THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

first case to 80,000 members and several billion Euros of annual trade,
and in the latter to a city of several million people even in Third
World conditions.
5. Nevertheless, I do not claim that complementary currencies are a
sufficient solution to the complex problems of unemployment in the
Information Age. I specifically do not claim that more traditional
forms of employment encouragement should not be implemented.
My point is simply that complementary currencies are potentially an
important tool - one that has often been overlooked - and that they
deserve more attention than has been the case so far. Given the
foreseeable scale of the employment problem during the transition
period of the next decade can we afford to ignore tools that have
shown that they can be effective?
CHAPTER 6
Community Currencies
· 'Money symbolised the loving giving end taking among individuals
which gave man the feeling of having emotional roots in their community
[...] Money originated as a symbol of man's soul.' - William S. Desmonde
‘The economy of the future is based on relationships rather than possession.'
- John Perry Barlow
'What idealists have dreamt about,
What hippies used to talk about,
Now people are just doing.' - Anonymous
This chapter addresses another ‘money question’ of our Time-
Compacting Machine; the one relating to the Age Wave; i.e. 'how will