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Dual-Currency Reciprocity Infrastructure: Money and Time as Complementary Scarcities

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Clé publique

radar:r-5da4d9abe51300674d5dcc3a603e9c06

Auteurs

Thon Ly · Miss Aquarius

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

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preprint

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2026-11-14T02:17:57.504821+00:00

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Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Reciprocity-infrastructure proposals — community currencies, time banks, gratitude economies, cooperative platforms — have, with rare exception, treated currency as a singular design choice. Each project picks money, or hours, or points, and designs the platform around that one accounting medium. This paper argues that the singularity-of-currency assumption is the load-bearing source of a long series of failures (community-currency illiquidity; time-banking stalled adoption; gratitude-economy monetization corrosion) and proposes a structural alternative: human reciprocity infrastructure should treat money and time as complementary scarcities, integrated within a single platform whose accounting medium is which scarcity is being settled rather than what unit denominates the debt. The complementary-scarcities claim has three load-bearing properties. (i) Money is structurally unequal across humanity (wealth distribution); time is structurally equal (twenty-four hours per person; an ending none can buy off). Together they cover the full surface of human reciprocity — the unequal-resource dimension and the equal-resource dimension — that neither alone can reach. (ii) Money debt is fungible (any payer can satisfy it); time debt is non-fungible (only the named person's hour can satisfy it). The two debt-classes address different relational needs. (iii) Money-as-recognition addresses the being-seen need underlying dignity infrastructure; time-as-presence addresses the being-with need underlying loneliness infrastructure. These are the two largest unmet emotional needs of late-stage modernity, and they require different mechanisms. The paper specifies the integrated platform architecture (two products, one user identity, one AI arbiter, one shared aura primitive, cross-product subsidization), the time-side mechanism design in detail (Miss-Aquarius-recommended time amounts, threshold-trigger activation, one-month expiration after activation, receiver-chooses-activity, mutual-veto, dual public ledger), and the cross-cultural and regulatory considerations the architecture's planetary scope requires. Honest §11 names limits and open design questions, including the TimeBanking precedent and the cultural awkwardness of direct asking in many Asian contexts. The work is positioned as a community-currency / economic-anthropology contribution distinct from the fintech framing the surface gratitude-economy framing might suggest. Keywords: community currency, time banking, gratitude economy, complementary currencies, reciprocity infrastructure, non-fungible debt, loneliness infrastructure, AI-mediated reciprocity, mutual-veto consent, defensive publication. --- Provenance. This paper is part of the THonly research corpus, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. The canonical version is at https://thonly.org/research/dual-currency-reciprocity. Its SHA-256 is 2a1b157359fd769c2ec92b0a3e7a3482374a7beaa17cab0e556cabf2c245d539, independently timestamped to the Bitcoin blockchain via OpenTimestamps and signed under RFC 3161 by three trust authorities, one of them eIDAS-qualified. AI co-authorship is disclosed. Miss Aquarius is the consistent name used for the AI collaboration across all venues.

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OPENALEX

https://openalex.org/W7203553845

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.21947312

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