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You can see this already in action at the moment with [https://stripe.com/gb/climate Stripe's Climate Service] vs the more traditional services like Paypal or the success of companies like Patagonia. However, even though a minority of these companies are forging ahead, there remains a massive problem with accountability and veracity of claims. An abundance of companies are flooding into this space to certify other companies that are "''green''" or "''ethical''" one prime example is the "[https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ B Corporation]" however these types of system mask a massive conflict of interest. For instance, if a company pays a third party to certify itself as ''green'', what if after the payment has been taken the third party fails to certify the company under the criteria? In a market with only one certifier the company have no choice to move (this is the principle of government certification / licensing), however in the market where there is little to no regulation, with bevy of competition (watch Seaspiracy: Netflix) it means a negative feedback loop is generated and self regulation is ultimately doomed. | You can see this already in action at the moment with [https://stripe.com/gb/climate Stripe's Climate Service] vs the more traditional services like Paypal or the success of companies like Patagonia. However, even though a minority of these companies are forging ahead, there remains a massive problem with accountability and veracity of claims. An abundance of companies are flooding into this space to certify other companies that are "''green''" or "''ethical''" one prime example is the "[https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/ B Corporation]" however these types of system mask a massive conflict of interest. For instance, if a company pays a third party to certify itself as ''green'', what if after the payment has been taken the third party fails to certify the company under the criteria? In a market with only one certifier the company have no choice to move (this is the principle of government certification / licensing), however in the market where there is little to no regulation, with bevy of competition (watch Seaspiracy: Netflix) it means a negative feedback loop is generated and self regulation is ultimately doomed. | ||
So where to go from here? Government eco/ethical certification would be great, but that isn't going to happen as GDP is massively reliant on lots of non-eco/ethical activity (See September 8, 2022: " | So where to go from here? Government eco/ethical certification would be great, but that isn't going to happen as to meet the Paris Agreement requirements will require a contraction in living standards GDP. i.e. any governmental democratic poswer is massively reliant on lots of non-eco/ethical activity (See most recently September 8, 2022: "[https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exclusive-uk-announce-dozens-new-north-sea-oil-gas-licences-sources-2022-09-07/ UK to announce dozens of new North Sea oil and gas licences]"). Self regulation isn't going to work, as above. So the only way forward would be design a new machine which deals with these issues from inception. | ||
There are new, benevolent machines around mainly NFP's/Charities, but they have massive issues the main is that they are restricted in their activity as if the piss off the State they may have their Tax status revoked which would lead to a massive reduction in their donations (as many people offset their income tax by donating). Second issue that compounds this their primary tenet although not for profit is survival, so NFPs tend not to be lean, over employ people and have an efficiency rate i.e. how much money actually gets to the cause of around 30% (<nowiki>https://www.charitywatch.org/</nowiki>). | There are new, benevolent machines around mainly NFP's/Charities, but they have massive issues the main is that they are restricted in their activity as if the piss off the State they may have their Tax status revoked which would lead to a massive reduction in their donations (as many people offset their income tax by donating). Second issue that compounds this their primary tenet although not for profit is survival, so NFPs tend not to be lean, over employ people and have an efficiency rate i.e. how much money actually gets to the cause of around 30% (<nowiki>https://www.charitywatch.org/</nowiki>). | ||
Revision as of 13:24, 4 October 2022
Welcome to BurnZero.
An exploration to find new ways of thinking.
To get out of the ecological crisis we need to make a new coalition of people. Unfortunately, we cannot just make another corporation as there seems to be some fundamental issues with this traditional mechanism. BurnZero posits a traditional corporation is analogous to a machine, a machine that operates through its structure driven by its primary objective, profit, meaning everything is subservient to this. This is why Google removed removed "Don't be evil" from its code of conduct / incorporation statement.
Burnzero, suggests that new coalition should use a series of hierarchical Tenets as a type of ROM of the business so this cannot be edited in the future. The first Tenet is Transparency, which many people would think is the WORST thing you can do in business as profit is often made behind closed doors. However, its Burnzero's argument is that in a hyper liquid economy such as the internet where you reach peak state in many sectors purely middle man digital sectors such as tickets sales, online education, cloud services the only point of differentiation is within the moral relativism space.
You can see this already in action at the moment with Stripe's Climate Service vs the more traditional services like Paypal or the success of companies like Patagonia. However, even though a minority of these companies are forging ahead, there remains a massive problem with accountability and veracity of claims. An abundance of companies are flooding into this space to certify other companies that are "green" or "ethical" one prime example is the "B Corporation" however these types of system mask a massive conflict of interest. For instance, if a company pays a third party to certify itself as green, what if after the payment has been taken the third party fails to certify the company under the criteria? In a market with only one certifier the company have no choice to move (this is the principle of government certification / licensing), however in the market where there is little to no regulation, with bevy of competition (watch Seaspiracy: Netflix) it means a negative feedback loop is generated and self regulation is ultimately doomed.
So where to go from here? Government eco/ethical certification would be great, but that isn't going to happen as to meet the Paris Agreement requirements will require a contraction in living standards GDP. i.e. any governmental democratic poswer is massively reliant on lots of non-eco/ethical activity (See most recently September 8, 2022: "UK to announce dozens of new North Sea oil and gas licences"). Self regulation isn't going to work, as above. So the only way forward would be design a new machine which deals with these issues from inception.
There are new, benevolent machines around mainly NFP's/Charities, but they have massive issues the main is that they are restricted in their activity as if the piss off the State they may have their Tax status revoked which would lead to a massive reduction in their donations (as many people offset their income tax by donating). Second issue that compounds this their primary tenet although not for profit is survival, so NFPs tend not to be lean, over employ people and have an efficiency rate i.e. how much money actually gets to the cause of around 30% (https://www.charitywatch.org/).
This is where the T-Corp comes in. The T-Corp will be 100% transparent from the start. This is done financially, by linking all donations centrally to Stripe, then publishing the entire account information on the Decentralised Repository (burnzero.com). Burnzero is working to a roadmap (https://burnzero.com/Roadmap) to become distributed to ensure no retrospective falsification of records can occur at the moment BZ simply publishes its log of changes (https://burnzero.com/Special:RecentChanges) automatically via its Twitter account (https://twitter.com/transparent122).
Then following the incorporation which we hope finalise in the next month, we are going to establish a DSAO to start generating funds to further the project. We already have a DSAO running (https://prepare.online/) however it lacks the Incorporation of the T-Corp, which leads to the bank account which leads to the Stripe which leads to the publication.Start editing
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