Contributionism
The Seventh Utopian Realism Societal Principle
Author - James The Traveller - 6th August 2023 - 12,598 Words
Updated - 29th October 2023
What is contributionism?
It’s an economic system.
What’s an economic system?
A method of creating goods and services and delivering these goods and services to people.
What are goods and services?
Goods are physical or digital items, such as food, concrete, cars, online courses, books, paper and fishing rods.
Services are time and labour based work that humans do for each other, such as hair dressing, plumbing, personal training, gardening, building and counselling.
So what is our current economic system?
Primarily a bastardised version of capitalism.
A system where you work on average 30-60 hours per week to gain access to goods and services, such as the home you live in, all the items inside your home, vehicles, food, clothes and other luxuries you can afford.
Some people earn a little money from their hours of work and some earn more.
The amount of money they have determines what goods and services they can access and thus their quality of life (in the context of purchasing power).
Contributionism is a system where you can access more goods and services for less working hours.
Contributionism is not a total replacement as an economic system.
It’s a complementary addition to any society which wishes to leverage intelligent co-operation and trade to get more bang for their buck per individual.
If it normally takes you 30+ hours of work to earn enough money to be able to access the majority (not all) of goods and services you want, then in contrast, in a contributionism system you can access the same majority of goods and services with only 3 hours of work.
How does this work? How can you access the goods and services you require with less time than is required in the current economic system?
It works like this.
You volunteer 3 hours per week towards assisting a membership based community.
In return, you get all the benefits of being in the community.
What community?
A community can be a group of people who start living and working together on a piece of land off grid, starting from scratch, or it can be a group of people who work together in an already established town/suburb.
The community is essentially a PMA, a private membership association.
But how can only 3 hours of work get you the majority of the goods and services you normally have to work 30+ hours for?
Typical trade, barter or capitalism is a direct exchange of value.
Chickens for wood, money for a car etc. This is a 1 to 1 direct exchange. Contributionism is not a 1 to 1 exchange, it’s 1 to many. If there are 1,000 members, its a 1 to 1,000 exchange.
Let’s say we have 1,000 people who are members of this community, this private membership.
50 of them work on a farm (food producing community service), providing 3 hours per week of generalised work (planting seeds, picking fruit, collecting eggs, milking cows etc.), for a total of 150 hours.
That amount of time and effort may be enough to produce food to feed all 1,000 members for free and then have some left over if the community wants to sell the excess to non-members for profit to distribute evenly to all members.
*All figures are approximate, they may be higher or lower and may differ from community to community, always read anything using your own reasoning capacity and discernment.
100 members are tradies, like carpenters, glaziers, metal fabricators and plasterers.
They each offer 3 hours of specialised trade work to members p/w.
General work is the type of work anyone physically and mentally fit and able can do.
Specialised work is work that requires a learnt skill to do.
The other 750 members work in all sorts of general and specialised fields for the community, whether that be in admin roles, as a computer technician, arborist, dentist, transport driver, excavator, mechanic, personal trainer, barber or pet trainer.
Each member offers only 3 hours of service work per week to the community. It doesn't matter if the work is general or specialised, it only matters that it is useful and required by community members.
In return for each individuals labour, they can then access all the other members labour.
Now this is innovative leveraging!
If a mechanic who already has an established workshop works for 3 hours total on two members cars per week, he can then access the available goods and services of the community.
Availability of goods and services will depend on how many members the PMA (private membership association) has and what production and manufacturing facilities the community has established or has access to.
If the PMA has the farm (or conglomeration of food production facilities, baker, fruit plantation, animal farms etc..) fully established, then all members get access to free food which they can access at the members only supermarket.
The members supermarket can be a storage facility on site at the farm or in another convenient location.
Members can access the supermarket 24/7 with an access card (or with the community app), like one would access a 24/7 gym. This way using clever systems and automation, no one needs to work at the supermarket in an undesirable and unproductive job and members can quickly enter the supermarket, grab what they need and leave. A security camera system can be in place instead of having security working there. No need to line up in ques, tap and pay or hand over cash, just in and out, efficient like it should be.
There may be other methods of distribution in place before this facility can be established as such, but it wouldn’t take long to build and it also prevents non-members from stealing or taking advantage of our labour (by walking in and taking food without being a member).
If the community then decides to produce building materials, such as nails, screws, wood, concrete, metals etc.. then each member will be able to access the goods that are available.
This contributionism model has been heavily modified and upgraded, but the Credit for the introduction to contributionism goes to Michael Tellinger.
View his playlist here.
Questions
A list of all the questions/topics covered below.
“So why would a truck driver or electrician for example want to join a contributionism community?”
“But how is it actually working?”
“How do I as an individual member get access to other members services?”
“How does someone get access to my work?”
“How can we ensure high standards of work?”
“How many hours are available to each member p/w?”
“Can I work more than 3 hours this week to make up for next week? For instance, can I work 6 hours this week so I don't have to work next week?”
“What if I get sick or injured, can I still access the goods and services”?
“What if I have a fridge I need removed from my home or other miscellaneous task I need assistance with?”
“What about work that is consistent and repetitive every week, like working on the farm, baking bread, running group fitness session or working in the lumber yard etc.?”
“What if someone wants to work more than 3 hours?”
“How is one to earn money and pay for their rent and petrol etc..?”
“Does the community make money collectively somehow?”
“Will I still own my private property?”
“What other incentives are there for people to join?”
“Do we get any kind of discounts?”
“What about the city councils that are already in my town?”
“How will we decide to change a membership policy that affects everyone?"
“Who makes the decisions?”
“I’m a tennis coach, ghost writer, game modder, artist, dog groomer, reki healer or work in some other obscure work which wouldn’t be considered essential. Can I still join?”
“What about schools, medical facilities, aged care facilities etc?”
“If there are 30 different mechanics working in the same workshop for only 3 hours each, how will they know what to do?”
“Can you show me an example what it could look like?”
“How will members who are generalists know where to work?”
“But who is the boss of each community service, like the farm, community garden maintenance, emergency assistance, community medical facility etc.. ?”
“But what about leaders? Will there be leaders?”
“How does contributionism differ to capitalism, socialism and communism?”
“Tell me more about land!?”
“Tell me more about food”
“Give me a quick run through of the farm management.”
“Can I be a member, but not participate in the 3 hours per week?”
“Where and how does it begin? Who starts it?”
“Alright, I get it, I need to start it, but where should I start it?”
“But I don't know how to start such a system or where to even begin.”
“But we don’t have the app yet? Not enough people know about it! We don't have detailed arbitration processes or etc.. etc..”
“What can I do to help?”
“Who is responsible if (and when) things go wrong”?
Closing
“So why would a truck driver or electrician for example want to join a contributionism community?”
Because he can offer only 3 hours of labour per week for the community and in return get all his food for free and access any other goods and services that the community members can offer.
So what’s the down side? In the beginning stages, there will be limitations on what goods and services are available.
Whats the upside? It’s only 3 hours. You can meet new people, make new friends, feel involved in a community of like minded and connected fellows, save a lot of money and time over the long run, contribute towards the creation of a long term mega investment opportunity where you can have access to all the goods and services you need which would normally take 30-60 hours of work to be able to have.
“But how is it actually working?”
The membership starts with 10-30 people. They all work together on a farm they have acquired or created. The farm has different aspects, such as the irrigation and fencing, the fruit and vegetables and the animal management. They form 3 circles with 10 in each, working in their chosen dedicated field. They all work together to organise how they will work, with the experts of the specialised fields lending their ideas and being the ones to make proposals. For each proposal to go ahead, each member of the relevant circle gives their consent after having any objections they may have solved. After 3 months, the founding members begin to produce enough food for all 30 of them to eat for free, with some left over.
They begin to market their idea and more people join the membership.
New members go through an intro seminar and an on boarding process, outlining the terms and conditions of joining. New members agree to abide by objective morality, to go through the arbitration and mediation process if there are any disputes or grievances and to live by all the associated principles (connected to Utopian Realism at large). There are no joining fees or monetary requirements. If the community membership requires any kind of money, it is by donation only. The community membership is called “The community of XX (Frocksville/insert your town)”.
A mechanic who already has his own workshop joins and offers 3 hours per week of car work to any of the existing 30 members. In return he gets free food.
A bootcamp instructor who already has a bootcamp centre then joins and offers 3 hours of group training sessions to the now 31 members. He gets free food and access to the mechanic to get his car fixed if he needs it.
A barber now joins and offers 3 hours worth of hair cuts to the now 32 members of the group. She gets free food, access to the mechanic and access to the group training sessions.
A plumber now joins and offers 3 hours worth of plumbing work to any of the now 33 members who requires his services. In return, he gets free food, access to the mechanic, access to the group training sessions and access to the barber.
Someone who hasn't got any specialised skill but is happy to do general work joins. He is happy to work as a taxi, transport driver, to dig holes, work on the farm, pickup old heavy furniture from members houses and do any other general labour that the now 34 members may require. In return he gets free food, access to a mechanic, group training sessions, barber and plumber.
Now the mechanic is not only getting free food in return for his 3 hours of his specialised labour contribution, he is getting free hair cuts, free group training sessions every week, access to a plumber and to a general labourer.
As you can see, as each new member joins, what every member gets access to increases exponentially.
As the community grows and gets more members, it can start to establish more facilities and services, such as a lumber mill, providing free wood to all members, a glass factory, a medical facility, a fitness centre, recycling plant, community workshop, a tool library, a community kitchen, town hall and whatever else is needed or wanted by the people.
You can learn more about Objective Morality here.
“How do I as an individual member get access to other members services?”
Through the app. If you would like your garden worked on, open the app, type in gardener, see all the members who have listed that they do gardening work, then look on their calendar to see when they have time available. Book in a time slot with that gardener via their calendar, message or call them to confirm. You may be able to book them this week, or you may have to wait several weeks until they have availability, just per standard society.
“How does someone get access to my work?”
They do the same thing. If you are a psychologist, you list when you are free to offer your time. You may set in your calendar that you have a free 1 hour slot on Monday 1pm, Tuesday 6pm and Friday 10am. When someone books in for your Monday slot, you fulfil the members requirement and provide them with a free 1 hour psychology session. The receiving member confirms that you performed the task for them and it updates in the history section of your profile on the app for you to both see. You now only have 2 hours of work to the community left for that week.
“How can we ensure high standards of work?”
The receiving member of any task will be asked to rate your services, just like uber or airbnb. This is to ensure that all members provide the highest quality of services to each other. If anyone is consistently receiving poor ratings, then a team of volunteers who decide to address these kinds of issues will form a leadership circle and devise a solution to increase that members performance. If members cannot provide high quality service to other members, then they are not suitable to be in such a community. We have high standards and each work to better ourselves. If a member does not fulfil their obligatory 3 hours for that week, then they lose access to the PMA’s benefits the next week. Their profile will basically beep and flash red on the app and they wont be able to access the supermarket or other members services until they provide their 3 hours. Unless they have an accrual or sick leave. More info below.
To learn more about leadership, check this page for a story explanation and here for the leadership societal principle.
“How many hours are available to each member p/w?”
Each member can only have access to a maximum of 3 obligatory hours per week of another member and there should be a gap between weeks so others can benefit.
Example. George needs his car fixed. Pim the mechanic says it will take 6 hours. Pim can only use his obligatory 3 hours on Georges car, not extra. Any extra hours of work would either have to be free or reimbursed with a form of currency or other exchange.
Why?
This is to ensure each member gets equal access to other members services.
If Pim spent 6 hours fixing Georges car this week, then took the next week off as a result of his accrued extra hours, yet Susan needed her car fixed next week, she would not be able to access Pims work.
Or to make the example more extreme. Imagine a builder spent 30 hours one week at one members property, then took the next 10 weeks off. Only one member benefited from the builders services over a period of 10 weeks. It seems unfair, compared to the builder offering 3 hours free labour per week to 10 different people over 10 weeks. If that initial member who required the builder still needed 30 hours worth of work, they would have to figure out another form of exchange for the other 27 hours of work that week.
Also consider this example. A member giving physio therapy to another member who is giving them piano lessons. Would it be fair if for 52 weeks in a row they simply swapped services, the physio getting piano lessons and the pianist getting physio? What about all the other members who would like physio or piano lessons? This is why there should be a gap between weeks, where the pianist should give lessons to someone else who would like them for a week before returning back to the physio. This is so more members can benefit from the full variety of services available and not join to simply swap services 1 to 1 consistently.
To avoid any confusion, this example hopes to provide clarity.
Kerry works in the admin centre most weeks. She gets her free food from the supermarket every week. She goes to the Monday 6am yoga session, the Tuesday 5pm boxing class, the Wednesday 7 pm bootcamp session, books in for a massage that week, can get someone to baby sit her kids while she and her partner go out for dinner where they get half price meals for members, she books her car in for the mechanic and gets a free 1 hour service. Each member can essentially access unlimited amount of hours from the community at large per week (as long as there is availability), but not more than 3 hours per individual member.
“Can I work more than 3 hours this week to make up for next week? For instance, can I work 6 hours this week so I don't have to work next week?”
Yes. You can work extra to earn your future holidays and time off. If you have family visiting next week and don't want to work while they are visiting, you can work 6 hours this week so you don't have to work your 3 hours next week, yet still access the available goods and services you need.
When you work extra hours, those hours are accrued in the app, you can easily see the balance you have available. Some people may utilise all their accrued hours by taking time off, others may not. There will be some very passionate people with enough free time to work more than their obligation. It is encouraged and appreciated to contribute more than 3 hours p/w but not expected or required.
“What if I get sick or injured, can I still access the goods and services”?
The community is happy to work with those who require help, but will not tolerate bludgers or parasites. We want to find that middle ground where we are not a charity or providing for the lazy, but to also have compassion for the genuine unfortunate cases.
If someone has accrued extra hours, then their time off can be deducted from their time account.
Example. Johnny worked 6 hours this week so has accrued 3 hours leave, which is 1 week. He gets sick next week and needs to take time off from working, yet still wants access to food and to the naturopath. He can as he has an available balance of hours he can use.
If someone becomes physically unable to work because they break their leg or other serious injury, but can still use a computer, they will just need to transition to a different type of contribution.
If they have some kind of illness which prevents them from doing even this, then they can build a debt of hours. If someone needs to take a month of, they will be missing out on 12 hours worth of work. When they are better again, they, will owe 12 extra hours. They can pay it off how the like. They may decide to work 15 hours in the first week to repay the debt. Or they may prefer to work just 1 extra hour per week, for a total of 4 hours per week, to pay the debt back in 12 weeks.
Any decisions about a maximum amount of time off (sick leave) will need to be decided by that community.
“What if I have a fridge I need removed from my home or other miscellaneous task I need assistance with?”
Our community app will have a tab that operates like the current app called air tasker. Anyone can post a job or task they need help with that may be miscellaneous. Typically, a generalist will respond to this kind of task as if you need a specialists assistance, you can easily book in with them directly via their profile and calendar.
A generalist who wants to complete their 3 hours of work will look on the app, see the task and respond to the members request for assistance.
“What about work that is consistent and repetitive every week, like working on the farm, baking bread, running group fitness session or working in the lumber yard etc.?”
The leadership circle of that particular community service will figure out how many hours of labour per week is required to fulfil the requirements of the community. The farm may need 150 hours of labour per week. That would require 50 members to fulfil, each giving 3 hours. Whoever wants to work on the farm will book in advance the time slot they wish and are able to work. There will be some members who establish themselves as expert leaders who will want to work there every week, which will be beneficial to everyone as they have specialised skill.
The balance we want to maintain for the community services such as farms, workshops and other general facilities is the balance between everyone being able to work on the farm if they want to and the farm having the appropriately qualified members working there.
The administration centre (or other dedicated leadership circle created for an identified task) will be staffed by volunteers doing their 3 hours and will be responsible for all the community's administration management. They will be able to look at what the community needs overall, more food, more wood etc. They can communicate with members and help to organise who works where. Although the aim is to automate as much of this work to clever systems built into the app and to have people work as independently as possible. Meaning that members will be primarily responsible for booking in their hours or having their hours booked in by other members. Members are to rotate who they offer their services to each week. The yoga instructor and PT cannot only offer each other services each week for example. There must be a gap of at least a week so that others can benefit.
“What if someone wants to work more than 3 hours?”
There will be many people who will want to work much more than 3 hours per week. They are free to work as much as they like. The amount of hours and where they have worked will show on their profile and the top contributors to the community every month will be recognised and will receive special social status as legends. They will not be working to earn more or to receive extra privileges, but because they are passionate about helping and getting involved.
“How is one to earn money and pay for their rent and petrol etc..?”
We all have 168 hours in a week. Contributionism is only asking for 3 of those hours to then provide you with access to many free goods and services. You are free to do as you please with your remaining 165 hours per week. You may still need to work 40 hours per week to afford the lifestyle you currently have. Over time, you will begin to save money, starting with food costs and then step by step everything else you normally spend money on to enjoy your lifestyle.
“Does the community make money collectively somehow?”
Another way to make money is by selling the excess goods that the community produces, such as excess bread, fruit, vegetables, meat, wood or any other kinds of goods that we are able to produce at our stage of development.
If the community has 100 members and sells $10,000 worth of goods to non-member business and individuals that month, then that amount gets divided up evenly to all members.
Every member would get $100 for that month.
If we have 1,000 members and we make $1,000 in one month, then everyone gets $1.
If we have 1,000 members and we make $1,000,000 in one month, then everyone gets $1,000.
Each community member is only able to do what they do because of what everyone else is doing for them.
The community is one big team that works together to harmoniously reap the benefits of all their combined labour.
With plenty of room to grow, you could possibly replace your normal jobs income, although that is not the reason to join. These numbers are only theoretical and are not promises.
If one would like to make more national currency to buy a car for sale in another town or to travel overseas, they are free to make national currency in their other 165 hours they have available every week.
“Will I still own my private property?”
All members are able to own private property. They are also free to transfer their private property into the name and under the protection of the PMA. They can still act as the administrator of their private property, property such as a house, car or land, but the ‘ownership’ will be by the community at large. This is to provide each member with overlapping protection from all other members. If legal aggressors want to attack an individual member because he is building on his land without the coercive city councils permission, the member can have automatic protection from the PMA because he has registered his land with the PMA and his land in now under it’s jurisdiction, not the city council or governments.
This is very similar to the first concept of registration, where peasants would re-gister their land to the king and the king and his knights would offer protection to the peasants farms. Except they used this a covert power grab tactic with malevolent intent.
Our system is very open and honest and the power does not go to a single ruler like the kings of old.
If the legal aggravators want to take a member to court, then by association, all other members (who volunteer) would have a right to participate in the court case because by contractual agreement, they have a 1/1,000th (percentage based on total members) ownership right of the members land. There is no problem to be concerned with other members taking land away from the administrator as all member to member interaction is governed by objective morality, which forbids any kind of immoral action and is clearly defined in the communities declaration of independence.
“What other incentives are there for people to join?”
Apart from getting access to a ton of generalised and specialised labour, there are other joining incentives.
Connection with like minded people is huge. Everyone desires to be part of something bigger, to be connected to others and to mingle with people they enjoy being with. It’s been proven that when people work together, they can form very strong and deep bonds.
Protection from legal attacks is a great incentive to join. When people join and become members, they agree to abide by a different jurisdiction than there current tyrannical government jurisdiction. They will be choosing the jurisdiction they wish to live in accordance with by joining. The philosophy of justice according to Utopian Realism and any and all other subsequent aspects of Utopian Realism, such as contributionism and the PMA, is to focus on circular arbitration and mediation. Such a system is designed to provide just results, equitable solutions based upon rehab and remedy, not punishment and revenge. Our PMA structure for correcting wrong doing or settling disputes is to find win/win solutions, not win/lose or lose/lose.
Members will benefit from the unification strategy offered when it comes to dealing with problematic legal aggressors from the city council or government policy enforcers. If they go after one of us, they will need to commit to going after all of us, as we stand together as a united front.
Members will also get access to The Freedom Credit, an alternative digital currency that members can utilise to fill in the gaps when 3 hours is not enough to covers an individuals needs. If someone needs a mechanic for 4 hours, the mechanic can only offer the first 3 hours free of charge. The other hour will need to be covered with some form of exchange. National currency can be utilised, or the freedom credit can. Every member who joins the membership will get access to a freedom credit account and a bonus of 1,000 freedom credits. The member can pay for the extra one hour of labour in freedom credits. He can also access freedom credits from other members if he is to do extra work outside his 3 hour obligation. The benefits of using the freedom credit as opposed to national currency are that there are no fees for holding, sending or receiving credits. The value of 1 credit is tied to 1 USD on a particular date, this way there is no value fluctuation and it’s value remains stable. One cannot buy more freedom credits, one must earn them by contributing real value to others. There is no taxation involved with the freedom credit, what you make is yours. There are a whole host of benefits which come from using the freedom credit which can be found here.
If the community requires national currency to purchase land or buy things which it cannot yet produce, then the community can ask members for monetary donations. Members will still be working in their day jobs as it will take time to build the membership where everything one could want is able to be provided for free.
The community can offer free mentor-ships and apprenticeships. If a personal trainer is open to the idea of teaching members the skills of being a personal trainer, then he can do so.
If a carpenter is happy to teach members how to do what he does, he can.
If the mechanic is overworked, yet there is an abundance of generalist members who already are good at fixing cars and want to get professional training from someone who is already qualified, they can offer to assist the mechanic in his workshop. The mechanic can teach them while they work and the community can benefit by having a larger supply to fulfil a demand. The mechanic could even hire these workers to help him with his non-member workload. It’s a win for the mechanic, a win for the members who are being taught and a win for the community members who get their cars fixed.
This is a great way to up skill the members of the community for free and to allow more specialised skills to contribute to the needs of everyone.
People with assets can also donate them if they’d like. If someone has a bobcat, they can have it available for members to borrow. If someone has a golf course, they can offer members to play for free.
“Do we get any kind of discounts?”
People with restaurants or selling goods can offer members discounts, if transacting with national currency or freedom credits. The percentage discounts is at the discretion of the members, although it is encouraged to offer cost prices for goods to other members. Example, John buys a laptop for $500 at his store and sells it normally for $1,000. It is up to him for what percentage discount he applies, although it would be ideal if he sold it for under $600 for the member, close to cost price, while still making a small profit. Why should he sell his goods for close to cost price to other members? Because he can then purchase goods from other members for close to cost price. If he sells the mechanic a laptop for $600 instead of 1k, the mechanic will sell him a new engine for $1,000 instead of $2,500. He can then go to a members restaurant and instead of paying full price, $60 for his meal, he can only pay $30. And then he can go to a car dealership and buy a car for $40k instead of $50k. If you treat people well, they will treat you well in return. It’s a way that everyone can save money. If every member gives each other discounts where they can, they will all benefit. There will still be plenty of opportunity to make monetary profit from non-members to pay for those things which may be more difficult to have covered by contributionism, at least in the beginning stages.
“What about the city councils that are already in my town?”
Simple. We just out perform them.
In the beginning, when contributionism PMA’s are started in pre-established towns, there will already be a city council operating who handle emergencies, public garden maintenance, road repairs etc...
One step at a time as the community grows into the hundreds and then thousands, the PMA’s systems will replace the city council.
Without the need of force, violence or coercion.
The PMA members will be more organised, professional and will have volunteers doing all the tasks that the city council was doing inefficiently.
We will remove fallen trees from roads quicker than the city council can respond.
We will do better garden maintenance then they can.
We will clean up littered streets more effectively and often than they do.
We will recycle peoples waste items faster and better.
We will repair the roads quicker and to a higher standard.
We'll take over all the management of public services, one step at a time.
We'll do a better job and we'll do it with no money or coercion, only donations if absolutely necessary.
“How will we decide to change a membership policy that affects everyone?”
Someone, anyone, will come up with an idea to change something which would have an effect on every other member.
They construct their idea and present it at a weekly community meeting in the town hall or other facility.
Once they present their idea in person at a meeting, they also create a presentation to be displayed on the community app, which would be a compressed explainer video and text of what their idea is about and how it will benefit the community.
They can skip the in person presentation and only create the app presentation, but it will get a lot more exposure and support by first presenting in the town hall.
The community then democratically votes to have the idea considered or not.
If over 51% of total members vote to have the idea considered, it goes to the next stage which is to form a circle to brainstorm the idea.
All those who have ideas to contribute towards the proposal, whether positive or negative, join the circle and begin to refine the idea.
Once all objections have been handled, they create a new updated proposal and offer it back to the entire community.
The community then votes again and by this point, there will be little to no objections and the proposal goes ahead.
This could be about changing membership policy, building a bridge, the training received by community protectors, creating our own car number plates or building a new medical facility.
Any idea which is going to impact the community at large needs to go through a process of support for the idea and needs to be refined by a dialectic process.
Thesis, antithesis, synthesis.
Proposal, counter proposal or objections, then modifications and finally the updated proposal to be confirmed by everyone.
This way, only the best and most useful proposals that the community actually wants will be intiated.
If people don't vote for proposals, then they don't go ahead.
Bad ideas cannot and will not get support and get off the ground, like they do all the time in current involuntary societies around the world.
“Who makes the decisions?”
Simply think about all decision making processes as a circle instead of a pyramid. A pyramid has hier-archy, rulers and bosses. The one at the top makes all the decisions, it doesn't matter what the 99% at the bottom say, they must do what the guy at the top demands. In a circle, there is no boss, only people who each have something valuable to share and offer. They keep going round in the circle sharing ideas and raising concerns until a workable solution is arrived at, peacefully and respectfully.
Each workplace will be self governing, self modifying and self operating. People who are working in the administration centre are not making decision about what happens on the farm, the members who form the farming circle are making those decisions. Just as the farmers aren't deciding what happens in the admin centre. The best people to make decisions about workplace operations are the people who work there.
Compare this to how government operates now, in the manner where they get their grubby fingers into as many aspects of other peoples business management and control as they possibly can. They have no association to these businesses and yet they attempt to dictate and control from afar, not asking for the individual business owners consent, yet enforcing policies they decide are relevant.
If a member of the PMA has an issue with what the farmers are doing, yet did not work on the farm and was not a member of the leadership circle, he could simply go to any one of the circles meetings and raise his issue or proposal directly to the members who were part of the farming circle. Or he could join the circle on a permanent basis with the consent of the other members and offer his ideas. If for instance all the members part of the farming circle became corrupt, then another member could expose this to the rest of the community and form a circle who were to engage in an investigation to present to the arbitration system. If proven through the arbitration process to be responsible for corruption, then they would either receive rehab or be expelled from the group, depending upon what the arbitrators and community decided.
“I’m a tennis coach, ghost writer, game modder, artist, dog groomer, reki healer or work in some other obscure work which wouldn’t be considered essential. Can I still join?”
Yes. If there are other members who book in or ask for your services, then you have value to offer. If no one does book in for a tennis coaching session, then you still need to contribute somehow. There will always be lots of general work to do every week being posted by individual members on the app or in the community services, like the farm, aged care facility or lumber mill etc. So if you can’t offer your specialised skill to other members due to lack of inital demand, you can easily do some kind of general work to make up your 3 hours every week.
“What about schools, medical facilities, aged care facilities etc?”
Transforming Education: From Volunteer Teachers to a Community-Owned School...
Initially, we'll have dedicated volunteer teachers who devote three hours of their time to educate children in their own homes. Parents will likely contribute financially to compensate teachers for the additional hours required to fulfill their children's educational needs.
As more teachers join our cause and more members contribute through monetary donations or by offering materials, land, and labor, we can work towards constructing our very own school. Additionally, we can envision establishing a fitness center, workshop, medical facility, aged care facility, or any other necessary amenities as our community expands and progresses.
Let's begin by focusing on a school as an example and using money to construct it.
With 1,000 members donating $500 each, we gather a total of $500k in funds. Using this national currency, we acquire land and construct a school. Teachers generously volunteer 3 hours each to educate children at the school. As the number of teachers increases, more hours are dedicated, allowing us to reach a greater number of children.
Suppose we have 30 teachers available, offering a collective teaching time of 90 hours per week. This means the school can operate with a complete staff and a full schedule, while each teacher only dedicates a small portion of their 168-hour week to provide an invaluable service to the children of other members.
In the case of a fitness centre, someone already owns land with a shed and decides to generously donate it to the PMA, granting equal ownership rights to all members. A contract clause ensures that if the Contributionism PMA fails in the next 10 years (with a precise definition of failure), ownership reverts back to the donor who may then sell the property. This arrangement instills confidence among members, encouraging them to donate their own property, land, or assets for community causes. The shed requires internal work such as insulation, room creation through wall construction, and the parking lot needs to be paved. A group of volunteers, including tradespeople and generalists, offer their labor to prepare the fitness center for use. Some members generously donate their home gym equipment, while another member may sell gym equipment at cost price. Other building materials are obtained second-hand through gifted donations. Only $100,000 in equipment and parts, which cannot be donated, is needed for the entire project, amounting to $100 per member if there are 1,000 members. However, a well-equipped fitness center could be constructed for as little as $5,000, with a greater emphasis on bodyweight exercises rather than expensive equipment. Thus, the donation requirement for building a fitness center in this example ranges from $5 to $100 per member.
Imagine a fitness center that operates from 5 am to 8 pm, Monday to Friday, offering free training sessions that you can conveniently book. The schedule includes a bootcamp instructor available from 5 am to 8 am on Mondays, a yoga teacher from 9 am to 12 pm, and a boxing coach from 1 pm to 4 pm on Tuesdays. As long as there are open slots, you can join as many sessions as you desire.
The community fitness center allows various fitness professionals, such as personal trainers, bootcamp instructors, Pilates and yoga teachers, boxing coaches, karate instructors, and others, to contribute their 3-hour teaching slots. With 30 fitness experts from a community of 1,000 members, the center can offer 90 hours of fitness services every week. This means that all members have lifelong access to a fully staffed facility with diverse classes and sessions, either for free or with a minimal once off investment of $5 to $100. Additionally, the center may include amenities like a gym and sauna, accessible 24/7. Considering the potential cost of paying for individual memberships at separate non-member facilities, which could amount to $200 per week, investing in this long-term opportunity becomes highly appealing.
We can follow a similar process to create other facilities within the community, such as a medical center staffed by volunteer nutritionists, naturopaths, surgeons, and other valuable medical practitioners. The community has the option to either build these facilities gradually or acquire already established ones from private businesses for repurposing.
If there is an excess supply of services compared to the demand from our members, we can open our facilities to non-members and charge them in national currency. The profits generated from these transactions would be evenly distributed among all members. For instance, the workers selling extra fruit at the markets could benefit from the naturopath offering their services to non-members, while the naturopath benefits from the sale of excess fruit and wood. This possibility exists, but it is not mandatory or a central aspect of contributionism.
“If there are 30 different mechanics working in the same workshop for only 3 hours each, how will they know what to do?”
Mechanics working in the community workshop must book members' cars through a detailed admin process. This involves gathering car information, logging it into a computer system, and updating the progress of repairs. A comprehensive file system allows any mechanic to access the file, review the problem, track previous work, and determine what tasks remain. Organized handover processes, whether in mechanic workshops, computer technician shops, or medical facilities, improve efficiency and simplify operations.
“Can you show me an example what it could look like?”
What do we need?
The people. (unskilled and skilled)
The expertise. (skilled)
The systems. (organisation, management and governance)
The facilities & equipment to source or produce base materials. (farms, mines, lumber mills)
The base materials. (seeds, food, rocks, metals, wood)
The facilities & equipment to convert base materials into goods (wood into tables, metals into a car frame, plastic recycled into bathroom tiles)
The facilities to provide services. (Mechanics, fitness centre, offices)
Here is a small example of what could be achieved with 1,000 members. (Approximate estimation)
Farm (all food production) requires 50 people p/w (150 hours)
Fitness centre requires 20 people p/w (60 hours)
Admin centre 10 people/30 hours p/w
Transport goods and people 15 people/45 hours
Tradies 100 people/300 hours p/w
Mechanics 15 people/45 hours p/w
School 20 people/60 hours p/w
Medical facility 30 people/90 hours p/w
Lumber mill 20 people/60 hours p/w
Recycling plant 20 people/60 hours p/w
Barber 5 people/15 hours p/w
Aged care facility 50 people/150 hours p/w
Generalists 645 people/1935 hours p/w
Total of 3,000 hours of labour per week that is being shared amongst each other.
That’s just a basic look to see how when you have many people working together, the results can be phenomenal.
“How will members who are generalists know where to work?”
On the tasks page of the app, flagged at the top are understaffed community services that need more volunteers. For example, the farm may require 50 members and 150 hours per week but only has 40 members, making it a priority task. Each member is responsible for prioritizing tasks based on their importance. While helping at a working bee is not wrong, it is slightly less crucial compared to ensuring adequate food for everyone.
Once the essential weekly tasks are booked, generalists who can perform various tasks can respond to specific requests for help. There will always be plenty of work available. Generalists can even set up notifications to be alerted when new tasks are listed, such as removing a fallen tree from the road. They can see the task details and photos from another member and immediately address the issue. It is their responsibility to accurately log their hours on the app. While transactions between members require verification, tasks like removing a fallen tree or working on the farm can be self-validated. Trust and integrity are vital for a healthy community, and any abuse of the system will eventually be discovered.
Once the essential weekly tasks are booked, generalists who can perform various tasks can respond to specific requests for help. There will always be plenty of work available. Generalists can even set up notifications to be alerted when new tasks are listed, such as removing a fallen tree from the road. They can see the task details and photos from another member and immediately address the issue. It is their responsibility to accurately log their hours on the app. While transactions between members require verification, tasks like removing a fallen tree or working on the farm can be self-validated. Trust and integrity are vital for a healthy community, and any abuse of the system will eventually be discovered.
“But who is the boss of each community service, like the farm, community garden maintenance, emergency assistance, community medical facility etc.. ?”
That’s the wrong question. Its like saying “who holds the whip”? What do you mean, why would anyone hold a whip? There is no whip holder! Just as there are no bosses or rulers. We don’t need bosses or rulers when we have solid systems in place that are governed by the principles of sociocracy, democracy and voluntarism.
As opposed to centralised decision making structures, like governments, our systems are decentralised and are democratic, meaning every individual has a voice and their vote counts the same as anyone and everyone else's, as a 1.
In centralised corporations, all the people at the bottom have a vote, if they are lucky, and their vote also equals a 1.
But the catch is, the boss at the tops vote is always worth 1 more than all the people at the bottom combined. There is no winning for the majority in centralised companies or governments, as 20 million people can’t outvote 1 CEO or prime minister at the top of the centralised, triangular hierarchy.
All our circles of leadership in community projects and services are run by the people who are doing the work, not by external dictators halfway across the country. Not only is this logical, but it greatly improves efficiency and worker satisfaction.
A way to consider the difference between centralisation and decentralisation is rule by one or rule by all.
“But what about leaders? Will there be leaders?”
Yes of course!
To understand the nature of a leader, one must ask "What sets a leader apart from a ruler?" The disparity can also be understood by first examining the contrast between a leader and a follower. A leader possesses objectivity, empathy, and exceptional communication skills. If these are the key qualities of a leader, then it is our aspiration to foster leadership in every individual!
In our communities, we seek not followers nor rulers, but leaders, as well as leaders who support other leaders—creating a network of leadership. True leaders consistently work towards developing more leaders.
For further insights on the topic of rulers versus leaders, explore the remaining chapters of Utopian Realism.
“How does contributionism differ to capitalism, socialism and communism?”
Laissez-faire capitalism (Pure and true capitalism, not controlled by government at all) is the best economic model to date. There really are many great aspects to a proper capitalistic economic model.
Wikipedia's definition of Laissez-faire capitalism “is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism. As a system of thought, laissez-faire rests on the following axioms: "the individual is the basic unit in society, i.e., the standard of measurement in social calculus; the individual has a natural right to freedom; and the physical order of nature is a harmonious and self-regulating system.”
Current capitalism in most countries is not a pure form of capitalism, not even close, but is a bastardised version which has been heavily influenced and restricted by government policy and corruption. Today’s modern capitalism is pseudo-capitalism. There has never been a true capitalistic society in any country ever. The early USA would be the closest there has been, but still had the government intervening in private business’s. Any time there is outside intervention in private business, it is not Laissez-faire capitalism.
Yet, even when considering a fully Laissez-faire capitalist model, there are better models of creating and accessing goods and services which have yet to be fully established, such as contributionism.
Just because something has not been fully tested or is being currently used does not invalidate it.
If one were to believe that something is not possible because it hasn't been done yet, then they would be rejecting the reality of all progressive technologies. The only way to build and fly a plane was to do it!
Laissez-faire capitalism can work well alongside contributionism systems as they can both co-exist and complement each other. Yet the end goal of any Utopian community or society is to evolve past the need for money and transition to an automated and resource based economy. Although this accomplishment will take some time to achieve, it is very achievable, step by step via innovative technology, better governance and healthier minded individuals backed by an objective philosophy which respects objective morality and rights of the individual.
Communism and socialism are such terrible systems they are not even worth mentioning here as they cannot co-exist with capitalism or contributionism. There is really only a single highlight people are attracted to which gets marketed by these similar anti-economic models. Equality and equity. Which are honourable ideas, although the method of achieving equality and equity is critical. Contributionism and Laissez-faire capitalism supports the idea of equality and equity, but not via communistic and socialistic means, which are via the use of force and coercion.
Contributionism is a members society, meaning it is via direct consent that one can participate.
Communism and socialism do not require your consent to join or leave, it is by force and are governed by a ruling class who use violence and threats to maintain any kind of organisation.
The same is often true of governments ‘public’ memberships.
Governments have covertly established a private membership association, although they have labelled it as ‘public’ and have presumed just by living in a geographical location (ones country) that one has agreed to be bound by their terms and conditions (laws and legality).
Governments (whether capitalistic, socialistic or communistic is inconsequential) have implicitly garnered your acceptance to be governed by their membership, by being ‘a member of the public’, and have not informed you how you can leave their membership or that you are even part of their membership. They market their system of governance as ‘choice-less’, that you have no choice but to be governed according to their system, their membership policies. This is evil and dishonourable.
Contributionism offers a solution to this dilemma by creating a parallel voluntary society to the current existing involuntary societies in the form of an openly declared private membership.
For one to receive all the benefits, privileges and protections of a contributionism community, they must agree to the terms and conditions of the contract, in accordance with ethical contracts. If they do not agree, they do not have to join. If at any point they disagree, they can leave.
Contributionism is a purely selfish model of co-operation, just like capitalism. Although, capitalism can be thoughtless and often is in today’s world. Contributionism is definitely not thoughtless, it is thought-full. Rational selfishness is to work towards ones best interests. In reality, ones best interests are to ensure and work towards others best interests in a peacefully cooperative manner. Communism and socialism are self-less, sacrificial models where one must sacrifice themselves, the individual, to the ‘greater good’, the collective, which is really just the ruling elite.
Contributionism rejects the idea of sacrifice, of having to lose to be part of society. Contributionism is about personal gain and the recognition that one can gain the most by helping others gain. Working together one can always achieve more than by working alone. The more one helps others, the more they will be helped, no violence or pressure required, just reasonable common sense.
Contributionism is not every man for himself like other systems.
Contributionism is a system that believes everyone is an individual, but deserves to be presented with the choice to work less with a collective, to achieve more.
Success is typically measured only by profit in capitalistic models, even in Laissez-faire capitalism.
It doesn't matter how happy you are, how long you have to work to make profit, how much waste you produce, how negatively you effect the environment or people, capitalism success is based of the primary measuring standard of monetary profit.
This can be beneficial for some people, but for society as a whole, tends to have a detrimental effect.
People work too long, take too few holidays, work too hard and exhaust themselves and may or may not make a profit. If they do make a profit, it may be at great cost to the environment, which happens in some mining, fracking or oil operations, just to name a few environmentally destructive business’s.
Making low quality products that break and need to be re-bought is a great method for making profit, but it has little value for people or the environment.
Contributionism focuses on only producing the highest quality products, because those who produce them will be using them.
Why would we make things for ourselves that break just so we have to spend more time making new products?
Unlike the typical capitalist mindset, the contributionism mindset does not enjoy wasting time making avoidable mistakes.
The modern pseudo capitalist mindset generally does not mind filling the streets with rubbish, piling up landfills with un-recyclable junk or simply wasting resources.
If two people were competing to see who could build a house first, this is a type of capitalistic mindset.
If two people worked on one house, then the next, this is more aligned with contributionism.
Obviously the option where two people work together is going to beat the option of them working alone.
If 10 different farmers were individually competing against each other to produce the most crops, they wouldn't stand a chance against 10 farmers working on one farm.
The more people working together vs competing, the more effectively we can produce results.
Competition is not inherently bad or wrong, it has a time and place, but that time and place is not appropriate when it comes to most efficiently producing goods and services.
Collaboration is a method of working together to maximise every individuals output to achieve more, do it faster and to a higher standard.
If there were 3 scientists each trying to create their own free energy device for profit, vs 3 scientists working together to create a free energy device, which group is more likely to be successful?
The people working alone or the people working as a team?
Profit and capitalism keeps the first group apart, contributionism and helping society keeps the second group together.
If we want better results, we need to start thinking smarter, not greedier.
Working collectively as a group is a powerful thing indeed.
Contributionism is combined with voluntarism, project specific leadership and teamwork, so no ruling class or rulers are necessary. It also integrates the concepts of sociocracy, which is a circular and horizontal form of management and decision making, as opposed to the triangular, vertical hierarchy management prevalent in today’s societies. Real democracy is utilised when necessary to vote on individuals proposals. Discover more about real Democracy here in story format and here as the 3rd societal principle.
“Tell me more about land!?”
For instance, we have a large property available in a town called ‘Frocksville’ where we can grow fruit and vegetables and farm animals such as chickens and cows.
If we don't have land available, we find the appropriate land and then ask for donations from everyone to become equal owner/care taker/manager of the land.
If a piece of land is $1,000,000 AUD, then you only need $1,000 from 1,000 people.
Or $100 from 10,000 people.
This is very achievable and only one way we could acquire land out of many.
It’s best that everyone donates the same amount of money to avoid any kind of controversy where someone feels like they have more of a say than others because they donated more.
That’s why it’s also not a good idea to have 1 or 2 rich investors pay for the land, as this can always create problems if someone is looking at Contributionism as a monetary investment rather than a collective community endeavour. Although, the ownership of the land is evenly divided between every current and future member of the community. This way, if any government legal opposition tries to oppose us, they have to challenge every single one of us, because all members have equal ownership and management rights. It also spreads the load of responsibility evenly and aligns with the idea of equality, equity and sociocratic/democratic governance.
If a member who had a lot of money did decide to buy the land and transfer ownership to the community as a whole, that would obviously be a fantastic win win for everyone.
“Tell me more about food”
Food.
Without it, we have problems. Without food... well, you know the rest.
We need an effective strategy for efficiently and effectively producing our own food supply.
The problem with food in many parts of the world is that production is becoming centralized.
Mega corporations are buying farms and controlling more and more land.
They are genetically modifying food and turning it into chemically altered products.
The quality is continuing to decrease, and the topsoil is continuing to degrade.
Many farming and agriculture strategies are inefficient and raise many concerns.
Such as the quality and nature of seeds, the degradation of soil quality, the herbicides, pesticides, and other chemicals.
These factors either degrade the quality of food by the lack of nutrients or downright poison it.
It's no wonder why the world is the most sick it has ever been with the quality of food people are eating.
It's truly a marvel we have lasted this long.
The treatment of animals is also of great concern to many people and is something that can be easily improved upon via a number of simple strategies.
There are many methods for producing food more humanely, effectively, and safely than what the majority of mega corporations are employing today.
Permaculture is an effective approach for plants, and rotational farming for animals.
So how can we not only have better quality food, but how can we have it for free?
This is where Contributionism comes in.
The opening aims of the membership are food production, then food processing, then material production. At the same time, many things can be happening, as the membership organization is not limited to a few individual 'representatives' such as a council of elders or a political party.
All a member of the contributionism system would need to donate is 3 hours of their time per week.
In return, they would have access to the combined fruits of all members' labor.
How much money do you spend on food per week? Is it organic and GMO-free?
$100? $200? More?
How long would it take before your initial $1,000 donation would be paid back in savings?
Just imagine how much money you could save per week and be getting super high-quality, fresh food from your local town that you helped to make.
After we have established how much food we need to produce to sustain our community members, we then have the choice of selling the excess or producing more with the intent of selling it to local non-contributionism members and people from nearby towns.
We could also donate it to those in need.
Or even better, offer those in need a membership so they can work for 3 hours and earn their own free food.
We could even build basic accommodation on these farms to house those in desperate need, like the homeless, and help them get back on track by doing something productive and having their basic needs met.
Teaching people how to look after themselves is much more powerful than simply giving the needy money.
Simply giving beggars and the homeless money only makes a problem worse, as it reinforces that they can be provided for as a parasite if they don't do anything productive.
Instead of giving a man a fish, invite him to join the fishing club.
Reinforcing bad behavior is not an effective solution for helping desperate people.
Teaching them how to look after themselves and work, is.
“Give me a quick run through of the farm management.”
So who would decide what happens on the farm?
The circle of leadership who works on the farm.
Who makes up the circle of leadership for the farm?
All the people who work on the farm.
How are they deciding?
Via sociocratic circles, listening to everyone and working equally together to come to the best conclusions.
*What are sociocratic cirlces and sociocracy? You can find out on Ted Raus website.
What happens if they need to make a decision that will affect everyone in the community?
They present their proposal to the community as a whole (it could be 20 - 10,000 members) and go to a democratic vote.
The peoples council, which is the name for the administrative aspect of all the members combined part of the contributionism PMA, decide what to do via voting for the best proposal.
To learn more about leadership, read a story explanation here and the 1st societal principle of leadership here.
“Can I be a member, but not participate in the 3 hours per week?”
Yes. You would not be able to utilise the free goods and services which contributionism offers, but you would still be welcome at community events, peoples council meetings, to offer advice to circles, to vote on proposals and to receive all the other community protections, like transferring your assets into the PMA. You could still utilise the freedom credit and receive the joining bonus, along with any referrals.
The role of community protector and arbitrator would not be available unless you worked your 3 hours per week. Working with others in different fields will be a pre-requisite before one can volunteer to become a community protector or arbitrator. This is because it is evidenced in modern society that police and judges/magistrates are amongst the most mentally unstable and dangerous people in society as their work detaches them from reality. They may only be outclassed in mental delusion by politicians. Even though the ideology behind community protectors and arbitrators will be totally different from their corrupt counterparts, it is best to err on the side of caution. Our methods of operation will use circular structures rather than triangular hierarchies, yet it will be wise to make sure those who fulfil these important roles are well integrated with the community in a healthy manner.
To learn more abount community protectors, which are a replacement to police, view this page here.
To learn more about the arbitrators and justice, you can view this page here.
“Where and how does it begin? Who starts it?”
If a system depends solely on its creator or a single individual to execute, then that system is unequivocally destined to fail.
When stated that a system is unequivocally doomed to fail, it means there is absolutely no doubt or uncertainty about its impending failure. In this context, it suggests that if a system relies solely on the efforts or involvement of its creator, it lacks the necessary resilience, adaptability, and collective participation to succeed in the long run. Such a dependence undermines the sustainability and effectiveness of the system, making failure inevitable.
Imagine if a parallel society HAD to rely upon one ‘special’ person to get started.
That one person, no matter how special, can only do so much and in one place at a time, remembering that the world, let alone your country, is a huge place.
What happens if they die?
What happens if they don't want to do the work anymore?
What happens if they decide to take a break?
What happens if they become corrupted?
Of course, the inventor of a system can help other leaders implement, but if all efforts to begin are dependant upon a particular person, then the system is ineffective and is not worthy of being implemented.
The system is a decentralised, open source, free to use, voluntary system.
It is not centralised, closed source, pay to join or authoritative.
So who starts it? YOU START IT.
If you resonate with the idea, are fearful of the worsening Dystopia closing in all around you and are inspired to create something truly good, then you can start doing this in your own town.
Humanity has devolved into domesticated sheep because individuals who wanted to do something good chose not to, instead choosing to do nothing but be a follower, complain and be blown whatever way the ignorant masses where directed to go.
This is not a system of follower indoctrination.
This is a system of leader creation.
If benevolent men and women with a plan or a passion for change don't step up and take action, then humanity is doomed, and it will be deserving of its doom.
Yes, it all does need to start somewhere, but only starting somewhere isn't good enough.
It needs to start in many places all across the world today, by those who have the consciousness to recognise what must be done.
One cannot blame the authors and creators of innovative ideas for not doing more than they are capable of, they should blame themselves for doing less than what they are capable of.
There is no saviour, messiah or one man army who will fix it all for you and tell you what to do, exactly, step by step, without you needing to think or come up with innovative ideas.
Miracles, magic and ‘manifestation’ do not exist.
This is reality and reality requires work for change to occur.
Work is not automatic; it necessitates the conscious choice of an intelligent being to actively engage in tasks to create change.
You’re the leader you’ve been looking for your entire life, the only way you’ll see your true identity is when you stop hiding from your potential and face yourself.
“Alright, I get it, I need to start it, but where should I start it?”
Ok, so you’ve decided to step up and be the leader you should be and really are, but you’ve found after some considered effort, there just isn't enough like minded support in your town.
Support for new Utopian ideas may be scattered and it may be more difficult to rally interest in some areas over others.
What are your options then?
1. Start in your town now
2. Start in a like minded centralised area somewhere else
You can continue implementing the system in your local town or suburb, educating and informing one man and woman at a time, gradually gathering more support and building a parallel society slowly.
Another idea is to connect with like minded people online.
Is there a town somewhere in your country that is already initiating an alternative society?
Is there a town with lots of like minded people but they just haven't got the right plan to get started yet?
Do you have interest from a bunch of people online who want to group buy land somewhere and get started from scratch?
If you have to move to get started or to join another community, is this acceptable or possible for you?
If no, then you must continue implementing in your town, you can use the local leaders guide to implementation as a blueprint to follow.
If you’re willing to move to get started, have you figured out where the best place will be and why? Have you already established contacts in that area? Do you have other people that will move with you?
Remember, your life is and should be in your control. Direct your focus and time into what you want and become responsible for the life you live.
You are NOT a victim.
You are the HERO of your story.
Act like it.
“But I don't know how to start such a system or where to even begin.”
Ok, first question, it may sound a little silly but it must be asked.
“Have you read all of Utopian Realism, or at least the referral links on this page?”
If the answer is no, then how can you expect yourself to know what to do next if you don't know what there is to do!? How will you know the contents, story or details of a book if you haven't read it? You cannot. Utopian Realism covers most topics related to getting a contributionism society started and running.
If the answer is yes, then have you reached out about the coaching program?
If you don’t wish to participate in the coaching program, then simply embrace your leadership potential, for within lies your true identity. Stop hiding from your capabilities and confront yourself to unveil the leader you've always sought.
“But we don’t have the app yet? Not enough people know about it! We don't have detailed arbitration processes or etc.. etc..”
So what do you think you should do?
How can you help?
What can you do to assist the big and little picture?
What is in your current capacity to contribute?
What could you learn to do that could help?
Who do you know who can help?
How often do you talk about new ideas to people?
How are you spending all your free time, is it productive or wasteful?
Do you invest your time into enhancing your life or do you spend it by killing it?
You are the problem, you are the solution.
What you choose to do is determined by what you care about.
Is it creation or destruction?
“What can I do to help?”
To help, you can market the ideas presented here, share links and posts not only once, but consistently.
You can communicate with current leaders and offer constructive feedback and solutions.
You can volunteer for online work or ask how you can assist the collective efforts moving forwards.
You can think of new innovative ways to share the message.
You can work to establish connections, meetings and introductions between those you believe may be of value to each other.
The one way NOT to ‘help’ is by pointing out all the inadequacies and defects of a system in a way which is not constructive and offering no solutions. Better to think deeper about what to say before saying anything.
Remember, the first way to help is to help yourself by becoming informed.
Many fantastic one in one hundred million minds such as, Michael Tellinger, Larken Rose, Jaque Fresco, Ayn Rand, Mark Passio, Leonard Peikof and Pelham Wilson have contributed their ideas to the world to be integrated and massively compressed here for you to learn and benefit from, in a minute fraction of the time.
Utopian Realism is millennia worth of knowledge that you can access and understand in a couple days, for free.
“Who is responsible if (and when) things go wrong”?
Are you a grown man or woman?
Are you sovereign?
Did you join the PMA volitionally, without coercion or threat of force?
If yes, then you are responsible for your choices.
Someone else cannot be responsible for what you do if you consciously choose to do it.
If you are unwillingly to behave as a self owning, self governing, responsible adult, then you should not consider living in a parallel society, as you are not suited to the accountability which comes with being sovereign.
This system will not work and should not with a ruler and follower dynamic. The whole point of creating a new social-economic system, a new way of doing things, is to do things in a new way!
We all need to aim high and be responsible for our actions, or lack of them. We cannot blame others for our lack of due diligence and an initiator cannot be expected to take the blame for not being omniscient.
There absolutely will be challenges and hurdles to overcome in this journey.
But rest assured, if you do not act and continue to exist in complacency, your challenges will be far, far graver, unpleasant and more difficult than anything you would face by doing what you know you should.
When things go wrong, and they will, instead of blaming others like a victim, work together as a team to create solutions.
It doesn't matter who made a mistake, it only matters how it can be fixed and prevented in the future.
Closing
It’s quite likely we’ll form alliances with neighbouring towns to produce more variety and more products, which will mean that even more towns will want to join us and we’ll be able to produce an even greater amount and variety of products.
This continuous upwards spiral has no limit.
It’s an energy positive system, it gives out more than we put in.
The more we put into it, the more it gives.
The more it gives, the more we have.
The more we have, for free, the less need we have for money at all.
This is one very effective strategy for phasing out money entirely, as we simply won’t need it.
If we’re able to transition our lifestyles from 40+ hours per week and barely surviving with money to under 10 hours per week and thriving with no money or very little, it’s hard not to choose the option where you have to work less, but get more.
If we are to factor in the money we can potentially make from selling excess products, it’s a no brainer.
But it’s still just the beginning….
The real goal is for us to create a fully moneyless society using automation which allows everyone the absolute freedom to do whatever they want.
Without undesirable jobs, people will be free to follow their passions for the first time in their life without money being an obstacle to their happiness and opportunity's.
The Seventh Utopian Principle Of Contributionism is one piece of the puzzle which aids in our food stability, production capability, lessens negative influence from centralised dictators and improves localised community connections.
