We decided to go with a distributive co-operative around some waste to energy tech because waste is a resource and the new mining sites will be those landfill mounds that we have been dumping e-waste in for nearly 60 years.
So with a lot of hours of researching which co-operatives worked and fell over we noticed a pattern of why they failed.
So we made sure that there were actions and feedback loops to keep that positive re-enforcement to keep going. Red Cycle in Australia fell over not because it wasn't good enough, it was too good but with only one factory to process the soft plastics.
People want socialism because it has been proven to work but just like Universal Basic Income, it's been pushed aside for the free market and our public assets sold off to international and large companies that see profit over people and has created more billionaires over the past 3 decades than we have ever seen.
In fact prior to neoliberal economics the amount of billionaires were down to less than a handful, now we have just over 4000.
2000 people engaged with our comment to blog about the Vienna Social Housing project here in just under 6 hours. 💚💚💚💚
Mamdani - Democratic Socialist
What Mamdani has done in 6 months is what decades of NY Mayors said couldn't happen.
Free childcare - Bezos is deciding he needs some halo so has contributed $100million to it but just remember it's an ongoing benefit so unless that donation is regular its purely to gain some shine to his bad rep at the moment especially after buying some fame for sponsoring the Met Gala in 2026.
He rides in the streets so his people can see him, at the terror of his security team no doubt.
He helped the NY Taxi drivers when they needed it and they helped him really get elected.
He taxed the rich who had empty multimillion apartments. They stayed.
He helped tenants get over $300million worth of repairs on apartments where water and power were not working properly along with other issues that were in some cases 2 DECADES OLD!!
This is just 6 months of work.
Imagine what he will do in his entire term.
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It's In Our DNA To Be Collective Thinkers - CoOperative
Sisters Helping Sisters is another campaign and it was around talking to women who are raising kids and juggling hard and so when we saw this we thought this is the basis of the collective right. It takes a tribe to raise a child - one of our core sayings.
Now there are other socialist projects like Spirit Airlines to save the airline through community ownership but pays you a % of profits by how much you put in. We're going for a more equal format and how you can earn rewards in other ways is by how much waste you bring to the transfer stations involved in the Cluster and eventually the businesses we see as reverse logistics partners. We will discuss this more and more and add these kinds of terms into our FAQ's.
Anyways.
We haven't done it that way, we have done it so that there are 3 levels, 2 for community and one of industry.
How It Works
No voting stacking.
Kids can own a share with their parents.
You have to do 1 of 4 actions to stay a member after you join.
Consumer sovereignty is about taking your waste back and benefiting from it. It's containers for change but for more of a slice of the profits. Containers For Change is a product stewardship scheme where the cost is built into the purchase price of the product. This model is set to scale, it is called Producer Stewardship Liability in the EU and will be how people start to care about waste, because it is worth something with this.
The producer prices in the refund you will get just by returning it to a partner. That's the foundation of Product Stewardship Certification.
Product Stewardship Certification
But Tyre Stewardship and Carbon Credits doesn't actually make the co-operative much money, but the Microfactory we have does. Flash Graphene is worth $12350 a tonne and can reduce the carbon footprint of Cement, the one buyer for the output because Concrete contributes 8% of the carbon in the atmosphere AND we have a sand shortage,
We've had a sand shortage for over a decade but the general public does not know that. So that is why when they talk about a Sand Battery that is just coo coo banana cakes.
Governments Are Who We Work With
What you need to remember is there is a difference between Politicians, Policies and Governments.
Our pilot government is the gorgeous green hearted Cassowary Coast Council who are changing how fences are built in this Ag belt to reduce glider deaths, gliders as in furry little cuties not people in a glider.
We have more in common than we do differences and in those difference we get to question our own biases and check a belief that might be there because of propaganda not because of truth.