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Re:What Is Permaculture? by m463 on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:07PM (#35881528)
I agree. Actually, I suspect optimizing for anything will probably backfire.

I wonder if there can be a sort of ecosystem effect on money that works like produce. If you overproduce something, it ends up going bad and rotting. Maybe you could have a currency where if you don't use it, it diminishes. That would make sure that money would be spread around, just like an abundant harvest would be shared widely before it goes bad.

Re:What Is Permaculture? by CapstanRoller on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:03AM (#35883515)
You've basically reinvented communism.

>That would make sure that money would be spread around, just like an abundant harvest would be shared widely before it goes bad.

Yes, that's how we get "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs"

Re:What Is Permaculture? by m463 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:09AM (#35884577)
I was wasn't trying to eliminate money. I was thinking more along the lines of incentivizing feeding the money back into the economy.

I though clinton said something along those lines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_the_economy,_stupid

Re:What Is Permaculture? by flo123456 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @02:40AM (#35884369)
> Maybe you could have a currency where if you don't use it, it diminishes.

Isn’t that what inflation is? Maybe at a lot slower scale, but the long-term effect is the same.

Re:What Is Permaculture? by CapstanRoller on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @05:32PM (#35893818)
It sounds more like a decaying/expiring CBDC

https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/policy/digita...