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This to me is a noble purpose for Hive and if such projects are championed - it has potential to shift Hive onto another level. Forget 'freedom of speech' and 'getting rich quick' - let's encourage equity and parallel economies to empower people in poorer performing economies. In many ways, the opportunities to change are greater in places like Ghana - than in Australia (where I am) - that while there is great economic abundance due to mining (mainly) here - there is great rigidity and the inability to adapt to the upcoming political climate. This will betray the people of Australia with their own supposed 'security'. I surmise, the royals in the UK will dump their Australian investments as fast as the mines run out and a class society with extreme poverty will quickly develop.

I would support Hive for this purpose much more than for any other ambitious western worldly purpose.

Can anyone confirm the veracity of what these people are doing? While I do not wish to doubt the greatness of these achievements, I am well traveled and I was not born yesterday. For example, I once volunteered for a refugee organisation in Turkey in 2018 that turned out to be quite corrupt, though outwardly on socials appeared by all purposes to be achieving good.

I am hopeful this project is genuine and is as abundant in high esteemed ethics as it seems.

One thing that is certain is that humans will remain being human - it must be recognized no one is immune to the change of character that comes with the accumulation of wealth and power. It is more important than ambition and growth to found a steady rock of a foundation of decentralisation - cementing into the structure of an organisation the inability for power and wealth to accumulate inordinately in any one place at any one time.

This type of social structure requires a high degree of self-responsibility and self-knowledge by each individual involved in order to be working properly on the long-term - run by a tried and tested board which is not self-elected.

I will keep an eye on this project and others like it. I'd hope to promote such projects and to add to the flame of alternative economies wherever that is.

We must move forward with knowledge and remain a little childlike in this process in order to have potential to be ever new and adapt to the ever changing social and political cultures of today.