Re: Currency, watermelons
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 6, 2000, 1:15 |
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In a message dated 2000:09:05 6:08:15 PM, hsteoh@QUICKFUR.YI.ORG writes:
>Just wondering... anybody's conlang/conculture *doesn't* have currency
>involved? Not that a money-less world is particularly plausible, but I
>wonder if people have actually explored that direction in conlanging /
>conculturing. And I'm talking about alternative trading systems, and not
>just elementary stuff like bartering. Just thought it'd be neat if
>somebody thought of some conculture somewhere that uses something other
>than currency for trading... or perhaps a culture that isn't based on
>trading? Just wondering...
In my ConCulture of Autonomia Isola Verde, besides barter there is
gift-exchanging (a tradition from the Iban & Dyak tribes that influenced
Isola Verde's anarchistic tendencies in the 20th century).
This seems to make a working grass-roots form of a socialist
welfare-state. "You look like you need this... you want this? Give me
something when I need something..."
No one becomes rich at the expense of the collective...
It's all or nothing, sink or swim together.
(I hafta translate these into Caos Pidgin sometime...)
czHANg