Build regenerative communities where you slowly gain ownership in the real world assets required to host the local production of all essential goods and services.
Real land ownership is distributed to you as you work-to-own your home and the supply-chains required to meet your future needs, and make some profit along the way.
If you own your home, you own [hold rights to] future access, and rent is zero.
If you co-own supply-chains, you co-own [hold rights to] those future goods, and profit is zero.
Just as the solitary owner of a single tree owns that fruit even before it is a flower,
We can co-own orchards in groups, to co-own that fruit without purchase.
If you trade your future work for the future work of others, you own [hold rights to] those future services, and wages are zero.
Buy undeveloped land, without debt, to build communities producing essential goods and services.
Distribute land ownership to the users who do that work, or the supporting work required to ensure that production.
Produce enough surplus to sell for profit and thereby:
Pay financial investors.
Pay taxes to external governments.
Buy goods and services not yet produced onsite.
Increase vertical integration to reduce imports.
Buy more land to grow and onboard new users.
Financial Investors - Potentially higher profit margins from lower internal costs.
Wages are zero because workers are paid with goods and services and real land ownership.
Internal markup is zero because we use Vertical Integration to eliminate sales between every step in every supply-chain.
Rent is zero mortgages are gone because every step in every supply-chain is user-owned.
Workers - You will own land and future production, and you will love it!
You gain real land ownership as you work.
You own your home and never pay rent.
You co-own many supply-chains to own and govern and ensure future production.
You are encouraged to produce a surplus of goods and services.
You are encouraged to sell those surplus goods and services for profit.
Earth - User ownership tends towards localized production, which incentives regeneration and respect for that land and promotes resilient ecosystems.
Deed - A title of the land ownership required to complete 1 step in a Ticket supply-chain.
Contract - A commitment to complete 1 step of specialized work in a Ticket supply-chain, usually over the next Year.
Ticket - A claim on future production, redeemable for 1 serving-size of a specific kind of good or service, with a natural window-of-validity set by the real-world requirements and timeline of that production, and by limitations of storage, etc.
The DAO manages these through Ricardian Contracts.
Ask users for the future goods and services they want produced.
Issue 1 Ticket for each specific requested future good or service [OUTPUTS].
Issue 1 Contract for each specific commitment of future work [INPUTS] required for 1 step in that supply-chain.
Issue 1 Deed for each specific commitment of land [INPUTS] required for 1 step in that supply-chain.
Offer many kinds of Tickets for each Contract signature.
This is how you implicitly trade your future work for the future work of others.
Vest Deeds of land ownership to users who complete Contracts.
Create 1 Ticket - Describe any good or service you want to produce
A Ticket may be from a co-owner like "Fix a pothole on a shared road".
A Ticket may be from a sole-owner like "Fix my kitchen sink".
Each Ticket must list all Deeds and Contracts required for fulfillment.
Each Ticket is only as valid as the Deed and Contracts it requires.
Select many Tickets - Request future goods and services.
This is how you "vote on" future production.
Selecting Tickets signals your 'demand', but you must sign a Contract (see below) to hold those Tickets you selected.
Create 1 Contract - Define the work required for 1 step in a
The DAO may, optionally, mint 1 Coin for each square_meter of land, and then attempt to sell those Coins to thereby fund the purchase of that land and the startup supplies required to begin production on that parcel.
NOTE: Coin holders are not land owners!
This fungible token (cryptocurrency) is hard-capped at 510 Trillion, which is approximately equal to the total surface area of the Earth, in square_meters, buy more realistically capped by the amount of land on Earth which can actually be purchased.
Ask for the size and price of any land currently for sale on the open market.
Issue 1 Coin for each square_meter of that land.
Sell those Coins to buy the land.
If all Coins for that parcel are sold, the DAO buys that parcel and the startup supplies specific to that parcel, and announces the first day of onsite work for that parcel.
Add Land - Enter the size_of_parcel (in square_meters) and price_of_parcel (in the currency accepted as payment for this parcel) of any land currently for sale, into the DAO's land Registry.
This triggers the DAO to sell size_of_parcel more Coins.
Buy Coins
Coins do not represent land ownership.
Coins convey no rights of governance.
Coins have no redeemable value.
Coin holders are not Financial Investors, and have no claim on profits.
Coin holders cannot communicate with Workers or Owners.
The DAO sells Coins to buy land and startup supplies.
The DAO cannot sell Coins for any other reason.
The minimum-price for each Coin = price_of_parcel + price_of_startup_supplies / size_of_parcel.
The DAO cannot "give away" or "airdrop" Coins.
The DAO cannot remove Coins from circulation.
The DAO cannot "burn" Coins (whether in circulation or not).
The DAO cannot adjust the price of Coins in circulation.
The DAO cannot interact with Coin
When you co-own some % of the land [as Deeds] required for future production, and if you also hold some of the "future work of others" [as Contract signatures], you own that same % of that future production even before it has been created!
This protects you from paying financial returns to other owners if you had otherwise purchased those goods and services "late", from the regular market.
This solves the static case, where the final outputs of production exactly match the predicted outputs of future production (the Tickets you hold).
But users may co-own more than they predict they will need to sell surplus for profit.
This creates a user-owned "core", where workers slowly gain Deeds of land ownership as they complete Contracts, surrounded by a metaphorical "growth-ring" where surplus is sold for profit.
But since some % of profit must fund the purchase of even more land without debt, the user-owned core will grow as long as there are users willing to buy surplus until, theoretically, all users on Earth might own all the supply-chains required to ensure all the future production they need.
But even when all predictable production is user owned, profit will still appear for new inventions and late decisions and for other reasons.
Bitcoin is slowly distributed to those who 'mine' each block.
This Coin is slowly distributed to those who buy it.
The rate of issuance for Bitcoin decreases geometrically (the periodic halving).
The rate of issuance for this Coin is enforced by the difficulty of finding more Land to buy.
Bitcoin has a static total supply of hard-capped at 21 million.
This Coin has a static total supply hard-capped at 510 trillion [approximate number of square meters of the surface of the Earth, including all bodies of water].
Bitcoin does not represent land ownership, conveys no rights of governance and has no redeemable value.
This Coin has those same limitations.
The GNU GPL uses Copyright law to gain authority over the immaterial Sources of production, and then uses that legal authority to ensure users gain their own instance of those immaterial Sources.
Similarly, we use law to gain legal authority over the material Sources of production:
Crowdfunding law governs Tickets representing future production.
Employment law governs Contracts representing commitments of future work.
Property law governs Deeds representing real land ownership.
We then use that legal authority to ensure every user gains access to their own instance of the material Sources of production.
Users gain Deeds of land ownership as they complete work Contracts.
In a traditional "worker owned" business, each stage of production is co-owned by the people who operate those material Sources, while the users have no voice. The intermediate product must be sold at each step in each supply-chain.
For example, the Farmer owns the Farm and sells grain to the Miller who owns the Mill, who then sells flour to the Baker who owns the Bakery who finally sells to the user.
In a "user owned" business, all steps in each supply-chain are sole-owned or co-owned by the people who will use that specific future production. The intermediate products and the finished products are never sold because the users who will finally consume them already own them.
This safely eliminates profit for those in each group, for that good or service, because those co-owners will accept the product itself as the natural return on investment.
The price they each pay as a user is simply the costs they already each paid as a co-owner, while profit is undefined because those goods and services are never sold.
This work was inspired and informed by the work of many others.
The following are just a handful of many groups working on this.
Ethereum Localism Resilient and Sustainable Local Economies Powered by Blockchain
Free Software Foundation Free Software, Free Society
Green Pill Network Turning Degens to Regens
Peer to Peer Foundation Commons-Oriented Peer to Peer Dynamics
Kokonut Network Syntropic Farming and Poverty Reduction
One Community Global Sustainable Cities
Open Source Ecology Global Village Construction Set and Factor-E Farm
PyraPOD SolaRoof Greenhouse/Shelter in Action
Grass Roots Economics Prospering economies built by thriving communities
Open Capital Sharing of Risk and Reward
Open Value Networks Organizational Framework for Commons-based Peer Production
Sensorica "an effort to understand how open networks can engage in material peer production"
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Each Contract must contain details specific to that kind of work.
Sign 1 Contract - Commit to work in the future to hold many kinds of Tickets.
This is how your future work "pays for" your future goods and services.
This aligns the goals of the worker with goals of the user.
For example, imagine a Ticket for "Keep my car in working condition".
If you sign a Contract within that Ticket supply-chain, you have incentive to choose long-term solutions and preventative maintenance to thereby reduce the total amount of work required to complete your Contract. The usual combative stance against the customer has been removed because your goal is to decrease your workload by mitigating potential problems.
This aligns the goals of the user (reliable transportation) with the goals of the worker (less work required to complete the Contract).
This enables the use of automation and robots without danger because perpetual work is no longer a goal.
Complete 1 Contract - You gain land ownership as you finish your work.
This is how Deeds vest to users as they work.
The best vesting schedule is not yet known.
Vesting a micro-amount at the end of each day may increase worker retention.
You gain the same kind of Deeds used to fulfill the Tickets you selected.
For example, if you select Bread Tickets, you gain Deeds in a Farm and a Mill and a Bakery.
During the "startup stage" of each parcel, the land you gain was not used to fulfill the Tickets you selected.
For example, imagine the DAO has purchased the land and startup supplies to begin the pilot project.
Govern Deeds - You hold Deeds to control and own that future production.
You may hold some Deeds as sole-owner and some as co-owner.
Each sole-owner may exclude everyone, and owns 100% of that future production.
For example, the sole-owner of a single tree owns all of that future fruit.
Each co-owner may exclude everyone not in that group.
Each co-owner owns the same % of that future production as the % of Deeds they hold.
If you co-own 1% of an orchard, you own 1% of that future fruit.
Each co-owner must "pay" their % of the costs to operate and maintain each supply-chain so it continues to fulfill Tickets.
Each co-owner may "split" Deeds from any grouping to form a subset of co-owners or to become a sole-owner.
This localizes control and resolves the "Tyranny of the Majority" when subgroups can reasonably secede from larger groups.
Each sole-owner may "join" Deeds to become a group co-owner.
Each group may also group, recursively, to govern organically.
You may sell Deeds for Money.
The DAO cannot sell Deeds for Money.
Sell_Surplus - You may sell goods and services, with no limit on price.
Some % of profits are returned to financial investors for a period no longer than 7 Years for each land purchase, meaning each parcel has its own 7 Year vesting schedule which begins when that parcel is finally purchased.
Some % of profits are used to import goods and services not yet produced onsite.
Some % of profits are used to increase vertical integration to reduce imports. goods and services not yet produced onsite.
Some % of profits are used to buy more land without debt.
You, the seller, may direct the profits from your sales towards funding a specific parcel you want the DAO to buy.
You, the seller, may choose to reallocate some or all of your Deeds to any land which has not yet been ALLOCATED to a specific person.
The DAO cannot accept Coins for any reason.
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