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    • Algorism Alegorism Anarcho-conservatism coalescionism american-anarchism conservanarchy conservancy semblanish mutual-bootstrapism O M G these all suck - Four Core Tenants - 1. Politics 2. Economy 3. Wages 4. Education 1. People organized into geographic councils who meet every week in a seminar. 70 people per council. At these seminars, they discuss needs and abilities they possess. They solve all the needs they can, and any that can't be solved are given to their two delegates. These delegates are selected by election (top two votes) or sortition. They convene in a greater council of 70 and discuss the needs and abilities of a larger area and segment of the population. This process continues until the top level, where more than two delegates may be selected. 2. The economy follows these principles: a. If demand exceeds supply, increase production. b. if supply exceeds demand, maintain production until a healthy stockpile is acquired. c. If the stockpile is large enough to allow for spikes in demand, then divert resources from production into innovation. These principles are applied to everything, from finished goods to services, to even jobs themselves. Each council tier applies this to their available resources (including personnel) 2.5. Wages and money and queues First step is to nationalize Amazon and Walmart. They are critical to the nation's infrastructure and should be controlled by the people. When demand exceeds supply, the queue system is put into effect. Basically each month people receive a wage, and they can spend this wage however they'd like on any products or services with a queue. The amount allocated represents their place in line, and the top spenders receive the product first. If someone is too low in the queue, their contribution is added back in - so month 1 = 100$, month 2 = 200$, month 3 = 300$, etc until they are served. Then they are removed. At the end of the month, any unallocated money is distriburted evenly among any queues they have open. If they have none, it is set aside and permanently increases their monthly wage by an amount proportional to the average life expectancy. Or they get 10% of any remaining surplus from their pool until it's depleted, their choice. 3. Wages are determined by the algorithm presented in section 2. They are no longer paid by private enterprises, but rather by the government. Money no longer represents value, but rather interest that can apply to consumer goods and services. The algorithm will trend toward an economic equilibrium by incentivizing workers via wages to work in areas with a low supply of any particular job - and promote sending skilled workers to rural areas, thus reversing the brain drain that has reduced the prospects of rural Americans. 4. Education The education system will be completely overhauled. Schooling will be designed like a skill tree in a video game - learning various proficiencies rather than completing courses. The learning process will continue through a person's entire life and will be entirely self directed. Teachers and guides will be there to answer questions and develop comprehension, but not teaching the material directly. I go into deeper explanation in my other notebook... Q&ampA: - Political parties? It's natural for people to congregate into tribes. In the same way, I imagine political parties will form. And I think that's okay. Because the structure of power is reversed, the amount of corruption possible is reduced to only a single tier of councils. Representatives are replaced regularly (every 2 years for elections and one delegate every year for sortition) and the top two candidates are selected in elections, thus incentivizing 'reverse gerrymandering' where parties will want to coalesce into solid districts rather than aiming for slight advantages which silence the 'minority' - this has the side effect of encouraging local cultures by condensing like minded people into districts, thus helping develop a more unique identity for each region. In addition, each council cannot send a delegate until every other council has been represented. - Landed gentry? Currently, wealth is passed down through multiple generations primarily through immaterial things like stocks, money, and ownership of companies. These three concepts are wholely abolished under this system. The only things available for inheritance are material goods. - Wouldn't there be gridlock? If party A controls tier 1, 3, 5, and 7, while party B controls 2, 4, and 6, wouldn't nothing get done? Well, concerns are only elevated if they can't be resolved on a lower level. So all things being equal, the lower tiers would be just as likely to resolve an issue than the higher tiers - it's only a difference of scope and scale. Also issues aren't decided by votes, it's (and then my plane landed and I finished the conversation in person. Damn the ephemeral nature of vocalized thought!)