In Varuna, since day one, everyone contributes to the society. It is traded among themselves through the exchange of food, woven clothing, wooden furniture and much more!

In many other countries, they use money. Depending on how important their job is for society, how much time it takes and how physically demanding their occupation is, they are getting money handed over. With this money they can buy products and basically everything they need.

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Several Varunians were asked for their opinion on their own trading system. 

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“I was born in Varuna and never experienced another way. I think trading is the smartest way to go!” (Olivia)

“We are all working eight hours a day. And everyone loves what they are doing, so I think it's fair. I would even say it wouldn't be fair if someone who worked for eight hours would earn, and by that achieve more, than someone who worked for eight hours as well.” (Pete)

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“Sometimes it's hard to trade. I am weaving mostly small carpets or floor mats, and they take me a few months to create. If I want to trade bread for dinner, I can't just exchange it – one carpet would be worth hundreds of loaves of bread. Also, to still use the example of the breads: If the person trading the bread does not want to have one of my carpets, I must find my way and exchange products with products he could need. I guess it would be way easier to trade if you produce little, less time-consuming things. For me, the concept of money would actually make sense.” (Camilla)

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“The concept of money and buying things sounds not that helpful to me. We would need a person that has a higher position than everyone and is *thinking* like allocating the money … Right? And where does the money come from? How do we produce it? Maybe it's just me, but I don't get the thing with the money. I think the concept of trading is great!” (Josh)

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Even though the Varunians differ from other countries with their trading system, everything seems to work wonderfully and there are no signs that they want to change anything about that in the future.