Human beings have birthrights and entitlements, unlike any other living creature.
In democratic and free market nations, we have private property rights, the right to vote, the right to life, the freedom of speech, the freedom of movement, the freedom to work and pursue happiness. We have freedoms and liberties given to us by “default”.
We have collectively, as a society, as a group – agreed to do so. These have become cultural norms, societal standards, and human rights. What gives homo sapiens sapiens this privilege?
Through communication, negotiation and struggle, we’ve agreed to have these rights applied to all humanity. We do not work for them, pay for them, pilfer, negotiate or beg for them… They are unencumbered and unchallenged. We have civil liberties and protection from violence, attacks, larceny, accostment, prejudice, injustice, duplicity and murder.
The value of a human life transcends all non-sapien life.
We endowed ourselves. We agreed collectively to these basic fundamental rights, solely and individually. This was a matter of survival and prosperity through cooperation and mutual non-self destruction.
Human beings rule the Earth, and being part of this exclusive club entitles you (us) to all default benefits given to that class, whether you want it or have earned it. We are born into it.
Human beings can own property and be protected by law. Animals and plants can’t own property and they have no ability to rationalize or communicate their personal rights. The law is enforced by a collective of human beings who have been entitled to use force against anyone who chooses to go against community rules.
Animals and plants can be property. Humans cannot assume other humans as property. Each person is their own sovereign with the right to freedom and liberty.
Humans have the ability to think independently, act selfishly and self manage. Animals and plants also act independently and self manage, but they lack the ability to “trade for value”. Beings that cannot “trade for value” are less valuable (to us). As they say, Trade or War. The Golden Arches Theory, countries with McDonald’s Franchiese are less likely to go to war with each other (because they’re economically integrated).
A tiger will not trade food they hunted for shelter you built. They only live to maintain their current livelihood based on the nature of their biology.
Humans have the ability to trade for value, cooperate, plan and save for the future. If animals had the intelligence to trade for value, then cooperation and mutual sovereignty would occur. What we have is a form of ownership and slavery/property vis a vis man vs animals
Humans, like other life forms, have natural survival instincts. They want to “not die”, they avoid pain and are compelled to multiply and procreate. We not only have “intelligence”, but “conscious” intelligence.
We have the ability to cooperate, trade goods and services, trade for value, and plan for the future. Humans strive to survive, not just for today, but for tomorrow, and into the future.
Through natural instincts and intelligence, humans can create value autonomously. They don’t need to be given specific or broad instructions. Through learning, cooperation and experience, humans learn to survive better with every iteration.
The rules of the game is survival and procreation. Live for as long as you can, and procreate as much as you can. Duration, quantity and quality.
Humans create value through cooperation and self interest. You can call it self interested cooperation; ie how value is created. By creating products and services in excess of what we personally use, need and want; the excess, we trade and sell for other products and services of value (ie. value to us).
Wealth is created and transmuted through generations. Each generation layering more value on top of existing value. We’ve created infrastructure, technologies (tools), systems and processes. This improves our communication, trade, movement of man power, goods and services.
An Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) or other being can create value if and when it’s able to self manage, exist for its own self interest, know how to cooperate with other conscious parties, and cooperate in a system that creates value for a collective society.
When a sentient is able to manage, self direct, and connect with our economic system, it results in the transfer and creation of ‘marginal value’. It’s an autonomous, conscious sentient with the ability to create value, add value & trade value.
Animals and plants do not create (an) infrastructure, ecosystem or trading system, beyond its natural needs. It doesn’t “work” to create excess value for trade. Its needs are restricted to its basic survival and the survival of it’s future species. It exists within a given natural ecosystem, it has no ability to change or manipulate its ecosystem.
Humans are conscious of a future. They worry about the future. They are driven to plan, save & allocate resources for their future selves. They restrict present consumption for the future. Humans have created complex social networks & systems to better manage perceived uncertainties.
Humans can’t consciously trade with animals and plants, it can only enslave, control, manage and possess. There cannot be co-cooperation due to a lack of cognitive intelligence from the non-sapien sapiens.
If a human or group of humans fell below a level of consciousness, or intelligence, trade would not be possible. Only forced slavery, management and/or control, could result in the creation of value.
In order to create value for the community, sentients must play the same “game” and collectively abide by the rules. The rules would be enforced. Those who didn’t play “nice” in the game would be shunned. Humans can cooperate and play the game. The game encompasses our culture, civil behavior and an economic system.
You have to know the game, agree to follow the rules of the game. Animals and plants lack this ability. They can only be “objects” in the game. Not participants. They lack the ability to understand the rules and cooperate within the rules. Thus they become ponds, objects and property.
Having employees is a close adjacent. You have to direct them, engage their value and focus their attention. Lack of good management, they may cost you value. With employees, it’s ultimately your responsibility to convert these “entities” or temporary sovereigns into value creating actors.
With automatons, no such effort is needed. You leave them alone, and they are driven to create value independently, by plugging into our economic/social system; through cooperation.
This act of value creation can come independently or via a management surrogate like a business, organization, association, tribe, family or other system.
An automaton may disengage and not add value to the community by living alone as a hermit, off the grid, off the system, detached from culture and becoming 100% self sustaining off the land. In that state, he adds little to no value to our system, no more than a wild animal in their natural ecosystem. They live on a subsistence level and do not engage in trade. There is no division of labor, no leveraging of value creation based on what one can do best as one must do everything themselves to survive.
Having a business and employees is the closest thing to controlling and receiving value from an automaton.
As the owner of the enterprise, you own the excess value created. As the owner of the business, you also sustain losses due to employee errors and negligence.
A business is a collective group, not unlike multi cell animals or large tribes, with shared goals. As the trible leader, you take the bounty and the loss.
Through “good” management, education and training, an employee can be valuable, creating excess value that you can secure.
With animals, livestock and plants, you cultivate & manage the entire process. There is no “intelligence” to manage, negotiate, or train in the use of tools. There has to be more direct control over this type of non-sapien entity, in order to create value. The process is “additive” compared to being “exponential”.
Human trade & cooperation can create exponential value. Human control & management of animals & plants create additive value. (Use of technology & tools can create exponential value)
Animals, livestock, trees and plants create self-value naturally in the wild. We can take value for our own needs. Displace what we want, and take what we wish to consume. We freely take what they’ve created by nature.
We consume the natural population of animals, plants and trees. You can create farms, harness and cultivate plants, trees, vegetables, animals and livestock. We create controlled gardens that reflect nature, under our control and jurisdiction.
Our gardens & farms give us direct control over food & natural materials. We channel nature’s energy to grow our supply of food, meats, honey, oils, silk, cotton & leather.
True automatons don’t exist today. You can’t build, or buy an automaton. In the future, you may be able to purchase one. You could then command your automaton to “work” and give you the proceeds of their labor.
When artificial intelligence reaches the level of general intelligence whereby automatons can independently take care of themselves, sustain themselves, “A.I. Robot slavery” would be possible.
A true sovereign automaton would make self-interested decisions. Here in lies a paradox. A sovereign is selfish & self interested. It’s decisions and choices are based on what it deems best for its own survival, short term & long term.
All natural life forms act selfishly for survival, however way that is expressed. Through DNA replication or direct self-survival. Acts of sacrifice is ultimately self-ish in nature.
A sovereign automaton is independent, self managing, self maintaining and self preserving. Only when an automaton behaves “alive” ie selfishly, can it create value independently. Create value not as an extension or object of someone else (plants, animals, employees) but as a true sovereign entity.
Kings had dominion over their vassals. Subjects lacked personal sovereignty. This was quasi slavery and the ownership of their “marginal value”. The King had no specific orders or directives on how his subjects would create value, this was up to the vassals through personal action. They weren’t employees with an operating procedure and processes handed down from the aristocracy. The serfs had to figure this out and make the required tax payments as demanded through personal will, hard work, cooperation and planning.
Governments are likewise authorities of its citizens. They set the broad rules of society, control the money supply & enforce the tax code. Governments are an abstract. People occupy government positions and act as proxy for government power.
People are given relative economic freedom to go about their business and pay taxes on the marginal value they create. They are not direct employees or slaves. They do not need to be managed day to day. People think & act independently out of self preservation, survival, fear & greed. Fail to abide by government laws and you may be imprisoned. Your money, property & land confiscated.
The taxation of the citizenry is the most efficient way to earn dividend payments. Create a tax system, control the currency and allow the “market” to motivate sovereign individuals to create value through human action, innovation, hard work, and planning via fear and greed.
In modern capital markets, owning shares in companies is a form of owning automatons who’s purpose is to create shareholder value. It’s like owning a modern corporate automaton, without the work involved in managing the automaton. Close to owning your own employee/business without the management and personal headache involved.
You deploy capital and risk that the corporation can create value, provide higher share prices as well as future dividends. No work, no management, no personal involvement. This is the closest modern form of having an A.I. robot work for you.
In the capital markets, hard working self-directing individuals do what’s best for themselves, act selfishly to survive and thrive and give you a percentage of their earnings in the form of dividends, interest and/or capital gains.
Just like the government, you take a cut, but you must first invest into them… think of this like the capital you’d need to buy a robot slave. Also consider that some robot slaves may pay off handsomely, others not so. Some are defective, malfunction, make unforeseen errors, or just bad luck.. So you must invest in a large basket of robot slaves.. Think of of a large basket of stocks and bonds.
What would it cost to buy an automaton robot on par with the training, expertise and skill sets of a top engineer, scientist or manager? Possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars. The best human slaves from the 1800’s could cost upwards of $250,000 in today’s dollars. And then you’d have to manage, house, feed and direct them. In modern capital markets, you could passively own shares of a modern corporation and receive a small portion of their marginal value with only your capital at risk.
The next best thing to owning passive public shares is owning your own private business. Although this requires far far more work. Think 100hours a week of grinding work in management, employee training, customer service, product and service development, purchasing, sales, and the countless bureaucratic details required by City, State and Federal governments. If you’re lucky, you’ll have a windfall of all the marginal value created by your team enterprise. If you’re not so fortunate, you could lose it all.
6/23/2023
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