Vertically Integrated Permaculture Mosaic

[Patrick Anderson]

We must expand our sense of responsibility beyond our
personal skillset to include co-ownership in all the
Means of Production required for all of our physical
needs.


We will buy land and tools and plants and animals and
water rights to begin a Vertically Integrated
Permaculture Mosaic.

We will attract middle-income consumers to pre-pay for
organic food (both groceries and restaurant) and many
other products, such as ISP services that we will
create within the VIPM.  This is similar to
crowd-funding.

Those consumers will become real co-owners of the
VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs of production
(only for the specific products they want), but since
they will not buy the product from us (they each own
their % already), they will not be able to pay Profit
or sales-Tax on that missing transaction.


We will attract workers to commit to labor in the
future (promise to pay with work) in return for their
receiving co-ownership in the VIPM in the MoP for
which they want the outputs (not necessarily for the
MoP for which they have skills).

Those workers are also consumers, and will become real
co-owners of the VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs
of production (only for the specific products they
want), but since they will not buy the product from us
(they each own their % already), they will not be able
to pay Profit or sales-Tax on that missing
transaction.


We will not pay the consumers or the workers with money.

We will not pay the consumers or the workers with product.

These investors receive product as a "side-effect" of
their co-owning the Means of Production.

For example, the owner of a milk-cow does not *buy*
the milk from himself, he owns it already.

Similarly, the co-owners of a milk dairy do not *buy*
the milk from themselves, they each own their % already.


We can accomplish this without begging politicians.

We can organized in small groups that buy and co-own
the Means of Production very much like any business or
organization, but with the following Terms of
Operation as self-enforced constraints:


1.) Product is the Investor's Return. This means
Consumers will micro-invest by pre-paying for results,
become co-owners of that business and receive the
Product itself as a side-effect of that ownership

2.) Profit is the Payer's Investment. This means
late-coming Consumers will overpay for Product as
usual, but we will treat (at least some % of) that
value as though they had invested as described in #1.

3.) Investments are commitments of Future Labor and
Physical Sources.  This means we will issue a
deposit-based, insuring currency backed by both the
land and tools and other inputs, plus the work needed
to transform those assets into a Product.

These adjustments allow us to move away from excessive
token-passing and toward productivity that can safely
reach stasis - eliminating the perceived need for
infinite growth.


Please ask questions and help me fix what is wrong
with the idea.


Sincerely, Patrick Anderson
http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com