User:Patrick Anderson

Hello all,

Just reporting in to let you know I'm here reading and thinking.

==My High-Level Questions
 * Is single-owner physical property pre-requisite to autonomy? (y)


 * Is multi-owner physical property pre-requisite to autonomy? (y)


 * Is the governance of most multi-owner physical property non-optimal? (y)


 * When is multi-owner physical property 'public', when is it 'private'? (government, corporation)


 * Could a group buy some multi-owner physical property as a 'private' holding, and then cooperatively offer it back to themselves as a 'public' service? (y)


 * Is that syndicalism? (y)


 * May such a group apply arbitrary policy to that multi-owner physical property?


 * Will group members disagree on policy over multi-owner physical property? (y)


 * Could we write a legally binding social contract which we could then apply to multi-owner physical property? (y)


 * Is that contract a sort of local governance; a kind of self-inflicted law? (y)


 * Can the multi-owner physical property be split to solve conflicts? (Not always. Auction time slots to schedule.)


 * Could this social contract be used to foster User Freedom in physical property? (y)

==More rambling Just as the GPL uses copyright law to enforce a license over virtual resources.

We could use property-rights law to enforce a contract over physical resources.

In both cases, the 'developer' must 'own' the 'sources' he supplies.

In the first case, the programmer creates that value through his own skilled labor applied to some Physical Sources (a Personal Computer, the electricity, the space that PC occupies).

In the second case, a collection of potential consumers fund the operation when they invest by pay early or when the pay more than cost.

It can be thought of as a "pre-purchase" plan, where each paying customer becomes a partial owner in Land and Capital used to grow the operation.

Whether it is a bank of high-speed servers to host some Web 3.0 thing, or an apple tree, all production requires Physical Sources.

When consumer own capital in a cooperative manner. enough physical sources(, has enough ownership that all of his product is "at cost".

Anyone interested in writing a legally binding Social Contract we could apply to Physical Sources?