Re: Holigent

Hi Jeff, Nic,

Have been working on same problem. Here in Canada we invest public funds to start or promote private business controlled by investors who can only appreciate a profit when they dispose of their assets to the highest bidder. Many assets developed by Canadians. often with taxpayer's money, get sold to foreign interests with the loss of jobs, intellectual property and associated long term return on investment. This model of public/private venture does not produce a sustainable anything.

Am presently working up a "Community Corporation Act" that would create a new type of corporation with individual investors owning a maximum 1% equity and must be a resident and/or an employee of the community corporation and a local government owning 25%.

The intent is to "simplify" governance of the community, distribute power/profit to the residents of the community instead of to distant owners or politicians who really don't have a clue how anything works, and "give" 25% of the profits to the Government so they can continue to fight over whose more important and who should get paid the most.

Yes, the problem is economics. - but the solution is something that the people who currently benefit from it really don't want changed. We have to create these little islands of sanity to function within the current structure. They have to be successful and fun places to live, and there has to be a way for outsiders to join or build their own communities.

I'm going to need help with this one - I really don't know what I'm doing, -  and if anyone would like my theory on Economics I'll send a pdf                  projectathena.ca@gmail.com