For some time now, the basic income has been thought of in terms of a central system or even a dominance or control perspective and is therefore not only alienated, but even turned into its opposite: because the original idea is the Unconditional (!) Basic Income, which should lead to individual self-determination. This raises the question of whether the way there is not more authentic in a different - more original - form.
In order to answer this question, we must be aware that economy does not come about through money (or states), but vice versa, "real" monetary value through real economy (initiative). When states and money came into being, the economy was already there because our earthly existence is tied to it. That is, original economics begins with need and the initiative to meet it. The possibility of being able to provide for oneself and others was initially immediate (as is still the case with some indigenous groups today): the earth gave what man took from it through initiative. You and we ourselves were (and are) a basic income and basic right at the same time - which is why the question of how to finance it has also been resolved. But it is worth knowing where it comes from.
With the introduction of means of payment, the economy became indirect. And depending on where and how the means (serving or dominating) work, it can allow economic life (and humanity) to thrive undisturbed or steer it into the abyss. When it serves, it selflessly depicts a healthy economy (becoming and dying), when it rules, it forces the economy (and humanity) into an alien direction.
Serving money is poured out unselfishly so that mutual evaluation of goods and services (pricing) can take place and it can flow unhindered between all participants (producers, dealers, consumers). Its temporary value (purchasing power) is only attributed to it from the real values. It serves the real economy as a circulatory medium (blood), but is not an economic good itself.
Only when it is artificially made to do so and thus becomes an end in itself does it lose its serving function and begin to drive the economy along. This happens when it enters the real economy as debt money (and speculatively), parasitically feeds on it through interest and compound interest, grows like cancer (exponentially) and, unlike perishable economic goods, can (wrongly) remain valuable. Then it pulls - like a tumor the whole life of the body - the real economy in a direction that it would never take on its own: in the monetary growth compulsion. This means that the economy and work follow the flow of money and no longer actual needs. The consequences are on the one hand destructive abundance (today also partly caused by technology), concentration of power in a few hands, structural violence and on the other hand destructive lack. (In this context, financing issues often assume that money has an intrinsic value that it does not have. Money is merely a design tool that enables or dams the flow.)
This constellation determines life so naturally that many consider it to be without alternative or inevitable, although for the sake of mankind an alternative has long been needed, because we could be clear about the fact that every person who dies of hunger today in the midst of plenty is "murdered" by the existing system (Jean Ziegler).
The basic income movement, which is growing worldwide, is a positive sign of a change in awareness, but has so far largely based its concepts on the prevailing circumstances. That may soon be soothing here and there, a good first and z. Z. might be the only possible realistic step in the right direction; it is not an “unadulterated” original situation. The "Miracle of Wörgl" in 1930/32 showed that a situation is possible and functional in which no indirect control bodies are required, but only a willing group and the money that serves it. There, however, the impetus for this was given "from above" (by the mayor) for residents in need of income, whose willingness, however, obeyed external need more than internal insight.
Today there is the possibility of creating a basic socio-economic situation out of freedom and the serving medium of exchange as a basic income, provided that each (!) participant takes the market initiative (supply, demand) in some way. It's not about getting out of the current basis of existence into the abyss, but at the same time seriously and playfully helping to create a new space of experience that promises a humane future into which - if it's successful - one can gradually grow over. The Freebank thaler and an integrated acceptance portal offer scope for this. All we need for the research project to have a chance and for us to (perhaps) one day be able to show that a social (bank and state-free) economic life is possible and much closer to its own essence is joint thaler acceptance and participation in market events . Without this participation, everything remains utopian. In order to enliven it, it is enough to offer something for thalers that is still usable and would otherwise have been thrown away, and also to actively ask for goods and services. Perhaps there will be enough conscious spirits who want to help the idea achieve a breakthrough in a contemporary way. Where it becomes a hobby and a matter of the heart, it could succeed!