Pay It Forward Economy: Flow, Boundaries, and Value

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Energy, effort, and attention often feel scarce, this video explores the philosophy of a pay-it-forward economy. Simple example and explanation.

Work fills the work. Contribution feeds the system. Value circulates when generosity and self-respect coexist.

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I find it interesting that Antisocialist says that we should get the money without having to do the work, which I have not found reasonable policy. Communists. What can you do, eh? I very much seek to live by the policy you discuss here. I have often done work, donated the materials I had on hand, for folks that needed it, but didn't pay me money. I do this as I'm able for good people, and seek to create a goodwill balance with folks that when I am in need I can ask them to supply. It has worked beyond my expectations, although some people just insist on paying me money, and I can accept that too, as it has it's uses.

Recently I was harshly, and illegally, evicted from where I lived for eight years, and trespassed from the property by a corporation that had purchased the property and sought to steal my trailer so they could rent it out. I suppose they have done this many times to other people who have been helpless to secure their personal property without facing arrest and jail for trespassing, but this did not happen to me. The little old ladies I supplied with new floors, decks, siding, roofs and etc., banded together when they heard about my situation and recovered everything they could. Since I was trying to grow as much food as I could on a postage stamp, I had many, many pots, and some of them were well over 100kilos. I had to use a come along to get them over my stair, but one stout and robust gal was able to move them singlehandedly to her neighboring site. She also crawled under my trailer and unhooked the sewer, the power, the water, and my security cameras, although she was too nervous to do the propane, another neighbor did that.

Then my mechanic, whom I recently roofed an outbuilding for, paid a welder to make a new hitch for my trailer and removed it from Evil, Inc's property to storage.

This is the power of goodwill, that has kept me from becoming homeless (another friend I did a lot of work for offered me house as he was working out of state) and robbed of everything I owned. Not only did my friends and neighbors keep me and mine safe and warm, they made me feel more loved than I have ever before in my life. So, Commies can keep their money. All I want is the goodwill of good people honestly earned.

Thanks!

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This isn’t communism or ideology. It’s earned goodwill at human scale.
You helped specific people, over time, with no abstraction involved. When things went sideways, that reputation paid dividends. Systems failed you but the relationships you had acquired didn’t. That’s how it actually works. It's reputation economics in effect. Respect! ✊

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