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From Monoculture to Permaculture Currencies

Emulating nature's evolutionary resource allocation algorithms in economic systems design

The Problem

Currency Monocultures

Modern economics emerged alongside imperialist expansion, imposing monocultures of colonizing currencies that undermine collective health and indigenous wisdom.

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The Opportunity

Permaculture Currencies

Like mycelial networks that redistribute a plethora of resources through underground connections, we can design multi-dimensional economic systems capable of representing multiple localized forms of value.

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By enabling the localized production of alternative currencies, purpose-driven groups of people can recognize commitments of care and societal regeneration, participating in economies based on cooperation and mutual aid.

Listening to Nature's Wisdom

Learning from Fungi

Since the dawn of life on Earth, fungi have played a pivotal role in the networked redistribution of life-sustaining resources on a global scale.

Mother trees intelligently redistribute their photosynthesized sustenance among their kin through underground mycelial networks—a living example of resource sharing and collective care.

Everything alive today owes a debt of gratitude to the upward trophic flows of energy resulting from mycelial economies over time immemorial.

Mycelial network illustration
The Current Reality

Society is Trippin Balls

Our collective hallucination of infinite growth on a finite planet has us chasing extractive capitalism down a rabbit hole of ecological collapse. Envisioning the end of the world before the end of capitalism is a societal-scale bad trip.

The Emerging Future

Post-Appitalism Awaits

A key part of post-capitalism is post-APPitalism—where decentralized applications dissolve the silos of traditional app models (premised on capitalist value extraction) to enable new technologies for collective flourishing.

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