To be honest, this project hasn’t had a very much high priority for me lately, which I why I neglected it for a few weeks. I want to focus more on spreading the idea of a digital abundance economy, creating a movement around it, and facilitate the establishment of platforms which implement it. However, I feel that I should carry this basic income paper project to completion, since I’ve agreed to lead it. It has the potential to become quite important. However, I don’t want to be associated primarily with being the “basic income guy of Transpolitica”, even though I would be at least somewhat honoured by that association.
The reasoning behind this is that there are multiple very important catalytic developments, which would create much better conditions for the future, as explored in the thread Which radical innovations will boost economic growth in the future?. In my view, basic income is certainly one of those developments, but so is the digital abundance economy I want help to establish. However, while there are many very intelligent and knowledgeable people writing about and promoting basic income, the task of working on the digital abundance economy falls mostly into my hands, since I have devised the probably sophisticated system that could be used to establish that futuristic economy. Nevertheless, both areas are not unrelated, since the Quantified Prestige system, which I’ve developed, can be used with, or without, an integrated basic income. So, promoting the benefits of a basic income makes sense, even if I focus on the digital abundance economy, because I am convinced that a really flourishing digital abundance economy requires some form of basic income, be it centralized or decentralized, paid in conventional currencies or cryptocurrencies.
What this long-winded intro means is that I would be very glad if someone could take over my role as Transpolitica writer in the area of basic income. I fear that I will spread myself too thin, if I invest too much time and energy into writing about basic income, instead of focusing on the digital abundance economy. This means, that I don’t plan to really follow up on this basic income white paper. If others want to continue in this direction, good. If nobody is ready to do it, then I will simply wait until someone is ready to do it.
Having said all of that, I want to complete this project by the end of August. For that purpose, I’ll set up some deadlines:
August, 16: On this date, a first complete draft should exist.
August, 23: The polished publishable version is finalized
August, 24-30: During this week the white paper should be completed with fitting images and graphics, and be published on the Transpolitica site.
I will soon go on to invite a number of people to work on this paper collaboratively. This of course includes all Transpolitica researchers, and all interested members of the Fractal Future Forum.
In the meanwhile, we can continue to discuss what we want to see in this paper. There has been a recent article by Scott Santens about basic income, which is impressively well researched and presented. My hope is that we can somehow build on that. Any ideas?