Editing Local exchange trading system (section)

== Limitations ==
Even though LETS are strongly oriented towards the formal market economy, they disengage from it by establishing small, cooperative exchange enclaves in which trust and intimacy relationships are cultivated. And it also means that there is a small range of services available. LETS members must be economically involved outside to meet their needs. LETS also does not effect a 'return' to bartering or the abolition of property.<ref name="The Moral Economy of Parallel Curre"/>
"LETS currency only has value when it is circulation."<ref name="Local Exchange Trading Systems and"/>
While LETS members could decide individually to change the way they value money and life and develop new codes and live by them to a large degree, they were restricted in their ability to sustain this [[utopia]]. LETS have limited resources, so when they need mainstream resources, they might be unable to transfer their codes through their network.<ref name="Explorations in heterotopia: Local"/>