Energy Money (EM)
v.1.18 (01.02.2019-30.10.2025 11:14)
Core Concepts
Labor, the results of which can be exchanged for money (will certainly be bought by at least one person) at any given moment, is called Socially Useful Labor (SUL). The quantity of socially useful labor over a calendar year is a fairly stable figure, depending on the world's population and its solvency. The products of socially useful labor are Socially Useful Products (SUP). Products made to order and fully paid for also count as socially useful. Labor, the results of which are not in demand at a specifically chosen moment, is called Socially Unnecessary Labor (SUNL). Most of the results of human activity fall into this category. Primarily, this includes products produced in excess of consumption norms, i.e., surplus production. The second category of socially unnecessary labor includes products with a price that, from the consumer's perspective, does not meet quality standards. Therefore, some results of socially unnecessary labor may be exchanged for money if their price is lowered, or exchanged through barter. The products of socially unnecessary labor are Socially Unnecessary Products (SUNP). From the definition of socially unnecessary products, it follows that they can be unnecessary either temporarily or permanently. Temporarily socially unnecessary products are those that become socially useful products over time. If the storage time of socially unnecessary products does not affect their consumer properties, such socially unnecessary products can be called temporarily socially unnecessary, produced for future use. Labor is divided into two categories: labor that produces a product (material or intellectual) and labor in the service sector. Thus, socially useful labor is divided into productive and non-productive. Productive labor is divided into stages, among which are: 1) extraction or production of raw materials (this stage does not exist in the intellectual sphere), 2) production of semi-finished goods, 3) production of a finished product. The resource for raw material production may or may not have an initial cost. Labor Value (LV): This is the measured quantity of socially useful labor (in "marks"), expended on creating a product or its component. It is an objective, calculated value. Each stage of productive labor adds its Labor Value to the Final Product Cost (FPC). The Final Product Cost is the sum of the resource costs and labor expended at all stages of production (raw material extraction, manufacturing of semi-finished goods, assembly). This is the cost price of the product. Retail Product Price (RPP) is a contractual value at which the end buyer acquires it; it can also include many additional costs incurred at stages between the start of the product's production cycle and retail sale. Therefore, in the vast majority of cases, the retail price cannot be less than the final cost (cost price). Exceptions may include sales aimed at obtaining at least some compensation, instead of useless product storage; this sometimes happens with food products past their expiration date. From the moment of purchase and with the onset of storage, use, and wear processes, a product often loses consumer qualities or becomes morally obsolete, which forms the Residual Product Value (RPV). In case of urgent necessity for the end buyer to resell the product, regardless of whether the product has been used or merely taken out of the store, one distinguishes the Liquid Product Price (LPP), which depends solely on the availability of those willing to acquire it and the price they are willing to offer for it, i.e., it is a market value and depends on supply and demand. All products, including new and still usable second-hand items, obtained through productive socially useful labor, constitute the Gross EM Mass (GEMM) in the Society of the Future (SF). The value of non-productive labor (services) cannot be included in the GEMM, as a service has a zero operational life, meaning it is illiquid. Thus, the value of non-productive and socially unnecessary labor does not affect the GEMM. In some cases, when referring to products of productive socially useful labor that are of strategic importance, which include Goods of Constant Consumption (GCC), the value of produced semi-finished goods necessary for their production can be included in the GEMM at the request of the semi-finished goods manufacturer. Many types of GCC, conversely, have very short shelf lives (perishable products), thus influencing the GEMM only in the form of stored semi-finished goods, and upon sale, or even delivery to a retail outlet, they are instantly excluded from the GEMM. Given the fact that all business interactions in the SF are conducted through the Operating System (OS), it is easy to obtain any statistics regarding the current balance of raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finished goods of constant consumption in manufacturers' warehouses, and thus there is a means of control over the inclusion of semi-finished goods in the GEMM.
Nuances
The formation of the final retail price of products, often dependent on and including marketing expertise, requires separate consideration. Some manufacturers form distribution networks and include the cost of logistics, distributors, and retail sellers' services in the price of a new product, advocating a single network price for the product. In dealer networks, the final product cost is determined by regional dealers taking into account their appetites and costs. In both cases, the retail product cost can be artificially inflated by the manufacturer, dealer, or final seller. Therefore, the unique product identifier (barcode), which includes its full description and necessary parameters, indicates a "shrinkage factor" for its value either at the moment the return period to the seller expires or at the moment of sale if returns for this type of product are not stipulated by the sales rules. There is an unwritten law: "the price of an item drops by XX% immediately after being taken out of the store" - this refers precisely to the "shrinkage factor" of the value, which includes, at the point of sale, the services of the retail seller. Currently, the tradition of "touching the goods with one's own hands" at a retail point of sale is increasingly fading into historical oblivion, giving way to direct delivery from the manufacturer to the address or a pickup point. Therefore, the distortion of the retail price by including retail services will have less and less impact on the economy. The "shrinkage" in the product's unique identifier will allow for a more accurate reflection of the current residual product value in the GEMM, as trade services are not part of the product's labor value itself.
Accounts
Physical Person (PP) - a human being as a subject of civil law. Legal Entity (LE) – a person or group of people as a subject of entrepreneurial activity. Individual's Accumulation Cloud (IAC) is a financial repository for an individual, containing an amount equivalent to the residual value of all accumulated property of the individual. It is the primary source of gratuitous credit for the individual. Individual's Operational Account (IOA) is a financial repository for an individual, containing money earned through their own labor. It is the primary source for daily expenses. Legal Entity's Accumulation Cloud (LEAC) is a financial repository for a legal entity, containing an amount equivalent to the residual value of all property, means of production, and finished products owned by the legal entity. It is the primary source of gratuitous credit for the legal entity. Legal Entity's Operational Account (LEOA) is a financial repository for a legal entity, containing its working capital. Cluster, regional, sectoral, public Mutual Aid Funds (MAF) store surplus funds from individuals and legal entities transferred from operational accounts, which are out of circulation, as well as insurance contributions of any type. These funds are used in the SF for large-scale construction and reconstruction projects, to launch expert-approved startups, and to pay out insurance sums. Reserves of converted currencies from different countries by individuals and legal entities are stored in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of the SF.
Income and Expenses
Sources of income for individuals include receiving payment for labor, selling personal property, receiving material aid, gifts, and inheritance. Sources of expenses for individuals include purchasing products, paying for services, and gifting. Sources of income for legal entities include receiving payment for services rendered, selling manufactured products, means of production, and property, and receiving gifts. Sources of expenses for legal entities include all costs associated with the production cycle or provision of services, and gifting. Monetary gifts are only possible between individuals; in the OS, they are registered as "material aid." All other types of gifts are permitted on dates significant to the recipient, to prevent abuse of barter transactions as a means of avoiding social contributions. Significant dates are specified in the profiles of individuals and legal entities. Also considered significant are certain dates during the year related to the cultural traditions of clusters.
Lending
Lenders to an individual in the SF are their IAC and the MAFs of the clusters in which they are a participant. The individual's debtor is their IOA. Lenders to a legal entity in the SF are its LEAC and the MAFs of hierarchically superior clusters. The legal entity's debtor is its LEOA.
Auto-credit
Taking funds on credit from one's own accumulation cloud (auto-credit) is done by transferring the necessary amount from one's accumulation cloud to one's operational account at any time, within the limits of the funds remaining in the accumulation cloud. When taking an auto-credit, not the residual but the liquid price of all property in the potential debtor's possession is considered, usually equated to 50-60% of the residual value. Therefore, no more than 60% of the potential debtor's property value is available for lending. Repayment of credit funds is made by transfer from the operational account to the accumulation cloud no later than the next property revaluation date, which occurs every Sunday at 3:00 AM. Since on Sundays the accumulation cloud shrinks by the amount of property wear and obsolescence, the amount available for lending decreases. Consequently, the difference must be compensated by returning the potential shortfall to the accumulation cloud no later than the end of the preceding Saturday. In addition to collateral security, the Operating System (OS) conducts an intellectual analysis of the borrower's creditworthiness to minimize risks. For Individuals: The system automatically calculates and displays the recommended and maximum auto-credit limit in the user interface. This limit considers not only the liquid price of assets but also the dynamics of income and expenses over the past several years. To assess the risks of non-repayment, the algorithm also analyzes the total income of the family cluster, its composition, and financial burden, relating all this to the living optimum. Based on this data, the system may offer a limit below the collateral if it sees potential risks to the citizen's financial stability, thereby protecting them from excessive debt burden. For Legal Entities: A similar multi-factor analysis is applied to organizations. The OS evaluates financial flows, income stability, operating expenses, debt burden, and business reputation history. Based on this comprehensive data, the system forms a dynamic credit rating and determines the optimal auto-credit limit, which ensures a balance between business development needs and minimization of risks for the entire economic system. In case of detection of property fraud (absence of declared property in the owner's actual use), the debtor faces criminal proceedings with compulsory compensation for the shortfall and possible blocking of the lending function, which also means a demand for early or immediate repayment of the entire loan amount. The shortfall can also be compensated through forced sale of property.
Credit from MAF
Taking funds on credit from a Mutual Aid Fund is a way to attract investment for one's own startup (business project) if there are insufficient funds in one's own accumulation cloud. To obtain a loan from an MAF, the following conditions must be met:
- The personal accumulation cloud must not have any outstanding loans, as it becomes part of the collateral obligation.
- The business project must align with the cluster's field of activity from whose MAF the loan is requested, must hold potential for the cluster's development (growth in product quality or assortment, or labor productivity), and must be approved by the cluster's expert commission. For startups whose implementation requires funds significantly exceeding the debtor's accumulation cloud, it is recommended to create joint-stock companies or other forms of collective ownership of the means of production.
Deposit
Depositing surplus funds in the SF is both a way to protect money from toxicity (see chapter Passive Capital Levy), and a method of targeted accumulation (accumulating a specific amount by a specific date). Depositing is done by transferring funds from the operational account to the MAF of one of the clusters where the individual or legal entity, the owner of the operational account, is a participant, specifying the deposit term. In case of early withdrawal of the deposit, a one-time Passive Capital Levy is deducted from the deposit amount, remaining the property of the cluster, stored in the MAF. Gratuitous transfer of funds from individuals and legal entities to the property of the cluster, stored in the MAF, is permitted. Another option for a targeted deposit is called insurance contributions, which help protect against unforeseen expenses related to insurance events that usually occur unexpectedly, as well as the desire to retire and cease labor activity.
Pension Fund
The Pension Fund of the SF is the MAF to which a person wishing to become a pensioner in the future made contributions. Since EM is a non-inflationary financial system, it is possible to roughly calculate the necessary amount of funds "for old age" in advance. The SF operates a simple solidarity family pension system (a system in which able-bodied adults support both their children and their incapacitated parents), which, among other things, solves the problem of birth rates and increases parents' responsibility for the quality of their children's upbringing, because their number and life successes will determine their own future pension provision. The use of the Pension Fund is a voluntary matter for everyone, but for childless individuals, it is an insurance method for self-provision in case of incapacity. Furthermore, the SF undertakes the obligation to provide for incapacitated people by exchanging their property for care services.
Transition to EMПервоначальный переход к ЭД состоит в переписи физ.лиц и юр.лиц, оценке задекларированной ими собственности в виде материальных, интеллектуальных и культурных ценностей с занесением данных в облака накопления физ. и юрлиц, конвертации имеющихся валют в валюту ЭД (тавро) на оперативные счета физ. и юрлиц. Валюты других стран считаются обеспеченными товарами этих стран. Инфляционные издержки находящихся на хранении у физ. и юрлиц валют несут сами физ. и юрлица, конвертированных и переданных на хранение в ОБ несет ОБ в целом. Одной из задач финансовых органов Ордена Объединившихся Народов (ООН) является такое балансирование использования старых валют, чтобы хранящиеся на счетах и наличной массой старые валюты оставались обеспеченными продукцией других стран до полного перехода человечества к ОБ, чтобы инфляционные издержки хранения запасов старых валют несли преимущественно страны старого типа. Для этого ОБ может использовать скупку у стран старого типа, использующих старые валюты, драгметаллы и минералы, антиквариат, культурные и археологические ценности. Нельзя допустить ситуации, при которой хранящиеся в ОБ запасы старых валют превысили стоимость оставшейся у старых стран продукции. Полный переход человечества к ЭД должен быть сопряжен с гарантией обеспечения внутренней валюты ОБ валовой массой материальной и интеллектуальной продукции, находящейся в распоряжении ОБ.
Ключевым условием перехода к ЭД является его плавный и добровольный характер: 1. Добровольное декларирование: Первоначальная "перепись" и "оценка задекларированной... собственности" являются личным выбором каждого гражданина или организации. 2. Стимул, а не принуждение: От объема задекларированных активов (которые формируют ОНФЛ/ОНЮЛ ) напрямую зависит кредитный лимит для получения беспроцентного автокредита . Система не наказывает за отказ, но щедро вознаграждает за участие. 3. Критическая масса: Переход становится экономически неизбежным (обязательным) только при достижении критической массы участников, как мы и обсуждали, чтобы не "кормить старую систему"» Оценка матценности производится с учетом ее износа, исходя из стартовой стоимости, выраженной в трудозатратах на ее производство, приравненных к ее рыночной цене из устаревшей финансовой системы. Произведенные в ОБ блага оцениваются только как трудозатраты, а сырье (материальная часть), к которому не приложен труд, является достоянием всего общества — по сути бесплатным. Если сырье является природным ресурсом, находящимся на территории Новой Страны, его стартовая стоимость является нулевой. Добытое из природы сырье обретает стоимость, эквивалентную трудозатратам на его добычу плюс стоимость расходных материалов и износ необходимого для добычи оборудования в процессе добычи. Импортируемое из других стран сырье либо полуфабрикат имеет стартовую стоимость, считающуюся эквивалентом трудозатрат иностранцев на его производство. Каждое воскресенье в 3:00 производится автоматическая переоценка всех матценностей по коэффициенту естественно старения и износа, или по факту проведенной модернизации или ремонта матценности, приводящих к росту ее стоимости. Это позволяет проводить автоматическое сокращение выпущенной ранее денежной массы, приводя ее в соответствие с суммарной стоимостью имеющегося у ОБ имущества и не допуская инфляции (потери цены денежной единицы при увеличение денежной массы). Виртуальные деньги (предположим, «тавро») привязываются к стоимости труда. 1 тавро является эквивалентом 1 часа наемного труда, средней тяжести, самой низкой квалификации в древнейшей и вечной профессии (повар). Таким образом, тавро не подвергается инфляции, так как не привязано к материальным ценностям. Оценке поддаются только трудозатраты (физические и интеллектуальные), материальная же часть является бесплатной, ибо принадлежит всем жителям страны, являясь общим ресурсом. Деньги, выведенные из оборота и лежащие пустым грузом на электронных кошельках, называются токсичными, поэтому облагаются сбором с пассивного капитала. Для вывода накопленных денег из-под действия сбора с пассивного капитала существуют несколько способов их пристроить более выгодно. Одним из способов, спасающим деньги от обесценивания, является передача их в Кассу Взаимопомощи, являющейся при этом целевым хранилищем, а не «чулком для заначек». В Кассу Взаимопомощи принимаются либо деньги под различные цели. Целевые вклады в Кассу взаимопомощи необходимы людям, пугающимся брать кредиты, желающим накопить определенную сумму к определенному сроку (целевые накопления), при этом накапливаемые деньги могут быть израсходованы только на обозначенную изначально цель, а досрочное изъятие их из Кассы или трата на иные цели приведет к пересчету по стандартным формулам токсичности. Другой вариант целевого вклада называется страховыми взносами, помогающими защититься от непредвиденных расходов, связанных со страховыми событиями, наступающими, как правило, неожиданно. Другим способом, позволяющим одним людям создавать новый бизнес (обычно средней или крупный) с новыми рабочими местами, а другим людям пристраивать накопленные токсичные деньги, является создание акционерных обществ под стартапы. Желающий открыть бизнес, под который ему не под силу собрать средства самостоятельно, и чьи активы не позволяют получить достаточных для открытия бизнеса средств в кредит, создают и предлагают стартап, под который через Кассу Взаимопомощи собирает акционеров, скупающих доли будущего бизнеса соответственно своему вкладу относительно общей суммы. Таким образом образуется новый актив, владельцами которого будут являться долевые вкладчики. В случае успеха, организованный таким образом бизнес начинает приносить прибыль акционерам пропорционально вложенным долям. Вложенные таким способом средства могут приносить их владельцам стабильный доход. Третьим, наиболее логичным способом пристроить токсичные деньги, является инвестирование денег в собственный бизнес. Известным и самым привычным способом превратить деньги в пассив, который не подлежит обесцениванию, в обществе прошлого являлись скупка недвижимости, антиквариата, культурных ценностей, драгоценностей и драгметаллов. В проекте Новая Страна подобное применение свободных денег в чрезмерных количествах выше разумного уровня также является рискованным предприятием, так как попадает под сбор на роскошь. Так как единственным способом эмиссии денег в стране является приложение труда, то и единственным способом обеспечения общественных благ финансированием будет отчисление от порожденных денег в общественные фонды. Количество отчислений производится по прогрессивной ставке. Формула для расчета отчислений приведена в главе «Добавленная стоимость и общественные отчисления». Тавро свободно конвертируются в основные валюты мира (непрерывно инфлирующие, как известно), резерв которых хранится на счетах финцентра. Кроме процедуры депонирования излишков средств в Кассу Взаимопомощи для их сохранения от токсичности, предусмотрена процедура капитализации проектов свободными деньгами с более выгодными условиями для инвесторов, чем простое депонирование. Таким образом, вводится в работу биржа акций. Финансовая система поддерживается выделенной системой связи и бесплатными мобильными устройствами (при необходимости) доступа к ней. Для уже действующих устройств доступны мобильные приложения, веб-приложения, приложения для ОС компьютеров. Идентификация пользователя устройства для выполнения разных задач разноуровневая. Используются варианты идентификации чипа, датчика, лица, сетчатки глаза, отпечатка пальца, цифровой подписи, пин-кода и пароля.
Деньги
Для операций с деньгами необходим операционный финансовый центр. Деньги в Новой Стране выполняют две важные функции. С одной стороны, деньги являются эквивалентом приложенных усилий (или затраченной энергии), с другой стороны, деньги является универсальным средством учета имеющихся в распоряжении общества ресурсов, фондов и активов. Центром эмиссии денег в проекте Новая Страна, являются все субъекты, имеющие обыкновение прикладывать труд либо совершать работу по производству материальных или интеллектуальных продуктов, а денежной единицей является эквивалент затраченных усилий (в ккал) за единицу времени (час) низкоквалифицированного работника. Нормы времени и усилий, порождающие одну единицу денег, являются предметом расчетов и коррекций, действующей на территории всей страны; расчеты предоставляет Палата мер и весов, коррекцией занимается Совет Министров.
Оплата труда
Базисом для определения повременной оплаты труда и начисления социальных выплат является формула 150 ккал/ч*Ѧ*Ѡ, где используются коэффициент компетентности Ѧ(юс) и коэффициент качества Ѡ (фу). Пределы допустимого качества результатов разрабатываются Советами Мастеров отраслей. Понятие качества описывается в главе «Товары постоянного потребления». Коэффициент компетентности является подтвержденной тестами степенью мастерства в ремесле. Производительный труд, совершаемый с использованием средств производства, усовершенствующих скорость, точность и качество продукции, оценивается с учетом затраченной энергии подобных средств производства. Методология установления базовых тарифных ставок Для объективного и справедливого определения стоимости часа труда для разных профессий, а также для расчета социальных выплат, вводится многофакторная система оценки. Орган, условно названный «Палатой мер и весов», устанавливает базовую часовую ставку для каждой профессии на основе комплексной оценки, состоящей из трех основных компонентов: 1. Базовый энергетический эквивалент:
- Суть: Расчет фактических средних энергозатрат (в ккал/час) для выполнения стандартных операций в данной профессии.
- Обоснование: Это объективный, научный фундамент, который привязывает оплату к физиологии и реальным затратам человеческого организма. Существующие таблицы по физическому труду будут дополнены новыми исследованиями умственного труда, инициированными Орденом. Это обеспечивает базовую справедливость.
2. Коэффициент сложности и редкости:
- Суть: Надбавка, учитывающая сложность и редкость профессии.
- Обоснование: Этот коэффициент отвечает на вопрос «Почему нейрохирург получает больше, чем курьер, даже если их часовые энергозатраты сопоставимы?». Сложность измеряется через:
- Длительность и интенсивность образования: Сколько лет человек должен был учиться, чтобы получить допуск к профессии.
- Комплексность навыков: Какое количество разносторонних знаний и навыков необходимо применять одновременно.
- Уровень ответственности и цена ошибки: Ответственность авиадиспетчера выше, чем у библиотекаря.
3. Рыночный/Общественный коэффициент (динамический):
- Суть: Дополнительный коэффициент, который может корректироваться Советами Отраслей или Орденом в зависимости от текущих потребностей Общества Будущего.
- Обоснование: Если в ОБ возникнет острая нехватка инженеров-строителей для возведения новых Аксиополисов, базовая ставка для этой профессии может быть временно повышена, чтобы стимулировать людей идти учиться и работать в этой сфере.
Этот подход заменяет субъективное решение комитета на объективную, многофакторную и прозрачную формулу.
Стабильность цен
Особое внимание уделяется ценообразованию на Товары Постоянного Потребления (ТПП), так как от их стоимости зависит расчет минимального дохода граждан. Система спроектирована так, чтобы рыночные механизмы самостоятельно регулировали цены. В случае сговора производителей и необоснованного повышения цен, снижение спроса со стороны населения быстро вернет цены к равновесному состоянию, так как первый же производитель, вернувший справедливую цену, получит конкурентное преимущество. Вмешательство Совета Министров для регуляции цен является крайней мерой и возможно лишь в случае системного кризиса, который в данной модели маловероятен.
Бюджеты
Бюджет в ОБ обладает свойством ступенчатой прозрачности, то есть, плательщик взносов (гражданин) имеет право видеть, как и на что тратятся его отчисления в бюджет. Бюджет в ОБ формируется по той же траектории, что избирательная система — от бюджета кластера через бюджет отрасли к бюджету ОБ. Соответственно, отчетность за бюджетные расходы производится в обратном направлении — от министров к плательщикам взносов. Таким образом, плательщик взносов (к нему относятся все члены кластера, находящиеся в ранге не ниже ученика) видит, как расходуют средства Советы депутатов, депутаты видят, как расходует средства Совет Регионов, точно также в экстерриториальной сфере. Бюджет системы безопасности в стране наполняется за счет сбора с пассивного капитала. Чем больше человек заработал и накопил, тем большие расходы он несет на защиту и охрану накопленного. Поэтому сумма сбора с пассивного капитала прямо пропорциональна накопленному. Бюджет системы дошкольного воспитания и школьного образования в стране формируется за счет образовательного взноса родителей детей соответствующих возрастов. Сумма образовательного взноса зависит от количества детей и затрат на содержание системы. Бюджет управления кластером и соответствующей отрасли, расходов на науку и специального образования наполняется за счет членских взносов участников кластера. Бюджет развития ЭК наполняется за счет общественных отчислений, полученных от хозяйствования кластера и прочих юрлиц, связанных с кластерами реализуемой продукцией.
Природные ресурсы и территории
Территория, временно занятая и управляемая ОБ, называется Новой Страной. Проектом ОБ подразумевается, что природные ресурсы, находящиеся на данной территории, не являются собственностью общества, но при этом могут быть использованы обществом в своих целях при соблюдении некоторых условий:
- Неисчерпаемые природные ресурсы (мир энергий фотонного потока и излучений космоса, тепла ядра планеты, магнитного и гравитационного полей, водных и воздушных потоков) должны со временем стать преимущественным источником всех видов энергии, используемых ОБ. Неисчерпаемые природные ресурсы могут использоваться без ограничений всеми членами ОБ для преобразования их в полезные виды энергии. Стартовая стоимость этих ресурсов является нулевой.
- Возобновляемые природные ресурсы (экосистема - животный и растительный мир, атмосфера, водные ресурсы, плодородная почва) должны возмещаться в полном объеме, создавая непрерывный цикл их потребления/восстановления. Источником возобновления являются как действия по возобновлению самой природы, так и действия ОБ, в случае создания им дисбаланса в пищевых цепочках природы. Источником финансирования для восстановления баланса является Фонд Защиты Природы, а источником наполнения Фонда являются поступления от юрлиц, использующих природные ресурсы указанного типа в своей хозяйственной деятельности, либо путем компенсации 25% их стоимости в Фонд, либо путем самостоятельной деятельностью по восстановлением. Каждый случай использования возобновляемых ресурсов в хозяйственной деятельности рассматривается экспертной комиссией ООН отдельно с вычислением объема или эквивалента стоимости компенсации, что и послужит базисом для вычисления стоимости самих ресурсов по формуле «стоимость ресурса» = 4 * «сумма компенсации».
- Невозобновляемые природные ресурсы (полезные ископаемые) должны использоваться обществом в тех разумных пределах, которые остро необходимы для его жизнедеятельности. Для расчета стоимости таких ресурсов на стадии становления ОБ, когда собственная их добыча еще не составляет весомого вклада в объемы мировой добычи, используются котировки сырьевых бирж старого мира. Собственная добыча таких природных ресурсов приравнивается к их находке и облагается 25% ресурсным сбором, отчисляемым в Фонд Развития Науки, в том числе с целевым назначением по разработке материалов, способных заменить использование невозобновляемых ресурсов на использование возобновляемых.
- Оценка стоимости природных ресурсов производится на основании действующих в цивилизации нормативов до тех пор, пока проект ОБ действует на ограниченной территории планете, и уценка до нуля в случае принятия проекта людьми всей планеты. Тем не менее, проектом рекомендовано считать нулевой базовую стоимость всех не добытых возобновляемых природных ресурсов.
Новая Страна находится под управлением ТК, высшим органом управления которых является Совет Регионов, который ведет электронный кадастр территорий, описывающий весь фонд территорий, управляемый ТК. Совет Регионов производит распределение всей территории страны по типам ее пользования между общинами, состоящими в отдельных ТК. Типами пользования являются: зоны проживания, зоны хозяйствования (с подтипами), зоны отдыха, зоны оздоровления, зоны охоты и рыбалки, заповедные зоны. Общины самостоятельно не имеют права изменять типы пользования территорий без изменений, принятых Советом Регионов. Например, берега естественного водоема, сам водоем или его часть, записанные в кадастре под типом «зона отдыха», не могут быть использованы как зоны проживания или хозяйствования. Однако, некоторые типы пользования могут быть прописаны одновременно, на усмотрение общин, к примеру, зона отдыха и/или зона рыбалки и/или зона оздоровления.
Собственность, ее типы и виды
The initial transition to the Economy of Trust (EoT) consists of taking a census of individuals and legal entities, assessing their declared property in the form of material, intellectual, and cultural values, entering this data into individual and legal entity accumulation clouds, and converting existing currencies into the EoT currency (tauro) in the operational accounts of individuals and legal entities. Currencies of other countries are considered to be backed by the goods of those countries. Inflationary costs of currencies held by individuals and legal entities are borne by the individuals and legal entities themselves; costs for currencies converted and transferred to the Society of the Future (SoF) for safekeeping are borne by the SoF as a whole. One of the tasks of the financial bodies of the Order of United Nations (OUN) is to balance the use of old currencies in such a way that old currencies held in accounts and as cash remain backed by the products of other countries until humanity's complete transition to the SoF, ensuring that the inflationary costs of holding old currency reserves are primarily borne by old-type countries. To this end, the SoF may purchase precious metals and minerals, antiques, cultural, and archaeological values from old-type countries using old currencies. A situation must not be allowed where old currency reserves held by the SoF exceed the value of the remaining products held by old countries. The complete transition of humanity to the EoT must be accompanied by a guarantee that the SoF's internal currency is backed by the gross mass of material and intellectual production at the SoF's disposal. A key condition for the transition to the EoT is its smooth and voluntary nature: 1. Voluntary declaration: The initial "census" and "assessment of declared... property" are a personal choice for every citizen or organization. 2. Incentive, not coercion: The credit limit for obtaining an interest-free car loan directly depends on the volume of declared assets (which form individual/legal entity accumulation clouds). The system does not punish for refusal but generously rewards participation. 3. Critical mass: The transition becomes economically inevitable (mandatory) only upon reaching a critical mass of participants, as we discussed, so as not to "feed the old system." The assessment of material assets is carried out considering their depreciation, based on a starting cost expressed in the labor expended on their production, equated to their market price from the outdated financial system. Goods produced in the SoF are valued only as labor costs, while raw materials (the material part) to which no labor has been applied are the property of the entire society — essentially free. If raw material is a natural resource located within the territory of the New Country, its initial cost is zero. Raw material extracted from nature acquires a value equivalent to the labor costs for its extraction plus the cost of consumables and the depreciation of the equipment necessary for extraction during the process. Raw materials or semi-finished products imported from other countries have a starting cost considered equivalent to the labor costs of foreigners for their production. Every Sunday at 3:00, all material assets are automatically revalued based on a natural aging and wear coefficient, or based on modernization or repair of the material asset that leads to an increase in its value. This allows for an automatic reduction of the previously issued money supply, bringing it into line with the total value of property owned by the SoF and preventing inflation (loss of value of a monetary unit due to an increase in the money supply). Virtual money (let's assume "tauro") is tied to the value of labor. 1 tauro is equivalent to 1 hour of hired labor, of medium difficulty, and the lowest qualification in the oldest and eternal profession (cook). Thus, tauro is not subject to inflation, as it is not tied to material values. Only labor costs (physical and intellectual) are subject to valuation; the material part is free, belonging to all residents of the country as a common resource. Money withdrawn from circulation and lying idle in electronic wallets is called toxic, and is therefore subject to a passive capital levy. To remove accumulated money from the effect of the passive capital levy, there are several ways to put it to more profitable use. One way to save money from depreciation is to transfer it to the Mutual Aid Fund, which serves as a targeted repository, not a "piggy bank for hidden savings." The Mutual Aid Fund accepts money for various purposes. Targeted deposits in the Mutual Aid Fund are for people who are afraid to take out loans, wishing to accumulate a certain amount by a certain deadline (targeted savings). The accumulated money can only be spent on the initially designated purpose, and early withdrawal from the Fund or spending for other purposes will lead to recalculation according to standard toxicity formulas. Another option for a targeted deposit is called insurance contributions, which help protect against unforeseen expenses related to insured events that typically occur unexpectedly. Another way that allows some people to create new businesses (usually medium or large) with new jobs, and others to put accumulated toxic money to use, is the creation of joint-stock companies for startups. Someone wishing to open a business for which they cannot raise funds independently, and whose assets do not allow them to obtain sufficient funds for business opening through credit, creates and proposes a startup. Through the Mutual Aid Fund, they gather shareholders who buy shares of the future business according to their contribution relative to the total amount. This creates a new asset, whose owners will be the fractional investors. In case of success, a business organized in this way begins to generate profit for shareholders in proportion to their invested shares. Funds invested in this manner can provide their owners with a stable income. A third, most logical way to put toxic money to use is to invest it in one's own business. A known and most common way to convert money into an asset not subject to depreciation in past societies was the purchase of real estate, antiques, cultural values, jewelry, and precious metals. In the New Country project, such use of free money in excessive quantities beyond a reasonable level is also a risky endeavor, as it falls under the luxury levy. Since the only way to issue money in the country is through the application of labor, the only way to finance public goods will be through contributions from generated money to public funds. The amount of contributions is determined by a progressive rate. The formula for calculating contributions is provided in the chapter "Added Value and Public Contributions". Tauro is freely convertible into major world currencies (which are continuously inflating, as is known), with reserves stored in the financial center's accounts. In addition to the procedure of depositing surplus funds into the Mutual Aid Fund to protect them from toxicity, there is also a procedure for capitalizing projects with free money under more favorable conditions for investors than simple depositing. Thus, a stock exchange is introduced into operation. The financial system is supported by a dedicated communication system and free mobile devices (if necessary) for access to it. Mobile applications, web applications, and applications for computer OS are available for existing devices. User identification for various tasks is multi-level. Identification options include chip, sensor, face, retinal scan, fingerprint, digital signature, PIN code, and password.
Money
An operational financial center is required for money transactions. Money in the New Country performs two important functions. On one hand, money is the equivalent of expended effort (or energy spent); on the other hand, money is a universal means of accounting for resources, funds, and assets available to society. The center for money issuance in the New Country project is all entities that habitually apply labor or perform work to produce material or intellectual products, and the monetary unit is the equivalent of expended effort (in kcal) per unit of time (hour) of a low-skilled worker. The norms of time and effort that generate one unit of money are subject to calculations and corrections effective throughout the country; calculations are provided by the Chamber of Weights and Measures, and corrections are handled by the Council of Ministers.
Labor Payment
The basis for determining time-based labor payment and social benefits is the formula 150 kcal/h*Ѧ*Ѡ, where the competence coefficient Ѧ(yus) and the quality coefficient Ѡ (fu) are used. Limits of acceptable quality of results are developed by the Councils of Industry Masters. The concept of quality is described in the chapter "Goods of Permanent Consumption." The competence coefficient is a test-confirmed degree of mastery in a craft. Productive labor performed using means of production that improve the speed, accuracy, and quality of products is assessed taking into account the energy expended by such means of production. Methodology for Establishing Basic Tariff Rates To objectively and fairly determine the value of an hour of labor for different professions, as well as to calculate social benefits, a multi-factor evaluation system is introduced. An authority, provisionally named the "Chamber of Weights and Measures," establishes the basic hourly rate for each profession based on a comprehensive assessment consisting of three main components: 1. Basic Energy Equivalent:
- Essence: Calculation of actual average energy consumption (in kcal/hour) for performing standard operations in a given profession.
- Rationale: This is an objective, scientific foundation that ties payment to physiology and the actual energy expenditure of the human body. Existing tables for physical labor will be supplemented with new studies on mental labor, initiated by the Order. This ensures basic fairness.
2. Complexity and Rarity Coefficient:
- Essence: A premium that considers the complexity and rarity of a profession.
- Rationale: This coefficient answers the question, "Why does a neurosurgeon earn more than a courier, even if their hourly energy expenditures are comparable?" Complexity is measured through:
- Duration and intensity of education: How many years a person had to study to gain admission to the profession.
- Complexity of skills: How many diverse knowledge and skills must be applied simultaneously.
- Level of responsibility and cost of error: The responsibility of an air traffic controller is higher than that of a librarian.
3. Market/Societal Coefficient (dynamic):
- Essence: An additional coefficient that can be adjusted by Industry Councils or the Order depending on the current needs of the Society of the Future.
- Rationale: If there is an acute shortage of construction engineers in the SoF for building new Axiopolises, the basic rate for this profession may be temporarily increased to incentivize people to study and work in this field.
This approach replaces a subjective committee decision with an objective, multi-factor, and transparent formula.
Price Stability
Special attention is paid to pricing for Goods of Constant Consumption (GCC), as the calculation of citizens' minimum income depends on their cost. The system is designed so that market mechanisms regulate prices independently. In the event of collusion among producers and unjustified price increases, a decrease in demand from the population will quickly return prices to an equilibrium state, as the first producer to restore a fair price will gain a competitive advantage. Intervention by the Council of Ministers to regulate prices is an extreme measure and is only possible in the event of a systemic crisis, which is unlikely in this model.
Budgets
The budget in the SoF possesses stepped transparency, meaning that the contributor (citizen) has the right to see how and on what their contributions to the budget are spent. The budget in the SoF is formed along the same trajectory as the electoral system — from the cluster budget, through the industry budget, to the SoF budget. Accordingly, accountability for budget expenditures is carried out in the reverse direction — from ministers to contributors. Thus, the contributor (this includes all cluster members not lower than the rank of apprentice) sees how the Councils of Deputies spend funds, deputies see how the Council of Regions spends funds, and similarly in the extraterritorial sphere. The country's security system budget is filled by the passive capital levy. The more a person has earned and accumulated, the greater the expenses they bear for the protection and safeguarding of what has been accumulated. Therefore, the amount of the passive capital levy is directly proportional to what has been accumulated. The country's preschool education and school education system budget is formed by the educational contribution of parents of children of corresponding ages. The amount of the educational contribution depends on the number of children and the costs of maintaining the system. The budget for cluster management and the corresponding industry, as well as expenditures on science and special education, is filled by membership fees from cluster participants. The EC development budget is filled by public contributions received from cluster economic activities and other legal entities associated with clusters through manufactured products.
Natural Resources and Territories
The territory temporarily occupied and managed by the SoF is called the New Country. The SoF project implies that natural resources located within this territory are not the property of society, but can be used by society for its own purposes under certain conditions:
- Inexhaustible natural resources (the world of energies from photon flux and cosmic radiation, heat from the planet's core, magnetic and gravitational fields, water and air currents) should eventually become the primary source of all types of energy used by the SoF. Inexhaustible natural resources can be used without restrictions by all SoF members for conversion into useful forms of energy. The initial cost of these resources is zero.
- Renewable natural resources (ecosystem - animal and plant world, atmosphere, water resources, fertile soil) must be fully replenished, creating a continuous cycle of their consumption/restoration. The source of renewal includes both nature's own restorative actions and the actions of the SoF, should it create an imbalance in nature's food chains. The funding source for restoring balance is the Nature Protection Fund, and the Fund is replenished by receipts from legal entities that use natural resources of this type in their economic activities, either by compensating 25% of their value to the Fund or by undertaking independent restoration activities. Each case of using renewable resources in economic activity is considered separately by an OUN expert commission, calculating the volume or equivalent value of compensation, which will serve as the basis for calculating the value of the resources themselves using the formula "resource value" = 4 * "compensation amount".
- Non-renewable natural resources (minerals) must be used by society within reasonable limits that are critically necessary for its vital activities. To calculate the cost of such resources during the SoF's formation stage, when its own extraction does not yet constitute a significant contribution to global extraction volumes, quotes from old world commodity exchanges are used. The SoF's own extraction of such natural resources is equated to their discovery and is subject to a 25% resource levy, which is allocated to the Science Development Fund, including for the specific purpose of developing materials capable of replacing the use of non-renewable resources with renewable ones.
- The valuation of natural resources is carried out based on existing civilization standards as long as the SoF project operates on a limited territory of the planet, and is reduced to zero if the project is adopted by people across the entire planet. Nevertheless, the project recommends considering the basic cost of all unextracted renewable natural resources as zero.
The New Country is managed by Territorial Clusters (TC), whose highest governing body is the Council of Regions, which maintains an electronic cadaster of territories, describing the entire fund of territories managed by the TCs. The Council of Regions distributes the entire territory of the country by types of use among communities belonging to individual TCs. Types of use include: residential zones, economic zones (with subtypes), recreational zones, health improvement zones, hunting and fishing zones, and protected areas. Communities do not have the right to independently change territory usage types without changes adopted by the Council of Regions. For example, the banks of a natural body of water, the body of water itself, or a part of it, recorded in the cadaster under the "recreational zone" type, cannot be used as residential or economic zones. However, some usage types can be simultaneously designated, at the discretion of the communities, for example, a recreational zone and/or a fishing zone and/or a health improvement zone.
Property, its Types and KindsProperty is defined as the right of undivided ownership of something. In the NE project, property has limitations related to the type of subject owning the property. Since the project initially provides for interactions between only two types of subjects, property is considered and divided into two types — subject's property and environment's property. Let us immediately clarify and put an end to the main question — no natural resources can be the property of either a human, an organization, a cluster, or humanity in general, as they are the property of a higher-order substance — earthly nature, adopted in the project as the supreme subject. This question in defining types of property is fundamental, just as in the NE project, considering the relationship between humans and nature as one between a guest and a host is fundamental. With corresponding rights. As long as humanity could not influence nature, it could calmly pride itself on its illusory status as the crown of creation, but since humanity acquired habits of exerting destructive influence on nature, the illusion of the status, dreamed of for thousands of years, began to materialize and pose a threat to the host. To reconcile the parties, one of which is capable of easily dealing with the impudent second, everything that belonged and belongs to the first party, from the launch of the NE project, ceases to be the subject of claims by the second party: everything created by nature belongs to nature, and only that which is the result of expended energy — be it work or labor, hired or creative, physical or intellectual — can be human property. That is, any material asset in the New Country project is the property of two parties: the material part remains the property of nature, and the invisible, energetic part — of humans. Further in the text, "material asset" will refer only to its invisible, virtual part, and "price and ownership rights" thereof will refer to the price and ownership of its invisible, virtual part, expressed by the direct energy costs and all its components invested in its extraction or production. The question of ownership of energy obtained from nature is resolved similarly — no energy obtained from nature (Sun, wind, water, combustion, oxidation, atomic decay, etc.) can be the property of subjects with a status lower than nature.
Thus, ownership of intellectual value (the product of creative mental work) is full and complete, while ownership of material value is only partial, pertaining to the intangible part inseparably linked to the material carrier, which is the property of the supreme subject. As for types of property, in the project they correspond to all types of subjects described in the project, that is, residents (private property), organizations or their founders (collective, distributed evenly or in any other way), clusters (cluster property), industries (industrial property), and if there are different countries in the project, also country-level (meaning public property).
Private Property
Private property in the project is considered the right of private ownership of the results of labor — either one's own or obtained through donation, acquisition, or barter. Such a right is acquired by recording a corresponding entry in the operating system's database during one of the following actions:
- legitimization of a material asset during the initial inventory of material assets upon installation of the New Country project, but no later than one year after the project's start;
- legitimization of a material asset extracted through applied labor in the environment or produced from raw materials or semi-finished products by its future owner;
- receiving a material asset as a gift;
- acquiring a material asset by exchanging it for money, or for another (or other) material asset(s), or as payment for labor.
To ensure greater reliability of private property, additional means of identifying material assets are provided, specifically their chipping. For real estate objects, as well as high-value stationary devices, the passport for the real estate or device is chipped, while for portable devices and means of transport, the devices themselves are chipped for identification. Furthermore, self-propelled transport is subject to mandatory equipping with means that transmit identifying remote signals. Thus, a change of owner of a chipped material asset, in addition to an entry in the database, is also accompanied by an update of the owner's information on the chip, which will avoid many known difficulties both with finding suddenly disappeared material assets and with identifying suddenly found ones.
Collective Property
It has all the same characteristics as private property, except one — ownership rights and records thereof are proportionally distributed among the members of the collective of owners, being parts of a single right. Since collective property is the prerogative of organizations, the transfer of collective property rights is resolved in accordance with the Rules described by the respective organizations.
Subjects Possessing Property Rights
We distinguish the following types of subjects in relation to private property:
- individual — a subject with a unique human identifier (UHI), possessing ownership rights over any type of private property (material or intellectual value), transferring it to other legal entities and individuals by donation, and receiving it as a purchase, gift, or payment for personal labor.
- legal entity — a subject with a unique legal identifier (UJI), possessing ownership rights over any type of private property (material or intellectual value), transferring it to other legal entities and individuals by sale, and receiving it as a purchase.
Legal entities, in turn, can be composite, consisting of individuals in various forms of relationships — family, friendly, labor, etc. This is very important for determining the basis for public deductions and resolving issues of avoiding payment of public deductions and fees.
Transfer of Property Rights
Transfer of property rights means a change in the owner of a material asset. A change of owner of a material asset without monetary compensation is called a donation; with compensation — a sale. A bilateral transfer of property, where owners exchange material assets, is called barter. Thus, the pairs of transaction counterparties are distinguished — Donor and Recipient, Seller and Buyer. In the case of barter, both parties are Sellers and Buyers. The fact of property transfer between counterparties is registered in the OS by the Donor/Seller specifying the new owner — Recipient/Buyer by their UHI/UJI — for the selected material asset (or group of material assets). In the case of a sale, the transaction is additionally accompanied by payment either through a transfer between the counterparties' operational accounts, or by withdrawing money from the Buyer's card, linked to the OS for individuals/legal entities (OSFIL/OSFLE) via a terminal.
Material Asset Statuses
Material assets, from the perspective of public deductions and wear and tear, can have various statuses:
- raw material — a material asset obtained by the formula "labor", which is a material for manufacturing a semi-finished product or a final product;
- semi-finished product — a material asset obtained by the formula "raw material + labor", which is an integral part of a product during its production (assembly);
- product — a material asset obtained by the formulas "raw material + labor" or "semi-finished product + labor", which is a final product ready for use.
At the same time, both raw materials and semi-finished products can be considered as final products in certain situations. In order for all three statuses to be usable when constructing a mathematical model of public deductions and wear and tear, additional parameters must be introduced:
- shelf life. Takes a value from 0 to ∞. This period shows how long a material asset can be stored;
- period until complete wear. Takes a value from 0 to ∞;
- wear acceleration. Some material assets have the property of deteriorating with a certain acceleration. An acceleration value of 1 indicates no acceleration, values between 0 and 1 indicate a deceleration of wear over time, and values above 1 indicate an increase in wear rate over time.
- value loss coefficient upon opening. Indicates the percentage of material asset value loss if the original packaging is opened. Takes a value from 0% to 100%.
- manufacturing date. Indicates the date from which the shelf life begins.
- realization date. Indicates the date from which wear and tear may begin.
- unpacking date. Indicates the date from which the original packaging of the material asset is considered opened.
Added Value and Public Deductions
From the perspective of the public deductions system, individuals and legal entities are distinguished. An individual is considered the ultimate recipient of payment for labor. Any amount received in a wallet from another wallet forms the basis for public deductions. A legal entity is considered the recipient of payment for a material asset (Seller), which is formalized by the fact of transferring the material asset to the payer (Buyer), as described in the "Transfer of Property Rights" section. A material asset can have various statuses. During the transfer of property rights, several options arise for the relationship between the value of the material asset and the amount transferred for it from the Buyer to the Seller:
- The sale price of the material asset is higher than its residual value. In this situation, added value and a basis for public deductions arise, constituting the difference between the sale price of the material asset and its residual value;
- The sale price of the material asset is equal to or lower than its residual value. In this situation, there is no added value, and no basis for public deductions arises.
Public deductions are categorized as central (going directly to the country's central budgets), industry-specific, and cluster-specific.
Public Deductions
Go to all expenditure items in the country not listed above. Namely:
- policy fund
- diplomacy fund
- jurisprudence fund
- statistics fund
- management automation fund
- science fund
- education fund
- and others.
Public deduction, along with deductions for the development of clusters and industries, is made in all situations where a basis for public deductions arises. The deduction amount is calculated using the following progressive formula:
- at the moment a basis for public deductions arises, a total of 10% of its amount is deducted from the wallet where it arose, to the wallets of clusters and the Public Fund of the country;
- if the amount of the basis for public deductions in a wallet for a weekly period between two consecutive depreciation periods exceeded XXX tauro, an additional 1% of the total amount for that period is deducted;
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Passive Capital Levy
Used for the maintenance of the country's security system (Emergency Services, Guard, Law Enforcement, Security Service, Armed Forces). The levy amount is calculated weekly (on the last day of the depreciation period) and is determined by summing all expenses incurred for the maintenance of the security system over the past week. The amount thus calculated is divided by the total value of all material assets subject to this levy, owned by individuals and legal entities, at the end of the depreciation period. This calculates the percentage of deductions from owning material assets subject to the levy. Such assets include all assets whose residual value at the time of levy calculation exceeds XXX tauro. To the amount obtained is added the sum of toxic accumulations held by able-bodied individuals. A toxic amount is considered to be one that exceeds the total consumer basket for 3 months for the specified individual and all disabled individuals dependent on them. The levy is automatically collected from the OS for individuals of all payers.
Luxury Tax
Used both for the maintenance of the country's security system (Emergency Services, Guard, Law Enforcement, Security Service, Armed Forces) and for replenishing Mutual Aid Funds. The levy amount is calculated weekly and is determined from the total value of all declared luxury items exceeding the calculated socially acceptable comfort level for the location of the luxury items. The luxury tax constitutes 1/260 of the calculated amount. Undeclared material assets, transferred to the status of "memorial items subject to inheritance," are exempt from the luxury tax. Upon an attempt to alienate undeclared material assets or those transferred to the "memorial items" status, an obligation to pay the luxury tax arises, calculated either from the moment of initial inventory of material assets upon installation of the NE project, or from the moment the material asset was transferred to the "memorial item" status. The levy is automatically collected from the personal wallet of all payers.
Educational Contribution
Used for the maintenance of the preschool education and school education system in the country. The educational contribution to the preschool education fund is deducted for each preschool-aged child who has reached 1 year, and to the school education fund for each child aged X-XX years. The educational contribution is deducted from the personal wallets of the child's close relatives by mutual agreement. The calculation of the Educational Contribution is performed using the formulas "costs for preschool education divided by the number of preschoolers in the country for the past week" and "costs for school education divided by the number of schoolchildren in the country for the past week." As the educational contribution creates an additional burden on the family budget, the parents' total income for the normal upkeep of a child must be at least 3 "subsistence minimums" if both parents or guardians are alive. Any relatives of the child can also take on the role of guardian. It is important that an additional subsistence minimum appears in the family account every week. In the event that parents or guardians are unable to materially support their child, the guardianship service has the right to remove the child from the family for upbringing in a boarding school upon reaching the age of 1 year.
Guardianship Levy
Used within ancestral clusters, acting as an analogue to child support payments made by one or both parents for the upkeep of their own child, in case of refusal to voluntarily participate in their provision. The amount of the guardianship levy for a child who is a member of a cluster can be set by the Clan Council (Council of Deputies of the ancestral cluster) without court involvement, but cannot exceed XX% of the income of the child's "non-resident" parent who refuses to participate in the activities of the ancestral cluster. If confirmation of blood relationship between the "non-resident" parent and the attributed child is necessary, a genetic examination is conducted at the request of the ancestral cluster. The guardianship levy is automatically collected from the "non-resident" parent's wallet every week.
Cluster Membership Fee
Goes to the development of sciences related to the cluster and industry, the maintenance of specialized education, and expenses for managing the cluster and the superior industry. The membership fee is collected from each cluster participant who has reached a level no lower than Apprentice within the cluster. Novices are not charged membership fees. The amount of the cluster membership fee is calculated using the formula "costs for science development, specialized education, and cluster management divided by the number of cluster participants for the past week."
Transport (Infrastructure) Levy
Consists of a central levy, going to intercity infrastructures, and a local cluster levy. Goes to the maintenance of transport infrastructures. Partially included in the cost of travel tickets, partially in fuel, partially collected from every citizen, as all citizens, in one way or another, use either private or public transport, or bicycle or pedestrian paths, as well as stations and information services. The levies form funds for the maintenance and development of infrastructures. The calculation of the levy amount is performed using the following formula ?????
Amenity Levies
Is a spontaneous collection of funds in the TC after a referendum in the cluster on the necessity of certain investments in the improvement of public spaces, historical and cultural sites, monuments, etc. It can take the form of an equal share contribution from all cluster participants, or a collection of donations, or a mixed type.
Insurance Contributions
Healthcare and social programs. The minimum package consists of a mandatory contribution for the maintenance of the emergency medical service.
Cluster Excise Duty
To replenish the budget of the country or individual clusters, existing levies may be insufficient at certain periods, therefore, it is allowed to additionally tax the most popular and demanded non-essential goods with special excise duties. Excise duties are a dynamic value, changing depending on the clusters of circulation — the less popular the cluster, the lower the excise duties within it. This type of levy is supplementary to public deductions and is used for the same purposes. Forced redistribution of budgets between clusters and industries, in cases where it is necessary to immediately and primarily develop any of them, is handled by Ministers and the Prime Minister, respectively.
Consumable Goods (CG)
In the project, consumable goods refer to all types of goods available in retail and wholesale networks. Newly invented types of goods, about which nothing is currently known to anyone except a narrow circle of people (for example, a Space Suit for walks on Saturn's rings), belong to a different category.
Quality of Goods
The quality of goods is a property that determines the value of labor efforts invested in the production of the goods, which directly affects the final cost of the goods. The approach to setting permissible quality standards in each group of goods, and sometimes even in specific types of goods, is individual and is developed by the Councils of Masters of the industries.
Industrial Goods
The group of industrial goods produced in the country must include a complete set of devices necessary for daily life and leisure, which must meet the following requirements:
- versatility
- flawless performance of their functions
- high reliability
- long warranty period (from 3 years)
- long service life (from 10 years)
- availability of individual design
These requirements are implemented through the deployment of:
- modern high-tech productions manufacturing high-quality universal and specialized components and assemblies with a long service life across a wide range of climatic conditions, in order to ensure rapid large-block assembly of the device's "filling" according to any consumer's needs;
- assembly enterprises, similar to tuning factories, producing detachable parts from simple to the most exquisite designs, allowing for individual "client-specific" finishing.
The output of production should be a product line with standard designs of all the most demanded sizes and capacities, supplied to the retail network, and a catalog of all available sizes, capacities, and designs for custom assembly. For example, what a line of household refrigerators would look like. The following components are used for assembling the refrigerator's interior — a thermo-insulated box in the form of a parallelepiped with hinged thermo-insulated doors, a compressor, a heat exchange piping system, a ventilation system, a programmable control electronic unit, shelves, compartments. Accordingly, the distribution of production:1. workshop for producing cabinets with doors of all possible sizes, with a certain step increment; 2. factory producing compressors capable of serving cabinets of specified volumes; 3. workshop for producing heat exchangers for specified types of compressors and standard cabinet sizes; 4. workshop for producing fans; 5. factory for producing programmable control devices; 6. acrylic casting workshop; 7. workshop for producing glass products; 8. other factories and workshops producing wiring, buttons, fasteners, etc.; 9. workshop for producing external panels, providing the refrigerator's exterior design; 10. assembly and packaging workshops, which also implies the production of shock-absorbing foam inserts, corrugated packaging, printed materials, etc.
Another example. The same approach is used in the production of passenger cars, but the possibility of choosing a body type on the same base is added — sedan, short hatchback, long hatchback, station wagon, pickup, combi, etc. This approach achieves the principle of versatility with an individualized approach to the customer. The customer should have a choice between a cheaper standard and individuality, with a certain markup, when selecting a product of any category.
Living Optimum
The amount sufficient to satisfy all basic needs of an average citizen of the OB is called the Living Optimum (LO). The LO is calculated based on the annual consumption of Essential Goods (EG), by determining the average weekly living expense (AWLE) of one adult. Based on the consumer basket and its cost, derived from established prices for EG, the Standards Service calculates and determines the LO amount for different categories of individuals using the formula LO = k * AWLE, where k is the family coefficient, which can range from 1 to 3, depending on the number of family members. The LO calculated in this way is subsequently used as the minimum weekly income for individuals, not subject to most public contributions. Thus, any citizen of the OB who does not require above-average income can engage in any craft activity without thinking about public contributions, and receive sums within the LO limit into their operational account as material assistance, even if they are engaged in collecting and selling mushrooms.
Side Effects of ED
I want to reveal some more secrets of ED that pose a threat to the current world order. ED contains:
- Mechanism of rapid saturation. It consists in the fact that the more property one owns, the more one can borrow. Buying an apartment provides funds to buy a car; buying a car, you can buy a motorcycle; buying a motorcycle, you can buy a computer, refrigerator, TV, etc.
- A mechanism-stimulus to buy products with the longest possible service life (super reliable, super high-quality), so that they retain their value as long as possible, ensuring even an average income is sufficient to repay the loan.
- Consequence of the 2nd – a mechanism-stimulus to produce maximally high-quality and durable products, based on demand for precisely such products.
- Consequence of the previous three. All the listed mechanisms severely curb the mania of consumption, because "getting rich" by ensuring maximum comfort in one's life and logistics becomes quite simple. This means that two natural mechanisms that generate a lot of trouble, up to and including wars – greed and envy – also come under severe attack.
- In a scenario where all products are very reliable, high-quality, and long-lasting, a problem arises related to the need to change the decor in one's home (monotony bores and irritates many). Thus, the demand for customization naturally grows, generating new creative types of jobs – customizing household items (furniture, home appliances). This also means that the production of household items will gradually tend towards unification, with gradation by volume/power and choice of functionality, and a set of several most in-demand standard designs.
Probable Risks of Inflation
If we assume that producers simultaneously significantly raise prices for most Essential Goods (EG), the situation may enter a crisis for some time – the purchasing power of the population will decrease, and there will be a desire to devalue the currency by carrying out emission from the financial system. However, when modeling such a situation, it is not difficult to conclude that with a decrease in EG consumption, producers will gain nothing from raising prices. Therefore, whoever is the first (the most cunning) to return the price to its original level will immediately receive a large jump in income, and the price situation will return to normal, without necessitating top-down price regulation from the Council of Ministers.