Life inc

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…thout money so much as making her own, on the spot, when she needs it - in the form of the very adaptable just-in-time currency known as barter. Douglas Rushkoff's book _Life Inc._ and his recent talks are all about centralized currency's corrosive (or rather, extractive) effect on society and are an excellent source of more economic-hack ideas. Here's his talk from the Web 2.0 conference last week: http://rushkoff.com/2009/11/21/radical-abundance/

…glance at the picture of the guy, and immediately my eye drops down to his bio DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF is a media analyst; documentary filmmaker, and author. His latest book is Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back. How the world became a corporation? WTF? They lost me as a reader right there.

For a very thorough and less hysterical take on some of the same problems of centralized currency, see Douglas Rushkoff's book _Life Inc._