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- internet access | - internet access<br> | ||
- playground space | - playground space<br> | ||
- school capacity | - school capacity<br> | ||
Writings from SPP group [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Strategies/Ideas/Three_Tier_Vision (source)]] | Writings from SPP group [[http://wiki.occupyboston.org/wiki/WG/Strategies/Ideas/Three_Tier_Vision (source)]] | ||
THE COMMONS / ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY | |||
IDENTIFY and DEFINE what is COMMON PUBLIC PROPERTY. | |||
PRESERVE and RENEW OUR "PUBLIC" SPACES, RESOURCES, and NETWORKS. | |||
DEMAND PERSONAL FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION and SUPPORT ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS to ACHIEVE FAIRNESS in public and common life. | |||
What we all own together, whose scarce contents have been exploited by the 1% (indeed, almost by definition: one of the easiest ways to become rich has always been to latch onto a commons and exploit it as hard as you can). This framework tackles problems facing the whole country and the whole world while being rooted in ideas most people will understand and approve of. | |||
Commons goods and knowledge: owned by everyone, present and future, but finite and subject to depletion. Our legal system currently (as you on the subject of nature having rights or not) fails to account for commons. In a system that does account for commons, they are rivalrous but non-excludable: once you've charged someone to enter the park gate, you can't stop them from doing mostly what they please within. Ex: forests, waterways, mines, oil wells, pollution capacities of nature, municipalities (land-value property tax is commons rent on a municipality), and also various metaphorical "places" such as stock exchanges. Some commons are everyday things we all use: public schools, universities, and transportation systems we all rely on. | |||
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Every tool created by the human race, as a function of the greater interconnection of the observable Universe, should be considered common property. Education and information should be free, as well as the proper needs of life which are food, water, shelter, and health care. Transportation should be free, and should be considered a subject of information, because humans are social and intellectual beings operating by their complex chemical framework. The human race has the technological capacity to build such a community, but only if they are willing to become a non-warring species. --[[User:OneKarma|OneKarma]] 04:40, 18 November 2011 (EST) | Every tool created by the human race, as a function of the greater interconnection of the observable Universe, should be considered common property. Education and information should be free, as well as the proper needs of life which are food, water, shelter, and health care. Transportation should be free, and should be considered a subject of information, because humans are social and intellectual beings operating by their complex chemical framework. The human race has the technological capacity to build such a community, but only if they are willing to become a non-warring species. --[[User:OneKarma|OneKarma]] 04:40, 18 November 2011 (EST) | ||
[[Category:Speculations]] | [[Category:Speculations]] | ||
Revision as of 16:58, 28 December 2011
Please list what you think should be defined as "Common Property", property of "the citizens":
- water
- air
- history
- historic neighborhood character
- radio waves
- internet access
- playground space
- school capacity
Writings from SPP group [(source)]
THE COMMONS / ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
IDENTIFY and DEFINE what is COMMON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
PRESERVE and RENEW OUR "PUBLIC" SPACES, RESOURCES, and NETWORKS.
DEMAND PERSONAL FREEDOM FROM DISCRIMINATION and SUPPORT ADVOCACY CAMPAIGNS to ACHIEVE FAIRNESS in public and common life.
What we all own together, whose scarce contents have been exploited by the 1% (indeed, almost by definition: one of the easiest ways to become rich has always been to latch onto a commons and exploit it as hard as you can). This framework tackles problems facing the whole country and the whole world while being rooted in ideas most people will understand and approve of.
Commons goods and knowledge: owned by everyone, present and future, but finite and subject to depletion. Our legal system currently (as you on the subject of nature having rights or not) fails to account for commons. In a system that does account for commons, they are rivalrous but non-excludable: once you've charged someone to enter the park gate, you can't stop them from doing mostly what they please within. Ex: forests, waterways, mines, oil wells, pollution capacities of nature, municipalities (land-value property tax is commons rent on a municipality), and also various metaphorical "places" such as stock exchanges. Some commons are everyday things we all use: public schools, universities, and transportation systems we all rely on.
Every tool created by the human race, as a function of the greater interconnection of the observable Universe, should be considered common property. Education and information should be free, as well as the proper needs of life which are food, water, shelter, and health care. Transportation should be free, and should be considered a subject of information, because humans are social and intellectual beings operating by their complex chemical framework. The human race has the technological capacity to build such a community, but only if they are willing to become a non-warring species. --OneKarma 04:40, 18 November 2011 (EST)