# Decolonizing Money - Bangkok 2024

- Channel: [Funding the Commons](https://streameth.org/funding_the_commons)
- Date: 2025-10-07
- Duration: 21:54
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-dAeJzlMOjlg
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeJzlMOjlg

## Description

Decolonizing Money: Learn about the intersections of universal basic income, debt cancellation, and the US dollar's global influence in Decolonizing Money: Reimagining Economic Sovereignty. Julio discusses historical systems like cacao as currency, the legacy of colonial financial structures, and the potential of creating a 'money commons' to foster economic democracy, autonomy, and just transitions.

Speaker: Julio Linares (Poetic Technologies, Basic Income Earth Network)

This session was part of the 11th edition of Funding the Commons, held in Bangkok.

Learn more at https://www.fundingthecommons.io