As we gain strength in asserting ourselves as new 21st Century planetary citizens in the new 21st Century planetary commons of Equity Paybacks of Fiduciary Money for INCOME with IMPACT, we will find ourselves inhabiting a new social narrative of living within personal and private worlds that we make for ourselves in which to live our own best lives, as best we can, under the circumstances then prevailing, personally and privately, out of the public world of shared choices we make together, through our technologies, out of the world of Nature into which we each and all are born.
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our time that is nested within our times
– Maria Popova, The Marginalian
that is nested within the time of Nature
We make our time through choices that we make, personally and privately, through personal and private determinations of fitness for purpose and price for performance, within the shared and social determinations of availablility of choices, and ability to choose (by paying the price) that make our times.
This shared and socially determined world of choices, and ability to choose is
- a mutual aid society
- for sharing an abundance of technology solutions to the everyday problems of everyday people living our own best lives, as best we can under the circumstances then prevailing, everyday
- through networks of connections for enteprise and exchange
- using money as a legal instrument for effecting transactions between people separated by distances of time, place and social connection that is also the social energy that directs our individual insights and initiatives towards some activities, and away from others
- to construct, and episodically de-construct to reconstruct, a safe and dignified house for humanity
- within built environments of Urban, Rural, Curated and Left-Alone landscapes
- along the creative edge of a constantly changing, adaptively evolving Human partnership with Nature
- choosing new beginnings from time to time, and over time, as circumstances change, to fit the circumstances then prevailing
- through inquiry and insight for new learining that can inform innovation
- making new choices more popular as better fit to the circumstances then prevailing
- while letting previously popular choices fade into history as a good fit to circumstances that prevailed at an earlier time
- driving the flourish and fade of the social contract between enterprise and popular choice
- that is the real pulse-beat of our prosperity
- and the true story of our human history.
You live in your own personal and private world that you form for yourself out of an artificial world that we form together, in society, through economy, using technology, out of the world of Nature into which we all are born: your own room that you from for yourself in the safe house that we all form, together, as humanity.
It does not matter if that safe housing is a rooming house, a condominium, a village of free-standing homes, a neighborhood in a city, a region in a country, or a nation-state in an international community of nation-states, there is always the individual and the shared, and the need to mediate the tensions between the individual and the shared.
We mediate these tensions in our private lives in our own idiosyncratic ways, but in society, we mediate these tensions socially through institutions that are constituted with agency, authority and accountability to make social choices for society, socially.
Conventional wisdom shows us that we make these choices accumulatively, by individually voting our pocketbooks in the Markets, or individually casting our votes at the ballot box, in politics and Government.
A different framing shows us that we make social choices, socially:
- Inquisitively, creatively and normatively, through institutions of Civil Society for curating knowledge through social norms and social narratives, and organizing inquiry for insight and new learning to evolve our knowledge, norms and narratives;
- Predistributively through institutions of Finance for aggregating money set aside by others and deploying those aggregations as money flowed into enterprise for its use, for a purpose, for a time, at a cost and on terms to form the businesses that form the technologies that form the choices that form the economy that forms society and our shared future and the possibilities for each of us to form our own personal and private worlds for living our own best lives;
- Distributively, through institutions of Enterprise for brining people together to put knowledge and learning about the way the world works into action making the world work more a way we choose to make it, collaboratively co-creating in surplus artifacts of human effort and ingenuity for sharing with others as technology solutions to the everyday problems of everyday people living our best lives under the circumstances, everyday, in exchange of a price paid in money or other value;
- Redistributively, through Government, righting the wrongs by force of law when Finance and Enterprise violate the boundaries that separate and unite us as populations living together in society, through economy, using money for shared health, shared safe and the shared wellbeing of social cohesion.
Shifting to Equity Paybacks 