Swarm Taxation or how dividend pathways, taxemes, and the instinct to “chase security” could be used to “grow your own taxes”



Johan Nygren



Taxation has traditionally been based on using a deterrent, what could be defined as coercive taxation. With the transition into P2P nationality, and new state 2.0 systems, a new paradigm of distributed virtual states or networked states [1, 2] will replace and make obsolete the legal structures that made people consent to coercive taxation. [3] To maintain certain functions from the welfare state, a new form of swarm taxation, using incentives other than deterrents, would emerge via innovation and self-organization.

The Resilience protocol has described a system for “swarm redistribution”, built on the idea to link transactions together using dividend pathways. [4]

The idea to use the global financial network of daily transactions, and to link these transactions together into a web, is a bit similar to Tim Berners-Lee’s idea from the 80s to link all documents on the internet together with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which gave us the world wide web.



Tendency to “Chase Security” as an incentive in rule-of-law

Basic income targets that systemic bias to chase security, and elevates people up Maslow’s pyramid. The idea with the Resilience protocol is then to use that same bias as an “engine” for a decentralized wealth redistribution system, “swarm redistribution”, rewarding consumers with basic income.



Pyramid schemes could be viewed as “decentralized wealth transfer systems”, where people invest because they are lured into it by the promise of reward. To join a pyramid scheme is not based on rational decisions, but instead its motivated by systemic biases which humans have.

The instincts to secure basic needs could, akin to the instinct to comply with coercion, be viewed as an incentive in rule of law, and could besides swarm redistribution build the foundation for a new form of taxation system, “swarm taxation”, voluntary and market-based taxation.

As long as people receive enough basic income to be incentivized to consume and build branching schemes, Taxemes could be programmed to on top of swarm redistribution also extract tax for swarm-based public services (as long as the service-specific Taxeme manages to spread. )

Taxemes, running on top of the dividend pathway grid, could then be a blank slate for a “general purpose swarm taxation system”. Instead of taxing the transaction, swarm taxation would tax the basic income each person receives, the reward which is also the “engine” of the Resilience system.



Branching schemes as “positive pyramid schemes”

Each transaction will grow links and pathways which connect across many nodes (using node as in a person or a company, steps in a supply chain or employees being paid out), and as tax is collected during swarm redistribution, it will flow down through the pathways. Every transaction connects to its own unique tree of pathways, which extend from it. In the Resilience protocol these trees are called “branching schemes.



There will be billions of branching schemes, in a "perpetuum mobile" swarm redistribution system



In branching schemes, each branch behaves like its own wealth transfer system. The word “branching scheme” is based on pyramid scheme. Pyramid schemes could be viewed as “decentralized wealth transfer systems”, and like pyramid schemes, the Resilience protocol promises a reward if the branching scheme continues to grow. In contrast to pyramid schemes, each person stays on top only for a short time since their pathway decays when it acts as a conduit for tax during swarm redistribution.



Branching schemes are inspired by Nathan Water's idea of "positive pyramid schemes"

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