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=December 7th 2025=
=December 7th 2025=


=WHAT I DID=
FED the FIRE
FED the FIRE
I setup the printer in the FABLAB with JAKOB, GOT FOOD with JEREMY  
I setup the printer in the FABLAB with JAKOB, GOT FOOD with JEREMY  

Revision as of 02:59, 9 December 2025

Abundance Token

The Abundance Token Constitution is the foundation upon which all future systems (coins, governance, curriculum, rituals, etc.) depend.

Priority Task #1: The Abundance Token Constitution (The Core Rules That Cannot Break)

This Constitution:

  • Locks in the rules of nature, value, ecology, and ethics
  • Prevents corruption for centuries
  • Ensures token stability and legitimacy
  • Sets the “physics” of your civilization
  • Provides the base layer upon which all other systems rely
Dependent systems

The following layers all depend on the Abundance Token Constitution:

  • Education
  • Coin design
  • Governance
  • Memory systems

Priority Task #2: Millennia-Resilient Governance Structure

Design and establish a governance structure that can remain:

  • Legitimate over millennia
  • Resistant to corruption
  • Aligned with the principles of the Constitution

Priority Task #3: Physical Coin System (Blueprint + Schematics)

Develop a physical coin system that includes:

  • Detailed blueprints
  • Technical schematics
  • Alignment with the ecological and ethical principles of the Constitution

Priority Task #4: Universal Basic Education Curriculum (K–∞)

Create a universal basic education curriculum that:

  • Spans from early childhood (K) through lifelong learning (∞)
  • Encodes the principles of the Constitution
  • Supports understanding of the token, governance, and cultural systems

Priority Task #5: Cultural & Mythic Identity Layer

Develop a cultural and mythic identity layer so that the system:

  • Is carried forward through human hearts, not just rules
  • Is rooted in story, symbols, ritual, and shared identity
  • Reinforces the values encoded in the Constitution and governance structures

User Psychology: The Shift to Abundance

The Core Shift: From Scarcity to Stewardship

The Abundance Token (AT) is not just a currency; it is a psychological tool designed to rewire the brain from "survival mode" (scarcity) to "thriving mode" (abundance).

1. The Scarcity Mindset (Old World)

  • Fear-Based: "If I share, I have less."
  • Short-Term: "I need to extract value now to survive."
  • Zero-Sum: "Your gain is my loss."
  • Hoarding: Accumulating assets for personal security against a hostile world.

2. The Abundance Mindset (New World)

  • Trust-Based: "If I contribute, the ecosystem supports me."
  • Long-Term: "I am planting trees for my grandchildren."
  • Positive-Sum: "Your success increases the value of the network I am part of."
  • Flow: Value is meant to circulate; hoarding stops the flow of life.

Daily Living with the Token

Morning: The Intention

  • Old Habit: Wake up anxious about bills. Check bank balance.
  • New Habit: Wake up and check the Community Dashboard. See that the solar array generated surplus energy (passive income) and that your neighbor needs help with a harvest (opportunity).
  • Psychological Effect: Replaces anxiety with agency and connection.

Mid-Day: The Exchange

  • Scenario: You need a tool fixed.
  • Old Way: Buy a new one (wasteful) or pay a stranger expensive fiat.
  • New Way: Post a bounty in AT. A neighbor fixes it. You pay them in AT you earned from your garden.
  • Psychological Effect: Reinforces the reality that skills are currency. You are never "broke" as long as you have skills or time.

Evening: The Reflection

  • Old Habit: Doom-scrolling, feeling isolated.
  • New Habit: Logging your "Proof of Value" (e.g., hours spent teaching). Seeing your Reputation Score grow.
  • Psychological Effect: Validates self-worth through contribution, not consumption.

Long-Term Planning & Legacy

1. Retirement vs. Elderhood

  • Retirement (Old): Saving enough cash to stop working and survive until death.
  • Elderhood (New): Accumulating enough Reputation and Social Capital to be cared for by the community you helped build. The "Pension" is the thriving ecosystem itself.

2. Intergenerational Wealth

  • Old: Leaving a pile of depreciating fiat currency.
  • New: Leaving a Stewardship Title to a regenerative plot of land and a high-ranking node in the network. You leave a functioning system, not just numbers.

3. The "Futu" Horizon

  • Concept: Decisions are made based on their impact 7 generations out.
  • Application: When voting on a governance proposal (e.g., "Should we clear-cut this forest for quick cash?"), the Abundance Mindset asks, "Will this increase or decrease the 'Futu' (well-being) of the year 2100?"

Overcoming Friction

  • The "Free Rider" Fear: "What if I work and others don't?"
    • Solution: Transparent ledgers and Reputation Scores make contribution visible. Social pressure naturally regulates fairness without need for police.
  • The "Fiat Addiction": "I still need dollars to pay taxes."
    • Solution: The Transition Phase. The ecosystem produces high-value export goods (e.g., CNC machines, organic food) to bring in necessary fiat for external obligations, acting as a shield for the internal economy.

Abundance Token Constitution & Holacracy

Preamble: Evolutionary Purpose

We, the builders of the future, establish this Constitution not as a static set of laws, but as a living framework for a Teal Organization. The Abundance Token (AT) ecosystem is a self-organizing entity dedicated to a higher evolutionary purpose: "To enable a regenerative, post-scarcity civilization where all life thrives."

We operate on the principles of Self-Management (distributed authority), Wholeness (bringing our full selves to the mission), and Evolutionary Purpose (listening to what the organization wants to become).

Article I: Core Principles

Section 1: Regenerative Value & Wholeness

The value of the Abundance Token is grounded in the wholeness of our ecosystem:

  1. Labor: Conscious human effort driven by purpose, not just profit.
  2. Ecological Regeneration: Tangible healing of the biosphere, verified by data.
  3. Physical Production: The creation of open-source infrastructure (GVCS) that empowers autonomy.

Section 2: Anti-Inflationary & Reality-Based

The Token supply is an organic reflection of value creation. New tokens are minted ONLY when verified value is added to the ecosystem. This connects our economic reality to our physical reality.

Section 3: Open Source Ethos

Wisdom is a commons. All knowledge, designs, code, and governance records shall remain open source, accessible to all, enabling global systemic capability.

Article II: Rights of Participants

  1. Right to Participation: Anyone may energize a Role within the ecosystem if they accept the purpose and accountabilities.
  2. Right to Transparency: The governance records, financials, and decision-making processes are open by default.
  3. Right to Process: Every Partner has the right to process Tensions through valid Governance channels.
  4. Right to Fork: If the Holarchy diverges from the shared purpose, participants have the moral and technical right to fork the project.
  5. Right to Learn: The path to Stewardship must never be closed. All educational resources, badging criteria, and mentorship opportunities must remain open to any Apprentice willing to do the work. The ecosystem cannot artificially cap the number of Stewards.

Article III: The Holarchy (governance)

Governance is distributed through a nested hierarchy of semi-autonomous circles (a Holarchy), not a hierarchy of people.

Section 1: Distribution of Authority

  • No Rulers: No individual has command authority over another. Authority is vested in Roles and Circles.
  • Authority Follows Competency: The right to steward a domain (e.g., manage the server, run the farm) is strictly tied to verifying the requisite skills (Stewardship Badge).
  • Constitution as Supreme Law: This document and the encoded rules of the "Algorithmic Guardian" define the limits of all authority.

Section 2: The Governance Process

  • Integrative Decision Making: Governance decisions (creating roles, changing policies) are made by consent, not consensus. A proposal is adopted unless it causes harm to the circle's purpose (Objection).
  • Double Linking: Circles are connected by a Lead Link (appointed by the super-circle) and a Rep Link (elected by the sub-circle) to ensure information flows both ways.

Section 3: Operational Autonomy

  • "Whatever is not forbidden is allowed": Roles have full authority to take any action to express their purpose, unless explicitly restricted by a Policy or Domain.

Article IV: The Algorithmic Guardian

The "Algorithmic Guardian" represents the immutable laws of our digital physics (Smart Contracts). It enforces hard constraints (inflation caps, minting logic) that even the highest Circle cannot violate without a consensus Hard Fork.

Work_Log

Dec 3 2025

I ran wire into the main workshop to plug into the WAP. No nikki

I set up the hanger wifi router in the hanger so that I would not be cold.

I attempted to make the ethernet connection but the crimpers or plugs or I was doing smt wrong.

Got Joe to do it and verified it was not working as intended. I tested it with marks tester but i only ever got one light to light up.

fed the fire in hablab

cleaned more in the hablab

went to china restaurant out of town and bought groceries for group soup with BEN and ENNA.

Introduced ABUNDANCE TOKEN TO BEN ].

Nik_Log

December 7th 2025

FED the FIRE I setup the printer in the FABLAB with JAKOB, GOT FOOD with JEREMY I cleaned the kitchen area in the fablab and removed personal tools from area. I helped Austin move several wall modules STARTED recycling area outside of the HABLAB with BEN Moved inside HABLAB recycling more towards the outside. Started CAD DESGIN with BEN, JACKSON, and JOEL. We have everything we need for it here, just need to refine the power supply more and actually build it. FED the FIRE

December 8th 2025

Went to SEH6 and started sorting tires, helped cut some. Documented pictures. Recorded SUSAN and her speech of finding MARCIN nearby. When the skid steer and other equipment got here we unloaded.

Amishe'd moving the poop coop at the CAMPUS with JEREMY driving the forklift

Got subway and delivered it to the CAMPUS, then to the HABLAB.