Reading the Map

The main message of this relational map is about how Syndication aligns Pensions and Business with Stewardship of “the world we want” as “how we can make it happen”.

Pensions are the wealth of working people, aggregated not for self-aggrandizement, but in mutual aid, to finance a dignified future for so many, directly, as a private benefit, that it is also for us all, consequently, as a public good, on a planetary scale, and within planetary limits, in the 21st Century, and beyond….

Syndication is the work of allocating pension aggregations through the financial mathematics of Exit through Amortization.

This is how we mobilize “other than privately self-interested capital” to finance “non-shareholder purposed entities” that align the economy (“our time, that is nested within our times (Maria Popova) with “the rights and needs of [workers, who are also] consumers, and [perfect proxies for] the wider population” (Peter Ellis).

These rights and needs are for peace, with ourselves, with each other, with our planet and with our future.

Our time, that is nested within our times, is aligned with peace, and social cohesion, through contracts between Forever Money and Right for Our Times Business that prioritize Suitability, to the times, Duration, over time, and Dignity all the time in how money moves through Enterprise to curate our times, as good times, for some, and all.

Syndicators are experts in seeing Enterprise and the Economy through the lens of Exit through Amortization, to orchestrate and integrate these agreements between Money and Management.

They are conductors of a symphony of social cohesion through Dignified Business in an Adaptively Evolving Economy.

Enterprising individuals do the work of making and sharing wealth.

Syndicators keep the arc of caring within this making and sharing bending towards the peace of social cohesion.

An added benefit of Syndication orchestrating the flow of Forever Money into Dignified Business for caring about peace through social cohesion and connection is the ability illustrated on the map to place syndication business into steward-owned businesses to endow social purpose trusts.

Fees and profits earned through the orchestration of syndications can be made to flow up into grant-making foundations, and out, into the world, as grants to pay people for doing good things in the world that we want.

These twin-engines of prudent stewardship – contractual agreement for dignified business and profits endowing grants for doing good things in the world – give social change agents new powers for social change, whether your passion is:

Nature
- Climate
- Biodiversity
- Water and Oceans
People
- justice and equity across populations
the Economy
- sustainable
- regenerative
- circular
- Doughnut
- Degrowth
- Wellbeing
Government
- Civil Rights
- Consumer Protection
- Environmental Protection
- Democracy

They also give each of us and all of us, as citizens of “our time, that is nested without our times” (Maria Popova) points of participation for holding our institutions, of Forever Money and Dignified Business, accountable for how they exercise the authority/power we give them, to act for us, socially, true to the agency/purpose/mission for which they are granted that authority, by us.

These opportunities for citizens deliberation include:

holding Pensions & Endowments, as social stewards of Forever Money, accountable to our common sense of their prudence in their exercises of the capacity they derive from their legally constituted character, in undivided loyalty to their contractually specified aims, under the circumstances now prevailing; and
promoting consumer acceptance of nature- and human-positive pricing in the markets for buying stuff, based on individually determined assessments of fitness for purpose and price for performance (purpose includes caring for consequences), within the socially determined constraints of availability and ability to pay.

The energy in all of this comes from the sheer scale of Forever Money in society today. Tens of trillions are aggregated, collectively, worldwide, into mutual aid societies for Workforce Pensions, and the promise of “a comfortable retirement on a livable planet” (Arketa Institute).

Additional trillions are aggregated to provision Civil Society Endowments for various Nature- and People-positive Missions.

That means that billions aggregating to trillions circulate through Enterprise in the Economy that are infused with the values that Forever Money is aggregated to value.

Also, Forever Money flowing through Exit through Amortization financings for Dignified Business opens up new possibilities for the Family Money of wealthy and also not-so-wealth families, to invest for IMPACT that aligns with Stewardship and Accountability trough Deliberation, on a planetary scale and within planetary limits.

           “
 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
Stewardship of how the business does business all the time, across all six vectors of cash flow through Enterprise, including:
- Stewardship of Trade, with suppliers;
- Stewardship of Engagement with communities, of place and of interest;
- Stewardship of Reckoning with the consequences, on Nature, Society and the Future;
- Stewardship of Working, in the workplace;
- Stewardship of Dealing, in the marketplace;
- Stewardship of Sharing, with savers whose savings are the “raw material” form which financiers fashion capital for business.