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In an income-addicted, hand-to-mouth, economy your standard of living is connected directly to the price of your labour (your salary). This ...

The largest 300 Pension Funds collectively hold about $18 trillion (12 zeros) worth of assets. The idea of a retirement fund has taken root....

You can’t just wave a wand and wish yourself a Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund. A more realistic model is presented by the Australian Superannu...

Pooling allows us to have a slice of something bigger. If you buy a house, it is yours or it isn’t. Private Property. Mostly, it is also t...

Building an Engine (Capital) starts with finding an income. The raw material is the first person’s labour. Labour is like the Oil that sta...

A Community Wealth Fund is analogous to a Sovereign Wealth Fund. A Stokvel is a savings or investment society to which members regularly c...

A Universal Basic Income would make everyone an owner in society. One way to fund a UBI is through pure play redistribution. Everyone gets...

Most people live off their labour. Their "Natural Resources" that have been cultivated to a point they can be sold. School become...

Initially, Community Wealth would have come in the form of natural resources. Rivers, trees, animals, mountains, and minerals. Those would ...

Living hand to mouth forces control of the hand. You have to work, or you starve. Putting some of the extra aside for tomorrow means if for...

There are always things that are deserving of funding. In a world of limited resources there are trade-offs and compromises. One of those t...

A Community Wealth Fund  could finance an Unconditional Basic Income . A UBI is defined by the Basic Income Earth Network as " a peri...

Procrastination comes naturally. It is easy to set your alarm for the morning. It is difficult to actually get up when it goes off. Delegat...

Norway has a population of 5.2 million. Before unification in 872, archaeologists estimate that there were about 20 petty kingdoms. ...

It is a sad truth that most of us don't know much about the world beyond our world. One of the ways we learn about new countries...