01-05-2023 06:59 via idle.slashdot.org

The People Turning Time Into a Currency

The BBC looks at free websites like TimeRepublik, "which describes itself as 'a timebank for the internet era'."Time banking is in essence a more sophisticated form of bartering. You don't pay someone in money for a job that they do for you. Instead you give that person time credits that they can then use to get a service without financial payment from someone else... A "TimeCoin" credit... accounts to 15 minutes no matter what job you provide, be it cutting the lawn of a neighbour, or maths tui
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