The currency in a world of love is of course L.O.V.E. That is what I was thinking while envisioning a world where love is the basic rule on which growth is desirable. I found this letters to be standing for the Liberation Of Vital Elements. Although it may sound like something you couldn’t bake cookies from immediately, it does so ‘on the go’ as it boosts you and your communities’ latent potentials.
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Peer2Peer
I will give you a brief introduction to the idea to give you the possibility to see it's meaning. So, at it’s core lies a peer to peer evaluation system designed to identify the perceived value of individual contributions to a community and to compensate accordingly. Reciprocate L.O.V.E creates a perpetuating cycle where the more you give, the more you receive thus increasing a sense of belonging and abundance for all. This perspective allows wealth to be seen in psycho-social ways increases ego-less stewardship of the earth which builds up trust, connection and solidarity with our surroundings. As an effect this will support the growth of individual and societal happiness. Perhaps a cross-generational exchange will encourage a hybrid of understanding between material wealth and non-material wealth.
Value Distribution
The protocol rewards individual contributors through the distribution of tokens and the reallocation of individual influence or reputation within a given community, based on the perceived value of their contributions to that community. The specific rewards granted to contributors and their corresponding influence in the community are calculated automatically by the workings of the protocol (Proof of LOVE) and do not require any kind of central administration. Reputation. Value, distributed via these tokens are issued automatically whenever a contribution is recognized as valuable by the majority of reputation in a network, and collected as a fee whenever an action is performed that requires the attention or evaluation of other users. Essentially, these tokens can represent the equity of a group or an individual and can be used as the fuel that carries tangible value.
Accommodating Diversity
There is the possibility for a community’s value system to emerge organically, through the aggregation of individual actions. It also encourages individuals that deviate from it to cluster with other, more like-minded individuals in order to create their own niche*. The protocol provides that those who are in line with a community’s value system will see their influence within that community increase, at the expense of those who disagree. By doing so, it promotes the alignment of individuals towards a specific set of values, while encouraging other, less aligned individuals to fork into different communities with an alternative set of values.
Potential being revealed
The efficiency of the protocol increases with the number of individuals involved: the more the number of users who participate and the greater the diversity of opinions involved in the process, the better the results the algorithm provides. It is potential being revealed, intellectually, emotionally and intuitively. Intellectually you acquire knowledge mainly by your own experience. In whatever situation you may be use your intellect to experience that part where affection is, even in the hardest situations. As for what to experience is profound, nearly incomprehensible, but ultimately useful when made practical in your daily life. Live it, and the truth will be made starkly evident. Yet if this knowledge remains merely as concepts or beliefs, you will never, ever see what it really means. Now, for the first time in history it is possible for anyone to liberate our vital elements. Do not expect it will be easy, or that it will agree with everything you have been told by modern society.
A shift from competition to cooperation
Now, lets move forward as this profound lifestyle shift from competition to cooperation is based on a community model that allows individuals to exchange information, goods and services one to one (peer to peer). Sharing and mining our collective wealth has the ability to create abundance and technology is helping to make this possible. Concepts like social equity or social capital allows individuals to think of value, or wealth in non-monetary terms that can also easily be translated into economic abundance by creative expansion and exchange of resources, also called solidarity economy.
The Age of Consciousness
How you spend your mind and other assets reflects your value system. For example, investing in community supported agriculture (CSA) means that you vote with your spendings by supporting your neighbours instead of a multinational corporations. Eating and shitting with awareness means that you value your health and support overall health. When you choose to revive a way of life that is supportive for future generations you are able to directly support individuals while lowering your costs by cutting out on “the garbage”.
The rise of transparency and openness
With expensive greenwashing campaigns to cover the negative environmental practices of large companies, or fancy advertisements to cover socially unethical labour practices, people have become increasingly cynical about standard corporate practices.
"Social media and blogging have led to an unprecedented transparency in the way that life is being conducted. I conclude that solidarity economy is a way of thinking about the economy that opens up spaces of hope and possibility for building a more just, sustainable and democratic economy. It is an emerging language for building a movement to transform economic life, a framework for strategizing about how to create this other economy, building on our strengths and connecting our practices from the ground-up. And finally, solidarity economy is a space in which to imagine, debate and create visions for another economy based on shared values". Miller – Solidarity Economy Key Issues
Collaborative Consumption
Imagine living in an rural environment where storage is minimal and you need a drill to complete your first constructed compost-toilet. Rather than to purchase a drill you can borrow one from a neighbour, or go to your local tool-exchange center to be found here. This helps you and your neighbour to reduce costs, exchange a smile and grow a sense of community. People recognize that access is more important than ownership and technology increasingly helps them find, borrow, rent, share goods instead of buying them. This is the essence of collaborative consumption.
Sharing Resources: a Model for our Times
The sharing of resources is not only good for building trust in our communities but also has the added benefit of being good for the environment as people learn to do more with less. Social justice suffers when there is disparity between the “haves’ and “have-nots”, and when people’s basic needs are not met. In a world where greed and scarcity threaten all of us, cooperative models and sharing help to level up the playing field. This economic model is more sustainable in the long-term because it encourages the sense that we are all here to help each other and work together. The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. The sharing economy is not a private brand owned to profit a few. This is an open-sourced, participatory movement that is based on the ethics of community supported living. Cultural creatives are pioneering the way and turning ideas into social capital that translates to real-world wealth. The end result is increased value for everyone.
The resources, information, and inspiration are endless just like the human imagination. While the crumbling economic order preaches austerity and bail-outs for failed banking models, a new paradigm is being birthed by a generation that is no longer willing to wait for change. These are the people who are making it happen, and each of us have the ability to be the solutions we have been waiting for. When we share the L.O.V.Ewe learn to utilize resources and goods to increase each others wealth as well as our own individual worth in the larger community.
Love as a the currency of life – the more you water it, the more it will grow
Would you be mining for LOVE?
- Niche - denoting or relating to products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population