• Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    Barter opens up communal valuations of labor to set a price for a person’s time based on what they can personally contribute.

    Soo… money?

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      1 year ago

      No. In the example, an electrician is skilled and can provide their skills and experience to your project - but they have a project of their own that they need help with. Unfortunately he wants help converting an old car into an EV, which you don’t have experience in so you become unskilled labor for his task. An hour of skilled labor would be worth several unskilled labor hours, in this example, but that value conversion wouldnbe determined by the local community.

      No money, just being helpful until the project is done.