The Story as a Journey from Pensions to 21st Century Planetary Citizenship


People power pensions.
Shouldn’t people have the power?


An expedition in the imagination to discover and explore the power of pensions to curate the future as our true frontier, as planetary humans in the 21st Century, and beyond…

  • that starts out with a technician’s answer to a technical question about the capacities of social trusts and their fiduciary duties of discretion within constraints
  • that opens up into an existential journey through a false and failing inherited social narrative of reduction to numbers, and reckless unreckoning with anything that cannot be calculated
  • pointing the way to a new social narrative of beng human, together and apart, in society, through economy, using money on a planetary scale in the 21st Century, and beyond….
  • and a new sociology of social choosing through institutions of agency, authority and accountability, possibilitively, through Civil Society, predistributively, through Finance, distributively, through Enterprise, and redistributively, through Politics, Government and the Law
  • to arrive at a new social contract for holding 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.

An expedition in th imagination to discover and explore the power of

           
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.