i don`t have a problem with a cut, but as you are well aware, the cut grows cosistantly while the earnings portion gets eroded.

the sherriff finds more stuff to sell back to us, that we have to consume whether we need it or not, and we have no choice but to give him more goats and chickens.

having said all that, i`m 100% with you and would love to be able to provide my products and services effectively on-line.

the parasitic overlords would freak………

Not if they’re being given their cut: render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s. Render unto God what is Gods.

the four hour work week guy is putting in 80 or 90.

the sherrif of nottingham wouldn`t tolerate the folks in the woods trading amongst themselves for long.

You should check out this guy:

Four hour work week

Not in terms of the math stuff but in terms of vision. You seem to be after similar ideals.

http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_6.html

It’s not only dangerous and by most counts preposterous; it’s happening. Open Source or, in more common parlance, “complementary” currencies are collaboratively established units representing hours of labor that can be traded for goods or services in lieu of centralized currency. The advantage is that while the value of centralized currency is based on its scarcity, the bias of complementary or local currencies is towards their abundance.

So instead of having to involve the Fed in every transaction — and using money that requires being paid back with interest — we can invent our own currencies and create value with our labor. It’s what the Japanese did at the height of the recession. No, not the Japanese government, but unemployed Japanese people who couldn’t afford to pay healthcare costs for their elder relatives in distant cities. They created a currency through which people could care for someone else’s grandmother, and accrue credits for someone else to take care of theirs.

Throughout most of history, complementary currencies existed alongside centralized currency. While local currency was used for labor and local transactions, centralized currencies were used for long distance and foreign trade. Local currencies were based on a model of abundance — there was so much of it that people constantly invested it. That’s why we saw so many cathedrals being built in the late middle ages, and unparalleled levels of investment in infrastructure and maintenance. Centralized currency, on the other hand, needed to retain value over long distances and periods of time, so it was based on precious and scarce resources, such as gold.