If you take a Seed of a Tree, and give it what it Needs.
Water, Soil, Nutrients, Shelter, Space, Air and Attention (to ensure it keeps getting these things).
It will grow until it starts to gather energy from the Sun.
Until it can take what it needs for itself.
It will reward those who serve it and even those who don’t.
It will produce shade, food, energy, medicine, or other services that are helpful to other beings.
It will produce far more Value, than it receives.
And it will produce more seeds, which will express themselves in new ways.
That produce yet more plants, and create even more Value.
One seed contains the potential of infinite forests.
The services the tree provides, creates habitat and food for the beings that sustain it.
It can only exist in relationship, so it nourishes the things that relate to it.
It exchanges information and resources, it changes in response to its environment and it changes its environment.
It produces Infinite Wins.
Benefits and opportunities that generate more benefits and possibilities, potentially until the end of time.
Even in Death (unless humans interfere) – it gives.
Providing more habitat and returning its materials to the Earth.
It wasn’t always this way. There was a time when even trees were misaligned.
They changed the atmosphere.
They produced materials that couldn’t “degrade” for 60 million years.
Contributing to a Mass Extinction event.
Sound Familiar?
(Coal is the legacy of this period)
Each of Us is like a Seed. Each of Us has the potential to create Infinite Value for all beings.
Finding new ways and paths to serve each other and express life our own way.
The Infinite Win is found frequently in Nature.
An ongoing expression of life. Ever changing, increasing and adapting.
Transforming Barren Lands into Habitat.
No matter how hostile the environment.
Life Adapts.
Of course there are adaptations to be found in nature, which are extractive.
But our bias towards extractive and violent creatures is a reflection of our own self image. Not of natural success.
Success is measured in Millennia.
We obsess about dinosaurs, when it was the mushroom that survived.
We would do well to learn from the oldest teachers.
Our limits are not resources, technology, knowledge, or imagination.
Our limit is our shared Will.
This Will is shaped by what we choose to reward as a Society.
We can harmonise our Relationship with the Earth and Earthly Beings.
We can serve those that serve us.
Take what we need and give without limit.
To generate “Wins” that are Infinite.
This isn’t just some hippy notion. This is survival.
Survival of the best adapted is not about being the strongest or fastest.
It’s about adaptation to and adaptation of the environment.
If we create an environment that is hostile to what keeps us alive. We die.
If we create an environment that nurtures what we need to live. We thrive.
What if our Economic Systems were aligned with Life?
Generating infinite opportunities for growth and expression.
Oriented to meeting the needs of all beings.
What would the properties of such a system look like?
What Behaviours would it reward?
Where should we put our effort and energy?
At the core of the Infinite Win is creating conscious and productive relationships to create a kinder reality.
Be Considerate of how you interact with others, expand your consideration to include everything that keeps you alive.
Presently what keeps us alive is hidden from us.
We are sheltered from it by money, corporations and state power.
But if you dare to look in the box. What keeps you alive is a monster.
It’s not your fault. You often don’t have a choice.
The temptation is to look away. Or to devalue the abused. To shift shame and blame to the ones who are suffering, or to make ourselves the victim.
We are not our behaviour.
Be Kind to yourself, Be Kind to others.
Look at how the system threatens people with death, loss and suffering.
Look at how it rewards sociopathic behaviours.
Be Useful, help expand others awareness of the systems that keep them alive.
Or contribute to and support projects that are working to increase our consideration of what keeps us alive.
(Link to ExistSense and projects that feed that – both present and future)
Not harming others to feed ourselves, is a pretty basic moral baseline.
Yet at present the choices are rare and carry a high cost.
You can’t be an angel if you’re living in hell.
So it’s our responsibility to Increase Choices available and accessible not just for our selves, but for everyone else.
Much work is already being done.
From Food Systems, to Building Materials, to Transportation, Clothing, Water and Air.
Solutions exist or are being discovered and rediscovered.
However they are only useful to society if they are accessible.
We must reward developing active, conscious, and kind relationships, that increase the choices available to all.
If we continue to reward those who harm the planet, and let those who would work to feed, shelter, heal and serve carry the cost alone. Then everything will break.
Yet our present system rewards passing costs onto others, and claiming the reward for ourselves.
Cheap goods, carries a high social and environmental cost.
Free Services often have the highest Value yet are completely ignored.
So we have a culture which rewards Slavery, Exploitation, Extraction, and Externalisation (dumping responsibility for waste and pollution others)
And makes those who serve us carry the cost.
Is it really any surprise we are in a mess?
When our incentive systems lead us to cause common harm to gain individual reward or security.
We need an economic system that rewards behaviours that benefit the environment, society and the individuals who contribute the most.
That rewards are given for supporting and growing Provision Systems that ensure Universal Basic Outcome.
So that we are not motivated by Fear of Death, Torture or Suffering.
And our Individual Greed is harnessed for Common Gain.
So we can devote our attention and time to creating a kinder future.
Imagine the untapped potential of 7+ billion minds, hearts hands, acting from Love rather than Fear.
Pick a Quest, choose a Mission.
From Planned Obsolescence Design for Disassembly, Design for Repair, and Design for Reuse.
Relatable Technology.
These movements are already here.
Cradle 2 Cradle
Circular Economy
Blue Economy
Upcycling
Design for Disassembly Movement
Hacking
What if Needing something, were the means to pay for the something needed?
What if a record of satisfaction, was money?
What if Money was made by meeting each others Needs?
That Money could then be spent on scarce desires and preferences.
Example: Minting Currency.
Bob Needs a Place to Sleep
Alice gives Bob a Place to Sleep
Money is Minted as Value is created.
Alice gets paid.
Example: Spending Currency
Alice wants some gold jewellery.
She spends her money on gold jewellery.
Money is Minted through the meeting of Needs. It is spent on Wants and Preferences.
By this means of Minting Money, we create and strengthen our Shared Social Foundation and ensure efficient use of our Material Resources.
Capitalism that produces a Socialist Infrastructures without excessive Governance.
Basic Outcome is a byproduct of Minting Money.
By this means we can reward members of society for providing society its common social foundation. Everyone can find employment.
The centre of the Doughnut in Doughnut Economics is Served.
But what about our “Ecological Ceiling” and resource limitations.
Can we really serve everyone AND ensure planetary survival?
Ecological Ceiling is a Relationship Issue.
Resource scarcity is a relationship issue.
We can Expand the Ecological Ceiling
We just need the right system of Incentives.
Expanding the Infinite Win to benefit Beings/Systems/Infrastructure* that serve All Planetary Life.
*depending on your lens
Sensing Need is a Need.
Example: Recognising Value
The Forest gets paid.
Example: Economy Agency of Natural Systems
Forest buys land
Making it Easy, to do what is best for all.
Trying to prevent bad behaviour, when the reward for bad behaviour is greater than the penalty (or even chance to be caught) is a waste of energy.
It also further prevents good behaviour.
Make it easier to do what benefits most beings.
The Infinite Win is an Economic system that rewards us for serving each other, all planetary life, and the infrastructures that sustain us.
If we can reach this point, then we create a world which becomes safer by the day, and increases comfort, opportunity and expression at the same time.
The Infinite Win is itself a Seed.
An idea that can grow to meet infinite needs.
From one Seed
A Tree
From one Tree
Many Seeds
‘Til Infinite Seeds grow
To Meet Infinite Needs
Note: In a “nirvana” or utopian thinking frame of the Infinite Win there is no need for Currency at all. However given that we can only move towards such a society from our present position, we require a between state, that takes society as it is and works with that, rather than as we would like it to be.
Contact us to continue the discussion, or explore how you or your organisation can cultivate the infinite win using your own finite resource.
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The later behaviour however will generate more connections, and widen opportunities opportunities for discovery.
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