<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Nirmalan, the article offers the answer to your question: "<span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">China built 12,000 miles of high-speed rail in a decade: credit created on the books of </span><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/chinese-financial-system-elliott-yan.pdf" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(147,98,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">government-owned banks</a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px"> was advanced to pay for workers and materials, and the loans were </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704025304575283953879199386" style="box-sizing:border-box;border-width:0px;border-style:solid;border-color:currentcolor;color:rgb(147,98,0);font-weight:bold;font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">repaid with profits</a><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px"> from passenger fees. "</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">This is interesting - I wonder if/how this form of banking could accommodate the financing of establishment of Our Heart Gardens. Holding the intention of participation in Oh-Gs being free, who would pay? Personally, I like the idea of tapping the government agencies who provide services to the participants, and businesses that use the facility to serve their mandate. I invite all imaginations to play in that field with me... Perhaps artists who sell the work they create with/in an Oh-G would pay (a tax or a fee?)... cooks who sell prepared meals (as opposed to those who serve participants freely) would pay - based on their income from sales - perhaps... </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">This is an interesting avenue of inquiry. There are <i>many</i> avenues down which I have never ventured and I value your input... This is the fun part!!</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">Love</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(43,43,43);font-family:Lato;font-size:18px">Shannon</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 6:18 AM Nirmalan Dhas via ChatAction <<a href="mailto:chataction@communitymagic.org">chataction@communitymagic.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">…"the country still needs trillions of dollars in infrastructure. Putting the unemployed to work on those infrastructure projects seems an obvious solution”<br>
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Who pays back and how…<br>
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> On Dec 22, 2020, at 02:02, <a href="mailto:stan@othernetworks.org" target="_blank">stan@othernetworks.org</a> wrote:<br>
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