Article VII
Regarding the Relationship Between Property Position, Individual Liberty & Civic Responsibility
Problems To Solve
The tyranny of private ownership:
- Arbitrary and capricious valuation of goods and services
- Private accumulation that dictates how common resources are utilized
- Interference with personal and collective freedoms
- Wealth concentration (see Article I)
- Amplification of individualistic materialism (i.e. moral immaturity)
Proposed Solutions
- Progressive implementation of Level 7 property position and common property shares
- Creation and maintenance of an holistic value reference index for goods and services, as a combined effort of all four branches of government, with periodic public feedback and moderation
- Link social credit accumulations and utilization to civic participation
- Diffuse institutional authority, distributing local decision-making to community-level organizations
- Elimination of corporate monopolies
- Community Coregroups to advocate shared values, the unitive principle and moral maturity
Design Principles Applied to Create More Distributed & Diffused Wealth & Power
- Civic Engagement at the Community Level
- Expanded Direct Democracy in All Levels of Government
- Commons-Centric Production and Worker-Ownership
- Collective Orientation to Freedom & Civic Responsibility (Integral Liberty)
- Minarchy, Subsidiarity and Polycentric Governance
- Egalitarian Efficiency & Diffusion
- Sustainable Design
- Critically Reflective Participatory Action
- Revolutionary Integrity
- Ending the Tyrannies of Monopoly and Private Ownership
- Change in Property Orientation and Valuation
- Self-Nourishment and Moral Evolution
- Precautionary Principle & Pilot Principle
