Freedom Plan (Potentially)
By focusing on four relatively simple areas, a community can potentially become free:
1. Food
There are many things the human species can get wrong over the next 1000 years, but food extinction is not one.
~400,000 years ago, humans had wild ancestral food.
~15,000 years ago, we began to cross-breed domestic food to our tastes.
~100 years ago, we began to modify our food genetically.
A significant portion of food sold is genetically modified. GMO food can contaminate wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food by being close to it. This can potentially lead to unintended consequences, such as you starving.
Organic, humane, sustainable, and regenerative farming can strengthen communities. Protecting people's access to wild, heirloom, ancient, heritage, and ancestral food is relatively simple and inexpensive compared to the long-term benefits it provides.
2. Money
Savings
By using permanently (not currently or possibly) finite digital assets, savings can go up in value over time. This gives the community the ability to plan, grow strong, and survive.
Basic Income
Automation will continue to replace workers exponentially. By offering 1% of transactions to all citizens (who don’t opt out) as a small experiment, and aiming to lower the cost of living, communities can grow stronger. It is significant to note that you do not want to print currency to provide a basic income, as that could cripple future generations with inescapable debt.
3. Rehabilitation Over Punishment
Rehabilitation over punishment can help people to stop hurting others. When combined with a livable basic income, it can also help people to stop hurting others for money.
4. Voting
In a new voting initiative, your town decides to build open-source voting machines because they are more accurate, verifiable, and secure. They also digitized ballot access, provide identification cards and documents instantly at voting locations, and provide unlimited internet access to the public so they can access education and political information.
They use the latest standards for high-security open-source hardware and software. The entire supply chain is recorded by blockchain and video and is fully accessible to the public. This includes creation, installation, physical transfers, setup, multiple inspections, and breakdowns.
Each voting machine uses instant-runoff, ranked-choice algorithms. The population is 1,000,000, so they put the appropriate number of sats (or the smallest unit of an open-source asset with a public ledger) into local “Unused Votes” wallets on each machine. The machines do not include touchscreens, behavioral biometrics, timestamps, or anything that could potentially identify the voter. They do not have Bluetooth or Wi-Fi capability.
At midnight, each machine connects to the network via cable and transfers the sats (or units) to candidate wallets to ensure a publicly verifiable vote.
The open-source documentation is now available to everyone and can potentially strengthen other communities too.
