Chapter 5 - The Politics of Civic-Labor / If you have followed the logic of this series so far, the idea of a public-sector currency starts to feel feasible. Wage labor is losing its monopoly over the distribution of income and identity. UBI can stabilize consumption but not purpose. Civic-labor remains ...

Chapter 5 - The Politics of Civic-Labor / If you have followed the logic of this series so far, the idea of a public-sector currency starts to feel feasible. Wage labor is losing its monopoly over the distribution of income and identity. UBI can stabilize consumption but not purpose. Civic-labor remains ...

Chapter 4 - Civic-Currency in Practice It is one thing to imagine that people could receive credits for civic work and spend them on public goods. It is another thing to embed that logic into real municipal institutions, with real capacity limits, real political oversight, real staff turnover, and real budgets in question. A civic currency is a proposed p...

Chapter 4 - Civic-Currency in Practice It is one thing to imagine that people could receive credits for civic work and spend them on public goods. It is another thing to embed that logic into real municipal institutions, with real capacity limits, real political oversight, real staff turnover, and real budgets in question. A civic currency is a proposed p...

City/Sync Context: Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy | Decentralized Self-Reliance | Embedding d-emocracy In Authoritarian StatesThe motivation for writing this essay is to provide more context to the vision behind City/Sync. The details of why and how are too complex to capture in a single essay, and in many ways, these essays have been ...

City/Sync Context: Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy | Decentralized Self-Reliance | Embedding d-emocracy In Authoritarian StatesThe motivation for writing this essay is to provide more context to the vision behind City/Sync. The details of why and how are too complex to capture in a single essay, and in many ways, these essays have been ...

City/Sync Context:Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | First off, I want to thank @peth.eth for engaging with me on this topic publicly. Working publicly often means addressing criticisms, justifying your position, and reestablishing poorly explained concepts in a more detailed manner. Those critiques inspired me to channel a more defensible posture for why I am proposing th...

City/Sync Context:Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | First off, I want to thank @peth.eth for engaging with me on this topic publicly. Working publicly often means addressing criticisms, justifying your position, and reestablishing poorly explained concepts in a more detailed manner. Those critiques inspired me to channel a more defensible posture for why I am proposing th...

City/Sync Context:Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy _______ So, “decentralization” has become one of those words people throw around without really pausing to think about what it means in practice. It sounds sleek and futuristic, maybe even a little rebellious, like an antidote to everything broken in politics and government…but the reali...

City/Sync Context:Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy _______ So, “decentralization” has become one of those words people throw around without really pausing to think about what it means in practice. It sounds sleek and futuristic, maybe even a little rebellious, like an antidote to everything broken in politics and government…but the reali...

City/Sync Context: Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy | Decentralized Self-Reliance Foundations of Authoritarian powerWhen people think of authoritarian regimes, they often imagine dictators at podiums and military parades with all the latest toys of warfare. These images capture the theater of power but not its foundations. Authoritariani...

City/Sync Context: Original Video on dPAN’s | Local Chains as a Civic Coordination Framework | The Logic & Philosophy of a Bifurcated Economy | From Citizens to Contributors | Recomposing Government Legitimacy | Decentralized Self-Reliance Foundations of Authoritarian powerWhen people think of authoritarian regimes, they often imagine dictators at podiums and military parades with all the latest toys of warfare. These images capture the theater of power but not its foundations. Authoritariani...