Timebanking Timesharing and Internet of Value Exchange As Drivers of Sustainable Development

Abstract

Nemo potest duobus dominis servire, aut enim unum odio habetit et alterum diligent aut unum newlinesustinebit et alterum contemned non potestis Deo servire et mamonae from the Old Testament newlinerefers to humans not being able serve two masters, God and money, for they would either newlinedislike one and like the other else hold to one and despise the other but not both - Matthew 6:24 newline(Braunstein, 1784, p. 2-4; Fragomeli, 2019). In recent times Pope Francis described that newlinebetween God and money lies the greatest temptation known to the human race wealth newline(Clark, 2019). The former quote does not distinguish between money and wealth while the newlinelatter statement points at wealth being an individual and separate entity not constrained to newlinecurrency alone. In contrast, the Marxian equation of Money-Commodity-more Money newline(Ozselcuk and Madra, 2005; Stoner and Melathopoulos, 2018, p. 127-129) highlights on tangible newlinevalue-capital pricing without shedding much light on intrinsic value or intangible wealth newlinederived from non-commodities or services. The three propositions outlay the bedrock theme of newlinethis research which is to conduct a study on resource sharing models which foster human newlinenetworks for development and survival need-fulfilment using a frugal mode or without the newlineinvolvement of money. newline