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The Time-Store Keeper (archetype)
Exchange at honest cost
Markets without masters.
Economic−32
SocialistMarket
Governance−74
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+42
TraditionalProgressive
An archetype for the mutualist ideal in daily life: the cooperative trader who exchanges goods at honest labour-cost, embodying a market that serves people rather than capital.
social
Egalitarian, neighbourly, practical.
economic
Trades goods for their labour-cost, not for profit.
governance
Needs no state — just honest contract among neighbours.
Notable for
- The honest-cost trader
- Markets without masters
- Mutualist everyday archetype
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