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I have been involved in numerous attempts over the decades to start and run a local currency. They all failed as few were interested in participating in something that seems to have little relevance. You can only trade for so many massages and car detailing.

As someone who learned about the Globalists' Central Bank Cartel 35 years ago I've been thinking this through and trying to get it all going for some time. You can't have a local currency if you don't have an actual local economy. Walmart doesn't care about your Nashville Cash or Rocky Mountain Moolah. Safeway won't let you buy hamburger with your Beantown Bucks.

This is why my husband started a farm to family worker owned food co-op. They're selling 12K a week of organic regenerative food from his and other local farms, to build a real local food economy. He is mentoring the next generation in business, local economies, and helping young folks start farms.

In order for a local currency to work, the region it is circulated within needs to have basic self-sufficiency. This means farmers grows a good portion of the food required to feed the region. We will need folks that make clothes and shoes from scratch. People who grow and mill trees and build houses. Folks need to have wood stoves or passive homes that can be maintained locally. We need Right to Repair bills passed in every state that mandate that machinery and appliances are designed such that local repair persons can actually work on and fix them. Machinists will be needed to reproduce parts that can no longer be sourced. We'll need local manufacturing of basic household goods. Seamstresses.

In other words we need to go Amish in so many ways while maintaining trade based economics, selling what's made locally elsewhere. But we can't continue to hallucinate that the modern global world economy will ever make our lives better. It's all designed to suck local economies dry.

The young people just becoming adults are starting to get it. Many are Doomer Optimists -- I call them Baby Doomers as they are the first generation to see the expiration date on Modernity. We need to build a nationwide Visioning Process where we think all this through, together, and start a funding network to build basic functioning economies one region at a time.

If anyone wants to learn how to reboot your own local food system you can reach out to Ben at wavesofgrain.co .

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