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"I don’t ever want another generation to face a pandemic knowing they must choose either the good of their economy or the survival of their families and communities. I believe public health and economic health should correlate. I believe ecological health and economic health should correlate. I believe that the health of our economies should correlate with the presence of social equity. I believe that the best possible economy is one that succeeds when the best possible common good succeeds. I believe Regenerative Currency Systems can make this a reality."
​- From Make Money Better

Writing began on Make Money Better at the start of March 2021 as a way to contribute new tools and models towards positive systemic change. This Creative Commons publication lays out a possible roadmap for how communities can eliminate poverty and protect ecological health through the creation of Regenerative Currency Systems. 

Make Money Better is a publicly licensed manuscript that proposes a new class of digital assets - Regenerative Currencies - that represent social and ecological well-being. Regenerative Currencies are meant to be generated as funding for essential and prioritized work, and these assets would slowly decay in strength over time. This publicly licensed manuscript outlines systemic ways to use such assets to meet basic needs without cost - and without causing inflation - while still appropriately paying producers and providers. This model also makes it possible to associate the longevity and supply of a Regenerative Currency with real conditions through various mechanisms, making it financially beneficial for stakeholders to cultivate social and ecological well-being.

Regenerative Currency Systems are designed to be compatible with existing forms of commerce, allowing them to be an additional tool for communities and governments to use alongside established financial approaches. The goal is to carefully introduce new financial tools that align decentralized economic pressures with the shared priorities of our communities.

This manuscript and the concepts within it are intentionally being shared for free under a Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license. This is meant to reduce the barriers involved in providing universal basic access to well-being while preserving the ecological processes that make life possible on Earth. Please feel welcome to bring these concepts to your family conversations, to your local politicians, to universities and colleges near you, and to the businesses and charities within your communities. If you feel called to contribute in any way, please know you are welcome to do so. This manuscript's CC BY-SA license allows for many kinds of contribution, use, and modification, and you may find more information on this site's Collaborate page.

Please feel welcome to take initiative as a leader in this movement, as everyone is free to make changes, improvements, and meaningful progress in the development of the Regenerative Currency System model. Many simultaneous efforts may emerge from this concept, and many different groups may feasibly create their own Regenerative Currency Systems. A diverse set of approaches is very much welcome as interested communities communicate and collaborate. Within the call to action at the end of this manuscript, the hashtag #MakeMoneyBetter is proposed as a decentralized starting point for global conversations.

​This is a moment of shared opportunity. If you wish to lead, to teach, and to cultivate conversations around this model, please feel welcome. You may also reach out to the original author through the Contact page of this website.

It is with a great deal of humility and hope that this book is being offered to the global community. May it provide new tools, rich conversations, and a strong sense of possibility at a time when we truly need it. 

Let's #MakeMoneyBetter

​About the author:

My name is Alex Bernat, and I am the initiating author of Make Money Better. I am non-binary, and I use they/them pronouns. I am an educator, an empowerment mentor, a harpist, a volunteer coordinator fighting hunger through food banking, and - accidentally - an economist. 

Website text © 2022 Alex Bernat
About The Author Photo © 2021 Christi Bernat
Banner Photo by Luis Poletti - used under the ​Unsplash License
Excerpt from the book Make Money Better by Alex Bernat may be shared under CC BY-SA 4.0