From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:14:03 +0800
To: geer@world.std.com
Subject: Re: alternative b-money creation
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At 10:28 AM -0500 on 12/22/98, Ian Grigg wrote:


> This is the Hiawatha Hours, as I rudely called them
> (I keep forgetting the name, sorry).  Now, these are
> working systems.  They are more or less the same as
> the LETS systems, which are sort of successful in many
> hundreds of places.

Ithaca Hours. They like LETS, are based, more or less, on Marx's "Labor
Theory of Value".

'nuff said, I figure. Stupid is as stupid does, to quote a famous Alabaman...

:-).

Cheers,
RAH


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