# Contribution economy

**URL:** https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-economy/1179
**Category:** Political economy
**Tags:** time-ongoing
**Created:** [18 September 2022 19:21 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-economy/1179 "2022-09-18T19:21:14Z")
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### Author: ![mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/user_avatar/forum.meet.coop/mikemh/32/358_2.png) [@mikemh](https://forum.meet.coop/u/mikemh)
#### Post date: [18 September 2022 19:21 UTC](https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-economy/1179/1 "2022-09-18T19:21:14Z")

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> To be added xxx

> Internally, [meet.coop](http://meet.coop) is conducted as a particular kind of ‘parallel’ or altered economy: not an economy of ownership and property, or wage labour under managerial supervision, or market exchange, but an economy of contributions in a commons.

> Contributions are of three kinds: primarily, work (hours), and secondarily, contributions in-kind (material resources of various kinds - eg access to platforms or servers) and monetary contributions (members’ subscriptions).

> Contributions are recognised in various ways, and valued in appropriate ways - including the valuing of care work (which is underlined in feminist economics) and of contributions in commons, under commons stewardship.

> To be developed, including some notes on contribution economy concepts, arising from `commons.hour` special Dec 2021: [Nextcloud](https://cloud.meet.coop/s/zkHLM6ZM7memJL4)

See also, in the forum: [About the Contributions & surplus category](https://forum.meet.coop/t/about-the-contributions-surplus-category/1126) , [Contribution & recognition in the commons](https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-recognition-in-the-commons/973), [From Exchange to Contributions](https://forum.meet.coop/t/from-exchange-to-contributions/85) , [Sign-up - commons.hour special : mapping the contributions in the meet.coop community (part 1)](https://forum.meet.coop/t/sign-up-commons-hour-special-mapping-the-contributions-in-the-meet-coop-community-part-1/782) , [https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-accounting-in-meet-coop/793](https://forum.meet.coop/t/contribution-accounting-in-meet-coop/793) .