that keep communities functional but are not priced by markets or integrated into formal employment systems. Economists have long known that GD...

Chapter 2: Revealing Civic-Labor / If wage labor is unraveling and UBI is insufficient, my hypothesis is that the next market of value rests in the domain economists call the informal economy, and within that, a more specific subset of it around civic-labor. Civic-labor includes all the forms of work that keep communities functional but are not priced by markets or integrated into formal employment systems. Economists have long known that GD...

Chapter 3 - The Structure of a Public-Sector CurrencyThe dialogue around a public-sector currency is often met with confusion, as it doesn’t follow the traditional backing of value for currency in the market-circuit. Historically, the value backing for money within the market-circuit has come from either the convertibility of commodities or the actions of state-authority. Each providing some attribute that...

Chapter 3 - The Structure of a Public-Sector CurrencyThe dialogue around a public-sector currency is often met with confusion, as it doesn’t follow the traditional backing of value for currency in the market-circuit. Historically, the value backing for money within the market-circuit has come from either the convertibility of commodities or the actions of state-authority. Each providing some attribute that...