Diagnosis: plutocracy;
treatment: cooptocracy; The dialectic is of capitalism and collectivism, the synthesis is cooptocracy
Proposed Model for the Societal Progress Cooptocracy Platform for the Massively Collaborative Economy
Also published here: Proposed Model for the Societal Progress Platform for Collaboration and Organization wiki doc
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The Problem: Plutocracy
Plutocracy is a form of government where the majority of political and economic power belongs to a minority of wealthy elites. The concentration of wealth and power into the hands of a few people has created a multitude of problems, culminating in massive unnecessary material and spiritual poverty, massive ecosystem destruction, extremification of weather, and perpetual war.
Let’s examine why these problems are happening, the fundamental causes, and explore solutions.
The solution: The Cooptocracy Platform
I am working on building a model for a platform to help form an alternative organizational and governmental form called Cooptocracy. It can be used to own and govern a new kind of cooperative and massively collaborative organization. This kind of cooperative has the potential and intention to provide all products and services usually provided by traditional governments, "for-profit" and “not-for-profit” corporations, and public benefit organizations. It will generate material and societal wealth in a more ethical, efficient, and sustainable style.
I have outlined a proposed model for the collective decision making system for these organizations.
I propose an advanced system of organic delegation, where everyone gets a proportion of the decision power. Each decision must have X proportion of consensus.
Proportions of the will of the group. The will of the group is decided through a hybrid government system that aggregates the beliefs, perspectives, and preferences of the many.
The cooptocracy platform will be similar to other consensus platforms:
BITNATION ConsiderIt consensus platform
The platform allows a hybrid form of government:
Distributism based government (NOTE: * = Wiki-data object in brackets, [x] is defined collectively based on a sort of consensus.)*[25%] stake:
say 25% of voting points goes to every stakeholder. Every living being on the planet can be represented here equally.
See: **How is voting done**?
Meritocracy based government *[25%] stake:
25% is earned by achieving and proving certain competencies for certain kinds of decisions. Credentials are achieved with swarm consensus.
Capitalism based government *[50 %] :
50% is distributed in direct proportion to what energy and resources a person has invested into the organization.
*[Individuals are limited to *[3%] stake, and *[5%] for families.]
Example
There are one trillion decision points for each decision,
250 billion would be distributed equally to all stakeholders. Each person has the option to distribute those points to representatives for each category of decisions, probably could be done with a 15-minute minimum questionnaire, where they could be matched like a dating website matches people in relationships. I can see the same model being used to match lovers to match people to representatives, look at ok cupid, there are a limitless amount of questions you can answer to increase matching accuracy.
The another 250 billion could be distributed based on reputation and competency tests and some kinds of credentials. Or these points could be distributed based on many hybrid kinds of governance principles.
The remaining 500 billion would be distributed in direct proportion to what each person has invested to the organization.
It is a holistic perspective organizational model that integrates all philosophies of governance as the holistic perspective is a synthesis of all perspectives.
Please feel welcome to contribute constructive feedback, questions, and reactions related to the model proposed or anything related.
Supplements
Partners:
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- Lead Systems Architect and Developer
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- Systems Architect and Developer
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- May provide the blockchain systems.
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- Provides model for decentralized virtual nations on the blockchain.
Join or Explore the collaborative for societal progress:
Societal Progress Cooptocracy Platform This facebook group is a good place to organize ourselves but the discord channel offers the greatest team experience.
Discord group voice and text chat: https://discord.gg/G3dVKxh
Add your answer to wiki-questions:
What are the consequences of plutocracy [rule by oligarchy of minority of wealthiest elites]?
What would happen if everyone divested their wealth from going towards these elites and instead invested their wealth in cooperatively owned and governed organizations and wealth generating resources?
What government philosophies should we add to the platform?
How is voting done?
People can have a personalized bot auto generated based on data that is mined from their computer use. This bot offers users the opportunity to delegate their voting power to the personalized bot and/or to someone that they think can represent them on any particular kind of decision.
Other related projects:
Onboarding for Swarm authentication system team members - Google Docs
Universal plan (Web view)
Wealth generating resource token system notes (Web view)
- This token will facilitate value exchange of an actual tangible value, such as a portion of a solar panel, so 1 token might be worth 1% of a solar panel. The system designs are a bit raw but this project is necessary to support the cooptocracy platform.
The law of laws: Increase and encourage opportunities to increase societal health and wealth and decrease and discourage opportunities to do harm to health and wealth of society.
Learn more
Forms of government - Wikipedia
Economic Elites Will Only Give Up Power and Wealth When Forced to Do So
Meet the Global Financial Elites Controlling $46 Trillion In Wealth | Alternet
References:
Discussions on: Societal Progress Collaborative Virginia Platform facebook group. Please join if you want to collaborate on societal progress anywhere.
Here is another discussion I hosted that molded my perspective: https://www.facebook.com/JonathanNBean/posts/10154766917275485?pnref=story
Visit the societal progress collaborative google drive with the library for societal progress collaborators.
Inspirations:
Wings — A decentralized platform to create, join and manage projects
Holocracy: How It Works — Holacracy
FreedomCoop platform to manage cooperatives.
Ethereum Project platform to create decentralized apps, dapps.