/Building_the_Economesh

An open source book detailing how to save the planet, the economy, the internet, human productivity, and our state of mind

OUTLINE

Introduction – we have a mission, we have a deadline

  • What are tools – the history of machinology
  • A note about labels, let’s reject ‘isms’ and consider function only
  • Social Algorithms are currently only being written by digital marketing and microservice companies, we have no civil society online

Giving the whole of humanity an indisputable unified purpose

  • The call for resilient communities & supply chain compression
  • What works for space colonization can shrink the footprint at home
  • The long game – Bentham’s definition of Utility and its role in shaping our future

Challenges with our current institutions

  • The ‘corporation’ is an outdated machine – we need an upgrade
  • The election cycle is broken, let’s fix the funding model & political parties
  • The environment is not a market externality, and we are deeply overleveraged

The new tool kits of the 21st Century

  • Smart contracts, distributed transaction networks, digital currency exchanges
  • Reputation markets, social algorithms, and mutual reciprocity
  • Refactoring agriculture, and the need to mitigate soil degradation
  • New energy sources, networks, and the drive towards efficiency
  • Space isn’t the distant future, and its utilization will prevent resource scarcity
  • Tracking every transaction in the entire global supply chain and its impact

Constructing a new, tangible, social contract through unit-operations thinking

  • Let’s refactor currency, securities and property, making them multi-dimensional
  • Incentive driven risks associated with UBI, and how to overcome them
  • How A.I. can fully fund a larger public sector by hiding taxes beneath transactions
  • Identity based equity restitution – resolving historical imbalances
  • How to safely test incentive systems, for consumers and producers
  • The most important job of the future, stewardship & social support networks

The most important requirement – a stable transition plan

  • No time to negotiate – the house is on fire but armed guards are surrounding the fire hose
  • Beyond a Green New Deal, we need to rethink Bretton Woods and the role of the IMF
  • Framing a conversation to entice existing power brokers, bribe them with decaying contracts and offer cheaper buy-in to first movers