Mary, I've pretty well got a quorum to figure out tradable citizenship. It'll be much easier to sort out than CDMA. It's about as simple as selling cabbages at auction.
It's timely that it's Easter that I get into gear as tradable citizenship is essentially about freeing people from the Roman Empire concept of individual suppression and even crucifixion, which continues to rule the world, though with increasing democratic and free exchange of value without recourse to force to obtain the other person's property or service.
It's another logical step on the progress away from slavery, serfdom, sovereign subject, involuntary citizen, to freedom, which ironically is running in parallel with an ever-increasing reduction of freedom as the integrated world of It continues to develop, in which we will be nodes, like neurons in a brain, performing our specialist functions to keep the whole going in a giant symbiotic process.
Which is not really much different from our biological past, in which humans were merely another node of DNA in the cannibalistic web of life in the world's ecological system, fighting for survival and reproductive success. The integrated ecological whole is called Gaia.
We are stepping away from Gaia into the realm of It. Tradable citizenship is just another aspect of the process. We already effectively have that, but it's a socialist/communist centrally-planned process, which has proven to be hopeless compared with free exchange of value, individual property rights and self determination.
It amazes me that people claim to be opposed to communism, but then insist that the current system of socialism/communism, in which the individual is subsumed by the state collective and can't sell their share. I dare say you think you are against socialism and communism, from your comment
<Guided Democracy, Central Planning, Communism.
You could make any of these work. Some of it may even sound good on paper.>
yet you are in fact for socialism which is collective ownership of property under state rule. dictionary.reference.com I'm saying state property should be held by individual citizens, to sell at a price which they agree with somebody else, just as they do with the share price of QUALCOMM.
State property is about half the value of a good country and states spend about half the GDP of countries such as New Zealand.
So while the current communism under which we live doesn't include one's toothbrush, car, house or factory, it does include roads, hospitals, airports, water supply, sewerage, stormwater, electricity supplies, airlines, radio spectrum, beaches, oceans, forests, parks, security [police, military, judiciary, prisons, courts, parliament], housing, schools, universities, marine life, office buildings, land, television station, rivers, trout, Reserve Bank, meteorological services, valuation services, Telarc Ltd, coal production, oil, gas and minerals, symphony orchestra, statistics department, agricultural research, radio stations, Public Trust services, fire department, museums, libraries, .govt.nz and domain name control, NZ Post Ltd, Companies Office, Accident Compensation Corporation, railways, geological services, and of course, brand value [the integrated whole's abstract value], and more govt.nz
Government spends about 60% of all spending in NZ. There's GST at 12.5%, income tax at 39%, company tax at 33%, local authority rates, petrol duties, booze, tobacco and other imposts, fees, permits, licensing, and swarms of other charges.
Voting is fine, but being able to vote with feet and wallet is even better. If people could see the value of their citizenship right there on the ticker in real-time, we'd see a LOT more interest in community and more attention to what's good for the community. People would like their value going UP, not down. They'd vote accordingly.
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