Presentation on the common purpose economy.

1. The Common Purpose Economy

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3. Competition
In fact it’s not a race Or winner takes all It’s about finding your niche
Good competition helps direct us to where we’re best able to contribute
and helps us collaborate without even intending it.

4. Contribution
Fulfilment is through
making our best
contribution where
and when we see the
need.

5. Income
Shared Base Income
Guaranteed Income
Universal Basic Income
A half share of all the income from trade into a base income
we all receive.

6. Bertrand Russell -
“…a certain small
income, sufficient for
necessaries, should be secured
to all, whether they work or
not…”
Proposed Roads To Freedom
(1918)
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
“I am now convinced that the simplest
approach will prove to be the most
John Kenneth Galbraith (economist) - effective - the solution to poverty is to
“…provision of a basic income as a abolish it directly by a now widely
matter of general right… discussed measure: The Guaranteed
If the individual cannot find (or does Income.”
not seek) employment, he or she has Where Do We Go From Here? (1967)
this income on which to survive.”
The Affluent Society (1958)

7. Philippe Van Parijs (Belgian political economist) -
“A basic income is an income paid by a political
community to all its members on an individual
basis, without means test or work requirement.”
Basic Income: A Simple and Powerful Idea for the
21st Century (2000)., Redesigning Distribution.
Götz Werner (German tycoon) -
“…the point of an income is to
enable [people] to work
[contribute], rather than income
being the reason for working.”
Grundeinkommen (2008)

8. Incentive
It’s not about getting rid of the
financial incentive
It’s about prioritising the
incentive of fulfilment

9. Ideas & Growth
Some products will always be limited -
products from limited resources. There
will always be an income from these to
share.
But other products tend towards
abundance - products from unlimited
resources, e.g. ideas & knowledge.
With the sharing of income unlimited
products tend to become free, as we
can more afford to provide them for
free.
With shared income and shared ideas,
growth is unlimited and shared.

10. Production
Limited resources are
converted to unlimited
product by the multiplier Bespoke units drop to the
of unlimited ideas. cost of mass produced units
through flexible computer-
controlled automation.

11. Market
UNDP Human Development
Report 1992, New
York, Oxford University
Press
The market is good at distributing
goods and services (to a point)
But is poor at distributing incomes

12. Pricing
Massive markets with minimal duplication &
distribution costs could lead to per unit pricing
that is a fraction of even the smallest unit of
currency.

13. Money
Facilitates trade, and is a requirement for security, but does not fulfil our potential

14. Finance
Finance for production, not speculation

15. Value
Value is in fulfilment and in the level of the shared base income that enables it

16. For further information visit…
OUR SYSTEM
http://oursystem.info
The Common Purpose Manifesto
http://thecommonpurpose.com