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[Anonymous No.20318021]

Show me a book about social currency. That is, small town "internal" money.
Does anybody have some experience with this kind of stuff here?

[Anonymous No.20318032]

>>20318021
There is no need for a book, it is fairly simple. You either help people out when you can and do what you say you are going to do or you have no social life. In a small town you can not just find a different social group if you fuck up, you are either a part of the community or a leper.

[Anonymous No.20318049]

>>20318032
I don't think you know what I'm talking about, anon...

[Anonymous No.20318096]

>>20318049
That is how social currency work in small towns. Unless you meant something else by "small town 'internal' money."

[Anonymous No.20318105]

>>20318021
Graebers book a history of debt talks about this a little.

[Anonymous No.20318115]

>>20318049
Oh, you meant how the small town way can be used in the big city?

[Anonymous No.20318120]

>>20318096
>Unless you meant something else by "small town 'internal' money."
I meant something else by small town "internal" money:
I'm talking about microeconomics here.
I'm talking about an ACTUAL currency that only runs inside the city, keeping the money inside its frontiers, helping its growth and thriving, you know?

[Anonymous No.20318141]

>>20318120
Ahh, vaguely know about that, but the "social currency" bit through me since social currency is generally not real currency. Guessing it has some alternate meaning based on context. Thanks for the clarification.

[Anonymous No.20318143]

>>20318021
two I know of...

Democracies in Flux, which is a series of essays edited by Robert Putnam who wrote 'Bowling Alone' about the decline of American bowling leagues

and what another anon mentioned "Debt the first 5000 Years" by David Graeber

[Anonymous No.20318184]

>>20318141
I'm the one who have to apologise, you were only trying to help. Thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.20318204]

>>20318115
>Oh, you meant how the small town way can be used in the big city?
Nope. I'm talking about "parallel" money, used side-by-side and with the same value (1:1) as the national currency.

[Anonymous No.20318224]

>>20318143
>Debt the first 5000 Years" by David Graeber
>>20318105
>Graebers book a history of debt talks about this a little.
The problem I see with this book is that, from what I could gather, it doesn't talk about a city's currency in the present day.

[Anonymous No.20318244]

>>20318143
>Democracies in Flux
Nope. It's a misconception. I'm talking about real, "physical" money here, anons.

I think I poisoned this discussion from the start with my bad choice of words.
The thing is that I need some know-how as fast as possible about this issue.
I need to know the possible pitfalls of implementing this in a small city as a complementary currency in order to help its growth.

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[Anonymous No.20318674]

>>20318224
That’s because we still use a global currency called the dollar

[Anonymous No.20319085]

>>20318021
Oh boy do I have bad news for you, OP. I grew up in a 20 year long Norman Rockwell painting before the information age. A small town frozen in time reliving the 1950s where my middle school history teacher was a world traveling granny who taught the fathers of many students in my classroom. Everyone in town knew each other's faces and some astute persons knew most the names even thousands of names. We had rural outgoings regularly and absenteeism was unheard of. Everyone's chastity and romantic lives were next door murmurs as if the miles of town horizon were paper thin walls. There was reverence for the town when courting and loving in private. Then...modernity happened.
Bowling Alone
The Bell Curve pdf ctrl f "middle class values"
The Slaughter of Cities by E Michael Jones
Suicide Note by Mitchel Heisman ctrl f "Anglo"

[Not John Mellencamp No.20319114]

>>20318021
Anon I tried to write a book about the death of my small town. Theres volumes of lamentations but this social currency concept is illusive and integral to this. I was so dedicated to captivating my experience like a video game level tester for some divine audience at judgement day with akashic record of my attestation. I wore a leather jacket, won gold medals in athletic events, had a high GPA, had the popular girl as my girlfriend, had the fancy degree, fancy car, fancy name. I'm sorry to say The Populist Delusion has all the blackpills for me to crunch through this week. I have been called the best and do you know what that gets me? Zilch. Sellouts cannot remember your worth they're gone with the wind on a band wagon worth more than your praise or any reverence or any solidarity or any communion. Communism won. Home prices reflect this most starkly in the 2020 sellout. Desperation and gullible just world bias for the future expectations. No one is grim enough for a Jewish holiday of fasting and triumph over hostile neighbors. They think it Santa time.
Here's some cool things from white collar work
>Express authority
>implicit authority
>explicit authority

[Anonymous No.20319120]

The Buddha as a Businessman
I'm feeling Bullish on these mendicants

[Anonymous No.20319122]

>>20318021
Freakonomics

[Anonymous No.20319128]

>>20318021
The Abolition of Interest Slavery Manifesto by Gottfried Feder

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[Anonymous No.20320240]

>>20319122
>Freakonomics
I read it.
When I heard about the Supreme Court's decision I thought about this book.

[Anonymous No.20320269]

>>20318021
You might be interested in the history of stamp scrip ideas:

https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publications/economic-commentary/economic-commentary-archives/2008-economic-commentaries/ec-20080401-stamp-scrip-money-people-paid-to-use.aspx#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20the%20famous%20economist,be%20used%20to%20encourage%20spending.

Also this isn't within city limits but I know in Canada during the Great Depression Alberta tried this at a provincial level but it was ruled unconstitutional by the Canadian courts pretty quickly:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_certificate

They weren't smart enough to use taxing powers to back it though. Similar legal issues would exist in the states if cities tried to impose and clear liabilities with their own money but there's some historical stuff you can look into. I haven't read this article but plan to: "Texas Treasury Warrants, 1861-1865: A Test of the Tax-Backing of Money"
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40326267

(get it with sci-hub)

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[Anonymous No.20322882]

You can't learn that from Bücher

[Anonymous No.20322902]

>>20318021

[Anonymous No.20322916]

>ctrl+f Veblen
>0 results
Veblen

[Anonymous No.20323667]

>all these sociology and pop psychology recs
You duckers don’t actually believe all this stuff, right?