Worlds first moneyless pub

Dyr · 03-02-2014 01:59PM

tommacg wrote: »

Cheers for the interest Mango Salsa - the project's in Galway.

I stopped reading at "galway"

new age hipster scam confirmed

Iwasfrozen · 03-02-2014 02:04PM

tommacg wrote: »

That's your prerogative, but back in the real world, non-monetary and gift transactions massively outweigh monetary transactions (did your mother charge you when she minded you as a kid?).

No but then the relationship between mother and child is hardly comparable to the relationship between a publican and client.

Eddie Izzard does a good job of showing how inconvenient a world without money would be. Take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLRNnEmwdU&t=3m8s

tommacg · 03-02-2014 02:21PM

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

No but then the relationship between mother and child is hardly comparable to the relationship between a publican and client.

Eddie Izzard does a good job of showing how inconvenient a world without money would be. Take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLRNnEmwdU&t=3m8s

Riiiiiight....so because Eddie Izzard has trouble with barter, thus it follows that gift relations aren't workable either. Hmm...better tell that to wikipedia, Streetbank, freecycle etc. I'd suggest reading the anthropological history of gift economies in something like David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years

tommacg · 03-02-2014 02:22PM

Bambi wrote: »

I stopped reading at "galway"

new age hipster scam confirmed

Nice to know you're a good open-minded soul

ScumLord · 03-02-2014 06:18PM

tommacg wrote: »

Cheers for the interest Mango Salsa - the project's in Galway. For clarity, this project is more about creating a community event space, and a place for free courses in sustainable skills to be held.

It sounds a bit like the Men's Shed initiative that's being set up around the country, except maybe not as specific to a particular group.

The fact Irish people would dismiss it so easily as hippy nonsense probably means it has merit and could be helpful to the community. You're going to have every shop and pub owner within 20 miles making all sorts of accusations. We don't like our monopolies challenged.

BBDBB · 03-02-2014 06:20PM

how is this news?

Ive left dozens of pubs with no money

Capt'n Midnight · 03-02-2014 09:41PM

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

There's more to life than money.

many people have a reputation for honesty when in reality their price is too high

another way of looking is that an honest politician is one when bought, stays bought,

Iwasfrozen · 04-02-2014 08:39PM

tommacg wrote: »

Riiiiiight....so because Eddie Izzard has trouble with barter, thus it follows that gift relations aren't workable either. Hmm...better tell that to wikipedia, Streetbank, freecycle etc. I'd suggest reading the anthropological history of gift economies in something like David Graeber's book Debt: The First 5000 Years

Go on then. Explain how Eddie should have approached buying a bacon butty. In other words I want you to apply the generalized mechanisms of a barter economy to a real world scenario.

Worlds first moneyless pub

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