Newland 2084

Preface

Greetings. My name is Lyno. I am the author of the electronic book being read. I am also the producer of the audiobook being listened to and the movie being watched. Whenever a Newland™ Member consumes these works, their resulting consumer Time Investment is countable in Newland™. Counting the consumption time of Newland™ Licensed works is a useful feature available to Newland™ Members.

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Newland™ 2084 Introduction

DISCLAIMER

This book is a futurist work of fiction. The Newland™ Cooperative of Minnesota is real. References to Newland™ generally signify patent claimed objects.

In the year 2084:

Humans decide matters by means of the LivingVote™.

The population of earth remains stable at 6.912 billion humans.

Basic human needs are delivered by the Newland™ Cooperatives.

Once a human’s basic survival needs are met and their daily work is done, they typically seek to fill their allotted time of life upon earth with family, friends, and projects. Others love adventure, thrills, and similar behavior patterns designed as ways for humans to spend time. Commerce creates jobs where humans earn money to buy products and services. Some humans seek to put their money to other purposes, such as various notorious usury-seeking behavior patterns. Humans immerse themselves in all manner of behavior patterns, designed to simply pass the time. Some humans seek to do good works with their time. Some of these behavior patterns are basically outside the operating boundaries of Newland™, wherein Time Investment is the measure of one’s share in the Royalty Fund distributions. Wages and salaries are one way to measure the value of time. Time Investment is a different way to establish the value of time. Newland™ Time Investments affect the flow of Newland™ money, as explained later.

Human time spending is subject to a vast and sometimes complicated set of constraints imposed by the various layers of government, from international standards and constraints, down to local community standards and constraints. Within Newland™ Geographic Polygons, members MUST follow certain behavior patterns established by means of the LivingVote™. Similarly, polygon members MUST NOT follow certain other behavior patterns established by the LivingVote™ of the members of the Geographic Polygons.

Where did all these behavioral pattern rules come from? Why do the exist at all? These behavior pattern constraints exist for many reasons. One primary motivation for these rules is that Newland™ polygon members must seek those behavioral patterns that attain and sustain Newland™ polygon stability. Typically, other possible behaviors are permitted, although some are ill advised. Behavior patterns that tend to destabilize a polygon are to be avoided.

When originating within government and various organizations, behavioral constraints are a touchy area because they are sometimes unpopular dictatorial commands coming down from orders on high. Human behavioral constraints may be imposed by a dictator or may become law by some democracy process or some republic process. The constraint-making processes in a republic are easily corrupted by money, as proven by the early effects of vile corruption experienced by the United States during the early decades of the twenty-first century. These observable facts prove the value of the democracy of the LivingVote™ in operation within all cooperatives based on the Newland™ Cooperative Pattern.

Within the human behavioral constraints imposed directly or indirectly, by layer upon layer of government, humans are free to enjoy what remains of their privileges, rights, and freedoms. Such means of governance as described in previous sentences constitute the prior art of governance. The LivingVote™ represents the new art of governance. The LivingVote™ is the preferred decision-making process for matters of basic human affairs, as well as affairs of the polygons, cooperatives, clubs, families, and so forth. The LivingVote™ behavioral pattern is embedded within the startup Newland™ Cooperative behavioral pattern.

Once a human’s duty is done, a steady state of happiness is often sought as an important goal of human life. The feeling of happiness is a neurochemical flow state emerging from the fulfillment of basic human needs being delivered by Newland™ Cooperatives.

A Newland ™ Cooperative is owned and operated by its members. The operational characteristics of every Newland Cooperative are established and adjusted according to the ongoing and evolving LivingVote™. The LivingVote™ represents an emergence behavioral model. Rather than behavioral constraints being handed down from above, in the manner of a command and control hierarchical decision-making process, the LivingVote™ embodies the principles of power and control bubbling up and emerging from below. Every human feels like they have a direct say in matters of every Newland™ Cooperative of which they are a member.

In Newland™, one can live life with all basic human needs like air, water, food, housing, health, and education being provided in the form of loans at zero interest being repaid from future income. Once a borrowing person gets back on their feet, they pay back their NetZero™ loans (at zero interest) during the employment phase of their life. Loans instead of gifts became all the political rage in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Because Newland loan money is always paid to independent third parties, cash in hand is simply not available. Cash in hand is, quite simply, generally a bad idea. Among its many ills, cash in hand establishes liquidity in illegal markets like drugs and weapons. Such markets are typically deemed unlawful by the LivingVote™ of the Geographic Polygons.

Members of Newland™ derive immense benefits from their membership. By helping meet all basic human needs, Newland™ ensures sufficient Time Investment opportunities to fill a forty-hour week are available for every Newland™ member. When it is necessary for Newland™ to write a check to a third party, the required money appears in Human Trust Account™ (HTA). Upon distribution to a vendor, all taxes and fees are paid. The money is routed within seconds from one human’s HTA into another HTA or an Organization Trust Account™ (OTA). The mechanics of distribution are subject to the constraints imposed by the LivingVote™ decisions of the HTA Guardians.

What Is Newland™?

Newland™ is a collection of patent claims, copyright claims, trademark claims, and trade secret claims. This collection is owned by the Newland™ Cooperative organized in the state of Minnesota. The collection is subject to the laws of the United States. The copyrighted collection of writings and drawings expands as members contribute more works. The resulting Newland™ Cooperative income is distributed to the cooperative members based partly of each member’s share of Time Investment associated with producing these works.

The patent claims in this book are for Newland™ as a whole, as well as for various subsystems within. The whole and its parts are patent pending, which gives them protection under the law. They meet the criteria for patent claims because they are novel, have utility value, and they are non-obvious. These facts will be understood by reading this book titled Newland 2084. The mainline of the Newland™ story explores various contexts and perspectives on these inventions.

Newland™ and its parts have a high utility value for humans, as well as for organizations comprised of humans. This overview provides a high-level understanding of Newland™ as a whole. The individual parts of Newland™ are explored in depth within the chapters.

Individual humans may be eligible to become members of Newland™. The same goes for organizations. Each human and organization gets one vote in Newland™ affairs. Members of Newland find value in the application of Newland™ systems to the affairs of life. Newland™ systems help lower the anxiety level of human living. They do so by providing products and services to both humans and organizations. Because of the novel and high utility value of handling Time Investment directly, Newland™ products and services change the dynamics within the time/money exchange market.

Newland HTA™ Account

Newland™ enriches each human’s time utilization in several dramatic and novel ways. Each Newland™ Member benefits from the innovative, useful, and unique ways in which their Time Investment is managed by their associated Human Trust Account™, also known as their HTA™.

Humans benefit from how their HTA utilizes their money. If they have money available in their account, their HTA uses their account’s personal spending authority to make necessary pre-approved third-party payments. The payments can be made on a recurring schedule. They can be based upon presentation of a bill. They can be derived in the moment, when the HTA-associated human presents their state-issued ID card as verification in a Newland™ Front Counter purchase. When sufficient spending authority is not available, the necessary NetZero™ loan funds provide an automatic zero interest loan of the money necessary to take care of current bill-paying matters like recurring payments for rent, food, transportation, and education. The payments are made by an electronic funds transfer into some other HTA or OTA, as the case may be. Checks may be used in special situations. Cash never gets into anyone’s hands. This Newland™ requirement prevents the cash from moving into the cash economy, where transparency and accountability is lost.

By means of their HTA account, Newland™ member humans gain access to a safety net. Newland™ helps them take care of their basic human needs. It takes care of handling their HTA account activity. Newland™ withholds the necessary 10 percent universal tax from every money transaction. These taxes are forwarded to the government, as required by law. The same things apply to each organization’s OTA account. Because of these requirements, transparency of currency flow is preserved.

Currency exchange is always handled based on the currency ratio determined by the respective currency value of one hour of the local economy income of a college graduate paid at the rate of local geographic regional economy of an above average college graduate. For example, the average hourly rate in the United States is 24 dollars per hour. Assuming that another nation’s average rate is 240 currency units per hour, then that human would receive 240 currency units in the currency of their local economy. This conversion rate, by the way, is independent of fluctuations in the currency markets. The conversion rate is always based upon local hourly rates in the producer’s economy as paid by local economy businesses. Hourly rates paid by international companies are not considered in the local because they distort the hourly rate in the local economy. Hourly rates are based upon the human involved and their home economy. Transitions based upon immigration are adjusted based upon long cycle moving averages. This patent-pending currency exchange technique stabilizes Newland™ economies.

The Newland™ Membership, as a whole, benefits from the HTA account’s automatic switching capability, between using available spending authority versus using NetZero™ loans. The money flows between spending authority and NetZero™ in either direction as needed. The HTA™ operates in loan mode for a while. Then the HTA™ switches back