What is OIC not?
OIC is not meant to replace your local currency.
What is OIC then?
OIC is a complementary currency.
OIC creates another option outside of this economical and political environment.
The use of OIC as a complementary currency is totally voluntary.
OIC is here to create new possibilities in our thinking: To create a new consciousness.
Why use a complementary currency to shift consciousness?
Standing on the shoulders of giants. like Jem Bendell, Researchers at Positive Money, Dr Johan Joubert, Jacque Fresco, Joseph Stiglitz, David Suzuki, Charles Eisenstein, Chris Agnos, Richard Werner, Martin Wolf, Lera Boroditsky with how language shapes the way we think and the Bank of England to name just a few. The main thing is, when looking at money, and the creation of money, the details matter. When explanations are short, details will inevitably get lost.
Know that it has taken years of research to understand money. In the end, money is just a story.
But this story shapes a big part of our reality, and does not serve us.
The current money system
There are two components of the current money system that is going to make survival on this planet very difficult.
- How we currently create money from debt. Where the person making the promise to repay is creating the money through a promissory note called a loan agreement.
- What we currently create money for. This creation ties back to our value system and our ability to support life on the planet.
Read more about the symptoms here
With OIC
With OIC those very two components are addressed as follows:
- How we create money in OIC is by letting users that have money, create money. With OIC we split your balance in two.
- Money you have
- Money you can create (This can only be spent on someone else for the reasons shown below)
- With OIC we create money for products or services, by protecting and caring for life and the environment Including caring for one another.
Read more about how OIC creates money here
Seeing our planet die should touch us all. Grief is part of the process. Understanding is part of the healing. Understanding what makes humans different. With our abilities to tell stories. Then building tools to make these stories real. Tools like countries, legal systems and money systems. All of those stories have to change. Then we also need to change the tools that drive those stories. As a species, we are amazing and powerful. It is time we stop giving our power away by understanding how we got here. Then drop the blame. Then start healing this planet by healing ourselves first. We would be so grateful if you help to tell a new story, with new tools.