A cityless and countryless world : $b An outline of practical cooperative individualismOlerich, Henry
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A cityless and countryless world : $b An outline of practical cooperative individualism
Olerich, Henry
Cooperation; Social problems -- Miscellanea
“We have seen that each individual man, woman and child, keeps a
time-book in the commercial apartment; and at the close of each month
each individual closes his own book account of the labor he performed
during that month and makes a copy, a fac-simile of it, on paper
provided for that purpose. This copy is at the close of each month sent
to the mint department of the ‘Com.’ Here, in order to avoid error, the
labor records are carefully examined by expert accountants. If they are
found correct mathematically, the amount of money, or time bills, for
each individual, are issued and put in a kind of pocket-book, sealed
and addressed to the individual owner who receives the pocket-book in
his mail box. Thus we notice that each individual man, woman and child,
practically issue their own money; that is they can work as much as
they like during the month, and at the end of the month they report to
the minter or money stamper at the ‘Com’ the amount of labor performed.
For their labor performed in the community they receive labor checks,
or money as you call it, on the negotiable wealth of the community; and
as all communities are highly reliable, every community will take the
labor checks of any other community. This enables a person to buy in
any community he desires. The laborer, in an average, always produces
the wealth before he receives his money for it. Hence failure, under
ordinary conditions, is impossible.
“Let us notice, then, that the ‘Com’ issues the money; that every
person who handles money for the family or community remits it daily
to the ‘Com,’ where all the bills of the families and community are
paid. A _family_ never remits the money for the bill of goods it has
purchased. When a family buys a bill of goods for its store, etc.,
the selling community makes out a duplicate bill, one of which the
purchasing family sends to the ‘Com’ as soon as the goods are found
satisfactory and the bill is correct. If the bill is not correct, it is
first corrected by the purchasing family. The ‘Com,’ immediately upon
the arrival of the bill, remits the money to the selling community. You
want to keep in mind then that the family buys _what_ and _where_ it
pleases, but that it daily remits all the money taken in to the ‘Com,’
which pays all the bills for the community and for all the families of
the community.
“Our money, or labor checks, or medium of exchange, or whatever else
you may wish to call it, consists of stamped paper bills of different
sizes, according as they represent _days_, _hours_, or _minutes_ and
_seconds_.
[Illustration: (Fig. 4.)
C 24 stands for community No. 24. 6 D stands for six days’ labor. 23486
is the number of the bill. Goben is the name of the country.]
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