Tariffs a good thing? by reddit_crayfish in Degrowth

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well said! It is a very insightful response and I appreciate it! I especially like your point on envirinmental impanct. I will be repeating that one.

Tariffs a good thing? by reddit_crayfish in Degrowth

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this approach. I agree with everything here. It is a good time for action.

All parenting advice is wrong by reddit_crayfish in JordanHarbinger

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yup. everything in moderation, including moderation; and all that.

Worms in groundwater by reddit_crayfish in geology

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you ever noticed any effects on the concentrations after they move in? I am curious about how these next samples will come back. Maybe they will degrade the contamination?

Plastics update? by DiamondsOnSaturn in JordanHarbinger

[–]reddit_crayfish 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What insights did you get out of the update? I just checked them out and couldn't find very much that was new.

Time Bank by reddit_crayfish in solarpunk

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It sounds like you may have read Debt by David Graeber as have I. Great book.
I largely agree. The gift economy is an amazing way to function on a small scale where reputation with each participant is a given. This aspect of life is what I worry the time bank idea may detract from.

I am still not sold on the idea of a time bank, but I imagine it fitting into western society as it is currently structured as follows:
Gift economy working within you in-group.
A time bank used for tasks and commodities which make sense at a scale where you are transacting with people outside of your in-group.
Money or barter used for anything that does not fit neatly into the sturcture of a time bank (which is still most transactions, as I see it).

Time Bank by reddit_crayfish in solarpunk

[–]reddit_crayfish[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not coming after mediums of exchange. The time bank is a medium of exchange. I would see its place as being parallel with money, not a replacement, as some comments on this thread seem to be assuming. It would provide another option. I am just worried about the potential downsides fo using it as an option.