<font face="arial narrow,sans-serif">We're in the bylaws discussion at an advanced stage of considering budgeting where the way to keep the rent paid and the lights on and so on seems satisfactorily settled but whether and how to fund andor support the interests of subgroups and their subprojects is unclear. This portion of the Telekommunisten Manifesto presents the best thinking I've seen so far on how that might work and why it might be important to do, and it seems to me to fit well into the framework we have established so far.</font><div>
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</font><div><font face="arial narrow,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow,sans-serif">"</font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">The function of the Venture Commune is to acquire property and allocate it to its members. The commune acquires property when requested to do so. The members interested in having this property offer a rental agreement giving the terms they wish to have for possession of this property, the Commune issues a series of Bonds which are backed with the demanded property-itself as collateral and the offered rental agreement as guarantee. This series of Bonds are sold with a public auction setting the interest rate. If the Bond sale clears, the property is acquired and the rental agreement is executed. The property returns to the commune whenever those renting it no longer want to or are unable to meet the agreed terms, at which point the Commune offers it, once again at auction, to its members, who bid on new rental terms. If there is no more demand for the asset, it is liquidated. After the Bonds that where issued to acquire an asset are fully redeemed it becomes fully owned by the Commune. The remaining rental income the property earns is from then on divided up equally among all members of the commune and paid out to them, proceeds from liquidated property is likewise divided. In this way, members using exactly their per-capita share of the commune’s fully owned property neither pay nor receive any payment, since what the pay in rent for that property will equal what the receive as their share of this income. Member’s using more than their per-capita share will pay more, and presumably be choosing to pay because they are employing the property as a productive asset, and thus earning enough to pay. Conversely, member’s using less than their per-capita share receive more in payment then they pay in rent, thus being rewarded for not hording property. The main activities of the Venture Commune, managing bond s and rental agreements do not impose a high level of co-ordination and, just like the computer networks that manage the allocation of immaterial goods, are activities that are well suited for computerized automation. Many Venture Communes could be exist and as they become interrelated, merge together forming larger, and more stable and sustainable, communities of commons-based producers."</span></div>
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