Hi @rev.hodl! Really love what you're building by the way! Great circular economy you guys are building, much respect :)

I think this might be about the Mutual Credit topic? For me one of the things that blew my mind is this book by Graeber https://files.libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf (there's no good audiobook unfortunately) and also mutual aid by Kropotkin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il0tHR-Ll1o

Graeber especially poses a really strong and not talked about position/historical phenomena which is that most tribes and in many eras of history lived without money itself, using instead this informal mutual credit system where people helped each other out by default without an accounting system AND without direct bartering. A long term informal mutual credit system basically

In my father's very old and small village in northern Portugal (of around 300 people) until around the 1980s people every year helped harvest up each other's potatoes in a complete informal arrangement of "everybody helps each other out, because that's what's expected". There was never forcing to do anything, it simply was that way, you help me here, I help you there, year after year. And I mean the whole people in the village, we are talking about dozens of people getting together to do this. I think I went into one of these last gatherings at one point :).

I think that's a good example of what the mutual credit system that Graeber talks about in the book is

cheers!