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- A GNU Investment Model [4 Updates]
- Fabio Barone <holon.earth@gmail.com> Apr 14 11:25AM +0200 ^
Patrick,
I like these thoughts. They actually reflect, from another point of view,
many ideas popping up around prosumer organizations.
In particular I'd like to point out once more Chris Cook's approach
on unitisation, which basically (at least in my own, still evolving
understanding)
does exactly what you describe: Investors, workers, managers, etc. join
a project in a open partnership. The produce gets 'unitized'
(e.g. kWh, food, etc.), and the involved get 'paid' via produced units.
This approach can also, depending on design,
decouple participants at least partially from money issues
while achieving what you describe:
investor = consumer.
In my view, this already has been proven to work:
The growing popularity of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) works
on this base: Farmer(s) get together with consumers, which invest
in the farmer's business upfront, sharing their risk. They then get
produce from the farmer's work on harvest.
fabio
2010/4/14 Patrick Anderson <agnucius@gmail.com>
- Alex Rollin <alex.rollin@gmail.com> Apr 14 02:35PM +0200 ^
Is anyone aware of how to put this into a spreadsheet for forecasting?
I have made some incremental effort in this direction, and I have been
wonderfully sidetracked by voting and governance systems for the last couple
of months.
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