Microstate Entrepreneurs

Sui Generis model

• https://www.fastcompany.com/3056856/these-tech-entrepreneurs-want-to-create-a-network-of-private-micro-states-in-europe
• In their city-states, no one would pay income or sales tax. Instead, each resident would contribute a certain number of hours each week to volunteer for the community—from elder care to helping build 3-D-printed houses for the city—and in exchange, everyone would be given a basic income large enough to cover rent and other living expenses.
• Dumas envisions a network of “corporate socialist” utopian societies — built on a foundation of economic freedom, transhumanist ideals, and fun — erected on land shared by existing nations in exchange for a cut of the profits. - [1]
• Dumas explained to Inverse why nations should be run like companies, why “public work” is necessary to the public good, and how he plans to get away with selecting the “right” people without being, you know, racist.
• So, we designed public work as a way to employ our own citizens so they have a steady income. It’s strictly voluntary. Through an app, people find jobs, they specialize in one or two industries, and every week they pick jobs they want — mostly jobs that can be learned in a few weeks or a few days of training — they show up on time, they receive a review of the work, and the most productive people get more spots. They receive a steady crypto-currency income that requires them to pay for their living.
• Ultimately, fun and finance is their business model. MJ note: appears to be a conflict of interest between finance and regeneration, which is typically by definition a conflict of interest unless the financier works in what they finance - down on the ground. Otherwise, finance is out of touch with real issues and effects of what they are financing. This is one of the systemic breakdowns of current society. How to resolve? Distributed production: you start on the ground, and then you find that entrepreneurship, not finance, provides the solutions. Just a different way to frame the solution.

OSE Preferred Model

• A microstate does not have to be 100% independent - the question is what is its negotiated percentage of independence: between 0-100%. The percentage is negotiable once de facto it creates a regenerative economy which creates the highest quality of life for people compared to anywhere else in the world. Once this is acheived, this land gains a tremendous amount of practical power - including further negotiation for its independence from involuntary contract or servitude. But largely, the question of becoming a legal microstate is moot - if the area functions effectively like a de-facto microstate. What does it mean to function like a microstate? That question refers to which contracts it is a party to - of its own volition - and which contracts are compulsory and not agreed-upon by the population. Further, one avenue for increasing its freedom is renegotiating any contracts that it deems inappropriate.
• See OSE Campus
• A company town, with the meaning of company town completely turned upside down - but retaining only the entrepreneurial social contract which addresses effective productivity
• People collaborate on a common vision of solving all pressing world issues as an embodiment of highest personal evolution and growth mindset. Understool evolution is once we extinguish all emergencies, we have a chance to work more creatively.
• People are generally expected to collaborate in order to keep building community and and provide local needs, and there is a "penalty" for non-collaboration in the form of buying yourself out from a certain common activity. Social reputation system makes this all transparent.