by MattisManzel
The idea changes in the discussion. The present conditions (9/6/03) scarcely summarized:
The goal: We would like to provide a platform, on which all humans can decide together on the fate of our planet Terra. On this platform everything can develop: For example a common global eParlament and a common global eCourt of Justice as well as a commonly steered and controlled executive could develop there. Necessary communication takes place basically over the world-wide data network. We dare to assume that during a peaceful and brisk process the power could be transferred from the shoulders of few to the shoulders of all. We desire a commonly and fairly determined justice and we believe to be able to create the technical facilities for its development. We believe that the technical presupposing for this are already present to a large extent or could be supplied within short. It is primarily about interconnecting these existing bits in a clever way.
As the first step we would like to connect the Wikis of this world by means of an inter-Wiki. There should be poll-tools at hand of everybody, by means of which everybody can tell everybody his opinion and catch up the opinion of the others to any question. An implementation of the software in PHP seems possible. A next possible step would be the creation of a purely virtual currency, “eTerra”, to displace the irreparably corrupt conventional currencies and to guarantee thus a constant and generally admitted total quantity of money in the world. This is condition for durable world peace.
The further text is mostly unchanged since beginning of August 03. The discussions on the idea don’t leave me time for correction right now. I hope to get it done soon though.
Goal is the creation of peace and justice on earth by global decentralized democracy or – more precisely - the waking of collective human intelligence. For common decision making mankind uses a computer program and the world-wide data network. The behavior of the program is steered by all humans. Displacement of the conventional currencies by the excludingly virtual “eTerra”. The preparations could take place on a Wiki.
The world is under construction and so is this web page (or its consequences). Both will never be ready. Sentences on this page however, which are still incomplete and in disorder today will be completed and arranged by tomorrow. I started on this page in mid of July 03. You are reading the current, incomplete and uncensored idea. My mother tongue is German. This translation is full of mistakes, sorry (hints on mistakes are welcome to mattismanzel@yahoo.de). Please revisit this site, it is developing. I`m working on it every day.
Let’s create a world currency – “eTerra” my suggestion. The eTerra has an equivalent in conventional currency (Euro, Dollar, Yen etc.). I transfer an amount of conventional currency and receive an equivalent in eTerra, which is credited on my personal, exclusively virtual account. The eTerra exclusively exists as a virtual currency on a world system, which is to be provided. The world system includes a banking system, but is far more than that. Every human on earth can join in. With his entry a new member opens up an account. If he/she does not deposit anything on it, the balance of this account is 0.0 T. Who owns Terra however, can pay other members in the system. My (online) account balance reads: I possess x Terra, the total volume of money in the global system is y Terra. No paper money exists, which could be silently reprinted by any government. There is the permanently open view for everybody on the total volume of money. Knowing this total volume makes money controllable. Only by guaranteeing the controllability and stabitlity of the total volume of money in the world, mankind will create the essential condition for peace on earth. We communicate global, but our money systems are still from the Middle Ages and national. This can’t ever work. The goal is: There must be exclusively one money for everybody in the world.
The eTerra is supposed to and it will replace the conventional currencies. If this is executed, a chance for stable peace on earth will exist. There won’t be a chance for it before.
- Membership in the world system implies a voice in the World-eParliament and the right to vote as a world-citizen. This applies for all members – even without having deposited money in the system: Communism, if you want it like that. - the voice of a member weighs more heavily, if he has withdrawn liquid value from the conventional “national” money systems and has transferred it into Terra. But also: The voice of a member weighs more heavily, if he has voluntarily donated an amount of his possession of Terra as taxes to the system (taxes are voluntary in the world system): Capitalism, if you want it like that. - the world community equally decides how strong the “power of the money” is to be and how this power is balanced between personal possession and personal tax donations: Democracy, if you wants it like that.
Money thus has concrete power in the world system.
In a collectively and globally organized world all should be able to decide about the strength of the “power of money” at any time. For this single point applies: Everyone independently of its money possession and his tax donations constantly has one constant voice. Constantly from the moment of its entrance to his separating from the world system. This individual voice is valid, independent of the fact, whether someone possesses no world money, one Terra or the entire world fortune. His voice in the decision on power of money is always “1”.
For all other decisions and choice procedures applies: A members personal voice is the addition (or multiplication?) of his constant individual voice (1) plus (or multiplied?) his individual variable money voice, which is up-to-date calculated by the system (e.g. the money voice of a member could be 0.0000000426 or 0.023 - similar magnitudes might be concerned). Both, the beg-poor never-give-anything and the largest conceivable billionaire and give-away decide with their single voices on the “power of the money”. All other decisions are taken by the poor saver with a single voice, the generous billionaire however takes them with a – let’s say - 1.3 x voice. The very extremes probably might finish up like that.
Everyone can take decisions in the world system even without having exchanged conventional money into it. His decisions have influence. The system calculates the current individual money conditions of a member (his possession and the donated taxes) and the “power of money”-controller settings of all members and computes she weight of the individual current money voice of a member. This value is indicated to the member on his program surface.
Now one might like to think that the voice of someone, who possesses much world money should weigh more heavily, than the voice of someone, who became member of the world system, however did not exchange conventional money into it. Or one might like to think that the voice of someone who donated much money should weigh more heavily, than the voice of a member who didn’t donate a single Terra to the world system. Therefore a member can specify on two controllers in the program window how large the power of the money should be and how it should be constituted. The extremes are:
Controller completely to the left - communism = only the individual voice counts. Everyone, independently of his possession of world money, has the same voice. (The weight of the personal voice is equal to the reciprocal value of the number of members in the world system. pV = 1/total members).
Controller completely to the right - capitalism = individual voice x (or +?) money voice. The extreme case: All members decide for the maximum power of possessed money. Everyone sets his Controller completely to the right. One Individual possesses all money in the world, all others possess nothing. If the rich person then would like to vote for something and all the others vote against it, then the voice of the poor mass should by the weight of a feather only (that is by one single voice) weigh more heavily than the voice of the single rich person. The program has to fulfill this premise at any time.
The system calculates how the degree (the multiplication factor or the addition sum - that isn´t quite clear to me yet in the moment) of weight of a members voice grows by his money. Which money? A second controller determines this. Extremes are - either: Only the individual account balance shall be the measure for the weight of the money voice. Or: The taxes donated by a member should be the exclusive measure for it. The system permanently determines the weight of the money voice for each individual member from the settings of all accounts in the system. This weight is projected to each member in his program window (current value and process diagram).
The members select the weighting between possession and donated tax. Their voice in the decision on weight and origin of the money voice remains strictly “communist”, that means it is constantly “1” and uninfluenced by the personal possession or donated taxes. Who enters the world system `til the moment of his separation has a full, single and inalienable right to vote on this point. For all other choice procedures applies: The weight is calculated by the system in the very moment of the choice procedure. It consists of the constant individual voice (1) multiplied with/added to the variable up-to-date calculated money voice of a member.
The system updates the conditions continuously. Each “choice” (change of settings) has immediately influence on the current “election results”. In the counting of voices computers are incredibly faster than election-helpers. We should use this. What else did we invent these machines for?
The individual personal profile are the settings and inputs a member makes on its account. They must be protected and coded, and can only be changed by the owner of the account. Member X changes the controller settings on his account and stores them. He alone has access to his account. Member X cannot see the settings of the accounts of other members. The settings of his account can not be seen by other members. However visible for all members are the processes and current conditions of the sequentially updated statistic evaluation of all settings of all members of the system.
Birth certificate - certificate of death = first login - automatic deletion of a member, after exceeding a certain time without login.
Each individual on earth, who is able to open an account can do so. No minimum age is determined. Correctly trained a five-year old child can already be a citizen of the world and contribute as such to the fate of mankind.
Controller communism capitalism, default is neutral. Neutral is the center between communism and capitalism, i.e. individual voice x/+ half of the money voice. Each member can change the position of this controllers at any time according to his desires.
Everyone decides, the world decides. Many will first deposit only little money as a sample, therefore the is a certain probability to initial “communism”.
This concerns the more effective use of our intelligence. Terra is our residence. Everybody’s residence, the one of Neil Armstrong included. We need a democratic world government. We need a global constitution, we need global laws, global jurisprudence and a global executive etc., we need everything that belongs to it. And we need it not just a little, but complete. Our self-control by collective intelligence, constantly carried by all logged in intelligent minds, represents the better organization form for us humans. It is a step to take like the step mankind already took with the French revolution: Something fair and better, something, that never ever had existed before, inexorably becomes generally accepted. Liberty, equality, fraternity. The French revolution carried these three ideals in its banner and so does the eREvolution.
The superiority of “open source” against closed sources such as Microsoft etc. becomes more and more evident. It almost seems as if the recently “released” mankind, who freed itself from individual spatial borders with the internet, automatically takes the more intelligent direction - and that at a time when it hasn’t even learned yet, how to switch off the permanent advertisements.
The world system is developed in the hope that our species homo - outstandingly intelligent, but unfortunately hopelessly confused and diminished in its instincts - may deliberate itself and use its outstanding intelligence more effectively. The world system - open for all humans - is to offer a global platform for such a more effective use of human intelligence. For a good while yet the internet is the tool, by means of which the largest portion of the world population can be reached and by means of which this largest portion can also communicate itself. National elections, opinion polls or for example an evaluation of the reader letters, that reach a newspaper editorship, are regional, spatially limited examples. Their results do not reflect the global opinion. The world system however offers everybody and at any time the possibility for fair influence on world politics, independent of place of residence, nationality, language, religion, sex or color of skin etc. Each human on earth can join in, should join in, as the world system is the answer to future-phobia. It is a giant potential source for hope.
Everyone is entitled to vote. At any time. Everywhere. He has a voice and a bank account with the initial balance of 0.00 T. Everybody can exchange money into the world system from the conventional money systems by paying conventional money (euro, dollar etc..) on certain accounts. World money (eTerra) is thereupon credited on his account. This is reversible at any time. Everybody can have his possessions of eTerra paid back in conventional money – he loses thereby its assets in the world system (his money voice from possession turns zero, the taxes he donated though are not repayable. They remain the possession of the world system. The weighting portion from tax donation exist on). Everyone can also separate at any time from the world system – he loses thereby his identity and his voice in the world system. With the exchanged or acquired eTerra everybody can acquire goods and services from the other members. He can as well offer goods or services for eTerra.
The system can change. In its flexibility lies the key to its success. The members suggest changes, drafts are submitted or provided on behalf of the world community, these drafts are programmed and ran for test in simulations, the results are discusses, if necessary changes are taken, re-simulating, discussion, etc. The changes finally are taken over in majority decision. The world system must turn out so flexibly that whole program sections can be rewriten within short e. a. as a cause of an evil hacker attack. The code for the program must be strictly “open source”, that is permanently and up-to-date online for everybody.
Dear hackers,
I know that you are first-class hackers and thus you are powerful. The world system needs your cleverness, fantasy and your abilities. Make it your project please and do not harm it - anyway nearly everyone of you would be able to do so.
Ciào
Mattis Manzel
concerning the program surface:
world citizen Login No.: 1
Mattis Manzel
current personal possession: 234.76 Terra (T), process graph
current volume of money in the world system: 356565442.07 T, process graph
current available amount, donated voluntarily as tax to the world system by its members: 345633.56 T, process graph
Payment of taxes process total volume,
personally donated tax process: 14.95 T process graph, scaling after number of the members, thus direct comparison of the personal payments of taxes and the general payments of taxes possible. Individually defined automatic tax donation can be activated.
Expenditures of the world system after total volumes, in the last month:
e.g. payments at world hunger assistance 65653.95 T, payments at UHCR 44555.01 T
List of the topics the most choice procedures were registered for:
Regionally referring topics
Simultaneity of the languages - translation. It requires a world language and it is no question that mankind by turning itself to the English language with the internet agreed on English as the future world language. However automatic translation software that translates into all relevant languages must be implied into the world system. Nobody may have disadvantages for language reasons. On each website of the world system has to be an appropriate button for its translation.
There must be the possibility for each member to temporary deactivate the own voice: inability to take decisions, vacation from the world’s fate. The individual voice and the money voice are temporarily shut down - by that the power of decision of the others should rise. The member can re-activate his voice at any time. Probably this would entail a stabilization of the system.
The jurisdiction. Possible should be the exclusion of humans from the world system by condemnation of the majority. Imagine a world where the new currency has been generally accepted and has displaced national currencies. The termination of the membership and the deletion of a member`s account, the disbursement of the possessions of the excluded member in worthless conventional currency such as Dollar or Euro would mean that this person could never possess any money anymore - and that in a world, where money is a major-column of a collectively constructed justice. This would be a hard punishment. A global on-line eCourt of Justice could impose this punishment against members.
Party structures must be developed within the world system. Many people will be inspired by the possibility to permanently take influence on the world, but will not have the time to be present there as they desire to. Parties should therefore render help with the fact that the controller setting on a members account stay close to a members personal desires. Regarding different questions (different controllers) the member can link to the lines of different parties.
Language is a dangerous threat! Language differentiates between humans. We have to overcome this, because it is disturbing us on our straight way to global unification. The English language has been dominant in the internet since its very beginning, it will be just like that in the world system (that’s why I’m already translating to English in this early state of the eREvolution). Mankind will have to make its homework and will have to learn English. Full stop. The world system should support this where ever possible. It should e.g. offer multilingual program surfaces with an English language part. The decision for one language means the death of the other languages on the long run. The non-English languages will be penetrated increasingly by an English Creole - English itself will dramatically change to a “World English”. What counts is communication. The grammar is written later. Grammar points out structures in existing language for those, who can learn faster like that. Grammar is a friendly recommendation, it never prescribes, it describes. First comes chatting. And that’s exactly the way it’s gonna be. With the drastic increase of world-wide linguistic information flow and the stimulation of the English language by a sudden drastic mixing with all other languages of the world, not only an age of peace and collective intelligence will rise but also an age of language. The gradual fall of world languages such as Chinese, Urdu, Spanish… and German will not change anything about that. Please let us try to archive the dying languages as complete as possible. The non-English languages of the world represent a treasure from the early phases of human evolution we absolutely have to preserve.
Goal: World peace, justice, mobilization of the funds and the application of collective human intelligence
The program. Which parameters are disposable?
Total volume of money in eT (eTerra)
individual money possession in eT
complete sum of taxes the members donated to the world system in eT
individually donated taxes in eT
Donations to the system are voluntary and irreversible. Who donated much steering, has more power.
Program surface:
current balance individual account: x eT
current total volume at money in the world system: yyy eT
individually donated taxes: z eT
Total volume of donated tax: zzz eT
Expenditures of the world system: eT
current possession of the world system:
The extent of the power of the money:
no power
maximum power
“communism” “capitalism”
Which money is to possess power?
the individual possession
the taxes donated individually to the system
A field could be drawn on a sqare. The square has four sides as extreme setting:
Or linking of the money voice to the factor individual tax donations /tax donations altogether
Political parties of existing national states should be refunded in the world system. They should transfer their party programs and look for members. Party members could transfer certain setting templates to their account and by this support a party. The party members however could make corrections on their profiles if necessary. Out goes an early call for the establishment of parties in the world system. Creates parties!
Controller completely downwards: Cannibalism (joke, inserted for the relaxation of the readers. The one or the other of you could possibly need this right now. Straight forwards in the text:
Donated taxes? What is that? The sum of the individual tax donations since beginning of the system? A quotient, time? It seems to me as if a self generated clock pulse could be useful. The system determines when a certain number of tax donations is reached or if a certain sum of total payments of taxes have been received (a primarily technical question, which will arise with the conception of the program).
A process diagram makes clear, how the own tax donations and the total tax donations relate to each other.
For example like that:

Steuer = tax, gesamt = total, individuell = individually
If you let the program multiply the individual tax donations by the current number of members in the system, everyone can recognize immediately whether he (seen globally) rather belongs to the beneficiaries or to those who pay.
You shake your head and think: “Never ever can this be done! “Humans are no good!” - I experienced outbreaks of heart-tearing pessimism from alleged optimists, whom I told about my idea. Humans are as good as the ideas are they are following. World peace and justice, on these broad wings my idea will fly through the net and will leave a spark of hope in the soul of nearly everyone, who deals with it only for a minute. “Perhaps…, perhaps it works nevertheless? Perhaps, with a common global effort, it could become reality?”
Yes, perhaps it really could.
My idea is not an utopia. The term “utopia” origins from Thomas More, author of “Utopia” (1519). The word was constructed from Greek “ou” (= not,) and “topos” (= place), thus “utopia” means “nowhere”. The place for my idea however is our only place, it is Terra, it is everywhere. The term “utopia” therefore describes my idea very poorly. Thomas More packed the impossibility of the implementation of his dream right into the name for it. Well, he had no internet at his time (the internet changes everything). I think, my idea is a good and a practical idea. It can be implemented and therefore it is not an utopia.