Gift Economy at Massive Scale

Mike Fair proposes replacing money with electricity as a commons-managed currency: total kilowatt-hours produced would be divided equally across the population as a form of universal basic income, and people would allocate their energy shares stock-market-style to projects, organizations, and automation they want to empower. He argues automation makes this feasible since electricity converts directly into robotic work.

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