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"Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho...
It's home from work we go"
In the Disney Song in the Seven Dwarfs,
the dwarfs sing as they go to work. In some
parodies, the words..."I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go"
are substituted.
I wanted to bring your attention to the
concept of civic rent, and the broader concept of FLOS & Civic
Rent.
To be succinct, civic rent is the part of
our ITEAM (Information, Time, Energy, Attention, and
Motivation) that is directed to pay our civic rent --> rent
owed to society by each of us by default, or by birth,
whichever you like.
In FLOS, I take that one step further.
Because of the disparity, or asymmetry in
our gifts distributed through nature's and nurture's lottery,
there are increasing returns as a result for some, and
decreasing returns for most. In other
words, on the margin, "them that hath gets" and them that
don't won't."
The most difficult part of FLOS is the
emergent morality that is going to be evolved around the
properties of FLOS outcomes. As I've stated
in other places and in other times, we don't yet have the
morality to deal with our differences and asymmetry of gifts
from person to person, family to family, culture to culture.
It's clear to me, that
BS is going to
produce the greatest number of poor people we can imagine, on
the planet, as the 2 billion coming, on top of the 7 billion
here, will be born in large part...at a statistical
disadvantage from nature's and nurture's lottery.
IF we don't find ways to resolve the
asymmetry, it will resolve itself, so you can choose to
evolve, or devolve, or be chosen by them <-- that's the long
term gambit, most aren't concerned about now.
In the short run, the disparity in the
outcomes, or incomes, as the case may be produces a question
about whether or not those that have should provide subsidies
for those who don't have.
And after that answer, the question of
how.
My answer in the FLOS frame is yes, but:
Civic rent should be calculated based on
an as of yet, undetermined formula whereas part of the
production outcome/income from those that are having, is
passed through a set of filters and into resourcing a set of
scaffolds for each level of having to support their ITEAM as
it produces from it's own core or inbornness.
This begs the answer to perhaps a most
difficult question.
If people are unequal, in gifts, in
scaffolding, in applied effort, in being judged, scorned or
otherwise "dealt with"...then how unequal are they?
The wicked, nasty problem is how.
And I'll defer to my 3
answers for now, as over
time, FLOS matures and begins to be able to work in that
space. For me, the hard part is coming to
realize that, in fact, everything about us is different, our
innate ability, our applied effort and the motivation to do
so, our opportunities, the way we are managed, judged and
appraised.
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