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Ben Basche
@basche42
I’m transfixed with the idea of bringing African social savings group models onchain and scaling them to the developed world Social savings groups (chamas In Kenya, stokvels here in ZA, many other names) https://www.google.com/url?q=https://nasasa.co.za/about-stokvels/&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwiWyI_j-ZWIAxXlWkEAHWOdGagQFnoECBUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1aW5Sr6Xz-EUeXKbZOQ9rP
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@nicholas
Why would people keep contributing after they've 'won'
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Ben Basche
@basche42
It’s fundamentally based on actual webs of real trust coordinated right now over rudimentary things like shared bank accounts and WhatsApp groups and pens and paper. Latent new economic arrangements for daily life and social reproduction waiting to be given a more ergonomic form factor to inhabit
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@basche42
These are much more than lotteries. These are people’s entire social life and economic lives packaged into one. Their entire community is like one social economic organism that looks out for the pack, pools resources, provides social safety net
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