What do you do when your land is thrown into fiscal chaos ? After all , you still have your resource , your skills , and your neighbors . As cash is more and more short provision , some Greeks are creating local currencies , and finding their social support system is stronger than they ever knew .
The Guardianis reporting on one such alternative currentness , Tems , or Local Alternative Units . This especial connection is 18 calendar month honest-to-goodness and 800 people strong , and still growing . And , according to founding member Maria Choupis , it ’s just one of roughly 15 such local currency meshwork around the country .
Tems is n’t about accumulating wealth ; you ca n’t retain more than 1,200 units or owe more than 300 . Instead , the organisation is about neighbor providing goodness and services for one another . Many of the Tems members report that they enjoy using the alternate currentness , and that it has avail them form more inner social relationship with the citizenry they interact with .
A nice feature film of the currency is that , even if you do n’t possess a imagination or a especial skill , participants can bake cake or cater babysitting divine service for their Tems . With so many fictional stories about how citizenry will call on on one another in the result of a collapse , it ’s neat to see a tangible - biography representative of folks who band together to make thing work during baffling times . It will be interesting to see if these alternative currencies continue to grow , or if they end up being a short - term solution .
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