Neighborhood Commerce

My friend with a dull chisel owns a coffee shop (Gene Coffee).

I love his coffee and I have the means to sharpen a chisel.

This makes commerce simple. I sharpen his chisel and he gives me coffee. The barter system and removing money from the equation creates a human transaction. It’s an agreement of value from a place of sentiment. An acknowledgement of another’s skills and the worth. It might not pay the rent on the shop but I try to use some form of trade whenever I can. I like shrinking global economics to a manageable neighborhood size.