Economies
Capital separated from control. What you can reach is tied to what you contribute rather than what you own.
Can an economy work without someone owning it all?
Value comes in, moves through people and projects, and pools where the group decides.
Contribution and access: how value moves when nobody can buy control.
Most economic arguments are about ownership and price. This one is about flow: where value comes in, how it moves through people and projects over time, and where it lands. It does not replace the current economy. It runs alongside it.
Three shifts underneath everything
Something still has to hold land, cash and creations, but it is locked so it cannot be privatised or cashed out at will.
Over time people get what they need, housing, food, care, tools, through access granted by agreement rather than by buying.
Nobody pulls value out and stops it. Surplus keeps moving into shared pools, upkeep and access.
How value moves
One flow, two views of it: the contribution economy is what goes in, the access economy is what comes out.
Five routes to starting an economy
A group finds the land and builds together. Patient money from people who believe in it, repaid on the terms set at the start, never a share or a profit. Once the debt is gone, what it earns belongs to nobody and keeps housing and equipping people.
Working businesses trade in the ordinary world and send part of what they make into a shared pool that lends to the next one. How much each sends is agreed, not fixed.
Given, never repaid, so it is commons on day one and turns straight into access. The fastest start and the hardest to raise, and it does not grow with the work. Green Earth Vision's shared pool is live now.
Sometimes the wealth is already there: land, food, labour. What is missing is the one thing it cannot be turned into, like schooling. The economy starts by unlocking that one piece.
No land and almost no starting money. Retreats fill a centre that stands half empty, and what they bring in builds toward a place of its own.
The worked examples are illustrations of how the instruments fit together, not offers and not forecasts. What all five share: money can come back on the terms set at the start, it never buys ownership or profit, and the date the payments stop is the date the economy starts.
How deep anyone goes
The order people are reciprocated in
Basic needs first, money last. And every funding deal is tied to an amount and a goal, never perpetual.
The locks that stop value being pulled back out
It comes in as a loan or a gift. No equity, no votes, no seats tied to money.
It goes back into shared assets and into widening access for everyone.
A ceiling tied to the local living wage, open books, approved budgets.
People who bring resources in are reciprocated for the effort. They do not decide where it goes.
Commons and stewarded assets cannot be pledged to a creditor or seized.
Debts are paid and what remains passes to an aligned successor.
How the economy changes, in five pictures
Is it still ownership?
Three questions that settle whether money has quietly bought control. The same tests we run on our own structures.
from projects/new-paradigm-economies/economic-model-CLEAN.md (New Paradigm Economies; canon/04 is the authority) and scenarios-how-an-economy-starts.md v0.1, routes only, no figures.
