We must expand our sense of responsibility beyond our personal skillset to include co-ownership in all the Means of Production required for all of our physical needs.
We will buy land and tools and plants and animals and water rights to begin a Vertically Integrated Permaculture Mosaic. We will attract middle-income consumers to pre-pay for organic food (both groceries and restaurant) and many other products, such as ISP services that we will create within the VIPM. This is similar to crowd-funding. Those consumers will become real co-owners of the VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs of production (only for the specific products they want), but since they will not buy the product from us (they each own their % already), they will not be able to pay Profit or sales-Tax on that missing transaction. We will attract workers to commit to labor in the future (promise to pay with work) in return for their receiving co-ownership in the VIPM in the MoP for which they want the outputs (not necessarily for the MoP for which they have skills). Those workers are also consumers, and will become real co-owners of the VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs of production (only for the specific products they want), but since they will not buy the product from us (they each own their % already), they will not be able to pay Profit or sales-Tax on that missing transaction. We will not pay the consumers or the workers with money. We will not pay the consumers or the workers with product. These investors receive product as a "side-effect" of their co-owning the Means of Production. For example, the owner of a milk-cow does not *buy* the milk from himself, he owns it already. Similarly, the co-owners of a milk dairy do not *buy* the milk from themselves, they each own their % already. We can accomplish this without begging politicians. We can organized in small groups that buy and co-own the Means of Production very much like any business or organization, but with the following Terms of Operation as self-enforced constraints: 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. These adjustments allow us to move away from excessive token-passing and toward productivity that can safely reach stasis - eliminating the perceived need for infinite growth. Please ask questions and help me fix what is wrong with the idea. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
