To introduce myself: I’m Bianca, originally from Brazil and now living in the Netherlands.
I work in finance and have experience across Brazil, India, Hungary, and the Netherlands, including roles at General Electric, Booking.com and Cargill. My background is in controllership and process design, but my deeper interest is in how economic systems can truly serve people and the planet.
Right now, I’m working on a concept for an economic system where consumption actually promotes life — not just profit.
The idea is to redesign incentives so that every transaction can boost wellbeing, regeneration, and sustainability at its core — creating development that nurtures rather than depletes.
I’m really intrigued by this conversation around simulating a wellbeing economy.
It feels urgent to find tangible ways to show people that alternative economic models are not only possible, but necessary. I’m especially curious about:
How simulations could integrate financial processes and metrics aligned with wellbeing
Ways to model “life-boosting” consumption behavior
How collective intelligence and participatory design can support systemic transitions
Happy to connect and contribute.
If anyone is experimenting with simulations, systems mapping, or financial flows within wellbeing frameworks, I’d love to exchange ideas — and I’m happy to share insights from my accounting/process background too.
Hi @WeShift , that sounds fascinating - you’re definitely welcome to join us with trying to see what can be made of the ideas here. I see such alignment with what so many people are trying to express, but so often the conversation ends up being about subtle differences people give to the words being used. I’m very interested to hear you speak about this, and myself have lots of ideas that are difficult to write down!
I’m sharing a game concept for real life. It was written with the idea that it would be fun to both create a simulation but also a protocol so that in playing the simulation, one can continue the “game” in real life. Building and educating worker bees to cooperate in a decentralized manner.
An outline is here, and if you want to know more we can discuss. The game is called - “the local loop.” It’s aim is to create a local economy and social accounting system.
Let me know if you think this is relevant to this thread.
Wow, that’s a really detailed vision, It would be fascinating to hear you speak about it. This is the first I’ve heard about demurrage currency, I think it would be really interesting to use a game to familiarise people with the concept.
Specifically regarding the discussions here, it is absolutely of interest. I will tentatively suggest that your concept feels considerably more developed than I was planning on starting from! Maybe we can all join a call for an open discussion and see where we end up?
Are there others here in the doughnut world who would like to discuss local currencies, token economics, and gamification of the real world with a point system? This might be an interesting angle on creating a simulation. I think a simulation is another approach. Whether it is experiential or an agent-based model, I would be happy to participate. I have only just joined the WEAll community. Leanne
A game/simulation/exploration of the various theories behind money sounds really interesting. Options for playing with interest rates, trust, wealth hoarding, consumerist tendencies of the populace, demurrage, incorporation of local currencies… I’m well outside of my area of knowledge but that makes the concept of a game in which I can start to understand them even more appealing.
Is anyone able to outline how any of these ideas could work, in a way that I can grasp! What would the mechanics look like for such a game?
I am an economist (academic), farmer. My area of research was/is in monetary theory. In other words, I have a lot of experience in this particular area. I’ve worked with 2 different platforms sarafu.network and localscale.org which introduce users to Local currencies on blockchains. The idea of a local currency for post capitalist grassroots activism is an old one, and part of the original toolkit of the transition town folk https://transitionnetwork.org/ which I imagine as a similar movement as the WEAll group. Like frequent flyer points they can be serious or non-serious. The only person I know of, who is interested in local currencies (although not necessarily games and simulations) is maybe @Michael, at least that is what Thobile Chittenden told me in my membership introduction a week or so ago. I don’t want to divert this thread towards local currencies. However I do feel that a game might be the best way to introduce them. Hence my participation in this thread. The best books on this topic is anything by Bernard Lietaer.
This game is one of the best out there for understanding how money can be created privately. But it is still far far far away from the types of cooperative money games that one could create for a well being society. https://moneymaker.games/
Maybe we can all join a call for an open discussion and see where we end up?