Money: top down or bottom up - how to build collective financial power

Money is the operating system of our society. 

If we want a financial system that works for us, we will have to build it pretty much from scratch.

To do that we need a deeper understanding of what money is, and how finance works. This 2 hour, highly participative session will introduce the subject through the lens of history.

The mechanism of our current system appears simple, obvious and fair, but a closer look shows how it is anything but.

Facilitated by Matthew Slater, who has been supporting local money systems for 18 years, and Katja Durrani from the Bristol Commons

Find out more about Matthew's work in local money systems:

Blog, audiobooks & misc stuff on his website (https://matslats.net/)

Co-originator of Credit Commons

Co-founder & CTO Community Forge