A visitor asked a great question about home ownership. Question: In our current system, the only way most people can own housing is via mortgage debt. In Copiosis, I assume we would need enough Net-Benefit Reward to "purchase" luxury housing outright. How could we do this without the equivalent of a 25-year mortgage? In Copiosis you … Continue reading Why you won’t own a home in Copiosis
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People often ask how Copiosis accounts for personal moral and ideological views that inevitably influence human economic behavior. Some say the Copiosis model can't work because it is impossible to objectively quantify human values. It is a basic tenet of free markets that they allow people to exercise their values, morals, and ideologies—including how those affect economic decisions—in a free and … Continue reading How citizen juries will run the planet
A Copiosis enthusiast asked the following question on the Copiosis Social Page on Facebook. It offers an opportunity for us to better understand our innovation, so I've pasted my response here, with significant modifications and expansion for clarity, and broken into parts for quick consumption. This is part two. You can read part one here. Question: How does Copiosis deal … Continue reading Where you stand on the matter doesn’t matter, Pt. 2
If you haven't heard of Burning Man, you're living under a rock. Seriously. Get out some. Read more. Burning Man is probably the premier exemplar of what is possible when people come together under what some critics my label a utopian ideal. What's remarkable about Burning Man is not its longevity, not its allure, not … Continue reading What can happen when money is no object