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Social Value is Social Enterprise

by Dan Robles on November 15, 2010

The fastest way to unleash the extraordinary value that is contained in communities of experienced, talented, and motivated people is to provide a substrate for them to trade their knowledge assets among each other.  When people get together around a purpose, they build things that create incredible social value. The Social Value Platform provides an electronic accounting system for social value.  In The Social Value Game, vendors deposit inventory into a strategic community of people and the community creates social value.  This new social value is then converted into monetary revenue in the next economic paradigm called Social Capitalism.


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Is Virtual Currency a Problem?

by Dan Robles on November 15, 2009

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Editor’s note; The following analysis by Daniel Indiviglio from The Atlantic regarding a NYT article is foreboding of an unknown future.  Half insightful synthesis and half tongue-in-cheek, this article suggests that virtual currency may impact the current monetary system.  The conclusion is brilliant suggesting that the national debt could be paid in virtual currency.  It seems quaint now, but what would happen if the dollar fails?  During the Mexican Crisis, citizens emptied WalMart because today’s peso would be buy fewer Levies tomorrow – and it happened very fast. Get this and get it well: currency is a social agreement. People will trade what ever people agree to trade.

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