Re: modeling shares of benefits (ex. electricity in a grid, trips on common transit etc.)

☮ elf Pavlik ☮ wrote:
> "access granting tokens" or "shares of
> collectively owned resources"

I see a similar idea as a deposit-based,
*insuring* currency backed by:

1.) Physical Sources (Means of Production)
      required to create another instance of this
      good or service.

2.) Future Applied Skills (Labor) which any
      qualified artisan can commit to provide
      in return for others artisans committing
      to work for him.



The GNUrho is a Title of Insurance for some quality and quantity of
good or service within some time-frame.

The projected quality and rate of production is not guaranteed, but is
determined by the validity of the Sources that 'back' these titles:

1. Commitments of the Means of Production required to create that Product.
 These are titles of property ownership of land, water-rights, tools,
plants, animals, etc. needed to achive that production.
 This is a % of real and 'secessionable' co-ownership which any
subgroup can fork from the group for any reason (constrained by
minimum realistic divisibility).

2. Commitments of the Human Labor required to create that Product.
 These are Worker "Promisory Notes" toward the future work needed to
install, operate, maintain, and secure those Means of Production.
 This a "Promise to Pay" some quantity and quality of good or service
during some window of time issued by an individual worker, by a group
of workers or by some voluntary accreditation entity.


==EXAMPLES of 'Face Value'
1 gallon of raw milk per week
1 lb Grade AA raw butter per week
1 Doz Grade A eggs per week
1 oil-change and chassis lube per year.
1 game of bowling per month
10 miles of bus service per day
10 hours of taxi service per day


==EXAMPLES of 'Backing Value'
====Examples of Physical Source Title:
Dairy cattle + land, water, feed, machines, buildings, tools needed to
host those cattle.
Chickens + land, water, feed, machines, buildings, tools, etc.
Motor oil and grease + land, machines, buildings, tools, etc.
Bowling alley + land, machines, buildings, tools, etc.
Bus + land, machines, buildings, tools, etc.
Taxi + land, machines, buildings, tools, etc.


====Examples of Physical Work Bond:
Will milk cows at the X dairy every day until the end of this year.
Will make butter at the X dairy every other day until July 1st 3033.
Will feed chickens and gather eggs at the X chicken farm every day
until the end of February.
Will change oil and lube chassis at the X automotive garage every
Tuesday and Thursday until December 21 of this year.
Will maintain the X bowling alley every Saturday and Sunday until I
get sick of it; will give 1 week notice.
Will drive X bus every Monday and Wednesday from 8am to 2pm for a
while...  I will give 2 weeks notice before leaving.
Will drive X taxi from 6pm to 1am every Friday and Saturday until I
get bored of it.  May not warn before I quit.


As a worker, you may choose to sign such contracts for anyone willing
to accept your expertise.  These commitments are treated as real
investments.

Other investments are commitments of Land or Capital, or whenever you
pay Profit within the Production Arena.


As an Investor, you recieve full or partial GNUrho Titles as a combination of:
1. Some % of co-ownership in the Means of Production for which you
need the outputs.  For example, someone who drinks milk would want
ownership in cattle; someone who uses honey would want ownership in
bees.

2. Commitments from other Workers within the Production Arena to
supply the labor needed to operate those Means of Production on your
behalf.  While you are fixing cars or painting buildings, those with
which you have Swapped Skills will be milking cows and gathering
honey.


This gives us time to solve the "Simultaneous Coincidence of Wants"
problem that faces typical barter, and nearly eliminates the need to
use money at all, since the goods and services we need are already the
property of those who need them.


Each individual worker sets his own conditions for fulfilling a Work Bonds.

Co-owners should advertise minimum allowable standards to avoid
attracting workers unwilling to meet those constraints.

Each GNUrho represents all *potential* production of those Physical
assets, and so is much more powerful/valuable than a typical currency.

It might be useful to also issue 'tickets' against future payouts that
would more closely resemble typical currency.

Each ticket has a window of validity - where it could not be used
before some certain time, nor could it be used after some other
certain time.

For example, a group might issue a book of 52 tickets each year for
products that are used weekly.

Ideally this will all be electronic and we will simply carry a card or
identify ourselves in some other manner to collect the goods and
services we already own, and to track that use to disallow cheating.
(We must defend ourselves against someone who pays for 1 gallon of
milk per week, but then tries to collect more).

Each GNUrho should represent the societal need as assessed by object
users according to the full price paid - where paying up to cost
indicates worth, and paying any amount over cost as a desire to grow.


GNUrho are issued in response to any investment type, including when
Users pay Price above Costs.

Profit is accepted from Users during the sale of surplus and is then
offered back to that same User as shares of co-ownership in the growth
of that group.

These payers of Profit become new investors in the Means of Production
in exactly the amount they pay above cost.  This distributes control
to those willing to pay for that growth as shares of divisible
ownership in the physical sources required for production - so
Products become Free (as in Freedom) for every User.

The GNUrho is bound by the conditions of the IOTA:

==Intra-Owner Trade Agreement (IOTA)
As User you MAY:
  0. Use this instance for any purpose.
  1. Modify this instance by renting or buying the physical sources
needed for that modification.  (YOU ARE ALREADY A CO-OWNER IF YOU PAID
PRICE ABOVE COST.)
  2. Copy this instance by renting or buying the physical sources
needed for that production.  (YOU ARE ALREADY A CO-OWNER IF YOU PAID
PRICE ABOVE COST.)
  3. Share this instance or a copy - whether modified or not.
        If you share this object instance or a copy - whether modified or
not, you MUST:
          A. Accompany each instance with a copy of this DEED.
          B. Treat all profit gained through the sale of this object or
through the rental of physical sources as an investment from that user
toward more physical sources.
          C. Issue GNUrho currency against those physical sources.

[*Profit separates from wage as property is multiplexed (during co-ownership).]



A functional Production Arena will require a minimum "Horizontal
Diversity" to allow us to 'pay' each other without needing to pass
tokens.  For example, we buy/build a dentist office and the tools for
simple dental procedures.  We must attract or train someone that can
operate those tools, and who is willing to commit to do that work for
the 'pay' of gaining co-ownership in the Means of Production for his
housing, food, clothing, transportation, sanitation, etc. combined
with commitments of others to operate those MoP for his benefit in
return for his fixing their teeth.  Notice this fully replaces
traditional insurance.

We will also want to work toward "Vertical Integration" to move away
from the need to gather and spend external tokens. For example, we
will buy grains and alfalfa at first to feed our chickens and cattle,
but will also grow those plants to avoid the need to buy in the
future.  Vertical Integration is a very long-term goal, and we won't
co-own mines or factories right away, but will just buy tools from
China at first, while we are 'booting'.


Part of the initial costs for purchasing the Means of Production might
be collected from middle-income consumers who are willing to pre-pay
for organic goods.

Each person would invest just enough (either Money, Land or Capital)
to cover the predicted costs of production for the amount of Product
they each intend to use.

Each of these investors would still need to pay their % of the costs
as usual, but since they would accept the Product itself as the return
for that risk, there would be sale, and so Profit would not exist at
all.


Labor will come from skilled artisans initially willing to work in
return for food, shelter, basic medical care, etc. with a future
payout of real co-ownership in the Production Arena.

These workers must receive real co-ownership in the MoP for which they
need the outputs, but until those facilities are functional, will need
to be paid more 'directly' by being housed in tents and fed basic
rations, etc.


Here is the rough business model:
----
1.) Product is the Investor's Return.  This means Consumers will
micro-invest by pre-paying for results, become co-owners of that
business and receive the Product itself as a side-effect of that
ownership.

2.) Profit is the Payer's Investment.  This means late-coming
Consumers will overpay for Product as usual, but we will treat (at
least some % of) that value as though they had invested as described
in #1.

3.) Investments are commitments of Future Labor and Physical Sources.
This means we will issue a deposit-based, *insuring* currency backed
by both the land and tools and other inputs, plus the work needed to
transform those assets into a Product.


Products are not sold when the Users co-own the Means of Production,
because the product is already in the hands of those who will consume
it - even before it is produced.

For example, you do not need to buy Apples when you co-own an Apple or
orchard because you *already* own your % of that product according to
your % of ownership in the physical Sources (trees, land,
water-rights, etc.) needed to produce those apples.


When workers commit to swap skills before production begins, there is
no need to pay wages because compensation comes in the form of
accepting the work of others on your behalf.

For example, you do not need to be paid to pick Oranges when someone
else is picking Apples for you, and while someone else is promising to
fix your teeth, and someone else promises to fix your car, etc.,
because your needs are then already met.

Received on Thursday, 30 August 2012 15:48:11 UTC