Three Currencies (VoH)

Sufficiency is the measure of what an individual or community has to offer and what they need for sustenance. Do all members have the shelter, food, electricity, supplies you need to perform your function in the society? The movement might include people in the city who do IT services and some hydroponics as well as people in ecovillages who have more food generation capacity but need IT or hardware “maker” services. Every individual and group can broadcast their needs and offers, so that the movement as a whole can communicate and trade within the group. You don’t need “money” to barter because the digital platform would make the matches, and the basis is sufficiency. If you are in good standing, and you have a need the community can fulfill, the community fulfills it. If the community can’t make all people’s needs, the community brainstorms how to fulfill the needs.
Carrying capacity: A group using Sufficiency Currency would have to have measures of its carrying capacity in terms of available capacity to have people join. The carrying capacity may come with conditions. For example, an agricultural community might be able to absorb 10 new people as long as 50% of them are able-bodied workers on the farm. Another example could be a community in Italy may be able to identify land the government wishes to have rehabilitated/repopulated and they don’t need money but they do need a lawyer, permaculture education, and four families with EU passports to commit to living there. One community doesn’t need a lawyer, but 10 communities together do, and they could save money and increase their capacity by bringing in a family where one parent is a lawyer.
Reputation has both group and individual levels. To participate in a Sufficiency Currency, a community may need a particular type of “good standing” certificate Over time, rather than having a central authority deciding whether a community is “in” or “out” of the community, each community can set its parameters. Reputation would include things like carbon footprint, religious beliefs, and talents, as well as reviews from other communities that interact with them.