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Post by zionnow on Feb 11, 2013 11:48:44 GMT -5
With what currency do you pay your wife for fixing dinner? How do you pay your son for helping you harvest the garden? How does your family pay you for changing the oil in the car?
No currency is needed within a family, we serve each other out of love (or at least, duty).
Zion is simply extending the loving family relationship to one's neighbors. So, no currency will be needed there either.
If the Zion community needs to engage in commerce with neighboring non-Zion communities, then perhaps a currency would be in order. In which case, you could just use whatever they're using.
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Post by long4zion on Mar 11, 2013 15:35:33 GMT -5
Many will choose to forego the use of currency as a means of keeping life simple and joyous. Doing all the "bean counter" stuff is overhead. However, there is also a lot to be said for being orderly. When good and reliable records are kept this enables people to have secure footing so that rifts are less likely to develop. Ignorance always breeds unproductive fruits so good and orderly records are an essential key to establish and maintain a long-standing social order. These records should be open and accessible to all those affected so that a sense of personal accountability is always present in everyone's mind.
The most important and fundamental record that an individual needs to have is their own inheritance. Participating in consecration isn't communism. When surplus funds are turned over to a bishop he takes the tithe portion to cover the expense of administration and the remaining portion is credited to each individual's inheritance. Thus, the common fund is the amalgamation of all of the participants inheritances. Therefore, if funds are drawn from the common fund, they aren't something the bishop can just give away, such as wealth redistribution does. Rather, those who have need can receive a loan that they will be responsible to repay. The most important difference is that this loan will not exact any usury. So, if they borrow $10,000 then they shall only pay back $10,000. And, once a person has repaid all of their loans then they too can begin to have surplus and start building up their inheritance.
I don't know why but it seems like the concept of our inheritance is neglected in most people's way of envisioning how a United Order shall function.
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Post by zionnow on Aug 21, 2013 23:04:54 GMT -5
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