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Value System

Posted on Jun 19th, 2009 by Doug : Back Yard Artist Doug
This morning I was chatting with a healer/artist friend from Washington state about the ills of our global monetary economy. Well yeah, but it was a sick system before the crash too cuz it undervalues the core economy. I mean what gives with the fact that I get paid 5 times more for sitting in an office managing others to manage software programs, (meanwhile spending my time writing poetry, making connections and thinking about the painting I'll work on tonight), then my disabled son's aide makes!
Whew, I'm out of breath! Lol!
Well I happen to think the work I'm doing is important, cuz the other stuff I'm not paid to do is feeding into the core economy. Hey that's what art and poetry and making connections is about in my mind anyway. (Yes it's way right side but making a momentary excursion to the left, to the left)
 It's intended for healing, it's intended to connect us into what really matters and collecting green stuff ain't it! 
I mean DUH!
Right now a part of the art world is plugged into the monetary economy but I believe a larger part is not. All you have to do is spend 5 minutes on the internet and find all kinds of "free" art, music, writing. My vision is that art is a gateway between the monetary and core economy.

So what would happen if everyone pulled their content down from the internet for a single day?

What would happen to our world if the payment for art had to be made as time into the core economy?
"IBM you want my poem/ K let me get out my calculator (my 10 fingers).
That'll be 5 hours into the time bank TY!"

So I'll be the first convert and sell my artwork for time into the core economy.

Here's some more info.

Timebanks


A word to my fellow artists. Being paid money for art is not validating in fact it's a invalidation because art has no price. If it did have a price, the price would be your life. Besides the Art was never yours anyway, only the work was and that is time.

Blessings

Doug
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Nicole : wakingdreamer
about 12 hours later
Nicole said

this is very thought-provoking and real, dear Doug, you inspire me. I have been delighting in Rumi just now:

The beauty of the heart

is the lasting beauty:

its lips give to drink

of the water of life.
Truly it is the water,

that which pours,

and the one who drinks.

All three become one when 

your talisman is shattered.

That oneness you can't know

by reasoning.

elisa : Mirror
about 17 hours later
elisa said

awww doug you made me cry!!! ty :)

i wrangle with pricing my 'work'
it never quite jibes with me inside about trading value for value
if i work for covering my costs, i feel like there is a huge yucky black hole over what once was perfect

you have helped me to see and understand a part of my conflict
ty ever so much

big hugs! ok fine i was just getting closer so i could wipe tears and snot again

martha : wildlygentle
2 days later
martha said

Thank you for the weblink to Timebanking.  I'm going to read more about it.  I think it's way cool, and takes social capital to the next step forward in our thinking.

Wendy : Is
2 days later
Wendy said

I knew you were gonna blog it!  I came to look and see if ya did!  :-D

Maybe you'd like to co-author an article with me on this for the eZine?  I think we could inspire some people with our voices combined!

Big LOVE my Friend!

Doug : Back Yard Artist
3 days later
Doug said

Hi soleil! I have this idea in my mind that the material goods we need will flow in through other channels then the ones our vocational work flowed out. So if you gift someone $5 with our right hand, sometime later we'll find $100 in the pocket of our jeans.

TY Nicole! That Rumi poem is right on!

I hear you Elisa! The exchange of money is so impersonal and to apply that exchange to artwork make me feel like a ho! Here is something I did for love and you wanna give me money and give it up and shut up?
Well it's not free and what I wanted was an equal exchange, your time for my time, your love and thoughts for mine, But what the hey you can take me out to dinner first! ;-)
Big hugs back!

Hi Martha and TY! Well its just a seed right now and I'm thinking more about it myself but I'm open to more thoughts on it. Way open!

Wendy, OMG I'm so busted! Lol!
I'd love to co-author with you and actually I have already haven't I? ;-)
Big LOVE YES!

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