It should be apparent that taking into account the dual function of income and wealth can improve chances for adoption of any redistribution proposal attempting to address shortcomings of the capitalist economic model. However a better option to waiting for the governments to fix the existing system might be to build a new one. The core of Merit economy is distributed ledger — the same technology underlying a slew of cryptocurrencies (like bitcoin) developed over the past decade. Considering its “battle-tested” history the same architecture if not actual software code should be ready also for the system described here. The new system can be built by a small group of dedicated individuals and started the same way money once appeared on the economic scene — by being adopted on the basis of its merit by the people themselves.