The idea of being able to go into commitment means that we trust you to honour your commitment to our community. And people do. This is making me love the town I'm living in. It's giving this feeling of safety, because we are in a little way insulated from what might happen outside. Wealth is goods and services and skills.
Money is merely a measure of exchange.
We needed something else. Jordan and a colleague flew to Canada in 1987 to visit Scottish-born LETS originator Michael Linton and seven of the first systems, including some in Vancouver and Calgary. LETS can stretch a pension further. Some Maleny people declare their Bunya earnings on tax forms, only to be ignored by bewildered bureaucrats. But we certainly don't mind it being taxed.