property - beauterre/decisionMaker-algorithm-proposal GitHub Wiki

We should agree there is something called property. There are cultures (in Ethiopia among other places) that thrive without this concept, but most people on earth are used to it. We shouldn´t see it as a god-given right, though.. You can have what you can keep and we will try to help you keep it.

We need a good way to protect our stuff and money, but we shouldn´t be allowed to hoard it beyond a certain point. This is an instant reward system, but the free market is TOO free. Also, if you work together with someone to do something, there must be a limit to how much you can take of the proceedings.

If you break it, you buy it. If you take it, that´s a crime.

What we do with people who do not respect property is

  • gather evidence
  • present evidence to system (it´s just decision making)
  • accept judgement, atone in some way, there must be a form of consequence..
  • if judgement is not accepted, expell from system. More on this in crime and punishement section.

intellectual property

This will have to be treated differently. Copying is not theft. Information cannot be monetized in the long run, without holding up development) But we need to keep having incentive to make people invent and produce art. So far I don´t see there being much of a problem there. I look at the 25 years James Watt had to hold back the industrial revolution. Strange thing..