existential

a new world becomes possible

Easing the Strains on Social Cohesion

Taking Action on Climate InactionProtecting Democracy as constitutional electoral representative self-governemnt of the poeple, by the people and for the peopleSocial Equity across multiple vectors of Wealth, Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Neo-ColonialismA
New
Economy of Social Cohesion on a planetary scale, within planetary limits
Financing Nature as an ordinary and necessary cost of doing business
Planetary HealthResponsible BusinessResponsible InvestingImpact Investing
Moving Pensions & Endowments 
into Equity Paybacks,
to create a new 21st Century planetary citizenship
in a new economy of social cohesion
on a planetary scale, within planetary limits,
as a new 21st Century planetary commons,
accountable for prudence and loyalty
to the common sense of prudent people
who care enough to take the time to make the effort
to make ourselves familair with such matters
will end the hegemony of Asset Ownership financing Corporate Power through the financial mathematics of Profit Extraction from Growth in Selling Price on Exit
unshackling our common sense from the locked imaginary
that Growth
as 19th Century Progress, through technological innovation in economies of scale, into an infinitely receding geobiophysical Frontier, within a lived experience that Nature is vast, and we are not, so that we can always just take and take and take from Nature (and each other) without ever recknonong with the consequences of our taking, because those consequences would always just disappear into the infinitely receding frontier, reabsorbed back into Nature, tiwhotu consequences to us,
reduced to simple, quantitative increases in qualitatively undifferentiated transaction volumes measured in numbers, as prices paid in money, from one period of measurement to the next
is both necessary and sufficient to our being and our wellbeing, now and in the future,
returning the securities trading markets to the individual, and
easing the pressures of short-termism
undoing the elitism of experts in profit extraction from trading prices
shrinking corporate gigantism
sharing wealth more broadly
to stabilize finance
secure social safety nets
support respect for cultural and ecological dynamics
defunding Dark Money capture of politics and public discourse
returning politics to civil discourse and
enabling our common sense to hold our institutions of agency and authority accountable for authenticity and integrity in their individual exercises of their institutional authority/power true to their institutional agency/purpose/mission.

           
what kind of world
do we want
and how
can we make it happen?

Simon Mair, MEND Network


THIS is the world we want

THIS is how we can make it happen


allocating Fiduciary Money through Equity Paybacks from current cash flows through Enterprise, prioritized by contract for:

  • Suitability of the Technology to the circumstances prevailing at the time;
  • Duration of the social contract between Enterprise and popular choice over time; and
  • Dignity in how the business does business all the time, across all six vectors of cash flow through Enterprise, including:
    • Fair Trade, with suppliers;
    • Fair Engagement with communities, of place and of interest;
    • Fair Reckoning with the consequences, on Nature, Society and the Future;
    • Fair Working, in the workplace;
    • Fair Dealing, in the marketplace;
    • Fair Sharing, with savers whose savings are the “raw material” form which financiers fashion capital for business.