Glad you like it Andrew. I haven't done any workshops recently, but in the past I'd do them sporadically. I'd like to develop them further in the new year though! More than happy to chat more about them in due course
So one could first draw the picture of the "external battery" from a single alien tribe members point of view, it consists of the other people of the tribe that he is in relationship with. Now extend that picture by swapping out each of those individuals with a whole set of people, who could potentially fill that role in any given instance. While explaining that we are in a tribe so big that there are so many people for that role, that you don't know them but still they have some way of authenticating to you that they are capable of filling that role, while you use your money to authenticate to them that you are allowed to receive what they provide. In addition the money, now in the hands of that guy, authenticates that he did good to the global community and therefore is entitled to receive from others. So the first picture would be money as authentication.
Another picture that your article suggests is money as external battery (or as a display for the external battery only?): The change of money documents the flow of energy that took place, when you used that guy as your external battery. I.e. that you charged your internal battery using that guy's internal battery. Thereby your external battery decreased but this other guys external battery charged.
Hey Marvin, thanks for commments, and I like the suggestions in the first paragraph, but I'm not sure I fully understand the second one. I'd say we would have to be very clear that money is not the battery. People are. We don't want to end up making that mistake of saying things like 'money is stored energy' (which a lot of commodity-orientated people like to do). I'd also stay clear of the term 'documents'. I'd say something like 'unlocks' or 'unblocks'. Finally, getting something from someone does not charge their battery. They do, however, position themselves to receive from their external battery
Thanks :) yeah, I see where my second suggestion slips into the direction of that mistake.
I was considering the situation, where the people still have the capacity to provide, but don't do it for you. In our money world, cause you are broke. In the tribal world for some other reason, e.g. cause everyone knows that you don't need more.
That situation I was imagining in the battery metaphor to correspond to an empty battery. Thus the battery for me was a social arrangement, the privilege to receive. But as I understand you now, you would translate that to a charged battery that is unaccessible for you?
Ha ha, I think I probably need to do an entire piece on what we might mean by batteries, and the different ways of interpreting the metaphor. In this piece I'm using it to refer to human labour energy latent in an interdependent network of people, but in my forthcoming book I have a somewhat different version of the battery metaphor (which I won't explain right now). So, yes, I recognise that there is a lot of potential ambiguity in the term, and that warrants a new piece where I can try iron those glitches out!
This is an amazing article, Brett
Can you tell me more about these “Money Workshops” and how I could run one locally? 🧐
Glad you like it Andrew. I haven't done any workshops recently, but in the past I'd do them sporadically. I'd like to develop them further in the new year though! More than happy to chat more about them in due course
Cool, I look forward to it! 👍🏼
So one could first draw the picture of the "external battery" from a single alien tribe members point of view, it consists of the other people of the tribe that he is in relationship with. Now extend that picture by swapping out each of those individuals with a whole set of people, who could potentially fill that role in any given instance. While explaining that we are in a tribe so big that there are so many people for that role, that you don't know them but still they have some way of authenticating to you that they are capable of filling that role, while you use your money to authenticate to them that you are allowed to receive what they provide. In addition the money, now in the hands of that guy, authenticates that he did good to the global community and therefore is entitled to receive from others. So the first picture would be money as authentication.
Another picture that your article suggests is money as external battery (or as a display for the external battery only?): The change of money documents the flow of energy that took place, when you used that guy as your external battery. I.e. that you charged your internal battery using that guy's internal battery. Thereby your external battery decreased but this other guys external battery charged.
Hey Marvin, thanks for commments, and I like the suggestions in the first paragraph, but I'm not sure I fully understand the second one. I'd say we would have to be very clear that money is not the battery. People are. We don't want to end up making that mistake of saying things like 'money is stored energy' (which a lot of commodity-orientated people like to do). I'd also stay clear of the term 'documents'. I'd say something like 'unlocks' or 'unblocks'. Finally, getting something from someone does not charge their battery. They do, however, position themselves to receive from their external battery
Thanks :) yeah, I see where my second suggestion slips into the direction of that mistake.
I was considering the situation, where the people still have the capacity to provide, but don't do it for you. In our money world, cause you are broke. In the tribal world for some other reason, e.g. cause everyone knows that you don't need more.
That situation I was imagining in the battery metaphor to correspond to an empty battery. Thus the battery for me was a social arrangement, the privilege to receive. But as I understand you now, you would translate that to a charged battery that is unaccessible for you?
Ha ha, I think I probably need to do an entire piece on what we might mean by batteries, and the different ways of interpreting the metaphor. In this piece I'm using it to refer to human labour energy latent in an interdependent network of people, but in my forthcoming book I have a somewhat different version of the battery metaphor (which I won't explain right now). So, yes, I recognise that there is a lot of potential ambiguity in the term, and that warrants a new piece where I can try iron those glitches out!
looking forward to read the book. Already before this advertisement :P
What's your preferred language to read in? It will be coming out in German later in the year, but English comes out in May
indifferent :) so I won't wait for the German version