As a further demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design this modification of the garden XHTML presents our token economy.

To see this content in a new garden style, select a random style. Or go to our skeletal style.

The Road to Enlightenment

The CSS Zen Garden (CZG) being oriented to graphics designers only shows 1 side of CSS style versus content separation.

My goal in the CL-XSL progject is to provide coordinate software mechanisms to address the variablity of content. The site MyOpenProjectSpace.com provides mechanisms to assist graphic, software, and other stakeholders in using these mechanisms .

A few pages like this, as part of that effort, show various different static texts in the CSZ themes. Obviously there's a lot more to doing this with active content but you get the idea. This particular page presents an update of the Token Economy Thesis, performed 2009-12-17 in my amateur skeletal style. The versions selectable by the restyling links have the original text.

So What is This About?

This is about our token economy. To fulfill the ideal of free enterprise it is necessary to complete the disintermediation of parasitic 3rd parties standing between the worker and society, in particular the knowledge and creative workers. This disintermediation becomes irresistable at the point at which the cost and value of function developed by the disintermediated processes even approaches that of tradtionally managed ones.

The assignment of numerical value, represented in an actual currency is a key part of any rational free enterprise economy. It is the constriction of the conversion of real (use) values to values controlled by interests which are in effect parasites on production processes that is massively irrational. By providing a mechanism to cut out this cancer from free economic activity we are in fact making a reality of the concept of free enterprise. Our belief is that even though the domination of the aforementioned social form has seemed inescapable, in fact the real producers in actual economic activity are only awaiting the provision of mechanisms enabling truly free trade to demonstrate the fact that thier true productive powers have only been waiting to burst thru the contraints of institutional parasitism. That's what this is about, providing those mechanisms.

Participation

Besides paying for the overhead of providing the service chargin a small fee accomplishes these purposes:

  1. A small transaction is the cheapest way to verify identity, it is currently priced at less than 1 &euro recurring monthly for a year and less than 2 for a single month.
  2. Participants are likely to take their participation more seriously if they are positively identified paying members of the domain.
  3. Maintain truth of accounting axioms of a dominion.

I generally waive the fee for participants with whom I have personal contact, but eventually everyone will be expected to take some ownership of the economy as We are simply it's operator and developer.

If I am already working with you on a project, you probably have some idea of what this all means practically. If you using the services provided here for your external projects, see requirements below.

Benefits

The inter-dominion token economy consists of:

  1. A server from which to make and interact with service providers and clients for each account holder ...
  2. Serves as a point of delivery and Continuous Integration for our projects and projects built upon them.
  3. Public Job Shop   provides services for developers and their clients to build applications based on our infrastructure.
An alternative DNS root based system is being built within this system, and it will be after a start-up phase developed solely by me, self-managing, and self-sustaining by its base of dominion owner/operators.

For those dealing with me personally, to use some software such as WinWin, you must have an X-server. You can easily get and install one on your computer if you are using a pc to access the internet. Our WinWin page will show you how to get and install a free one for Windows if you don't already have.

To participate in the inter-dominion token economy you must have authenticated with Us either personally or via a transaction. The cost for this is about 2 € / month.

The easiest way is to get a paid account but you can also setup a dominion from scratch on your own servers for a small redistribution and service fee.

Your real identify does not have to be revealed to others but it is an essential part of our system concept that there are no actually anonymous dominion users.

All transactions are &Euro; denominated for uniformity and consistency.