Hello all, I am new here and wanted to introduce myself and hear y’all’s opinion on something’s I’ve been working on.

I am a multidisciplinary designer with a concentration in architecture and environmental design. Lately I’ve been researching and exploring novel approaches to organized efforts, infrastructure development, and strategic implementation. The above image is mostly an unrelated snapshot example of my past work and design approach. It utilizes 80% up-cycled transportation repair materials such as scrap road-plate steel, treated lumber, common masonry, common schedule steel pipes, and polyethylene tubing to create an expanded public transit stop which uses solar heat gain to de-ice the surrounding ground during colder months.

Currently my focus has been on complex business model design. While I can’t share much of the details yet, I will say that it interlocks with more than a dozen symbiotic business models and social governance solutions into an approximate one square mile area through 400 pages of documentation; and can serve up to 1,000 people with a minimum of 100-120 people’s maintained efforts.

Everyone here would be doing me a huge favor towards such ends by providing short feedback to a brief set of questions related to the broad-stoke lived experience of what belonging to such an effort may be like.

Questions:

  1. How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to relocate their life some number of hours away to participate in a funded solar punk initiative?

  2. How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to share a 800 square foot all seasons yurt with one other person for 5-6 years?

  3. How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to participate in a flexible productivity schedule which typically requires 8-24 hours of blue collar work, 8-24 hours of white collar work, 8-24 hours of learning/teaching, and 8-24 hours of leisure weekly?

  4. If satisfactorily completing question 2 and maintaining question 3 legally assures lifetime private residency in a 2,000 square foot passive house with no rent or mortgage, utility or repair expenses, and gives rights of first refusal to ones children; would you still be interested if it means you do not own the house on paper?

  5. If your only income is from a cooperative owner-operated business model which straddles a couple of symbiotic businesses and professional expertise how satisfactory would this be to you?

  6. How willing are you and how willing do you believe millennials and gen-z are to work towards perpetually improved labor automation by sweating approximately 8-24 hours a week for as long as it takes?

  7. How might your answers change if the above things together resulted in a housing addition from 2,000 square feet to as much as 4,000 square feet after 10-12 years?

  8. How might your answers change if you are assured direct democracy over virtually all collective efforts supported by subject experts advocacy?

  9. What is your first reaction to the idea that the only way for someone to be removed from their residence and the community is through reaching a 85% community-wide vote?

  10. How might your answers change if the above allows for relocating to another networked community with a largely similar framework and governance as may be necessary and or available?

  • Ayla_Leren@slrpnk.netOP
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    5 months ago

    Question #6 response: Aren’t most of us already forced to maintain a blank check as you say for the majority of our adult lives to make ends meet and uphold some degree of prosperity? Is it not better to participate in a cooperative model through which you have equal share and effort which translates to direct improvements to the quality of life for you and your loved ones? The progression of automation development ultimately results in a transition away from physical labor towards and through cognitive labor and resulting in greater concentrations of time available for learning, teaching, and leisure. However related activities would still be subservient to the communities desired tempo. Intensity of labor is always at and under the will of the collective wants.

    Question #7 response: Noted. Would you be more interested if instead the housing addition was as a second floor build as a second residence available to your loved ones with its own entrance? Or maybe some other proportional boon which otherwise offers some form of benefit unrelated to one’s home?

    Question #8 response: Are you familiar with the concept of liquid democracy? How much do you know about Dunbar’s number? Even at full community carry capacity there is never more than 300 voters for topics where direct democracy had been chosen as preferable by the community. Someone wouldn’t be voting alongside strangers, but rather their peers who they cross paths with weekly, if not most days. Culture and social utility in such situations enables the leveraging of symbiotic interest, accountability, and understanding toward cohesive governance, solidarity, and responsiveness.

    Question #9 response: Clearly it would be much more procedural, guided by policies, protocols, and knowledgeable expertise. Community members would have also mutually agreed on contractual guidelines prior to residence. There are plenty of examples of contract and integrity agreements tied to occupations or residency from which can be learned and borrowed. A community wide vote is reserved as a last resort. It is important for any culture to have unbiased collective methods to address antisocial behaviors and other persistent human fallibility. Some manner of exile when penalties prove to be ineffective or insufficient under righteous just cause is perfectly acceptable and common; often preferable to lawsuits and incarceration even. Liquid democracy offers pragmatic utility among such things as well. There are additionally much which can be learned from the various existing community land trusts and mutual housing associations that have had to deal with all manner of sensitive realities.

    Question #10 response: Perhaps a decent way of thinking of the topic is what may come to mind when observing how athletes tend to migrate between sports teams under various circumstances and motivations. Not a perfect analogy admittedly. Imagine one’s personal or professional interest shift over the years as tends to happen throughout life and result in an altered set of preference to what was once held a decade ago? Think empty nesters, long term research partnerships, new domestic partnerships, changes in health, etc.

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    I understand if you might not have the gas to continue the conversation, though I would appreciate your further insight as someone who might have another decade or two under your belt than myself.