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Creation Capital (Intro) Investment Vehicles
The End, of the era of Material Capitalism has come, and it is here in Seattle that the transformation from what has been, to what is to be, will make its debut.
It is Social Capitalism, that will emerge, changing the business enterprise forever.
It will be expressed in the forging of the Civic Commonwealth System, in both local and global models
deployed for the task of solving both the problem of systemic economic instabilities and to harness fantastic human potentials that the current system slowly, sparingly, and stingingly explores and develops by pursuing the material at the expense of the immaterial...human thoughts, feelings, ideals, and beliefs which define much of what humanity sustains its sense of self with.
The material has been a very helpful tool, it has helped us focus on value, seeking it out, developing it, and
capitalizing on it.
No doubt that without it our world would be poorer in most ways.
But everything has its season, and the materialistic has reached a point where the insatiable and unsustainable
reach for more has corrupted good reason, good conscience, and good conduct.
These commonwealths will establish THE standard of civic and economic conduct, rapidly bringing into being new businesses, in great multitudes, and determining to a large degree which enterprises will be a success,
throughout the world.
Our commonwealth system is a CREATION CAPITAL engine, that is a system of business creation in which the individual develops the tools to serve the community, and the community develops the tools to serve the individual, simultaneously, with business acting as the source of funding each, and in turn being developed by both, which it serves, rather than expecting to be served by.
The commonwealth integrates aspirations and needs, without choosing between the two, in gathering ideas and people, refining both, and matching them up, to found the systems, skill-sets, and developing the resources necessary for the long term success of each enterprise, be it personal or professional, public or private.
This is in stark contrast to angel and venture capital investments, which place bets on the prospects a business will succeed, hoping that a lucky bet on someone that seems to know what they are doing is correct and that those supported will tend to make good business decisions, for a long time to come.
While ignoring the human consequences of either success or failure, unless it serves to further profit the investor.
That is how corrupt practices become normalized and quick-fix strategies end up causing the next bout of failures.
With Venture Capital, as is the case in much of the existing Material Capitalist order, systems operate on the Darwinian ethic, as the most sound approach to attain success.....which is how a VC can justify investing in 20 enterprises and seeing only 1 succeed (a good return on investment :O).
To us, letting "nature" take its course, is foolish and incredibly wasteful of the potentials of the enterprise, the people who populate it, and the community that must deal with the fallout of both, always being at the mercy of gamblers and dumb luck.
Investing in the people rather than the enterprise, THROUGH the inevitable mistakes, errors, and failures, that result in discovery and enlightenment, is how we set the foundation for many future successes.
For us, investing in 20 means seeing 20 succeed, chance has nothing to do with it, gambling is for venture capitalists.
Darwin was an insightful scientist and his observations of nature have unfortunately given excuse to multitudes to model their systems and ideas, on natures raw and unbridled indifference to anything that doesn't directly promote survival.....applying these primal approaches in a multitude of human endeavors and in how we relate to one another.
The thing is that life itself, as is the case for our economic system, is based on far more than survival, no one needs a luxury car to survive, or a 3 course meal, twinkies, ipods, leather jackets, palatial estates, personal massages, or any other of the multitude of things we indulge in, to delight our senses and fulfill greater and deeper desires than mere survival.
Also if you think about it, the logic of using darwinian modeling in shaping human enterprises is ludicrously non-sensical, as the measures of human evolution themselves occur in thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands and millions of years, which is how long progress takes when the majority of a species life is spent fending for its existence, rather than enjoying the luxury of time and resources beyond those necessary to make it through tomorrow......ask yourself, when is the last time someone made an investment in a company for the next 50,000 years ? Who would wait 700 years for progress with an investment?
You could point to snails or bacteria or apes for more rapid development models, but we are none of these things, we are humans, a social animal that has evolved as much WITHIN our social nature as we have physically in response to the mass of nature around us, and that doesn't even touch upon our scientific and intellectual transformations in the last couple of centuries, which have eclipsed natures own capacities.
We can make life and unmake it, at our whim, nature is a guide but not a master or mistress any longer.
Our current generation of western civilization is witness to the creation of a global system where competition over an idea can come from anywhere at anytime with no warning, a system where companies and whole industries may disappear or be completely remolded in less than one human generation, so thinking in terms of darwinian process is not either a realistic or helpful way to structure our civilization or its social and economic creations.
When a parent wishes their child to succeed, they don't send them into the world unprepared simply hoping for the best, crossing their fingers...if they did then survival of the fittest would be a sure way to see most of these children extinct, much like the 20 enterprises being reduced to 1 in a "successful" venture capital play.
Instead, the parents invest in schooling, try to impart personal wisdoms, provide a source of moral, psychological, and material support in endeavors, and even with all that, those best and most consistently supported will not necessarily lead to any kind of success without cultivation of relationships with those people and organizations which represent the best chance for a person to succeed, in some chosen field.
Individuals don't exist in bubbles or vacuums, we are social animals.
It is a lot more complicated than survival of the fittest.
Groups and Organizations that embellish and refine a persons abilities and provide opportunities to experiment with potentials are those most likely to see that persons promise realized.
What the commonwealth establishes is a complete system life-cycle, that does this for the whole community, and all of its disparate elements.
The Commonwealth creates BOTH material and immaterial wealth, rather than trading one for the other, there is no zero-sum constraint.
And as far as the likes of Schumpeter and his creative destruction, my response is, WHY?
Since when is destruction rather than recycling or transference or refinement or transformation from something useless to something useful not a part of the solution.
This is yet again a symptom of the presumption that we are helpless in the face of natures impulses, which we must submit to...as if we are living in a jungle squalor, or some post-apocalyptic hellscape.
Our choices determine what survives.
If we design a system of rewards for destruction, than yes, creative destruction will be part and parcel of our world, otherwise it need not be.
Our conception is to create and develop human potentials within all those willing and interested, and that is the basis of lifelong success, as we see it.
There is no destiny but to succeed or fail according to our level of commitment to a society that seeks to further EACH and EVERY persons fulfillment.
That is why our commonwealth system is naturally superior.
We incorporate selfish and selfless motives in a symbiotic whole.
For us it is a simple consideration, would we prefer that the top 1-5 percent of a given population have great wealth and the remainder scraps, or do we prefer 100 percent to have great wealth....yes, comparatively some will always have more, but that shouldn't mean most people should lead lives of quiet desperation....that is uncivil, and unnecessary.
What arguments over socialism communism capitalism and many other social and economic ISMS miss completely is that the language and the premises are inevitably based on THINGS, and not people's inner and inter-lives, first and foremost.....what is happening in peoples heads and hearts, rather than in factories, in boardrooms, in trading markets, and in the policy centers both local and global.
The absence of the immaterial realm in considering why the world does or doesn't work is a gross oversight and critical flaw in the organization of civilization.
One we will correct expeditiously.
What you as in investor will find of particular interest is that this is no mere neighborhood improvement project, unless of course we are talking about the global neighborhood.
In the original and formative incarnations, the idea of a
commonwealth was local and in thinking of global models it was mostly a case of exporting the idea and slowly and gradually developing all into a whole, a global commonwealth.
But as the reality of global recession and the fear of a possible global depression came into the public consciousness in 2008 and seeded peoples low expectations of what is to come in 2009, rethinking of how the creation of these commonwealths could be suited to repairing the current global breach of trust and confidence in our social and economic order, became a priority.
These shared-profit companies of the first local commonwealth, the Seattle Commonwealth and the global commonwealth, The Commonwealth for Human Ideals, collectively represent what is effectively a global private sector stimulus, by way of our creation capital system.
In which we harness all the wasted potentials of the unemployed, the under-employed, and the teeming masses who live a life in silent abandon of their dreams because the world they live in doesn't care for their dreams and ideals, it only cares about the bottom line....how much blood can be squeezed from a stone.
We will transform these unrealized potentials, making entrepreneurs and not just employees, suited up with a full compliment of support systems to maintain the creation of new wealth with new ideas, ad infinitum.
As to the current circumstances...
It is fanciful to think that the current economic situation could be called a recovery, the recession is NOT over, so long as millions may still lose their jobs and those still employed are left with lesser compensation or value of compensation (a form of inflation).
The Businesses and the Financial sectors may have been steadied, but that does nothing for the millions who have lost a job, and millions who's jobs may still be in peril.
It would be a more honest appraisal if we had AT LEAST two definitions for recession, a fiscal and an occupational recession.
One is halted, for now...and the other is only slowing.
For the typical worker, the recession is very real....and if the job sector is not rebooted soon and the financial sectors structural risk and oversight negligence is not dealt with in the immediate future, all the sunny estimates based on our unwieldy and massive government stimulus will just bring us back to where we were in 2008, only without anyone left capable of a bailout...and that kind of psychological trauma will not be papered over with pretty political speeches and business world boosterism drawn from confidence based on government stimulus projects and guarantees that may bankrupt us all...they too are now a form of bubble...who's projections for the years to come are staggering as they they are utterly unsustainable...eventually that ponzi scheme will collapse from lack of confidence.
Remember the rich can just as easily be wiped out, we are talking about a flawed and corrupted SYSTEM, not a particular neighborhood, or city, or state.....it is our whole country, if not the world as a whole that is under stress.
But we can fix the situation by transferring, transforming, recycling and refining useful elements from the existing system and forging, with your investment, a lasting change to the way our system operates, negating the recurring crises and the crafting of logic to justify each as some sort of necessity, once again "nature" at work.
What the Government must do....
THE most valuable thing legislators could do would be to bring the securities market to heel, under tight and stringently overseen and ruthlessly enforced regulation....the former order that was repealed, causing our current problems is NOT enough to deal with our new realities.
New safeties must be forged to deal with our inventions and experiments in the derivatives trade, and whatever newly emergent ideas may take root in the financials markets, we need a continuously adaptive system and not fixed lists of rules to be newly circumvented.
Also, decoupling those formerly regulated.....now regulators.....from the currently regulated is fundamental....house clean Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, AIG and other lofty formers of the financial sector out of the regulatory bodies, and forge rules to make sure they don't return.
Until this happens, the broader economy will be exposed to further and repeated bouts of excess speculation and oversized risk that threatens the entire system. Nothing fundamental will change, which only someone devoid of memory could think would lead to anything other than a repeat of the horror show that almost lead to a global depression.
And finally and but no less importantly, the creation capital system is the ultimate expression of private sector business creation, it obliterates the excuse for governments to prop up business FAILURES, with unending opportunities for the indebting of whole countries to support them.....the phasing out process of those government supports and the NECESSARY conclusion of those business operations must be rapidly and studiously embraced....as businesses are created on these scales of hundreds of billions and trillions invested....ALL supports and new indebtedness must cease, ALL !!!
Reflect on this.
Each of the last crises was larger than the previous, significantly so.......any person qualified as a financial expert should be able to draw a very simple line graph conclusion of what this means in the next 10 years, if these inherent instabilities in finance and government response to them is not dealt with....
This time it was ONLY a couple of TRILLION Dollars decimated, of the publics money, flushed down the toilet, to save business failures and incompetents.
What will it be next time.
What we will do....
Precisely at this time, that the established order of business and politically expedient collusions are at a loss as to how to unmake the mess they created, we have a solution.
THE solution actually....Quick and essentially Painless.
Without the public debts and increased taxation, without the perpetual worry about the intrusion of government in private enterprise, and without the empty promises of politicians looking out toward the next election.
With your investment, you will not only be securing the money you invest with us, but will be securing the VALUE of all your other investments and assets.
C-Systems will do nothing less than restart the engines of global job creation, spending, lending, and will bring into being a ( non-profit ) financial system to compete with the ludicrously unregulated and reckless wall street, thereby short-circuiting the likely future market implosions we have accustomed ourselves to....remember there is no destiny, only choice.....
We choose to revitalize peoples sense of confidence about their own future, and our common future.
To demonstrate that western civilization is fully capable of reinventing itself in a short span of time, fixing its seemingly intractable problems, and profiting in the process, that is our genius and and our promise.
We are superlative because we learn from our mistakes......eventually :)
And it begins with this little thing we call the Seattle Summer Festival, which exemplifies the benefits of our Civic Commonwealth System, and informs the people of the timely arrival of Social Capitalism, to save the day.
Join Us.
There could be no better investment.
