The co-op model with which I am familiar is that there is a buy-in financial share purchase for each member, a monthly maintenance fee for each member, and a required weekly/monthly/annual work contribution from each member.
I don't know if a co-op is the right structure. But there are far more advanced capitalization options available:
https://jrwiener.com/cooperative-equity ... -together/
His blog is full of various co-op related financialization information.
But I don't know if a co-op is the right structure. In my mind, that would be a decision made by a group that does not yet exist, based on their needs and information provided by experts.* I'm not even confident that I could sketch out the full range of business/corporate/charitable structures, let alone identify the possible synergies each could bring.
What I want, is something like a checklist of all the decisions needed to take a mod from something in my head, to an occupied reality. Each checklist item then needs to be examined to find the full range of options. Taking a step back from each decision, to really look at all the options is a good way to look for synergies.
From this, a form of "formation flow chart" can be created, a recipe for making a skunkworks for Adam's tech base is developed**. A map of all the decisions, along with a summary of the reasons we made those choices.
So that when the next project starts, (let's say a music mod, based on the theme of pirate captaincy, rather than eco skunkworks) the full range of options is already mapped out. A blazed path through those options also exists.
When the pirate captain mod gets started, they have a working mod and the recipe used to make it, to use as a guideline. But the priorities of pirate captaincy are very different from the priorities of an eco skunkworks. Having all the options already laid out allows for easy modification of the formation recipe.
Having both an eco skunkworks and a pirate captaincy gives us the means to compare/contrast. To better understand the secondary/tertiary effects of these formation decisions, as each mod grows.
Sounds like you're trying to keep a top spinning on a boat in a hurricane.
I see oceans, hurricanes, boats, and people spinning tops. I imagine, if I looked long enough, I could find what you describe, but it's hardly typical.
Consider Ebay. Millions upon millions of transactions, all over the world. Who coordinates all that activity? Nobody. Software provides an interface for self interested parties to interact for mutual self interest. Craigslist allows P2P activities of far greater variety, still without a coordinator. These are decades old technologies.***
People are capable of amazing things, given the right opportunities, in a format they can use.
I have talked in detail about property development. Property development is an entire industry, currently. What will it be like when it's a P2P platform? If one were interested in building that platform, wouldn't mod recipes be the exact information one would want to streamline?
Hard to isolate from the general public, juvenile energy, and human lineage continuation.
Well, no. In rural areas, isolation is the default.
So change your mindset from exclusion to attraction. To creating a scenius, or rather, many.
I want to attract people who can help me. I want people who will volunteer, I don't want employees. I want people capable of acting in their own enlightened sense of self interest. I want those people to be encouraged by their social network, who see this new environment as worthy work.
Toward this end I have tried to describe an attractive environment, an alt-building club. I expect the people attracted to this idea to have their own ideas about exclusion. And they will get a chance to practice them when deciding who is "on the team", in which capacities. Again, when forming a camping club. And yet again, as the project grows.
https://www.headspace.com/mindfulness/t ... ty-mindset
In one way I'm trying to describe creating a community around a local, created abundance. How to import the capital to make effective use of natural resources and locally produce goods that would otherwise be imported. How to turn these resources back into financial capital. Creating the infrastructure of local abundances.
The rules needed by such people, in such a place, are very different from the rules we have developed anywhere else, and this is part of the attraction.
As I said in the Covid IQ loss thread, I think we have far more high IQ people than we have need for.
As shown in the stereotypes (130+ coo-coo bananas, etc), I don't think my culture is very compatible with high IQ. The differential between challenges and rewards is often crippling. The farther one diverges from mean, the more resources it often takes to keep functional.
To me, this signals opportunity. There are a lot of high IQ, poorly networked people out there floating around, dissatisfied with the environment they are in.
I would think the opportunity to design their future environment from the ground up, would attract such people. The challenge of creating a culture where they could maximize their strengths and minimize their weaknesses requires the broadest palette possible.
I think there is an abundance of high Kegan level people (who are probably more networked) who would like to pursue the same goal, from a distance, perhaps from their armchairs...
Whatever your measurement, there are some far more advanced than others. I want the rules to attract these advanced people (and/or those with the capability of advancement), with enough compromise to avoid offending their significant others. An environment with enough challenges/opportunities to go around/not merely the central challenge.
What rules allow maximum contribution from both those on-site, and off-site? Those rules will have to be worked out, and then modified many times, I think.****
* Though once again, I will point out that I'm bringing this up on a forum with several lawyers. This expertise is available here, if any are interested.
**Because an eco skunkworks is what
I want. I want to live amongst people actively developing and dispersing Adam's tech base. I leave much open, to leave room for their preferences. I am confident that the rules we choose to govern ourselves, would be better than any rules I could choose, to govern them.
*** look at the severely restricted amount of data used per transaction in these platforms. Like we're still in the 90's with lightning fast 14.4k modems...
**** This rules recipe
also seems like it would be useful for the creation of a P2P property development platform...
