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Intro (Creation Capital) Investment Vehicles
Creation Capital is about focused investing on development of business ideas and the elements of successful business, especially people, who are able to maintain them and keep them in perpetually improving and self-sustaining condition.
In an environment such as the US, where some 2/3rds of people aspire to have their own business, and only a fraction of these try, and many fail their first attempt, it is clear a mammoth human potential is wasted and money channeled to a privaleged few, reinforcing social, political, and economic conceptions that reflect a long standing bias against the belief in common peoples ability to ascend to greatness...as if it were either a genetic predisposition, divine judgement, or dumb luck for only a few to be successful.
Despite the premise that anyone can succeed in westerndom, much of the systems that function in service to our society do not live by the notion that all people have great potential...the unconscious implication has the consequence that some (those precious few) are the natural inheritors of the spoils of civilization, the natural aristocracy...and the rest just didn't try hard enough or would never have succeeded anyway.
This existing condition characteristizes the stark contrast between mindsets of fatalism and optimism, as in choice and fate.
Social Capitalism, upon which Shared-Profits are based, and which make a Commonwealth system possible, is about choosing to cultivating human excellence, rather than hoping that it is already there in a few "special" people, or that simply monetizing rewards is sufficient to finding the best people or the best in people.
That is a primitive approach.
Do people become police officers, soldiers, doctors, public defenders, entertainers, writers, engineers, or any other of the countless satisfying and fulfilling life-roles....just for money? for a bigger house ? for a luxurious car?
Motivations are multitude, with money and material well being only a single factor for most people.
The immaterial realm offers far more in the ways of motivating people.
Which is why Social Capitalism focuses both on exploring and on developing human potentials, in individuals, groups, and whole communities.
And it succeeds by making the success of those it helps..it's own.
We profit each time we succeed in helping someone or some community reach a goal.
Our commonwealth cannot make customers that don't want failed products or services magically show up with disposable cash to spend on them...but by developing the business, through the process of failure and continuing investing IN THE PEOPLE and not any particular idea to which the business may have commited itself to, the vestiges of failure are minimized and the investments can be recouped with follow up successes.
After all the purpose of a business is to make money....not selling cars or planes or soap or cell phones...but to make money...getting more than you put in.
So if a group of people with a product that is not selling, operate under darwinian rules, then they are SOL, they lose their jobs and if they are lucky someone else will hire them.
Perhaps their children will make a better effort of it, when they grow up.
SoCap says, use their talents to different effect, and change the products and services as many times and in as many ways as neccesary until something does sell, otherwise have them utilize their newfound wisdom and insights in helping someone else with a better idea, especially to make fewer mistakes, CONTINUING to invest in those who failed, assisting them in finding new avenues of making a successful business, allowing them to experiment with opportunities for their own exceptional outcomes....in other words, if at first you don't succeed.....try and try again.
Not doing this wastes the wisdom gained in the failed ventures.
The goal of SoCap is success, fulfillment, and excellence for individuals and their communities alike...which include all their exploits, personal and professional.
In our conception of the just and the sound, business (exists) to serve the community, [never] the other way around.
From an immaterial viewpoint, more effective approaches to running business make themselves evident.
1) Collectives.
Joining non-competing businesses to share resources (employees included) so as to minimize waste in processes.
Why have just 10 employees when you can draw from a pool of hundreds or thousands as needed.
Extra Cars, extra supplies, extra space, etc...all these can be quickly utilized by those needing them in another enterprise that is a part of the collective....rather than never utilizing them to their utmost potential...and this is a great example of how focusing on helping people first and foremost can result in making better and more efficient use of the material expressions, for purposes that any one person, community, or enterprise might never even consider.
2.) Multiple Skill-sets per person.
Development of talents beyond any one task or task group...areas of activity that may have nothing to do with one another....security guard/lab technician.... telemarketer/programmer ....welder/accountant ....transporter/painter/engineer/exec-prez .....so as to have multiple back-ups...rather than being dependent on finding new employees when an experienced employee leaves...thus encouraging the idea among the employed that there are always more opportunities than the one that drew them to the particular job, and that the more they learn the more opportunities they will have towards their fulfillment, WITHIN the organization.
It is also a way of letting people blow off steam doing something else unrelated to their specialty, while allowing for another person that replaces the burn out to try their hand at something they may have an interest in, or an opportunity to try several people at a the task to see if there are hidden abilities/gifts among the volunteers or those who's qualities are not well known.
In the context of collectives it is also a way of attracting partners....that may need backups for their own operations or who are exploring potential expansions or changes to their operations which would benefit from particular skill sets available in the wooing enterprise.
3). Fluid identity and role mobility.
Allowing people to move freely laterally and heirarchically, and investing in their potentials and not just immediately useable skills.
People who think they need to quit in order do something more fulfilling or rewarding waste resources and betray the long-term myopia of creating jobs like we create widgets : to order.
People are not things, their value will always exceed that of the things they create or the jobs they perform, therefore they are a far better investment than any THING.
You can always teach someone something new, you can always find a new path with people that don't see themselves in terms of a fixed role...a position...but a thing is just a thing and it will always be limited.
Given the opportunity to continue development, within organizations they are already familiar with, their confidence will grow along with their knowledge, skills, and roles that they seek, and for which they are called upon to fill....in excess of the original hire....cultivating a new habit of people staying with the same company but doing dozens of different kinds of jobs, and as this becomes the norm, a superior model for retention and motivation for the life of a company is made real.
4). Free (fully subsidized) unlimited learning.
Continuous personal development (in the context of an environment of free mobility) means people always have options within an enterprise and have the ability to endlessly revitalize an enterprise.
Fresh perspectives from the outside will always have their allure and occassionally, will be a necessity, but most development can come from internal developments, if the people feel like they have a voice and a means of expressing it.....the learning of the expression is what is missing in most enterprises...generally, it is simply a repetitiousness of rote work that changes from above...which also makes it easier to run circles around most established enterprises, by upstarts who are, by neccesity, learning organizations.
Where is the sense in spending months to years teaching someone something that may be obsolescent by the time they complete their studies. That may be why some don't bother, but that misses the point....learning is critical to being able to see new vistas and to view the existing order in new ways.
It is far better to have people learn continuesly "on the job", the theoretical-academic, the immediately utilitarian, as well as using a multitude of playful applications, all together as part of the job not something separate from it.
So the way we think about learning must change along with these systems of learning we have tended to see in a narrow way..
5). Play and celebrations.
Outlets for creative expression throughout a persons employment offers chances to show things that may have been unnoticed...untapped potentials...in addition to providing stress relief and social contact that strengthens the communities commitment to one another, both the outer community where the enterprise operates as well as the internal community of the employees.
And in the context of the aforementioned learning, it is an opportunity to discover path breaking and exciting new approaches and aims within a safe and and affirming space, one where people don't think as judgementally about which ideas and approaches expressed are desireable for the enterprise.
6). Moral entraining.
Development of, and engagement in, philanthropic and charitable activities roots people in moral consciousness and conscientiousness.
Doing right by others helps to center all involved, whether "exec" or "worker" in doing right by one another.
Less moral hazards mean fewer business snafu's.....think in terms of what the limitless greed of wall street has wrought the US, and potentially the world....people without limits are people who will not limit the damage they do to others.
7). Material and Immaterial support for experiment.
How will we ever know how many einsteins are unseen and unrealized, if we only see those who succeed by their own ingenuity or by the luck of others attentions.
Trully knowing what a person is capable of is only possible through the exploration of a persons interests and limitations, which is no mere test to be taken, no simple academic exercise....risk and indulgence is necessary...the risk of dissappointment and the indulgence in peoples wacky and unfinished ideas and unrefined passions.
Some great ideas make it from the garage or from a hobby into something monetized/fulfilled...others remain forever a doodle on a napkin...because some people are regarded as bankable while most others are simply thought to be "insufficiently motivated" or lazy, "insufficiently abled" or incompetent, or "insufficiently ready" or immature.......ever wonder what would happen if these preceived circumstances were seen as opportunities to help, rather than reasons to deny support?
When each persons dreams become a community affair...one of supporting the individuals dreams...it is a fundamental human validation of worth and value, and it becomes that much more certain that a person who is validated by a community will strive to help that community realize its goals, and do the utmost that he or she is capable of.
8). People of excellence.
SoCap sees those who are among the highest achieving, as morally bound, to share their strengths and wisdom in the uplifting of humanity, and supporting the realization of ALL peoples potentials.
In other words what most call executives and specialists are generally to be guides, mentors, and teachers.
This in addition to their "special" roles.
The excellent people of creation are best thought of as advantaged, but not superior, superiority in the context of human civilization is a choice, and a conscious effort to exert beyond expectations of what others believe necessary or possible, to tred where others fear to tread, or do not even know is possible to tread.
Most abilities can be learned to a far higher level than most people are given support to pursue, and once the presumption of natural superiority is discredited through successive waves of "ordinary" people achieving the extraordinary, the improvement in morale will elevate peoples performance in all that they do.
Sharing ones excellence does not cripple it, or reduce its quantity or quality, as if emptying a sachtel of water, it is not a zero-sum act where the excellent gives away his or her excellence to a noob.
9). Support BY, AND Engagement WITH the Community.
People want to make a meaningful and valued contribution to their world....and the shared-profits that make up the commonwealths will provide opportunities for the people of the serviced localities to become partners integrated in the whole process of development of these companies' offerings.
Encouraged to play, experiment with, test, and continously offer their contributions in all manner to their operations, to provide a powerful antidote to products and services that flop....a rigoruous regimen of refinement in the modeling of business from the ground up.....in other words companies emerge and are maintained in synch with how people actually use products and services and why they do so, Guaranteeing successful companies, not hoping for them.
Chance is not an option.
These 9 are merely a start point for thinking about how the immaterial realm needs to be developed,
The Commonwealth and the Festival are expressions of the many other small and large ways that people can feel a greater sense of empowerment and fulfillment.
OUR Application of Creation Capital.....
The ultimate validation of the Commonwealth System can only come by it proving its value especially in being able to solve a problem or problems that are not being solved by the existing order, or simply doing so in a significantly better way....faster, less resources, greater quality in result, etc..
So we have decided to solve the problems of mass unemployment...and not the misleading 10 percent cited, but the much larger of 17+ percent that takes into account those who have given up (just in the US).
The Seattle Commonwealth and The Commonwealth for Human Ideals will do far more than this, it is the prospect of continued economic malaise, if not future declines, that is the most consistent global and local worry, so it is here where we will prove ourselves.
SSF will generate massive collectives comprising hundreds to thousands of medium to large sized shared-profit businesses (initial investments of 1 million up to 250 million dollars each) and will desginate the NPC (non-profit and civic) repayment through obligation to SSF, and from SSF to investors.
Each collective will be a 50 Billion Dollar creation.
There will be 4 types
The first will be an obligated collective, with obligated shared-profits...repaying principal and interest invested, and only afterward performing its key function which will be to fund the GLOBAL commonwealths (CHI's) projects, through its NPC.
However 10 percent of the initial investment will go to creating the LOCAL commonwealth and developing it's projects immediately....also paying off SSF funding partners for their investment.
And 10 percent of the initial investment will go to funding C-Systems.
100 percent of ownership goes to the creators of each SP, AFTER debt repayment, though a 30 year NPC is required.
This is a handy way to motivate people....anyone can become a millionaire or even a billionaire, if they put enough thought and ingenuity into making a lasting and compelling business.
The second will be an independent collective, which will be funded by HNWI's (high net worth individuals) and Foundations who wish to establish a perpetual source of funding for particular social and charitable causes they believe in (which are not our own : unrelated to SSF, SC, CHI, or any C-Systems project).
A life-long rather than short-term contribution to a cause they hold dear will be the simple motivation...why invest 100 times during your life when you can invest once and achieve more in the process..........they are non-indebted shared-profits and so they can begin disbursing their NPC obligation immediately....the 50 percent of their gross-profits required of their SP status.
Half shares can be disbursed to the investors who can recoup their investment in that fashion, or 50%+ of shares can be kept by the collectives for raising funds later, with up to 30% used as compensation for the creators of the enterprises.
20% of independent collectives will be owned by C-Systems with an obligation to sell its share into the market within 5 years (100 percent of stake).......ALL of these moneys will fund the Seattle Commonwealths Projects, AND repay the funding partners....if this type of collective makes its debut first.
The Third will be a government collective, specifically for the benefit of the Washington State Government
and the City of Seattle.
A means of transforming the city into a Tax-Free zone, increasing business, while maintaining the tax obligation that would otherwise materialize from Seattle to feed the State Budget.
After debt repayment this collective will perpetually pay out to city budget and the state on a 70-30 basis.
In the aftermath of repayment the State will have assets worth in excess of the original investment in addition to a stable and self-generating source of funds.
The Fourth will be a Celebritizen Collective, which will benefit the causes of the Celebrities who participate in promoting our festival...both within the general festivities and in the context of a festival promotional, both stateside and global.
These SP's will remain in the collective until debt repayment, after which the partners will have the option of separating if they wish.
SELF-SUSTAINING operations
The collectives create an environment which attracts talented people to the area, making the quality of life for the people of the area far greater than what they would expect to have based on government programs or existing social and charitable organizations.....with more entertaiment, greater personal expression, more meaningful rather than money based social connections and relationships, etc..
They also generate future employees who see the benefits of our type of system, coming to understand through experience rather than vacuous marketing that we care about people and want to help them succeed in lifes endeavours, resulting in more motivated and better performing employees.
Material and Immaterial, wealth begets wealth begets wealth......ad infinitum.
We intend.....
10 Obligated Collectives (US primarily NW-Greater Seattle Area)
10 Independent Collectives (US all over)
1 Government Collective (Sea/WA)
1 Celebritizen Collective (Global Option, though primarly US-European)
Subtotal $ 1,100,000,000,000 Dollars / 1.1 Trillion
IF we fill out investment lots quickly AND receive EU and ASIAN backing, then we will follow up with...
10 Obligated Collectives (European)
5 Obligated Collectives (Asian)
10 Independent Collectives (European)
5 Independent Collectives (Asian)
{Independents in Europe and Asia will fund Commonwealths that are Local rather than SC or CHI
and likewise the obligated will fund local varieties of festivals, and C-Systems subsidiaries}
Subtotal $ 1,500,000,000,000 Dollars / 1.5 Trillion
Once the Collectives are functioning they will receive further investment capital....commercial paper...short term investments per product or service campaign, to bankroll their growth.
And this will be done through a resurrected Washington Mutual Banking Company.
We will make WaMu's re-constitution a reallity because it is yet another way by which we will raise money for our commonwealth system and C-Systems...so we will link this institution to the banking operations of ALL commonwealths we create, so as to drive the sale price of a portion of the shares of WaMu higher, giving our commonwealth more financial oomph, and making it a political expediency to facilitate the re-genesis of this financial, in order to stimulate mass job creation....
C-Systems will maintain majority shares in WaMu.
We will leverage the totality of our commonwealth assets and that of C-Systems and combine the value of these with joint investing by small investors (the laymen) in raising the requisite funds to make a dependable source of commercial paper throughout the 30 year NPC of the obligated and independent collectives, and through debt repayment of the Celebritizen and Government Collectives.
And to secure the stability of this system we will establish an independent trading and investment market that operates on a not-for-profit basis, creating the one thing capitalism cannot reliably survive without, which is competition, the very thing which is lacking in the US market, with Wall Street Establishmentality being preeminant.
