A young woman of 28 years old, started her year with the resolve to live on 0/zero/nada euro’s this year. How she is managing this amazing task and how she combines three trends in the making, I will tell you.
First meet Isabel. Isabel Rupschus started
the 1st op april to live with the resolve on surviving on 0 euro. She
tried to follow her dreams, trying out for jobs in the television and
catering.. she didn’t succeed. Still wanting to be creative and trying to find
her break. She made a big big change. She overthrew everything she knew and
started out with the idea to live on 0 zero. Now she lives in houses from people
on holiday and she takes care of the plants and possible cat/dog. If she wants
to have dinner she trades this with a babysitting job. Everything she does,
she tries to trade.
Besides trading, she uses something
new. This is the second trend. Isabel makes use of DAM. DAM is an alternative kind of coin. DAM is sort of
a trading system, based on mutual credit clearing.
This is how it works:
1.)First the system makes is
possible to give other people a credit (10 DAM for example), then your own
credit will lower. But the other persons credit, you gave your DAM to, will
rise. 2.) All the credit combined will be zero. Also no interference of banks
are visible and therefore no interest or interest rates. 3.) People with a
positive balance will want to spend their credit. 4.) People with a negative balance
aren’t obliged to anything but they are expected to resolve the negative
balans. 5.) Like delivering a service or making a product.
The third trend she is using is the
fact that she arranged something with her DAM. This is het aanschuifLOKAAL. The
translation is quite hard, so I will explain what she does.
The aanschuifLOKAAL is a POP-up Café,
where you can have lunch and/or Coffee. Everything she arranged, the T-shirt’s
for the people promoting the café, the rental of the coffee machine, food &
drinks are all made available through DAM.
The complete interior can be bought. But more important the customers estimate the value of products. So you can pay whatever you want for your sandwich or coffee.
A trading society, and options for the trading without banks ar popping up all over the world. These developments are interesting and worthwhile to follow. So I am trying to meet up with Isabel myself and also starting out with DAM.
I will keep you posted what follows.
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