Playing the (New) Money Game - how to recreate sustainable money with Stef Kuypers of Happonomy

About this episode

The episode discusses how to create a sustainable monetary system that fosters community and support, featuring guest Stef Kuypers.

If the death cult of predatory capitalism is based on money as the commodification of suffering (which it is) - how do we create a monetary system that encourages people to help each other, to create communities of place, purpose and passion that are genuinely supportive and to invest where trust and hope lead, rather than simply the hoarding of ever-increasing amounts of value? Stef Kuypers is an astonishing individual. He taught himself coding at age 14 and moved into a career in IT - but he's a complete polymath and, after working the fields of creative thinking, improvisation, and business interventions, he took a deep dive into economics, monetary systems, complexity theory and human behaviour. Today he researches how monetary systems influence both our individual behavior and how it affects the way we organize our society. He's creator of the Sustainable Money Model and works for Happonomy in Belgium. He's also aware that we don't just need a system that will work differently, we need to find ways to help people transcend the inner blocks that tell us the existing system is the only one that can work and anything else is unrealistic. So, as an avid gamer online and on…

People in this episode

Host: Accidental Gods

Guest: Stef Kuypers

Topics covered

• sustainable money
• monetary systems
• community building
• trust and hope
• regenerative gaming

Keywords

• sustainable money
• monetary systems
• community
• trust
• regenerative gaming

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Happonomy

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