Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society
Democratic Value and Money for Decentralized Digital Society
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去中心化数字社会的民主价值和金钱
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2020
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B. Ford
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传统货币体系经常使世界上最脆弱的大多数人口遭受破坏性的金融冲击，并显然允许长期不受控制的全球不平等。鉴于这些基本的失败，我们如何才能避免问主流宏观经济原则是否实际上与平等或保护人权和尊严等民主原则相容？这篇思想论文对这个问题进行了建设性的探讨，探讨了替代货币原则如何可能导致一种更符合民主原则的货币形式--我们敢称之为“民主货币”吗？在这种替代宏观经济哲学中，货币的供给和需求都必须植根于人民，以便给予所有人平等的经济参与机会。货币的设计必须围绕平等，不仅要在特定时刻对所有活着的人平等，而且要在过去和未来几代人平等，保证我们的后代不会被祖先的经济运气或不幸所奴役。民主货币必须可靠地为所有人提供一种手段，使他们能够在经济繁荣和衰退的时候进行日常商业、投资和价值创造，并必须对金融不平等施加严格的限制。民主资金本身必须以民主方式管理，必须在经济上促进民主国家公民对可信和公正信息的需求，以便做出明智的集体决策。实施和部署民主货币的一种有趣方法是通过建立在个人身份证明基础上的加密货币，为每个选择参与的人类参与者提供一个平等的股份单位。这种加密货币与以现有货币计价的普遍基本收入（UBI）既有有趣的相似之处，也有重要的不同之处。
Classical monetary systems regularly subject the most vulnerable majority of the world's population to debilitating financial shocks, and have manifestly allowed uncontrolled global inequality over the long term. Given these basic failures, how can we avoid asking whether mainstream macroeconomic principles are actually compatible with democratic principles such as equality or the protection of human rights and dignity? This idea paper takes a constructive look at this question, by exploring how alternate monetary principles might result in a form of money more compatible with democratic principles -- dare we call it "democratic money"? In this alternative macroeconomic philosophy, both the supply of and the demand for money must be rooted in people, so as to give all people both equal opportunities for economic participation. Money must be designed around equality, not only across all people alive at a given moment, but also across past and future generations of people, guaranteeing that our descendants cannot be enslaved by their ancestors' economic luck or misfortune. Democratic money must reliably give all people a means to enable everyday commerce, investment, and value creation in good times and bad, and must impose hard limits on financial inequality. Democratic money must itself be governed democratically, and must economically facilitate the needs of citizens in a democracy for trustworthy and unbiased information with which to make wise collective decisions. An intriguing approach to implementing and deploying democratic money is via a cryptocurrency built on a proof-of-personhood foundation, giving each opt-in human participant one equal unit of stake. Such a cryptocurrency would have both interesting similarities to, and important differences from, a Universal Basic Income (UBI) denominated in an existing currency.