Feels like this is outside the scope of libreplanet discuss, or at least its a long term goal? I like the sounds of it though. On Jun 22, 2012 3:10 PM, "Patrick Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 - they > receive product as a "side-effect" of their co-owning the MoP. > > In other words, 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. > > > This is a short (somewhat incomplete) description of how to proceed. > > Please ask questions and help me fix what is wrong with the idea. > > > Sincerely, > Patrick Anderson > http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com > >
