How do you get the things you need? You need to provide things that other people need and generate surplus How do you know what other people need? Markets! They are the way to match needs and haves The right to live is the right to have your needs met, without negatively impacting the needs of others. I watched a video about how people in the rainforest chop down trees because they have no other way to participate in the economy. Lumber speaks the language of money. People in the jungle have not had time observe the city folk who have money and know what they need. To know the intricacies of their strange routines for what kinds of coffee are popular and that people drink in the morning, or what the latest hats that people take delight in, while some styles they find repulsive. They don't have the access to information, to know that there's an açaí paste factory a few hours away and that they could sell their fruits nearby if they could secure access to a small truck and some ice to be able to bring their products. They don't know what other people usually pay for things. Everyone should have the right to know what other people need (open market data) And rights of people should be protected, such that needs aren't exploited A farmer should know what people are paying for sweet potatores A DAO might be able to globally solve the problem of "giving people access to diverse produce" ### How do we take natural resources from the world sustainably? We need nonrenewable resources to be taken from the environment. Our cities demand steel and concrete to grow new housing. Lithium needs to be separated out from pools of brine to make the batteries for our new cars. Stones must be hewn in order to build the grindstone which mills the flour to keep us fed. And we all know that a mountain cannot grow back overnight. How could we possibly create a regenerative economy if these resource extractions flow one way? We, to the best of our knowledge, must realize that these things are sometimes necessary. We relaize that we must sometimes use dynamite to efficiently extract iron ore, and that it might destroy the ecology of an area. At least, we should decide to do the least harm. Abide by the principle of Disagree and Commit. Because everyone owns a stake in the global production of raw iron, and we see to it that the benefit is stewarded well, we own the long term externalities, as well as the immediate benefits. ### Preventing a runaway golem A self sustaining economic engine is great, but how can we prevent creating somthing which exists just because it's afraid to die and just makes a mess of things. Fire is a great servant, but a terrible master. We don't what to create an autonomous iron mine which keeps over-extracting. zif the goal is not money, but wellbeing, we can have these agent just produce a satisfactory amount. ### How to keep our nice things? If the economy produces only at the capacity for which we have guaranteed demand, won't things just become mechanical? How would people even be incentivized ot create beautiful things? How would art get created? If there were no wealth disparity, how would the condiitons where a wealthy person would pay to commission a beautiful piece of art versus do the rational thing and donate it to the bottom 1% exist? Luxuries are never practical. Detail and richness only exists because of sharp contrast. The average color of a rainbow is gray. If everyone owns everything equally, how can we stop the march towards the bland, overblended, communist gray. If I loved collecting model trains, I could everntually build a museum, at great personal expense, because it's something I love. Surely, after it's determined to be beautiful many years later, people would look at it as important and lucky to have spared no expense on the intricate details. Would it have been better to fund a new housing program for people who have suffered from a natural disaster than to create this museum in the first place? Of course, that's subjective, utility cannot be measured. ### Utility abstraction Specify what you need, allow the market to solve for how to deliver it. Say you need to travel from your home on 17th st, all the way across town to meet a friend at 90th st. You have a basket of fruits ans some soft cheexe that need to be refrigerated to keep them fresh on this hot day, You have a special set of pale-orange zig-zag shaped wine glasses which you'd love to bring up to share a glass of wine in the evening. How do you meet your needs to get up there? For one, you could always walk and be self sufficienty, not needing to depend on anyone to make a perfect day. But it's far and hot, and you decide that you wouldn't feel very good if you met your friend 2 hours late and were tired by the time you go there. So you access your local transport network and it shows you your options. Your city has an autonomous train network which is maintained by your investment in the TransitNetDAO. There is a proof-of-safe-delivery tansaction which a rider can engage with. One way, is to put your signed, but anonymized right-to-access key into the undergroudn train network, and agree to pay per distance. Your right-to-access key is a contract that you've signed with the TransitNetDAO that formalized the code-of-conduct foe using the serivce, an agreement that there's fine for smoking, pets are okay, and you'll pay some small fee to support the maintainmence of-pet-relief aread if you use them, and general rules about being a good samartican on the train. Laws are generally permissive and evolving. ### How do we feel good about giving resoruces to people who produce less? There might be areas of the city that produce less An area which has beautiful food forests and gardens might be more valuable to people than an area that does not have it? ### Putting a chicken farm in the middle of Times Square Demand for eggs exists Putting chickens might create negative externalities tho, they are loud and potentially disruptive to the neighbors. Their waste might be a sanitation hazard. They need to have decent living standards and ensure their humane keeping. Would this exist?