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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')Twenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer, a middle-aged secondary school teacher just emerging from a difficult marriage, moved with her two children from the village of Lueneburg to the city of Dortmund, in the Ruhr area of Germany, whose homeless population, she immediately noticed, was above average and striking in its intransigent hopelessness.
Her immediate reaction was shock. “This isn’t right, this can’t go on,” she said to herself. After careful reflection she set up what in Germany is called a Tauschring — a sort of swap shop — a place where people can exchange their skills or possessions for other skills and possessions, a money-free zone where a haircut could be rendered in return for car maintenance; a still-functioning but never-used toaster be exchanged for a couple of second-hand cardigans. She called it Gib und Nimm, Give and Take.
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Re: Living without money
by perdition79 » Sat 26 Dec 2009, 14:05:14
I'm glad that German woman in that article invented bartering. How would anyone else have figured out to trade services and goods without using money?
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Re: Living without money
by bratticus » Sat 26 Dec 2009, 16:00:53
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')wenty-two years ago Heidemarie Schwermer...
Thanks for this.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('perdition79', 'I')'m glad that German woman in that article invented bartering. How would anyone else have figured out to trade services and goods without using money?
Show me where that article says she invented bartering.
I did notice this quote though:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e are going to run out of oil in ten years. We don’t have infinite resources. That just isn’t sustainable.”
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