The United Senates

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1. What is the United Senates?

2. How does it work?

3. Why is the United Senates important?

THE UNITED SENATES

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1. What is the United Senates?

The best analogy that can be given is an open-source, decentralized app for living communally in a borderless society, with a PHYSICAL location where you can live and learn life-long (entirely for free) called Campuses.

The United Senates is not a specific country or one location, it is a distributed network of Campuses inside governing nation states with a strict adherence to a moneyless economy.

At age 14 or older, any citizen (Liberate) can become a Senator (professional practicioner and service supplier) in the following Senates and may undertake a practical degree (for free) under the tutelage of Senators in the Senate.

Liberates can enjoy free access to a home, food, art, water, transport, technology, without any obligations, they do not even need to use the app. However, their access to non-essential resources will be more limited than Senators but ALL will be provided with a comfortable standard of living and mobility for free.

The concept was inspired by Professor Jane McGonigal's work at the Institute For The Future on the power of crowdsourcing in online game worlds.

2. How does it work?

- The United Senates is a dApp (Decentralized App) which displays real-time feedback on levels of resources in the Campuses of the United Senates. Senators who have joined their respective Senate are collectively responsible for providing access and control of the resources in their Senate to the population.

- By default, the legislative framework is that of the nation state the Campus is in, otherwise, disputes or resolved live, through the open-source app via the communal Philosophy senate.

- Although the United Senates is a moneyless economy, tax must be paid to the nation state in which the Campus is located, this is achieved by selling *surplus* products, services and energy to the nation state at a profit, this money is only used to pay taxes and fees demanded by the nation state - and where required essential materials until they can be produced on Campus.

- Each Senate provides education/apprenticeship and services to the inhabitants of the Campus, including Senators of other Senates. Each Senate must have their resource allocation approved by all other Senates. They are listed below:

- As there is no need for capital, Campuses will be constructed by converting office space into living spaces to provide housing. Where there is a shortage, The United Senates will ask for unused buildings to be donated.

1. Logistics

Responsible for supplying transport, transport infrastructure upkeep, and haulage of people and resources to Campuses

2. Communications

Responsible for supplying signalling, networks and communications to the Campus

3. Arts

Responsible for supplying arts, cultural, media, parties and entertainment to the Campus

4. Civil Engineering & Housing

Responsible for planning, eco-friendly construction, and maintenance of buildings for the Campus

5. Manufacturing

Responsible for supplying metallurgy, woodworking, textiles and 3D printing to the Campus

6. Agriculture

Responsible for supplying food, botanical products to the Campus

7. Environmental Energy

Responsible for green energy generation and supplying this to the Campus

8. Philosophy

Responsible for dispute resolution and this is the only Senate comprised of Senators from every other Senate.

9. Sports, Fitness & Wellbeing

Responsible for supplying sports, fitness facilities and relaxation services (spa) to the Campus.

10. Medical & Dentistry

Responsible for supplying medical and dental care to the Campus

11. Scientific & Computational Research

Responsible for advancing science and computing excellence thereby pushing Campuses.

12. Aging & Additional Care

Responsible for supplying services and resources for the disadvantaged, elderly and citizens requiring additional needs.

3. Why is the United Senates important?

For high income earners:

* Opportunity to excel in greater variety of fields

* More freedom

* Zero personal cost

* Eco-friendly

For low income earners:

* Eco-friendly

* Free education

* No need to work multiple jobs

* More fair

* Zero personal cost

"Intergenerational earnings elasticity, which speaks to the payoff that accrues to being born into higher-earning families, is substantially larger in the U.S. than in many countries that are not routinely featured as the 'land of opportunity."