Let’s Co-Opt Currency!

An introduction to

Metacurrency & JoatU

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Jamie Klinger

Founder of JoatU

Special Thanks to Arthur Brock, Founder of Metacurrency & Holochain

How to listen to this presentation

Whenever you hear these words,

think beyond money.

Actively think how these words play

Wealth, Currency, Value

What was most important to me?

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Winning the

‘game’ of life.

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What is most important to me?

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Creating as big of a positive impact as possible while living according to my personal values.

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What is most important to you?

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Current

Global System

Currency in Capitalism

Cash, Rules, Everything, Around, Me

C.R.E.A.M.

Get the money

Dollar, dollar bill y'all

Wu-Tang Clan

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Currency as Relationships

The shared symbol systems that we create to shape, enable, and manage flows.

Art Brock

Currency as Information

• The ‘current’ that we see

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• The flow of information

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• X/Y

Currency in Traffic

Cars on Sherbrooke/Hour

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Currencies/Values/Information/Relationships:

• Noise in Decibels
• Pollution
• Circulation Speed
• Accidents

A People-First Economy

JoatU

Ville Intelligente

et Inclusive

2017 Winner

Jack of all trades Universe

How it works

Local

Neighbourhood

CAPS

CAPS

JoatU

Merci JoatU!

So what about that job?

What other currencies are exchanged?

Founder of JoatU

Jamie Klinger

My First Jobs

• Assistant Hat Shipper
• Had many hats to offer but they only wanted one

• Telemarketing “Medic-Alert” Bracelets
• Phoned in Ethics

From First Jobs

to New Economies

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Three Lessons from Occupy Montreal

• Inequity leads to Inequality

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• Inequality leads to Inequity

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• Centralisation of Wealth inevitably leads to the Centralization of Power

How to maintain a system of inequity

disrupt

How to decentralize control of valuation

• Decouple Wealth in $ from Wealth

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• Force the recognition of “Value” in ‘externalities’

Introducing

Metacurrency

$60

40lbs

Organic

1st Prize

Apis

Mellifera

Western Honey Bee

Can they evolve their dances which �communicate where �the flowers are?

Co2

Credits

48lbs/yr

offset

Certified Disease-free

Increased Life Expectancy

Red Oak

How will trees

affect the

surrounding ecosystem?

Speculative Wealth diminishes Non-Speculative Wealth

The Great Lie

If we pay money (speculative wealth) in exchange for (tradable wealth)...

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Then it’s ok to pollute more (destroying rankable, measurable, nameable and possible wealth).

If we spend all of our money to make honey,

and none to protect the environment bees use,

then we lose the entire food system!

Reality

Speculative Wealth diminishes Non-Speculative Wealth

What now?

Detach speculative wealth from absolute wealth

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• Shift your perspective on wealth, currency & value using the practices of Metacurrency

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• Integrate alternatives that incorporate forms of wealth that recognize your values, like JoatU

JoatU

Ville Intelligente

et Inclusive

2017 Winner

Jack of all trades Universe

$70/hr or CAPS

Labour

Teaching

Diplomas

Experience

Qualitative Reviews

Alice

All of the ways that people interacting can change each other’s lives

Offering her services with

How it works

JoatU’s Alternative Currency

CAPS

Community Action Points

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 1

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 1: Personal Exchanges

Bob has skills in woodworking.

Alice has skills in plumbing.

Bob and Alice come to a personal arrangement and exchange 1 hour of woodworking for 1 hour of plumbing.

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 2

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 2: Community Exchanges

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Alice wants to to build mini-herb gardens in the tree planters up and down her street. She’s looking for

• 24 clippings of herbs to grow
• 2 bags of soil
• 4 volunteers for 4 hours of volunteer help
• a small shovel

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 2: Community Exchanges

Alice creates an a community event on JoatU

• Describes volunteer roles
• Required tools
• Required materials

After the event has taken place:

CAPS are generated as recognition for the volunteer work

JoatU CAPS: Currency Phase 3

Democratic Currency Generation

Democratic Currency Generation

Alice’s Survey

Democratic Currency Generation

Bob’s Survey

Sheaf Candle Theory

“Holochain White Paper and the Road to Sheafhood” - Jon Paprocki Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at Georgia Tech

https://medium.com/the-advancedness-project/holochain-white-paper-and-the-road-to-sheafhood-9d5b159ee074

A sheaf associates to every region of some space some sort of data.

JoatU Currency Generation

Bob Voted

Alice Voted

Social Currencies

Increase civic participation

Promote local businesses

Upcycle existing public infrastructure

Enhance the integration of newcomers

Facilitate a circular economy

Gather and share

open data

People

Traditional Economy

City

JoatU Comparative Analysis

What is happening with JoatU today?

Building a test network of residents in Verdun

• Get 200 Users to fill out our application at http://verdun.joatu.com

Accepting general applications for our next test networks

http://en.joatu.com & http://fr.joatu.com

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Building JoatU in Ruby on Rails and when we have enough resources, on Holochain

• Brooks, Solomon, and every other person who made this event possible
• Every person who has helped move JoatU forward

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• Art Brock & Eric Harris-Braun of MetaCurrency.org

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• Yourselves

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Currency of Appreciation

Influential Documentaries

• Capitalism
• The Corporation (2003)
• Psychology & Marketing
• Century of the Self (2002)
• Philosophy
• The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)
• CopyLeft
• Rip : A remix manifesto (2008)�

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Founder of JoatU

Jamie Klinger

Get Involved! Get in touch! http://JamieKlinger.com

Join → http://en.joatu.com & http://fr.joatu.com

Extra Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1cIRkKAcG7LQztSrNQp02OJ5JIJE5Dfd4-fgxo-vf_cQ/

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