GTEIdeas
A new form of Governance
Government and Governance in a democracy or the American-style Republic are meant to be about the People governed by the People.
What we instead have is a form of government where people and corporates with money get to pay to play and get the government to do what they want rather than the voters. What is crippling in this equation is both the left and the right are willing to allow this subversive practice to pervert and manipulate the laws against the will of the people. Add to this equation the special interest groups that demand the latest fad, governments, and corporate end up in a death spiral that seems suicidal, yet planned at the same time.
Governments have too much power.
Governments are made up of too many dependent institutions with their fingers in pies they have no need to be in. You have incumbent power in the hands of unelected people, and often unseen as well. Deep State does not need to be a coordinated conspiracy to exist.
These issues are bad enough, but we also have a situation where people have realized that they could vote for their wallet. Government becomes what can it do for me not what can I do for my society. The more the money gets seen to be available for distribution the more people sidel up to this nipple.
Voting this way sees the power of government taken away from the people and to rests in the hands of of those who have paid to play.
What could a new Society look like?
What would a new economy and government look like with the following conditions?
Barter is allowed.
People may barter time and goods from person to person.
People are encouraged to use the digital currency on their phones, but they don't have to.
There is only a digital currency.
There is no physical currency.
The currency is a stablecoin based on calories.
One coin or credit is able to purchase 100 calories from a Boarder Store.
It is stored on your phone that only you can operate.
Wait, what am I talking about?
This is about Book Two in my Gripping the Ether.
===Transactions are done phone to phone.
Each transaction has a 2% fee.
Pay some 100 credits, they get 98 and the government gets 2. This is the only tax.
A People Currecny
The government does not control the currency, it is set up bench marked to calories. 1 credit equals 100 calories at the government store.
=Becoming a Citizine
Apprentice
Everyone works four hours a day in a duty for the society at 10 ctrdits an hout until they become a citizen where they can choose to if the want to. There is a 6 day week. 4 days work, 2 days off. The work could be in their profession, nurse, welders, (no lawyers). The might be a globe pilot and run defence for the islands from VIgilant. Each person is also expected to work 4 hours a day in a skill. Either they are upskilling themselves so as to be useful, the most common unskilled is farmer, as everyone has to farm. If you are teaching a skill you get paid for the four hours 10 credits an hour.
Jourenyman=
Citizen
Then people are encouraged to take on a passion.
We want people to become creators and not merely consumers.
