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# Concept
## Where we are
A seemingly inescapable game is going on, which produces winners and loosers. All who insist that they dont see an alternative are condemned to willingly or unwilligly strengthen the totality of this game. It tries to justify the mind of anybody towards making profit and selling a representation. The game is called money.
It is backed by the fear that its uncontrolled form, namely violence and war, might break through, if there were no institutions, including most prominently the state. These institutions keep up the collective illusion that the numbers printed on paper and small metal disks have a meaning, called value.
## A different perspective
With competition steadily intensifying, also the desire for something else is growing. People are rediscovering the commons, question intellectual property and begin to see that money is not everything.
A practical alternative is sharing of resources, which has always happened in human history. A resource is every material thing, each of your skills, all of your knowledge and maybe even your dreams.
## Sharing is the rule in communities
Many resources are shareable with others. Within a circle of friends it is common to share resources. Whenever people trust each other, things are being lent, used collectively, copied illegally, given away for free, made available permanently and explained while having fun; people help each other, give each other advice, and all this without charging for it.
Anything can circulate in such communities:
* Material things (the drilling machine, the ice crusher, the mobile home, …)
* Structural resources (the guestroom, the internet access, …)
* Skills and knowledge (computer skills, help in moving houses, repairing skills, …)
* …
See more [Examples](examples.md).

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# Examples
Here are some examples for sharing. If you are addicted to spectacle, play the money game instead. 
* share your books
* share a drilling machine with your neighbors
* put together and buy (still!) a high-pressure cleaner
* store the high-pressure cleaner in a collectively used workshop
* bring your broken computer to a group specialized on repairing computers; they will have spare parts and knowhow
* teach others how to sew
* share your [wireless internet connection](https://www.openwireless.org/)
Read more on the idea of [pool economy](pool.md).

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# Pool economy
Pool economy is not a theory and hopefully will never become an instrument for controlling people (by creating an image of reality according to which people then behave).
There are however some guiding ideas in pool economy:
## Communities
Individuals come together in communities which are autonomous and self-managed. In particular, each community may have a different pool economy, i.e., a different set of self-made rules, and different aspects which are considered important.
Note: A contrary opinion popular in postmodern thought holds that individuals participate in many small networks that are not persistent (as communities are).
## Choice of community
Each individual must be able to leave a community.
Communities decide on the rules of how they accept new members (steps, periods, conditions, …).
## Trust within a community
Communities try to make it possible for individuals to rely on each other in certain aspects. Individuals fail and communities reduce the impact on others (social cohesion). Communities are sources of trust. Also towards other communities:
## Trust between communities
Communities can freely agree on ways of cooperation. ln particular for economic transactions community A will want to rely on what community B promised. Also very important is permanence.
Note: In the game of money, reliability between individuals if enforced by laws, which put high pressure on them.
## Network of communities
Communities will have to find ways of interacting with each other:
* How to deal with conflicts
* How to remain independent
* How establish and maintain trust
## Ethical principles
Most important for communities is how the individuals treat each other and communicate with each other. It would be easy to invalidate the possibility of sharing just by bad talk.
Communities will quickly dissolve to the least common denominator of market capitalism, if they are not able to maintain ethical principles quite different quite different from the popular ones. This may give back to human beings the dignity which the game of money took away:
[Raoul Vaneigem: A Declaration of the Rights of Human Beings On the Souvereignity of Life as Surpassing the Rights of Man](http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/RightsOfHumanBeings/RightsOfHumanBeings-full.pdf) (23 MB)
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For details on how all this might look like see [software](../software/index.md) and more [tools](../community/communities.md).