Exploring the COST: Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax

Join us to learn about common ownership and self-assessed tax (COST). Everyone is welcome to ask questions and share ideas.

AGENDA

6:00 ~ Participants Arrive
6:30 ~ Nathan Chen, ConsenSys
6:45 ~ Josh Young, Pack
7:15 ~ Luke Duncan, Aragon
7:45 ~ Griff Green, Giveth
8:15 ~ Networking

Radical Markets | Chapter 1 ~ Property is Monopoly:
http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly

"Imagine a world in which all major private wealth (every factory, patent or plot of land) is constantly for sale at a fair price and where most of the value of this property is paid out equally to all citizens as a social dividend. While one might be tempted to believe the wealthy would dominate such a hyper-market world, in fact most private wealth would become social wealth and would be shared equally by all. With most value of assets accruing to the public, every asset would become cheaper to (partially) own, democratizing the control of assets and offering everyone new opportunities to start businesses or households. At the same time, because there would be a price on every asset, large scale projects, like high speed trains, would become far easier to develop as holdouts could no longer block the right of way."
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Pack is an economically fair ecosystem for producing news and knowledge. Each community in this ecosystem is a subscription-based news and information network in which members who contribute value earn value. The networks themselves require entrepreneurial investment, but because of network effects, their owners can obtain monopoly power. That's why they're subject to partial common ownership, which optimizes between the investment efficiency and allocative efficiency.

More about Pack: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mez5jdSCR10rm2N9zZNrt08U6pQU80FLpfWvQfZYuzg
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1Hive is working to improve open source sustainability and grow the open source commons. The Hive Commons License is a proposed alternative to existing copyleft and permissive licenses intended to allow for proprietary derivative works while maintaining strict reciprocity requirements.

Context: https://medium.com/hive-commons/harberger-taxation-and-open-source-58dcdbab140d
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Giveth is re-engineering charitable giving, by creating an entirely free, open-source platform, built on the Ethereum Blockchain. Our system cuts out bureaucracy and enables makers to create a high level of transparency and accountability towards givers.

More about Giveth: https://medium.com/giveth/the-future-of-giving-is-crowdfunding-the-commons-ac265e3010b8

The Commons Stack: https://medium.com/giveth/introducing-the-commons-stack-scalable-infrastructure-for-community-collaboration-6886eb97413e
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

Common Ownership:
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Common_Ownership

Partial Common Ownership: http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s11222.pdf

Harberger Tax + Blockchain:
https://medium.com/@simondlr/what-is-harberger-tax-where-does-the-blockchain-fit-in-1329046922c6

On Radical Markets:
https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/04/20/radical_markets.html

COST Monopoly:
https://medium.com/@nathan.writes/exploring-partial-common-ownership-on-the-monopoly-board-59163ad73608