Togethr as Earthquake Smoothing System
Togethr is an app platform and social marketplace with aspirations to become a social economy. Why, you might ask, do we need a new social economy? Because to treat an illness you go to the cause.
Ever since Keynes, governments have borrowed money to stimulate growth in order to protect jobs. The cause of the economic crisis is not debt but instead the need for job security. Job changes are like earthquakes, they can shatter a life. If job losses were not so shattering, we would not need to borrow to ensure they don’t happen. (Nor would we need to be so nervous about the day of reckoning when the credit runs out).
We smooth quakes by inducing small shifts. When vocational shifts are on the scale of project or task there is no need for job security. Togethr provides a means to earn a crust without having to have a job, a contract or, for that matter, permission. Social security without the tax burden or disincentive to work.
