Re: [projectvrm] VRM iinfrastructure

[Devon Loffreto < >]

Crosbie,

I agree with your intent.

I agree with your end game objective.

I LOVE the idea of a Human-centric-driven-possessed-accountable socio-economic model.

But you must connect these dots to a practical strategy that has the slightest chance of succeeding.

Abolish the W2 first. Make it impossible for corporate shells to employ PEOPLE. Our priority must be strategically possible. This is the possible path because it puts power in the hands of Individuals. You can choose your structure. You do not have to be structured as a wage-slave.

In order to balance the power equation, we need to eliminate the unfair advantage that is created by the binary structure of OWNER/NON-OWNER.

In a biological context... we are Humans.

In a socio-economic context... we are Humans + tools.

The problem is that at birth a Human immediately enters both a biological and a socio-economic context... and yet systemically, is only protected as a biological structure... with the default socio-economic structure actually being a disempowered form.

Free is overpowered structurally by Owner in every context. It is a problem to organize a Human life as a social liability via citizenship and aggregate the power of Individual lives for "We the People" benefit. A Human is an asset from the first breath... and wisdom dictates that assets require structure, because assets may increase in value in time. Structure is not evil... it is a tool.

An Individuals life does not only have context during their biological living. If you have kids you know... you work and build and plan so that you can pass value forward... value that can be built upon, leveraged, and extended further... one generation to the next. That is not evil... that is intelligence growing itself.

The problem we have is that our system is aggregating Humans to a fictitious center...a "We the People" that does not actually exist. It transmutates Individual assets into Individual liabilities and distributes the value in social services via the management structure of identity registration and control. It captures Individual sovereignty and transmutates it into national sovereignty. And in time, it aggregates all of our social wealth, increases the power of the system in relation to Individuals, and permits institutional fraud and manipulation as a result of its innate construct. A baby born in 100 years will be exponentially less powerful in relation to its management system than a baby born today... and the baby born today is already almost powerless by default.

Corporations that have the power to employ W2 workers as plantation labor under their aggregated control and institutional dependencies of monetary attribution (401K) feed this model. It is a replication of the institutional force supplied by "We the People".

The American Indians hated the ownership contract too... look at the good that did them. The victory you seek is not on the path of hating the tool that you think is causing your harm. The corporation needs a reformation... but what it needs reformed is its ability to possess enslaved labor that it provides operational plausible deniability to. 

If you want to weaken our present power structure...dont run in the opposite direction... run into its heart... grab all of its value... leverage its tax code... overwhelm it with activity and function on the path it uses to extract strength and power from the lives of the unwitting. Ignorance is the enemy. Non-owners are creating the leverage that is used against Humans. W2 employees are the problem.

Everyone an OWNER is the solution. It is the contractual basis VRM needs to manufacture equal relationships across the whole of the market and to affect the operating model of society in every context.

Own your ID.

Own your data graph.

Own your money.

Own your education.

Own your occupation.

Own your government.

Own your vote.

Own this planet.

100% accountability... own it.

Or pretend that asking for change by standing on the street occupying something you dont own matters. Sure you can disrupt... but the system is going to outlast you for the very reason you want to change it. Its not Human.

Devon Loffreto

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Crosbie Fitch < "> > wrote:

> From: Luk Vervenne
> Introducing the individual as 'a genuine stakeholder in his
> own processes', means we - in addition - now also need a
> personal server / infrastructure to talk to organisations as
> the client.

In our society there are only human beings. Only these individuals have
rights.

We may create artifical entities/virtual identities (such as 'corporations'
to enable sociopathic profiteers among us to evade culpability), but woe
betide us if we even think of equating these to human beings (being
unnatural artifices, virtual identities cannot have natural rights).

We should not be pretending that virtual identities are like human beings.
We should be enabling all individuals to trade via virtual identities (my
term for Venessa's 'cybertwin'). When individuals wish to trade as human
beings they can do so face to face.

A priori, a human being cannot cause harm to a virtual identity, nor vice
versa. A virtual identity is an abstract construct, a financial instrument
and can have no natural rights. When we allow virtual identities to bring
human beings into court to bankrupt and/or imprison them for 'harm' (yet no
virtual identity can be bodily harmed or imprisoned, nor have a human body's
'once only' life ruined) then we've lost sight of our own humanity in
pursuit of profit and the protection of our financial instruments against
mortal competition.

As Luk observes, we need a new trading infrastructure, a new market where
virtual identities are legally isolated from the real world of human beings
- where neither can (or are pretended can) harm the other.

Consequently the corporation (as typically legally recognised and protected)
should be abolished (having been unethically elevated), but they are
effectively a virtual identity already. We have to return to a recognition
that human beings harm each other and the environment, and so are
responsible for that harm. We cannot dissolve culpability for that harm
within a virtual entity such as a corporation.

However, this new infrastructure cannot be quite so crude as to simply
require each individual to have something akin to a webserver. It requires a
distributed infrastructure, a system run on all participants' internetworked
PCs where there is no correlation between the (distributed) digital
representation of a virtual identity and the various PCs it may be
replicated upon. This would be to, say, eBay as FreeNet* is to the Web.


* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet