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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=998993.0"Greed" as "money" requires commoditization to have meaning as a word. The passing of greed is not the changing of human nature by itself, but the systemic change that will allow the realization that you can't have more by depriving others, because you are linked. How can I be greedy in a system that for ever single transaction I do I got as much good as I shared?
=Today's System=
Today money is a commodity supplied out of the void without any qualitative differentiation across a market based on debt and violence, and the ones who first touch it wins all because new money destroys every price it meets. You can dream about it like black goo being pumped from darkness and darkening everything it touches.
==Bad Effects of Money on Human Organization==
So, as we just saw the reputation tracking problem was solved by force and the commoditization of human awareness was justified so the economy could escalate.
The main point is that the world without humans is just stuff. Money is the abstraction of human value. It is the projection of awareness into something in a way that awareness can be converted trough its projection into the awareness of greater goods. When money loses contact with the qualitative differentiation of human awareness it works only alienation. In this, money can be a bridge between people or the pit. Money without this force common good people to give real value to it, creating an idol out of paper at their cost. This said, the value of money turns to be the value alienated from these people forced to use it not as a mere projection but the value in itself. This goes on deeper. By depriving money from qualitative differentiation of human awareness and substance you trow it on desires and though objects, that develops on and on until war is peace inside and outside. Really.
==The Past, The Future and The Present==
Without entering unnecessary talk, there is no way to win a war against the concept of the central banks nor the global economy would archive something by getting hide of it. The world is now what it was made to be now and will change only by destructive innovation that rends the past paradigm obsolete. As we saw this solution got its momentum over the flaws on information management of prior human society.
1) The reputation tracking problem, a.k.a. the storage problem, justified an increase on investments of force. The fear of the whip granting minimum level of reputation. Flock Economics.
2) The air gaped awareness problem, a.k.a. the circulation problem, justified the commoditization of human awareness, in a way that customer acceptance is not necessary when he have no option nor contacts. Infant Economics.
3) The low aggregation problem, a.k.a. the processing problem, when miserably educated mankind justified the rise of representation in economics by marks and in politics by parties. Electoral Economics
Force, Commoditization and Representation allowed values to escalate and won against the groups of solutions that didn't, turning it on a worldwide practice. Not by conspiracy every major country acts by these methods. However we are now heading to the future and it seems that the more fear and alienation is pumped on the system, more society trembles on the edge of the abyss of barbarism. On the low part of the society spectrum when lights turn out and the violent law leaves the streets riot and looting takes place. On the high part of the society spectrum the educated, well related and powerful thinks twice about the interest of keeping the masses alive but little on how much more he deserves. This is not their fault. They have not the force needed to drag the system inertia. Of course, nothing is lost until taking as lost. Glimpses of a solution rains here and there before the whole system falls.
The Knowledge Age boosted human capacity of storage, circulation and processing of information. By this, it is able to solve flaws and improve the individual capacity to escalate. Imagine the difference in terms of information management between an ancient common man working in a farm solving like 5 events daily of a almost fixed library of possibilities and a programmer solving the same amount in minutes, sharing his solutions and improving it with little cost compared to the previous. This major changes are already severely felt on markets more exposed to knowledge. Some present this changes as the 6D:
Demassification, disaggregation: the tendency that drives products and services on the demand of niches, also the decrease of large firms that already take more and more goods and services from specialized third party; Decentralization, disintermediation: the consequence of removing intermediaries from the consumption chain for lowering costs. It occurs on firm level by the automation of production process; on market level wholesale and retail getting kick off. Decentralization also spells out the high level of product customization, everything on demand with huge community feedback; Denationalization, de-specialization: the lessening of the frontiers between learning, working, mission and relationships.
Following the saying that the money is in it for the first, the smarter and the most treacherous Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google became the land lords of the new frontiers of human protocols of storage, circulation and processing, by more force(never-ending patent/copyright), commoditization(consumers have to pay a price too high to leave the system of planned obsolescence), representation(the main services take more power than give). But this is not because they are bad in essence. It is the nature of the knowledge business driven by the presented solutions. Solutions that if kept gonna degenerate to mass doublethink, servitude and pharaonics.
=The Counter System=
The overall image depicted previously gives us some notion on how the contemporaneous momentum is going toward individual and group empowerment and how it is been dammed by force, commoditization and miss representation. So, the main incentives for using this new system have to take it in consideration. It have to lessen the force, awake human beings of it specialty and empower the people who cares.
You probably know what community development banks are. They are banks "committed to serve the underserved with checking, saving accs, micro-credit trough peer pressure" and sometimes access to local currency and group debt. There are some cases of total failure out there, but also of local development. The problems go from bad loan politics to "national reserve currency" degradation that pushes their not so resilient fundamentals down. So, the system to be proposed next is envisioned to help communities by increasing security and empowering them with long forgotten credit, relationships and education. This counter system develops from this. Try to look at it by the prism of reputation as a non-rival currency in a way that every peer and group value is linked and measured by the qualitative differentiation get from it reviewing and being reviewed weighed by its trades. You gonna have more chance on understanding, besides this is allegory.
The proposition is decentralized, non-anonymous ledger for credit trading, e.g. a haircut for a book; or an hour of baby sitting for mowing 20m² of grass this weekend; or teaching mandarin every friday for 50 weeks to the holder for a new kitchen; or play at a party this saturday to the dealer(special endorsement) for 1000 liters of drinking water, insured by Dharavi Music Reputation Club. Also, users would be free to trade some rights over goods too, like consignment, distribution, copy, sharing, and exchange by group.
==Incentives==
They are plenty:
1) in terms of behavior selection and group survival: thieves, liars, lazy and inefficient people gonna be rapidly determined as dead weight and dropped from reputation groups and by users that can trade most sophisticated goods, also peer pressure will act locally and non-locally in a way that they mend themselves, lessening the cost of free-riding/laziness/dishonesty. This behavior selection would escalate by the club good nature of life. So if you trade reputation inadvertently with unknown people, without even testing it with a trade, you are gaining little reputation while sending a bad signal of confidence to all the people who trust you.
2) in terms of community resilience: preserving reputation(of people and groups) by decentralized ledger leads to a minimal economic order, protecting communities and the common man on their economical choices; If almost every smartphone is part ledger, there is no way to persecute the system and as CoinCube noted "they will survive not by being hidden but by being small, hard to quantify, and unpopular to quash. Variant systems can exist in different local communities and one system could even be shut down entirely if enough external pressure was applied only to pop right back up (without much loss) as soon as the pressure abated."
3) in terms of strengthen: it was already tested hundreds of times across the globe, being a success or a total failure, that local currency always drives up local awareness and local self esteem, removing or lessening the stones repressing poor people demand and creating credit from the only place it should come from while educating and making new relationships.
4) in terms of public defense: today all legal taxation pass by commodity reasoning in a way that even commercial bartering is taxed based on public or private income evaluation. To go against this is to violate privacy and non-confiscatory principle. In this sense, the low income communities have little or no money and their majority don't even have bank accounts, so there is no way to tax their tradings.
5) in terms of lasting goods: the pressure for lasting tradable goods would purge planned obsolescence and low quality products, pushing even more the demassification with the new 3D printers.
We are debating on economics section a solution for the 3 billion people that can barely read and for the private propriety defense against economic devastation and its developments, like taxation.
Right now you are debating on this section of bctalk which anonymous currency gonna win on the long term, but it looks from my point of view that there was no strong argument in favor of complete anonymity nor for currency use. So I am posting this catch up here in case you didn't saw the proposition.
By now it seems that:
Anonymity strategy sides with fear and try to build a tower of solitude as high as it can against its peers, enemies and unknowns, to be treated equally.
Reputation strategy sides with confidence and try to build a net with its peers and former unknowns as strong as "Pareto" allow, immunized against its enemies.
If you feel this deserves a look, let a comment so this is not washed by the section flux.
