“I want a free market online to exist unencumbered because that is going to result in personal freedom, personal liberty, wellbeing in perpetuity,” Sam Patterson
“I want a free market online to exist unencumbered because that is going to result in personal freedom, personal liberty, wellbeing in perpetuity,” Sam Patterson
At first, makerspaces – also known as hackerspaces, techshops, tech centers, and many other names – seemed to be perfect storms of local talent converging and organizing into something impressively novel and innovative.
As strange as this may sound, a “promise to pay” made by a bank to you is termed money because these promises serve in effect as money. In other words, our global monetary system is made up of things like IOU’s, bonds and guarantees, but there is no actual money.
… open an account with one of the many decentralised peer-to-peer alternative currency exchanges that will become available. These won’t be connected to any bank which means that you can transact anywhere in the world without using dollars, euros or yen. Instead, you will trade with alternative currencies. Naturally, there will be no bank charges, no transaction fees and certainly no interest.
The great inertia and over-whelming show of force to violently protect the current hierarchy of financial control is daunting. However, the inevitability of the counterforce to express the human will of creativity and freedom eventually must change the current meme.
If I may para-phrase Victor Hugo, They can’t defeat an idea whose time has come.