Not Money, But Effort: A Barter-Based Framework for Peer-to-Peer Skill Exchange

This preprint presents Effort for Equity, a proposed barter-based framework for peer-to-peer skill exchange. The framework explores how effort can function as a non-monetary unit of exchange through mechanisms including dynamic scarcity-based skill pricing, reciprocal obligations, Effort Points, delayed comprehension verification, teach-back verification, blind structured peer review, tiered Effort Passes, and point expiration. An illustrative hand-computed simulation is provided to demonstrate the operation of the proposed mechanisms. The manuscript does not claim validation using human participants or live platform data.