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Mr. Vineburgh, the Boston haggler,
"when something is priced right, he says, he does not try to
haggle. “The right price, to me, is what I’m willing to pay
for something,” he said.
You might be wondering, why something like pricing is doing in
a TPOV in FLOW?
Actually, pricing is huge. And it's
going to be a lynchpin in FLOW over time, I believe as
"radical" pricing strategies are going to be required to match
up with macro economics, a completely counter intuitive way of
living, working and consuming, which are all directly related
to pricing.
While it's not my intention to
expand the topic fully, I believe a stake in the ground is
important now, at least with this seed I'm planting.
If profit, compounding, and a
number of other financial strategies are creating what is
happening now, as a part of the consumption process, then
pricing becomes a tool with which to begin to design a new
way out for most of the world.
We know that pricing is directly
related to consumption and profitability; even productivity,
indirectly.
What I'm going to suggest is that
we can revamp our pricing strategies (actually we have to as
deflation, stagflation and inflation are all occurring
asymmetrically.) in FLOW.
I am in the early stages of this
because pricing is intertwined with everything, but I may have
figured out a way in which to begin to decelerate the effects
of pricing, mis-pricing and profit formation, to reduce debt,
which we will be doing anyway, because of the money and credit
bubble in the west.
This will affect the east as well,
but there is still time in the east to not make ALL the same
mistakes we have made because there are so many poor people
that can use this new strategy of pricing.
In a nutshell, if my economics is
correct, pricing is nothing more essentially than an indirect
return on capital. For instance, we price according to what we
need to pay back debt, or accumulated savings in some cases
(still capital) we deploy and expect a return on. In Shariah
financing, the idea of compounding (i wish someone could check
this and provide sources) is not an essential point, which
means that wealth accumulation is driving by a EES business
model, more so than accumulated wealth (doing work when you
sleep, i.e. compounding, the rule of 72s, as an example).
The compounding system rewards poor
and rich alike, the problem is that in general it takes a
wealth mindset to trigger it, which is not correlated to
poverty, for obvious reasons, so we will never lift up a group
of people who have the weight of the world on their
backs-->who have to spend every dime they get in consumption
for needs, rather than being able to accumulate wealth.
The context for the idea I have is
this:
If you PAY for something that is
not consumed, it is an investment, and a significant amount of
services, especially in the information field, which
encompasses a lot of hyper human skills, education, and any
teaching, training, coaching, mentoring, anything that
exchanges information, but consumes no real materials, or is
digital.
For now, I will stick to digital
because we're dealing with energy and information at the
material level, not just at the quantum level.
If we can transition poor people
into a system where they are going to have some right to
preserve capital, and accumulate it for their needs and more
especially for emergencies, which always knock them down, and
lead to the poor living standards that actually create the
emergencies, talk about positive (circular) loops!
First, we have to build the model
and it's VERY tricky as you might imagine as well as being
counter-intuitive for what we know now which is BS.
[Since I'm willing to take this
burden myself, along with some of you who will risk some
amounts of capital in our Charter FLOW Program (those of you
reading this after this has happened, be sure to tune into
www.flawlessliving.info/FLOW for the recap after we hold
this experimental R&D program.]
Mechanically, here is a sample of
how it might work generically:
1. You create a product that has
largely a digital or information component, anything
educational without a large portion of hard costs, but with
effort required by the participants.
2. You charge a fee that would be
"priced" to the accumulated market value (more on that later,
as a pricing strategy for capital investment, preservation and
accumulation).
3. In the same way, that the
"market" decides worthy expenditures and investments of your
MITEAM: Money, Information, Time, Energy, Attention and
Motivation, the market will decide the pricing you can charge
for your system...and it will be a system.
4. Strategically, you as a
"provider" or "pricer" (as it becomes), creates a way for your
participant to invest their MITEAM and actually get
some-->most of their capital returned to them, in order to
preserve their capital, but the new level of MITEAM should(?)
would give them MITEAM to continue to the next level.
5. Ideally, this means, you walk
away with most of your capital (some has to be consumed in the
process for hard materials, which have to be purchased and my
system is not yet extended into hard, non-digital, but it can
be!)...including the maintenance of the profit creating
mechanism, at first.
6. As more and more people
gravitate to this kind of system, the need for profit would
decline, as capital is preserved, not used up in the process,
therefore we would not have to create as much money through
fractionalization, this is what is causing the huge
oscillations in the money and credit cycle-->the boom and
bust, which makes more and more people exist out of FLOW and
back into non-FLOW states and levels.
I'm going to walk people through
this process on March 28, at my last developmentalist call, so
if you are reading this later, you can see how we setup the
initial skunkworks design to evaluate whether or not this new
design can have the potential to remake our current paradigm
of capitalism, in the model that true capitalism was
designed, which will emerge FLOW.
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