Moneyless insight deals
Great inspirations! You inspired me to think about how this might look like practically. One way how a moneyless insight deal might look like is a Q&A format: a StackExchange type of site like StackOverflow, but integrated with network barter as a payment system so that the Edgeryders citizen experts can earn value by providing answers. It’s always difficult though how to mix accounted value exchange into voluntary communities. So maybe all the value for answers would go to Edgeryders as the Community, not to the individuals? As in “you can support the Edgeryders community with your expertise, for example an answer to this question would be worth 50 EUR in barter, and in exchange we will keep providing and maintain the infrastructure services for Edgeryders: the website, LOTEs, the company shell for projects, and free help to make your own projects happen”. This would feel like the Google Answers service of old, but for barter. A moneyless micro consulting service – from citizens, to citizens and institutions if they like. (Wild thoughts, just sayin’. Sorry for questioning all about the Edgeryders business model again … .)
As for an upskilling session on bartering at LOTE3: direct barter and existing barter platforms, and also LETS type local currencies (often called barter rings) do not really work as mode of exchange. It’s great for further research, but not for upskilling. If we’re ready with a release of Economy App by then, there would be a new solution that hopefully makes barter work as an alternative for money. I’d be open to do a session on that, but as it will be very new then, it’s rather exploration and testing than upskilling … . The greater topic of non-monetary value exchange might be an area for upskilling though – [James] has a lot to say on gift economy for example.