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The Power workgroup accounts for energy, infrastructure, and the security of all stakeholders; and stewards these data in open public forums, moderated by members from every location, for verifiable ranked-choice sense-making and peer-to-peer open source decision-making everywhere.  >>> key questions below.

In a closed +/+ system where common resources are extracted for secret profits and reinforced by consumerism and redundantly manufactured waste, evermore serious degenerative cycles continue until an uncontrollable cascade of crises results in total ecosystem collapse.

By identifying and correcting unsustainable processes using collaborative management systems, less becomes more through open accountability and improved access to more equitable, productive and regenerative methods of utilizing the inherited resources upon which we all depend. ACT now !

Lex Rex is not a dinosaur.

Human conflict and environmental degradation are undeniably our greatest threat to sustainable human life on this finite planet. It follows that humans must mitigate two of the most obvious human activities contributing to our own demise at earth scale:

The fittest quality of life depends on fairness, and fairness depends on open accounting.

There are only three known human responses to extreme imbalances of purchase power and minority control over resources that result from closed +/+ boom bust business cycles:

All forms of organizational capacity (governance) ultimately depend on a functional balance of power through overlapping consensus (Rawls, 2001), derived in part from the self-interest of not knowing for sure what future forms of mutual aid and cooperation might be necessary for our survival.  A society that transgresses its own rules of fairness eventually threatens the ecology of even its most powerful stakeholders. No human in real life has any individual right or duty, with respect to life, liberty and property, that they cannot publicly or privately exercise in practice. Where humans account for fairness there is no fight over fairness. Open accounting verifiably reduces or eliminates conflict over resources. The burden of evidence to show fairness always rests with the least burdened, and is simply an open source accounting issue. The least-burdened corporate state requires our data but the we can't access their data for open public decision-making.

The most burdened bear the greatest burden to account for their burden. The least burdened bear the social burden to account for their legitimacy.

From the Papyrus of Hunefer, Egyptian Book of the Dead  (c. 1275 BCE)

Our oldest accounting machine, (c. 5000 BCE) the balance scale of weights and measures, with its myriad uses today, embodies our most ancient instinct and functional need for fairness. The balance is more than a symbol. It codifies the immutable logic of due process, the universal rule of law, that makes possible the balancing of human interests and inequalities. This reality of our innate desire and capacity for fair governance is more deeply embedded into our collective memory than any other social function of resource management. 

See Closed vs Open Source Economy

Inequality.is ... real, personal, expensive, created and imposed, and fixable. This not an argument. It is a fact: Inequality.org 

Fixing inequality is mathematically trivial to the algorithmic physics of accounting. Computing hardware must be intentionally programmed to impose the kind of scarcity and unfair distribution of resources humans are now suffering, to the detriment of critical life systems; and can be just as easily programmed for participatory fairness and a sustainable equality of life. From a philosophical and political perspective, have you ever read closely the first seven paragraphs of Agrarian Justice? (Paine, 1797) See Inequality in Historical Perspective

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The Power workgroup accounts for energy, infrastructure, and the security of all stakeholders; and stewards these data in open public forums, moderated by members from every location, for verifiable ranked-choice sense-making and peer-to-peer open source decision-making everywhere.