{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2","id":69964401,"number":2,"title":"How does the moneyless manifesto refute the purpose of money as a universal exchange of value","user":{"login":"nicksellen","id":31616,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31616?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen","html_url":"https://github.com/nicksellen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-04-21T22:09:25Z","updated_at":"2015-04-21T22:20:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Fisherman sells fish for money and uses money to buy bread at some other point in time. Seems a useful thing to me. What is wrong with this?\r\n\r\nhttp://www.moneylessmanifesto.org/book/the-money-delusion/real-community-requires-interdependency/ looks like the key page:\r\n\r\n> In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, anthropologist David Graeber makes a further important point when he notes that by paying off your debts immediately (which is what money, in its more exact forms, allows us to do) we can perceive ourselves as having no further obligations to the other person.\r\n\r\n> Squaring accounts means that the two parties have the ability to walk away from each other.\r\n\r\n> By asking for a debt to be paid, and then paying it, the relationship can be considered over. \r\n\r\nDoesn't this just enable us to exchange goods and services with a wider range of people? We can't have personal obligations to *everyone* right? Or is there a compelling reason we should limit our interactions to a small community?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/comments/94959254","html_url":"https://github.com/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2#issuecomment-94959254","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/nicksellen/ponderings/issues/2","id":94959254,"user":{"login":"nicksellen","id":31616,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31616?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen","html_url":"https://github.com/nicksellen","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/nicksellen/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-21T22:20:10Z","updated_at":"2015-04-21T22:20:10Z","body":"> a society based on personal relationships is so much better\r\n\r\nIf I had to *choose* between that and the non-personal alternative, I'd choose personal relationships any day. Can we not have *both* though?"}}