If the solution is to give freely, why do we
still need new money at all? Why don’t we change over immediately to a gift
economy? This question is completely justified and is also discussed in circles
of alternative economic researchers. Interestingly, the question is always soon
raised regarding a regulator to document the services that have been rendered
and made use of. Some people suggest writing down simple figures: when a
certain service has been rendered we should, for example, credit an account
with +10. Then one person would have the figure +267 on their account and
another person –389. But what is that but money without a name?
Money has proved itself for the documentation
of services and goods transactions. Even the advocates of a pure gift economy
cannot do without it. Sooner or later they invent a money equivalent, which
they may claim is not money although it fulfils similar functions. The gradido
is such a money equivalent. It is up to you whether you want to call it money
or not.
In this connection an important difference
between the gradido and conventional money must be pointed out. The old money
is a promissory note, a promise of services, a means of payments. The gradido
is by nature rather a documentation of services rendered or goods transactions.
If the services or goods are given voluntarily, meaning »donated«, the gradido
is not a means of payment but a »means of thanks«. With the gradido we are
gradually moving away from the old market economy, the »economy of buying and
paying«, in the direction of an »economy of donating and thanking«.
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