The Authorship Economy: Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
For centuries, people have debated how to build a fair economy.
Capitalism rewards capital.
Socialism enforces equality.
Both treat life as probability, not consequence.
Both tolerate drift.
Both deny causality.
Authorship proposes something different: a value-based economy anchored in receipts of resolution.
1. Core Principle
Capitalism: value = profit (inputs: time, capital, productivity).
Socialism: value = equality (inputs: labor hours, rationing, distribution).
Authorship: value = receipted consequence.
A receipt is proof of authored resolution — the collapse of drift into order, uncertainty into structure, randomness into consequence.
No receipt, no value.
2. Measurement Framework
Every authored act is measured by four dimensions:
Magnitude — how much drift was resolved?
Frequency — how often must this resolution be re-authored?
Persistence — how long does the resolution last?
Impact — how systemic is the effect (local → organizational → societal → global)?
The weight of a receipt is determined by these attributes.
3. Examples Across Roles
(Janitor, McDonald’s Server, Scientist, Trader, Artist as before…)
4. Distribution System: Proof-of-Consequence (PoC) Ledger
To operationalize the system, every receipt is logged on a ledger:
Each receipt is timestamped, validated, and weighted.
Units are tokenized as Proof-of-Consequence (PoC) tokens.
Tokens = wages, capital, and influence.
Larger, more persistent resolutions → more tokens.
This creates a transparent, incorruptible economy of consequence.
5. Incentives
Capitalism: incentivizes risk, but tolerates bubbles and drift.
Socialism: incentivizes conformity, but suppresses creativity.
Authorship: incentivizes resolution.
The system only rewards collapsing drift into order, proof, clarity.
No reward for noise, excuses, or drift.
6. Wealth Dynamics
Wealth is dynamic, not static.
Not inherited capital (capitalism) or rationed shares (socialism).
Earned each time you author receipts.
Wealth maps onto current authorship, not just legacy ownership.
7. Stability
In capitalism: inflation = money supply expands faster than productivity.
In socialism: inflation = allocations divorced from productivity.
In authorship: value can only expand when new receipts are authored.
This ties stability to resolution density. The more drift collapses, the more value is created.
8. Booms, Busts, and Intervention
Capitalism: tolerates drift until it explodes in bubbles and crashes. Governments and central banks then intervene — stimulus, bailouts, rate cuts — to patch the collapse.
Socialism: suppresses drift through artificial controls, but the illusion of stability eventually breaks, requiring heavy state intervention to restore order.
Authorship: resolves drift continuously. Bursts and receipts collapse tension in real time, preventing the build-up that fuels booms and busts.
That means fewer violent crashes, fewer bubbles, and — critically — less intervention required. The system self-stabilizes through resolution instead of waiting for authorities to step in.
9. Governance
Capitalism: governed by price signals.
Socialism: governed by central directives.
Authorship: governed by resolution itself.
Drift acts as inflationary noise; resolution acts as deflationary anchor.
Governance is not ideological — it is receipted in real time.
10. The Moral Law
Capitalism excuses failure as “risk.”
Socialism excuses failure as “history.”
Authorship admits causality: “I acted, and here is the proof.”
That’s ownership. That’s clarity. That’s accountability.
11. The Future
A world built on authorship doesn’t reward probability or ideology.
It rewards consequence.
The janitor, the server, the scientist, the trader, the artist — all measured by the same law: did you collapse drift into resolution, and what receipts prove it?
That’s not capitalism.
That’s not socialism.
That’s the Authorship ‘value based’ Economy.