I’ve just come across your Substack and am enjoying it immensely. I’ve bought your book, but haven’t yet had a chance to read it. I’m not sure if this is the place to post this, but I am looking for some feed back. 2 friends and I came up with this concept for local currency based on art and advertising.
STEAL THIS IDEA!…PLEASE.
ART WORKS for COMMUNITY CURRENCY
K-TAW = Kindly-Tizing ArtWork :: a kind of funny money
ArtWork backed by community spirit of exchange
MISSION: We are artists banded together in partnership with businesses and community to exchange Art-Works in support of the local economy.
De-centralized. Organically local. Open Source. Bank on yourself.
PURPOSE: Dollar-sized ArtWorks used as advertising and gifted into the local economy. To be used by businesses and citizenry … to trade.
CONSUMER Instructions
1. Use ArtWork as you would cash for dinner, coffee, soda, tips, a massage, health care, child care, & more. Ask the community business if they take the ArtWork.
2. You may receive ArtWork in your change when buying a product locally, as a gift for a birthday, as a tip for a job well done, & more.
3. Closer to the expiration date (find date on the ArtWork), turn it back to the owner of the ArtWork and they will give you cash or more-than-equivalent services or products.
4. The more ArtWork is passed for exchange in the community before it is turned in, the more sustainable the community economy!
Get real…. Spend ArtWork…. Go local.
___________________
OWNER::BUSINESS instructions
Why use ArtWork as local exchange in Advertising:
--Get people talking about what you are doing.
--Use your advertising budget locally.
--Subtract the cost of your ArtWork as advertising.
--Watch people smile & laugh when “playing” with your “funny money”.
How to get started:
--Pay a small amount to a local artist for the ArtWork. Or make your own.
--Set aside an amount of cash to pay the “reward” for the return of the ArtWork. (You also may barter for the ArtWork with services or product.)
--Write or pay a writer to add:
1. Your business & slogan & offerings.
2. Your area of “good within ___miles of your place of business”.
3. Expiration date. Usually 3-6 months.
--Give your ArtWorks away.
1. You can only spend ArtWork other than your own.
2. Offer as a thank you to: Regulars, High pay customers, Bonuses &
Perks, Friends & Family, Lovers.
When the ArtWork is presented back to you
--Give cash or
--Give services or
--Give a product.
Keep gifting it out until closer to the expiration date.
_____________________
ARTIST instructions
1. You may
--Make your own ArtWork to advertise you and your business. OR
--Be commissioned to make ArtWork for someone else to advertise.
--Do one or the other because the Kindly-Tizing ArtWork is Open Source, meaning the ArtWork is not copyrighted. K-TAW believes in a gift society and a healthy local economy.
2. If you are commissioned to produce an ArtWork for someone else:
--You may sell your labor and supplies. Once a business, person, or a not-for-profit owns the ArtWork then the ArtWork totally belongs to them. They must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date.
3. If you create the ArtWork for yourself to advertise yourself:
--You are the owner. When you own the ArtWork, you are the one who must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date. The Owner must give ArtWork away as a gift to the community economy.
--You may take the cost of ArtWork off your income for advertising.
4. The Owner of the ArtWork must give/gift it away during the time period.
I'm confused. You ended the YouTube you posted on 9/18 with a pitch for signing up for substack, but didn't actually post it here. I want to comment, but prefer to do it on substack. Anyone looking to comments on Ben Franklin or the original Constitutional convention, my apologies in advance these comments, which relate to Third Paradigm's YT titled "Changing Hearts, Winning Minds."
Wow! So many ideas to respond to. I'm afraid this is going to meander:
First, Weddings/Marriage - When Jesse, a very sweet young man from my ACIM study group, got married, he said something that surprised me. I gave him the same advice I give everyone. He said that Joan and I were the only people in his life who gave advice about marriage.
Like so much in today's society, people assume everyone else "gets it" what ever the topic is, and no-one talks about how hard a given task might be to actually accomplish it.
So here is the advice for your daughter: Take some time to imagine everything that you dislike, annoys you or is humorous in a mildly annoying way about the beloved. Imagine that, and exarate it until is like a cartoon parody of the person. That is how they will look, (really!) at the 7 to 10 year mark, the so-called 7 year itch or the low points in the relationship. If you can look at that today, and still want to marry them, then do so ... Honestly, life is really sweet on the other side of those lows. But those lows are inevitable ... It's just part of the whole process of a long-term relationship.
Tereza, you daughter was smart to spend time living with him - 10 years, wow! I hope she is in the first "after phase". There will be others - but cherish each one and all the time together.
I hope for you, Tereza, this means grandchildren in the next few years. Many a time people have shared with me that NOTHING compares to the emotions. I am not speaking from personal experience but from more than a dozen stories from clients and friends.
New Topic: You indirectly referenced ACIM Lesson 135, David Hilt's favorite. I'm taking the liberty of quoting 3 lines : What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.
Next topic: Is there a central place where people are talking about changing economies to be more local, regional and resilient?
These ideas are in the air, but your YT sounded like there was a central forum or a computer model. I'd like to tap into that.
Your comments regarding Switch reminded me of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, Happiness (by Richard H. Thaler) which still resides, unread, on my kindle. Change can happen through people planning and discussing ideas - Look what happened to Chile under Augusto Pinochet.
No, not the violence he's remembered for now, but the economic change.
For years, the economic grad students at the university in Santiago had done their thesis on how they would change one part of the economy. Pinochet was a military leader who overthrew the government with no clear plan except seizing power. The next day, a book was delivered offering him a roadmap for restructuring the economy, Within a few weeks, the Chicago Boys were on the ground, learning Spanish and implementing free market ideas. By the mid-1980's the average Chilean had more in savings than the average American.
Still Pinochet was horrible, drunk with power and the oligarchy reclaimed power.
Sigh, I don't know if people are as good as you think. In my life today, I agree with you, but then I think about history and I waiver. Robert Heinlein once he wrote "I have nothing to fear from my friends. You have nothing to fear from your friends,. But I have everything to fear from your friends and visa-vera." Which makes me think of Polish pogroms, the history of Jews in Prague and the carbon copy of this that has occurred with the ethnic Chinese communities of Southeast Asia.
You re right, you change one thing and the balance of the system change. Perhaps the best description of that comes out of psychologist who describe family systems. Especially examples of the change in family dynamics with the alcoholic or problem child changes out of that role.
The ideas of how we are being manipulated, by social media companies and other media companies, actually originated with Everett Rogers - you would know these concepts from Geoff Moore's Crossing the Chasm. But originally, these were the tools used to convince farmers in the Midwest to use fertilizers (which were created by the same German scientist who created the gas used in the gas chambers. Fertilizers are actually quite chemically similar.)
I have meandered. I suppose, it is best to end with my personal vision. For anyone who read this, I have a huge bias. I am chronically optimistic.
I believe that for humans to survive, we we need to get out of the I/me/individual way of thinking and processing information and into an I/me/collective part of a species - which I believe will start with resilient neighborhoods where we see our survival is tied to our neighbor's survival.
I think this is already happening and will accelerate with the riots this winter and the changes in the environment which are already underway. (We have only begun to feel the impact of the carbon that went into the atmosphere in the 1990's, which is now, following its natural process, being released by the oceans). We are going to need each other to help one another to survive.
As you know, I believe trees for shade, water filtration, oxygen are essential for cities to be livable - and they really have their greatest impact when they are 7, 8 or older - so we're past 2030 in terms of preventing what is coming. And the US has about 20% of the nursery capacity it would need if we were to move as quickly as necessary to get the tree in the ground by 2030-2032. (More herehttps://medium.com/@symsoil)
A few days ago, I watched Hans Wilhelm's YT Raise your Consciousness on listening to others. https://youtu.be/D4ZBrfejLjo It was 9 minutes well spent and I've been mulling these ideas for a few days.
Sep 13, 2022·edited Sep 13, 2022Liked by Tereza Coraggio
Hi Tereza!
Sorry I haven't been keeping up. On my 2nd day at this particular Jr. High this week, and had gone for a late summer fishing-camping trip until last Sunday. Just gave this a quick skim and remembered Malone's post about the JB Society. I think the last time I had even thought of them was in reference to 'Nobel Prize' recipient (ha) Bob Dylan's song. Turns out they were just a bit ahead of their time.
Still so stuck in catching up on a backlog of substack mail, it will take some time to get to videos ... and meanwhile the gears of Japan Inc. are grinding me to dust. From where I am sitting, this looks like a world-wide meltdown, and most of the people over here are so conditioned to compliance ... no laws or mandates are necessary. Most will just do 'as suggested' or propagandized.
Stuck as mostly a pronunciation model / foreigner-stage prop, I am frustrated to the point of losing myself in a walk through the woods, or music from another present era.
Oops, lunch break just finished .... on to 8th grade English class.
I’ve just come across your Substack and am enjoying it immensely. I’ve bought your book, but haven’t yet had a chance to read it. I’m not sure if this is the place to post this, but I am looking for some feed back. 2 friends and I came up with this concept for local currency based on art and advertising.
STEAL THIS IDEA!…PLEASE.
ART WORKS for COMMUNITY CURRENCY
K-TAW = Kindly-Tizing ArtWork :: a kind of funny money
ArtWork backed by community spirit of exchange
MISSION: We are artists banded together in partnership with businesses and community to exchange Art-Works in support of the local economy.
METHOD: Beyond permaculture currency. Barter. Banter. Build.
De-centralized. Organically local. Open Source. Bank on yourself.
PURPOSE: Dollar-sized ArtWorks used as advertising and gifted into the local economy. To be used by businesses and citizenry … to trade.
CONSUMER Instructions
1. Use ArtWork as you would cash for dinner, coffee, soda, tips, a massage, health care, child care, & more. Ask the community business if they take the ArtWork.
2. You may receive ArtWork in your change when buying a product locally, as a gift for a birthday, as a tip for a job well done, & more.
3. Closer to the expiration date (find date on the ArtWork), turn it back to the owner of the ArtWork and they will give you cash or more-than-equivalent services or products.
4. The more ArtWork is passed for exchange in the community before it is turned in, the more sustainable the community economy!
Get real…. Spend ArtWork…. Go local.
___________________
OWNER::BUSINESS instructions
Why use ArtWork as local exchange in Advertising:
--Get people talking about what you are doing.
--Use your advertising budget locally.
--Subtract the cost of your ArtWork as advertising.
--Watch people smile & laugh when “playing” with your “funny money”.
How to get started:
--Pay a small amount to a local artist for the ArtWork. Or make your own.
--Set aside an amount of cash to pay the “reward” for the return of the ArtWork. (You also may barter for the ArtWork with services or product.)
--Write or pay a writer to add:
1. Your business & slogan & offerings.
2. Your area of “good within ___miles of your place of business”.
3. Expiration date. Usually 3-6 months.
--Give your ArtWorks away.
1. You can only spend ArtWork other than your own.
2. Offer as a thank you to: Regulars, High pay customers, Bonuses &
Perks, Friends & Family, Lovers.
When the ArtWork is presented back to you
--Give cash or
--Give services or
--Give a product.
Keep gifting it out until closer to the expiration date.
_____________________
ARTIST instructions
1. You may
--Make your own ArtWork to advertise you and your business. OR
--Be commissioned to make ArtWork for someone else to advertise.
--Do one or the other because the Kindly-Tizing ArtWork is Open Source, meaning the ArtWork is not copyrighted. K-TAW believes in a gift society and a healthy local economy.
2. If you are commissioned to produce an ArtWork for someone else:
--You may sell your labor and supplies. Once a business, person, or a not-for-profit owns the ArtWork then the ArtWork totally belongs to them. They must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date.
3. If you create the ArtWork for yourself to advertise yourself:
--You are the owner. When you own the ArtWork, you are the one who must set aside the “reward money” to exchange by the expiration date. The Owner must give ArtWork away as a gift to the community economy.
--You may take the cost of ArtWork off your income for advertising.
4. The Owner of the ArtWork must give/gift it away during the time period.
--Because if you sell the ArtWork, you
1. must pay taxes on the sale and
2. cannot deduct ArtWork as advertising.
5. ALL THE POINTS FOR THE BUSINESS OWNER APPLIES.
Thanks, much to process here.
Hello Tereza -
I'm confused. You ended the YouTube you posted on 9/18 with a pitch for signing up for substack, but didn't actually post it here. I want to comment, but prefer to do it on substack. Anyone looking to comments on Ben Franklin or the original Constitutional convention, my apologies in advance these comments, which relate to Third Paradigm's YT titled "Changing Hearts, Winning Minds."
Wow! So many ideas to respond to. I'm afraid this is going to meander:
First, Weddings/Marriage - When Jesse, a very sweet young man from my ACIM study group, got married, he said something that surprised me. I gave him the same advice I give everyone. He said that Joan and I were the only people in his life who gave advice about marriage.
Like so much in today's society, people assume everyone else "gets it" what ever the topic is, and no-one talks about how hard a given task might be to actually accomplish it.
So here is the advice for your daughter: Take some time to imagine everything that you dislike, annoys you or is humorous in a mildly annoying way about the beloved. Imagine that, and exarate it until is like a cartoon parody of the person. That is how they will look, (really!) at the 7 to 10 year mark, the so-called 7 year itch or the low points in the relationship. If you can look at that today, and still want to marry them, then do so ... Honestly, life is really sweet on the other side of those lows. But those lows are inevitable ... It's just part of the whole process of a long-term relationship.
Tereza, you daughter was smart to spend time living with him - 10 years, wow! I hope she is in the first "after phase". There will be others - but cherish each one and all the time together.
I hope for you, Tereza, this means grandchildren in the next few years. Many a time people have shared with me that NOTHING compares to the emotions. I am not speaking from personal experience but from more than a dozen stories from clients and friends.
New Topic: You indirectly referenced ACIM Lesson 135, David Hilt's favorite. I'm taking the liberty of quoting 3 lines : What could you not accept, if you but knew that everything that happens, all events, past, present and to come, are gently planned by One Whose only purpose is your good? Perhaps you have misunderstood His plan, for He would never offer pain to you. While you made plans for death, He led you gently to eternal life.
Next topic: Is there a central place where people are talking about changing economies to be more local, regional and resilient?
These ideas are in the air, but your YT sounded like there was a central forum or a computer model. I'd like to tap into that.
Your comments regarding Switch reminded me of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, Happiness (by Richard H. Thaler) which still resides, unread, on my kindle. Change can happen through people planning and discussing ideas - Look what happened to Chile under Augusto Pinochet.
No, not the violence he's remembered for now, but the economic change.
For years, the economic grad students at the university in Santiago had done their thesis on how they would change one part of the economy. Pinochet was a military leader who overthrew the government with no clear plan except seizing power. The next day, a book was delivered offering him a roadmap for restructuring the economy, Within a few weeks, the Chicago Boys were on the ground, learning Spanish and implementing free market ideas. By the mid-1980's the average Chilean had more in savings than the average American.
Still Pinochet was horrible, drunk with power and the oligarchy reclaimed power.
Sigh, I don't know if people are as good as you think. In my life today, I agree with you, but then I think about history and I waiver. Robert Heinlein once he wrote "I have nothing to fear from my friends. You have nothing to fear from your friends,. But I have everything to fear from your friends and visa-vera." Which makes me think of Polish pogroms, the history of Jews in Prague and the carbon copy of this that has occurred with the ethnic Chinese communities of Southeast Asia.
You re right, you change one thing and the balance of the system change. Perhaps the best description of that comes out of psychologist who describe family systems. Especially examples of the change in family dynamics with the alcoholic or problem child changes out of that role.
The ideas of how we are being manipulated, by social media companies and other media companies, actually originated with Everett Rogers - you would know these concepts from Geoff Moore's Crossing the Chasm. But originally, these were the tools used to convince farmers in the Midwest to use fertilizers (which were created by the same German scientist who created the gas used in the gas chambers. Fertilizers are actually quite chemically similar.)
I have meandered. I suppose, it is best to end with my personal vision. For anyone who read this, I have a huge bias. I am chronically optimistic.
I believe that for humans to survive, we we need to get out of the I/me/individual way of thinking and processing information and into an I/me/collective part of a species - which I believe will start with resilient neighborhoods where we see our survival is tied to our neighbor's survival.
I think this is already happening and will accelerate with the riots this winter and the changes in the environment which are already underway. (We have only begun to feel the impact of the carbon that went into the atmosphere in the 1990's, which is now, following its natural process, being released by the oceans). We are going to need each other to help one another to survive.
As you know, I believe trees for shade, water filtration, oxygen are essential for cities to be livable - and they really have their greatest impact when they are 7, 8 or older - so we're past 2030 in terms of preventing what is coming. And the US has about 20% of the nursery capacity it would need if we were to move as quickly as necessary to get the tree in the ground by 2030-2032. (More herehttps://medium.com/@symsoil)
In that context, the idea of "red pill-ing" someone is not just not listening, but ignoring the lessons of people like Ernesto Siroilli, who describes his mistakes from not listening (his 2014 Ted Talk was here - many more videos available) https://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen
A few days ago, I watched Hans Wilhelm's YT Raise your Consciousness on listening to others. https://youtu.be/D4ZBrfejLjo It was 9 minutes well spent and I've been mulling these ideas for a few days.
Hi Tereza!
Sorry I haven't been keeping up. On my 2nd day at this particular Jr. High this week, and had gone for a late summer fishing-camping trip until last Sunday. Just gave this a quick skim and remembered Malone's post about the JB Society. I think the last time I had even thought of them was in reference to 'Nobel Prize' recipient (ha) Bob Dylan's song. Turns out they were just a bit ahead of their time.
Still so stuck in catching up on a backlog of substack mail, it will take some time to get to videos ... and meanwhile the gears of Japan Inc. are grinding me to dust. From where I am sitting, this looks like a world-wide meltdown, and most of the people over here are so conditioned to compliance ... no laws or mandates are necessary. Most will just do 'as suggested' or propagandized.
Stuck as mostly a pronunciation model / foreigner-stage prop, I am frustrated to the point of losing myself in a walk through the woods, or music from another present era.
Oops, lunch break just finished .... on to 8th grade English class.
Cheers Tereza