Wanry

A resource-allocation mechanism for volunteer/public-good labor coordination Problem Classic time-banking systems (Ithaca Hours, LETS, Edgar Cahn's Time Dollars) use a fixed 1:1 exchange rate: one hour of any labor equals one hour of credit, regardless of skill or scarcity. This has a well-documented failure mode: when a scarce or high-skill...

This post is an attempt at problem decomposition rather than a complete mechanism. I expect several parts to fail, and I am especially interested in identifying where. Epistemic status: Early-stage institutional proposal. I am more confident in the problem framing than in the mechanisms proposed below. The model is incomplete,...