What we’re asking
Money is a memory system — a way for strangers to keep score without keeping in touch. But most money remembers only one thing: who has it.
This episode explores community currencies: ledgers where showing up, contributing, and building are the events worth recording. When the record of who showed up becomes the thing you spend, a community's economy starts to look like its actual values.
We'll take the idea seriously enough to stress-test it — what breaks, what gets gamed, and what history says about money that means something.