There are tens of millions of people around the world who want to work, and cannot. The global cost of unemployment is $3 trillion.

That’s equivalent to all of the yearly output of the country of France, that’s being un-utilized because people who want to work, cannot find someone to pay them.

This problem can be addressed by micro-currencies.

With digital micro-currencies, if someone is unemployed and wants to work to provide for themselves, they can offer to work for other individuals and businesses in exchange for trade-able digital micro-currencies to those individuals/businesses.

Because digital micro-currencies are trade-able, the receiver can trade them for currencies backed by goods/services that the issuing business doesn’t provide.

In other words, micro-currencies are much more like real money now. When every business can issue their own micro-currency or money, the lack of money, that prevents tens of millions of people from finding work, could now become a much less severe problem.

With the total value of labor lost from unemployment at $3 trillion per year, micro-currencies can tap into a massive resource that is currently being un-utilized.