But more than that, I think there is a real difference between greed for money and the desire for labor credits. Money represents consumption. Labor credits represent time. If Twin Oakers long for labor credits, at least we re putting value where it belongs not on the pointless and harmful accumulation of excess wealth, but on the irreplaceable hours of our lives. It does work with a bit of room for slack.
Some people keep track of the time they work to the last tenth of an hour.
Others round up or down to the nearest hour in some cases, perhaps, more often up than down. It s all on the honor system anyway. We fill out our own labor sheets and total our credits ourselves. It s hard to cheat much when you know your employer isn t a bloated multinational corporation but the friends you sat at dinner with last night. Visitors sometimes see our labor system as too uptight, too regimented.