Das Konzept ist natürlich unsinnig, wenn ich vorher DM brauche.
Eine Wirtschaft, die aufgrund von Geldmangel am Boden liegt, belebt man nur indem die Betroffenen selbst neues Geld (als Verbindlichkeit) erschaffen können.
Während der Weltwirtschaftskrise gab es keine Kredite von Banken mehr, deshalb hat man den WIR-Ring gegründet.
Alan Watts hat es einmal sehr gut beschrieben:

So, you remember the great depression. I expect a number of you around are old enough to remember the great depression when one day everybody was doing business and things were going along pretty well and the next day there were bread lines.
It was like someone came to work and they said to him “sorry chum but you can’t build today, no building can go on, we don’t have enough inches.” He’d say, “what do you mean we don’t have enough inches, we’ve got wood haven’t we? We’ve got metal, we’ve even got tape measures.” He’d say, “yeah, but you don’t understand the business world, we just haven’t got enough inches. We’ve used too much of ‘em.”