From time to time issues arise in the Talent Exchange that anger and irritate users: members exceeding their debit and credit limits; members having no offerings; members asking for more Rands than Talents; members using the exchange to promote their Rand businesses; flaky, meaningless offerings given in order to get an account; members who never respond to […]
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Are Talents Money?
From time to time the Talent Exchange gets accused of being “just another money system”. Is this the case? Are Talents just another form of money? To be able to answer this question, we first need to be clear on what money is. Then we can make the comparison. According to the classical definition, money is anything […]
What Can I Offer?
Many potential members, when applying to join the Talent Exchange, have a problem when faced with deciding what they will offer the community. “I don’t have anything to offer”, “I’ve got nothing that anyone wants”, “I don’t think anyone would want what I do at work”, “I don’t have any useful skills” or “I’m pretty […]
Bitcoin Versus Talents*
A lot of people are getting very excited about Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. Some even question the efficacy of Talents now that there is a global ‘replacement’ for regular money in the form of the crypto-currencies. Bitcoin is the first major innovation in money in nearly 400 years: It is a private-sector money, not controlled […]
FUNding your life through the Talent Exc...
As fast as I earn Talents I have to spend them, the faster I spend them the faster I seem to earn them. Belonging to the Talent Exchange has opened up my entire vista. I am physically challenged so everything I do from shopping, to going to the doctor, to an evening’s entertainment I need […]
How many ways are there to trade?
Most of us think of money as some kind of universal phenomenon, like matter and energy. It has even been said that money IS energy, or it is LIKE energy because without it everything comes to a halt, just like a car without petrol! So is it possible to have a world without money? That […]
Do Talents Exist?
Most of us talk about Talents in the same way as we talk about money: “How many Talents have you got?”, “Can I pay you Talents for it?”, “I lost a lot of Talents on that sale”, “I’ve got so many Talents I don’t know what to do with them”, and so on. In other words […]
What is Money and Do We Really Need It?
There is probably no subject that has been written about more frequently than money and its origins. Usually money is portrayed as a natural phenomenon like gravity, energy or light: one of the constants of the universe. It is assumed to have a unitary understanding across cultures and throughout history. It is also assumed to […]
Community Credit: The Next Generation of...
by The Biomimicry Institute | Nov 4, 2015 By Jamie Brown-Hansen “Anytime you want to understand something, [like] why is such-and-such happening, why is there a biodiversity crisis, or why are we drilling for more oil when it’s polluting the atmosphere and causing oil spills…you ask ‘why’, and down a couple levels of ‘why’ you […]
