BUXXB

Description

BUX (Be You Exchange), is a zero-cost exchange (ZCE) that is scalable from the size of communities to in and between nations. The concept of BUX is to shift incentives from unsustainable product manufacture and processes to sustainable ones. This also shifts what is considered as wealth, allowing people to receive what they need to create what they want, without the need of excess. It drives status from the waste of dominion and ownership creating commodities to obsolescence to the efficiency of sharing experiences to possible redundancy.

It is built solely on the basis of an exchange and has no commodity value, therefore, unlike the current ICO market, is not available for speculation in currency or commodity markets. Still in concept, the model is validated by other ZCEs such as NumeroSet and TUMIN. While these have different parameters, the core is none demand a cost, therefore are connected for testing with their differences to know what parameters outside of zero cost work best to empower the most people to have status creating sustainably.

Details

Money

The present focus solely on human nature misses the need for an environment to its evolution to happen. It is quite obvious that, with all the fight for change we go through, predominantly through politics, little has changed. The one constant throughout change has been and is debt-based currencies (DBCs). Therefore, this is the one area that needs more attention to for any substantiative change to take effect. Current exchange innovations do not change the parameters of currency, just change the costs within them, which changes little. They concentrate on the characteristics of currency, which are incidental to the parameters of currencies.

There are 4 basic parameters that change how people will use an exchange model:

1 Amount available (finite or infinite).

2 Distribution model.

3 What it is based on (tangible or not).

4 Costs or not (usury, demurrage, fees, or none at all).

Unlike any other commodity, money is the only one that has an interest cost. Why this is the case is not important. That is does is. This affects the relationship to money above anything else and inherently makes all things created from it diminutive to it. It would be obvious why owning money would be so desired, but this contradicts the balance of nature, competitive as it is. As no innovation takes out this core concept, nothing much will change. BUX flips the model to afford being competitive, but working in balance as in anything created, synergy and empowerment are key to be given resources and labour for ideas to come to fruition.

ZCEs

In any variation to a ZCE, the central idea of one being used is to drive creating experiences, customised on demand, that empower the most people in the most sustainable way possible. The idea is to stabilise or even reduce prices for higher quality experiences as required. This keeps the purchasing power high, distributed primarily evenly, with little, if any, need to control pricing. This also allows the market to be free, as it is meant to be in capitalism, truly allowing people to access what empowers them the most without the need for ownership.

Outside of their having no cost which is fixed, varying factors include:

5 If there is a currency reward for joining.

6 If the ZCE is run with or without labour charges.

7 If controlling the amount of currency in the market is separate from the amount of work being created.

8 If education is credited to participants or still considered a transaction between parties.

BUX is a specific ZCE that dominates the trusting part of human nature without compromising our competitive nature. It capitalises on using a competitive free market, but also incentives collaboration as the most effective way to create the best for the most people. It does not take away the autonomy of business, but does take away it's current sustainable waste of resources. It changes the cultural aspect of business from its culinary backstabbing nature to a sport, learning from competitive collaboraiton to be better together for a new day while also valuing what is created as art.

To facilitate trade without the inherent disempowering nature of DBCs, BUX can be called anything a community wants to call it, but as the parameters can be considered the same across communities, it will be BUX named to identify the community/country that uses it, and what specialties, if any. Unlike communities using DBCs that would trade currencies between them, this is redundant in BUX as the only difference could be the price from other communities that could make buying outside one's community more advantageous.

A crucial framework in BUX is that there is no incentive whatsoever to use resources destructively, as commodity does. Therefore, anything that involves any inefficiency, such as war,

Application in Societies

There are core industry orbits that are ubiquitous in any social structure: food. clothing, shelter, tech, healthcare, and transport. To scale these are 2 core centres: education and energy. Anything else is subject to how empowering, or disempowering, these are managed. The effects of these using DBCs in managing these is blatantly obvious to how they have been so destructive to Earth. It can be considered that all cycles, economical and societal, have been created by using DBCs. This is why changing the exchange model to a more empowering model use can have such a huge impact.

DBCs are inherently disempowering as they are built on fear-based game theory of human nature. This is why money and power-based politics work together; fear is an easy sell to limit the reactions of people which makes that easy to decipher and act on. Both are built on corruptive foundations, delusions of grandeur, and power over others. This is also why many industries not only exist, but are bloated, in assisting with the compromise: banking, defence, sects, insurance, anti-trust, sensational media, misleading advertising and public relations; to name a few.

With ZCEs, the energy required running these sectors is reduced substantially, if required at all. Using DBCs leads to compromises in ethics: not knowing whose to follow, and being caught, again, in the status of finding a solution, not effectively applying them. As ZCEs promote efficiency empowering all aspects involved, the ethic becomes creating excellence for self and all, which respects all people involved by default. Therefore, oversight to create excellence, what DBCs profess to achieve yet must be surveilled continuously, becomes virtually redundant.

Human Nature

There is a virtually universal belief that human nature is flawed: greedy, competitive to destruction, and needs extrinsic motivators to do something. More correct is we adapt to environment to be as efficient as possible to be successful. In that journey, we default to trusting information by our peers to facilitate this, so it is easy to trust who suggests to be fearful of. Once that seed is planted, the rest is history as we know it today.

More information

• Documented here at https://medium.com/@buex