[P2P-F] Fwd: [Networkedlabour] Fair Coop. Target: Planet Earth!

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 5:48 PM
Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fair Coop. Target: Planet Earth!
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commoning <commoning at lists.wissensallmende.de>


An global open cooperative as a revolutionary tool for building other
economy at the world level… now!

http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/09/22/fair-coop-target-planet-earth/

Today I have not expropriated any banks, nor presented anything anyone
can call illegal, against perhaps what expected by many, neither do I
present a strategy directly related to my return to public freedom,
which does not mean I am not still defining that plan.

What I now present is a revolutionary project on a global scale, a
fruit of the immersion and learning I was allowed to thanks to my 19
months of intense activity in the seclusion of hiding.

The moment this project was born during my nights of creative
solitude, it became clear to me that I had to make this both a
priority and a reality before taking any risk as an individual. Today,
I am pleased to have acted on that determination, and I hereby submit
the project so that it may become everyone’s.

It is the open, global cooperative Fair Coop, one more step in the
extension of the integral revolution worldwide; and also the p2p
society values, open cooperation, and hacker ethics, among others.

I will now explain some of the thoughts that inspired me to do this:

The blockchain and Bitcoin brought to the world one of the few missing
pieces to allow us to become independent from the old economic system.
Old, centralized and new, decentralized systems have begun an open
competition for domination in the world of the future. And for the
first time in thousands of years, decentralized systems have another
chance.

However, for those of us who understand the world in terms of
cooperation, decentralization is not enough; we believe this new world
needs self-organization and mutual support, cooperation needs to
infiltrate all those corners where domination is falling behind.

Cooperative, self-managed, collective, community-based projects are
extending and multiplying everywhere.

The practices that preset the way this other world can be everyday,
are very much alive. Although these practices are beginning to be
quite interconnected at bio-region scale, they are still too isolated
and there is mutual ignorance among initiatives that are thousands of
kilometers from each other, on different continents, based on
different languages.

Large amounts of commons are being built in parallel at the local
scale, but any one project’s evolution has so far been insufficiently
shared with the others. We need more powerful tools to help us share
our knowledge, and we must be able to finance their development.

We don’t want to stay as viewers in the confrontation between the old,
oligarchic and the new, netarchic capitalism. We want a cooperative
system also on a global scale, like the ones we practice at local
scale, and if we want to see it happen we have to build it.

Therefore it became necessary to work on a project to put social
cooperation back on the stage of the dominance struggles between
economic systems, showing that the path to put human beings back at
the center is possible, and is there for us to expand it.

This project has arrived and is called Fair.Coop, The Earth
cooperative for a fair economy.

The initial push to boot this initiative is what we have named
“hacking money markets to introduce the virus of cooperation”.

This means:

A cryptocurrency, negotiable in an uncontrolled way in decentralized
markets around the world can be understood as social capital, in which
the number of shares is equal to the total number of created coins.

If we choose it as our founding capital for a cooperative, it means
this capital, instead of being accounted in the dominant currency
(euro, dollar…) will be in a currency the system can not control, and
also, as our cooperative project grows and provides resources and
services of proven usefulness, the value of this capital and the
entire cryptocurrency will grow accordingly.

It is an important point and I will explain the meaning of this in a
different way so it can be fully understood:

Consider traditional capitalism. Company owners extract value primarily
through:

- Income from capital

- Labour exploitation

In some transnational corporations, netarchic capitalism adds a third
way to extract value: free collaboration between humans. For example
Facebook or Google ads generate a lot of money because we use their
“free” services, while we in fact are working for them for free.

What if it is us who create technological tools for cooperation
between equals, and use them to generate free knowledge, global
commons?

Well, then we can do what we like and consider helpful: cooperating,
sharing, learning, while letting the economic value of our work remain
in cooperative projects, and even reverse to ourselves.

It became necessary therefore to find a coin that was not controlled
by old capitalism (euros / dollars …), nor exploited by the most
innovative capitalism (Bitcoin), one in which we can incorporate our
values and cooperative practices. Faircoin therefore was chosen.

After months of networking and creation, Fair.coop is born today.

The space is open to start cooperation among all of us, and we have
supplied the cooperative 10,000,000 faircoins, representing 20% of
total existing coins.

This social capital was injected into Fair.coop with the following
distribution:

- 5,000,000 faircoins for the Global South fund (address:
https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fU3wRGZwese65gZqRiQiJvE483iyjY2QD4
)

- 2,500,000 faircoins for the Commons fund (address:
https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fMxkQtTCFZpWuZNZQTq7HxwcZ6rQn1yAWj
)

- 1,500,000 faircoins for the Technology Infrastructure fund (address:
https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fJ7dwkfHiJW9867xcovaJ9QDN7khDEMJMm
)

- 1,000,000 faircoins for the Pooled fund (address:
https://chain.fair-coin.org/address/fNWcvkQLg9ELKkV5gH1nsYBJnzHqw7pka7
)

And the following conditions:

Except for the Pool fund which can be used to cover operating expenses
at the discretion of the Ecosystem Council and the whole fair.coop,
contributions to the other three funds can not be touched in one year.

With the Global South fund we call for a redistribution that can reach
as many local projects as possible, prioritizing the empowerment of
the areas and environments most attacked by the current system,
generating a peer-to-peer cooperation environment, to restore global
economic justice.

As for the Commons and Technology Infrastructure funds, the call is to
qualitatively prioritize projects that can most benefit the global
common good.

This period may well serve to build a participatory, creative and
mutually supportive process leading to decisions in relation to the
right priorities, defined collectively and efficiently. Also, as
collaboration between equals multiplies under all Fair.Coop and
especially the FairNetwork,the value of FairCoop’s social capital is
expected to respond by growing in value relative to fiat currencies,
not forgetting, as a symbol of our independence, that 1 faircoin will
always equal 1 faircoin.

In this way and just for starters, 20% of the existing monetary
resources remain in the hands of a participatory and open political
process. Meanwhile Fair Coop will work to continue recovering for the
common good resources which may be redistributed through the same
funds.

So this time, if our collaborative and freely shared vocation is to
benefit someone financially, it will be the same ones who are building
it before anyone else, that is all cooperatives, and through the
funded projects, all of humanity.

In other words, we have finally found a way to cooperatively organize,
share, learn, help, one that can self-manage without the need, at
least in the most delicate initial phase, to depend on others, or
having to prioritize selling our production in the market, not even
keeping up with regular member fees. All we need in this first phase
is to create free knowledge, share andbecome interwoven the way we
know best, extend the intangible, and build the material commons;
build social currency networks based on faircoin, such as the
Faircredit project already presented (LINK).

We can innovate to create value together in many areas of the commons.

We can each contribute our bit of knowledge, political participation,
time, donations, products, services, investment, network-building.
Each based on their capabilities and priorities.

The market will value it by buying our cryptocurrency and pushing up
the value of our social capital, in relation to other currencies. So
we can finally “squat” the forex markets, responsible for so much
inequality, to recover from a part, large or small, time will tell, of
these injustices.

I can imagine some anticapitalist will see it as contradictory, me
expressing the role of money markets in this project.

Anyone trying to quit using money, and who has already done much work
regarding community economy and direct exchange can certainly go
beyond fair.coop’s monetary initiatives, which does not prevent them
to get involved, as one more, in collective creation and political
participation.

But most of us who are often using a currency, fiat or social, for
trading or saving, are dependent on a reference framework for prices
and store-of-value function, which is imposed by central banks, so we
are somehow passive partners of the system we want to overcome.

Moreover, I would like to recall that the Forex market is an
irrefutable historical fact over 100 years old, with a trend to be
less and less regulated. In recent years, only authoritarian states
(such as the case of China where the value is set by government
decision) have explored a second path in relation to how to deal
politically with the market, while for all I know, from areas related
to the ideas we share in the context of the integral revolution, for
example, despite experiencing multiple pathways to social currencies
as exchange tools has not generated any previous approach on how to
confront the forex market to build economic empowerment worldwide.

In recent years, new cryptocurrency exchange markets have appeared,
uncontrollable by governments, and therefore it is no longer necessary
to have a country and a central bank in order to have a currency that
can be exchanged across the world. The banking system is outdated and
more and more of us are realizing it, so the path we’re starting now
is for building something that will, some day, consolidate a global
alternative.

What was lacking to start walking, was a monetary initiative present
in these markets which, instead of relying on human competition to
keep the most value, be based on human cooperation as equals, to
create value for all of them. With the arrival of Fair.Coop, faircoin
has become the cryptocurrency focused on social cooperation that was
missing.

So we’ll see over time whether this way we’re choosing is the best or
not, but at least with this initiative we now have a path to explore,
as to how to address this global issue of how to create a more just
economic system with the level of social cooperation this planet needs
and current technology allows.

Fair Coop is born! Let’s get connected, entangled, let’s share,
discuss, build! Everything is there to be done and everything is
possible. Now it’s up to us!

Let’s be the change we wish to see in the world!
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