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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 !

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:

• 1. Secrecy disguised as meritocracy, manifest in a ruling-class Creditocracy (Ross, 2013) of privileged financialized purchase power, arbitrarily and artificially created and issued unfairly in the first instance as an interest-bearing instrument of trickle-down debt; an obligation upon the rest of the human species that locks the majority in a corporate controlled market-state of economic poverty and servitude.

  2. Imposed scarcity monetary policies that result in passive nonuse and misuse of resources; unfair income distribution and lack of ownership participation; the privatization of natural resources and control of public institutions by a private wealth class, perpetuating the so-called business cycle of corruption, consumer waste, foreclosure, dispossession, inequality, poverty, war economy and environmental destruction— coined in the literature as Structural Violence (Galtung, 1969).

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:

• 1. Legislated schemes of redistribution of resources and purchasing power through taxation and bailouts.

  2. Voluntary distribution of resources and purchasing power through investment in inclusive participation and shared ownership models.

  3. Non-violent resistance and reforms through one or both of the first two possibilities, or the all-too familiar irrational reaction of fascism, violence, genocide and ecocide, which are afterwards always condemned as obvious violations of human rights and ecological destruction.

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.

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

key questions:

• • Does everyone have equal access to the information necessary for competent, participatory decision-making and public accountability?

  • Does everyone have equal access to inclusive public decision-making with regard to the distribution of resource ownership and stewardship?

  • Are the most privileged wealth holders openly accountable for ensuring that all community members are able to live equally well, and are the most privileged willing to participate equally in oneday.community for Human Economic Purpose?

  • Is there public information hidden behind institutional walls that can be made openly accessible to inform participatory decision-making, or must new data pipelines be created for open source governance?

  • Does everyone in the community understand how open access to participatory decision-making, on open source social media platforms, can solve governance and resource management conflicts most efficiently and fairly, by coordinating Equal Time Value participation, responsibility rotation and sortition allocation?

key imperative:

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.