The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(013)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global Sages
5.1.5 New Wealth System
Earlier, our research showed that the new form of civilization that human society is entering is the wisdom civilization. In other words, the new civilization predicted by Toffler, which was triggered by the third wave, is the wisdom civilization. Human society is transitioning from the industrial civilization era to the wisdom civilization era. Of course, this is just our own opinion and has not formed a social consensus. Therefore, people can use their own preferred names for this new civilization era. In general, as long as you recognize that human society is indeed entering a new civilization era, it is enough. In society, there are many terms for the new civilization such as the information civilization, knowledge civilization, intelligent civilization, digital civilization, virtual civilization, and ecological civilization, etc. At least, these various terms indicate that there is a relatively common understanding that human society is entering a new civilization era.
Therefore, a new economic system, new wealth system, and new financial system that correspond to this new civilization will naturally emerge. For example, in the primitive civilization era, it was a self-sufficient local economy where livestock was the main form of wealth. The medium of market transactions was barter. In the agricultural civilization era, it was a regional economy based on the exchange of goods, where land was the main form of wealth. The medium of market transactions was heavy metal currency. In the industrial civilization era, it was a global economy based on capital transactions, where intellectual property was the main form of wealth. The medium of market transactions was paper money. Whether such generalizations are accurate is not our focus at the moment. In any case, it is an undeniable fact that different civilization eras do have completely new economic and wealth forms. So, where is the new economic system and new wealth system for this new civilization era? How can we recognize or discover them?
From the history of human economic development, we know that previous new wealth systems have naturally developed within human economic activities and market operations. The benefit of this is that they are safe and reliable, but the drawback is that they require a long time to develop. Today, the United Nations and human society need to save themselves, and time is already very urgent. Can we, on the premise of recognizing the basic laws of a new wealth system, artificially promote or construct such a new system? This may be the greatest challenge faced by human society since the advent of economic activity. Such challenges are not without precedent in nature. For example, when people understood the growth laws of forest ecology, they could create a forest through artificial afforestation. A forest ecosystem may take thousands to tens of thousands of years to form under natural evolutionary conditions, but through artificial afforestation, it can be formed in just a few decades. For example, the Saihanba National Forest Park in Hebei, China was created in this way.
We believe that it is entirely feasible to artificially promote the construction of a new wealth system. Because we now have at least two reference systems or benchmarks.
The first is the embryonic new wealth system that has emerged in the field of encrypted digital assets since the birth of blockchain. Such as the Bitcoin system, Ethereum system, EOS system, and many other digital currency economic systems. Their wealth value has nothing to do with the material world and is entirely created by people’s consensus. Such an economic system that does not belong to any individual or economic entity has been running for more than ten years in a self-sustaining state and still exists today, with a huge value of trillions of dollars. It is an incredible economic miracle in the history of human economic development. Undoubtedly, there are many models and experiences that can be referenced and learned from.
The second is the existing capitalist wealth system. After all, the mature model and experience of capitalism are already there. Our biggest concern is safety and reliability, so we can imitate first and then innovate. For example, it can be done in three steps. First, learn from capitalism and play to our strengths while avoiding weaknesses, and construct the embryonic form of the new wealth system. Second, use rapid iteration to continuously refine and improve in practice. Third, quantitative change leads to qualitative change. With long-term rapid iteration, when the quantity reaches a certain degree, a qualitative leap will inevitably emerge. What kind of leap it will be cannot be predicted now and does not need to be predicted.
At this point, we must realize that any new wealth system or new financial system is not 100% safe and 100% secure. Even today, there are still enormous risks in the capitalist financial system. However, the specific model of the new wealth system presented in our practical section can be said to greatly avoid the financial risks of capitalism and is even safer and more secure. But who will believe it? This is what Laozi lamented: “Not enough trust, and disbelief in the facts.” Therefore, the point we want to express in this cognitive section is that the angle of perception of a problem can be changed. Problems that cannot be solved in the original thinking mode may have new discoveries from a different perspective.
Returning to the topic. If the United Nations could recognize that human society is entering a new era of civilization, then there will inevitably be a new wealth system corresponding to this new civilization era. This new wealth system has not yet formed in the world, but we can explore and facilitate it artificially. Therefore, the United Nations can lead human society into the metaverse, build a digital earth, and construct this new wealth system in the digital earth. Finally, printing money in this new wealth system, printing moral money, is entirely possible.
So, is human society entering a new era of civilization? We have answered earlier that it is yes. This new civilization is the wisdom civilization. In a new era of civilization, “New wealth cross civilization ,” which plays a decisive role in the total amount of social wealth, has research conclusions, which is NFT. This NFT is the digital form of human spiritual resources and commodities, as well as its value carrier and exchange carrier. With NFT as a substantive source of value, we can artificially explore and facilitate this new wealth system and print money in this system. Since the value source of this new wealth system is human rather than material and spiritual resources rather than material resources, and we all know that material resources on earth are always limited while human spiritual resources are infinite, this new wealth system can theoretically print unlimited money. Although Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) also believes that a large economy can print unlimited money as long as it can control inflation, they are fundamentally different. The former money is generated by value, while the latter money is generated by the market. Value can be measured, while the market is uncontrollable. Therefore, economic crises will inevitably occur in the latter. In the new wealth system, economic crises will disappear completely.
Therefore, not only can the United Nations print money in the new wealth system, but it can also print an unlimited amount of money to meet the needs of the United Nations’ self-rescue, the needs of underdeveloped countries and regions in the world, and the needs of the earth’s self-rescue. Although all of this sounds so fantastic, it can be logically self-consistent. Not only can more money be printed, but this money is also morally justified. How can we justify this?
The new wealth system we are going to create, while it also imitates and learns from the old capitalist wealth system, we have also said that the financial structures of the two systems are fundamentally different. The new system is no longer a capitalist structure but a humanistic structure. This will lead to capital exhibiting completely different attributes in the two systems.
Under the capitalist financial structure, wealth mainly comes from the material world, and humans can only create value by using “things” as a third party. In other words, if people want to create wealth, they can only bow down to things and become tools of capital. To some extent, the more wealth people want to create, the more commodified it becomes. Under the capitalist mechanism, capital can directly create wealth value, or create wealth value without relying on humans but relying on machines, or turn humans into tools to create wealth value. In such an environment, besides being enslaved by capital, humans have no other choice if they want to create wealth. This is precisely the most immoral aspect of capital in this system.
Marx realized this long ago. “The universal exchange of activities and products has become the condition of existence for every individual, and this universal exchange, their mutual connection, is expressed as a thing alien and independent of them, expressed as a thing. In the exchange of value, social relations between people are transformed into social relations between things; people’s abilities are transformed into the abilities of things.” (Marx’s “Outline of Political Economy Criticism”)
In the humanistic financial structure, wealth mainly comes from the spiritual world, from spiritual resources and commodities. Spiritual resources and commodities are unified with people, and people can directly create value without the need for “things” or other third parties. Just like the example of “novel NFT” mentioned earlier. In such an environment, not only do people not need to rely on capital, but on the contrary, capital begins to rely on people. And this dependence will become stronger and stronger. Until the end, capital, whether it is capital itself or machines, can no longer create new wealth value except by relying on people. Money, capital, value, wealth, and all these economic elements can only revolve around individual human beings. Until the end, capital will complete its historical mission and withdraw from the stage of human society and the economy. In its place will be a statistical data system in the achievement recognition system of human society, whether this statistical data is called “value particles” or “Shared Scores” at that time. It is only an encrypted data that is immutable and eternal. Its main significance is to measure a person’s social contribution and achievement, and how much their spiritual creativity and achievements contribute to human society, how many people share and agree with them. We call such a society a “sharing society”.
This is very similar to the communist society envisaged by Marx and Engels. However, communism requires the abolition of private ownership and the realization of public ownership of the means of production. Practice has proved that this path is difficult to achieve consensus among most people. Sharing society is still a private ownership, but it needs to maximize the value of private assets through sharing. Such a mechanism is more in line with human nature and the social customs that have been baptized by capitalism for hundreds of years.
Returning to the present, the United Nations is leading humanity into the Metaverse, while constructing a new wealth system based on human-centered finance alongside the creation of the digital Earth. In this humanistic financial structure, the source of value is human spiritual resources and commodities. Although the profit-seeking nature of capital still exists, in this system, capital can no longer turn people into tools to seize material resources. If it wants to obtain greater returns, it can only obtain them from human spiritual resources. As a result, for capital to explore more spiritual resources, it must first empower people. Only by empowering more people and discovering more spiritual resources can it maximize its own interests and value. At this point, the nature of capital has undergone a fundamental change. When capital is transformed from enslaving and exploiting people to serving and empowering people, immoral capital becomes ethical capital.
Once we understand this principle, we can fundamentally believe in the new wealth system in the Metaverse. There is no need to worry about the control and obstruction of capital. Instead, capital will voluntarily transform from immoral capital to ethical capital in order to maximize its own value. Ultimately, capital itself is neither good nor evil; it mainly depends on the economic and financial environment. Since the environment is created by humans, the problem ultimately lies with people.
The capitalist financial system is the “Tyrannosaurus rex” of the material world, and if the United Nations can lead humanity into the Metaverse and achieve a new civilization transformation, the humanistic financial system it constructs will be the “Cangosaurus” of the digital Earth. Since humanistic finance is the trend of the times and the future of humanity, capital will eventually enter the humanistic financial system of the digital Earth in pursuit of profit and value maximization. This means that the “Tyrannosaurus rex” will inevitably be subdued by the “Cangosaurus.”
This concludes the cognitive framework.
This section mainly explains the greatest historical and era opportunities that the United Nations faces from the perspective of the evolution and transformation of human social civilization. At least, our research shows that human society is indeed entering a new civilization era, which we believe is the era of wisdom civilization. Therefore, even though the vast majority of people in the world have not yet realized it, the process of human transformation from the era of industrial civilization to the era of wisdom civilization has been quietly underway. From early primitive civilizations and agricultural civilizations to industrial civilization, they are all “material” civilizations. And the era of wisdom civilization will be a “human” civilization. And any new civilization that emerges will inevitably give birth to new economic forms that are adapted to it, including new wealth and financial systems.
Further research shows that in the era of wisdom civilization, “New wealth cross civilization “ plays a decisive role in the new wealth system, and that is NFT. As a “New wealth cross civilization ,” NFT is different from the NFTs being hyped in the market, as it is a digital expression of human spiritual resources and spiritual commodities.
We can clearly see from the GDP structure of American society, which is the most representative of the industrial civilization era in the world today, that in the rapidly growing wealth types, their material attributes are becoming weaker and their human attributes are becoming stronger. This is consistent with the evolutionary trend of “New wealth cross civilization “ that we have summarized and extracted. Therefore, we believe that the new wealth system constructed mainly by “New wealth cross civilization “ NFT will no longer be a capitalized financial structure, but a humanized financial structure.
When the United Nations leads human society into the metaverse and constructs a humanistic financial system on the digital earth, the United Nations can not only print more money, but also print moral money that is consistent with human nature. In the end, this humanized new wealth system can not only save the United Nations and humanity, but also even save modern capitalism that lacks moral constraints.
Therefore, the problem we face now is not whether there are better solutions, but where to seek new solutions. Searching on the material earth for decades, our hopes have become increasingly slim. However, if we can search in the digital earth, it will be an endless blue ocean. It can stimulate infinite new ideas and new hopes.
What we need is just a cognitive transformation.
(to be continued)
The English translation is mainly done by AI and is inevitably not accurate enough. Please refer to the original Chinese text below for a more accurate understanding.
5.1.5 新财富体系
前面，我们的研究表明，人类社会正在进入的新文明形态，是智慧文明。也就是说，托夫勒所预测的由第三次浪潮引发的新的文明，是智慧文明。人类社会，正在由工业文明时代向智慧文明时代转型。当然，这只是我们的一家之言，并没有形成社会共识。所以，这个新文明时代，人们都可以用他自己认为更合适的命名称呼它。总而言之，只要你认可，人类确实正在进入一个新文明时代就行了。社会上，信息文明、知识文明、智能文明、数字文明、虚拟文明，以及生态文明，等等。这么多新文明的提法，至少说明，人们对于人类社会正在进入一个新文明时代，是有相对共识的。
那么，新的文明理所当然会形成与这个新文明相对应的新经济系统、新财富体系和新金融体系。比如，原始文明时代，是自给自足型地方经济，牛羊是主要的财富形态。市场交易载体是以物易物；农耕文明时代，是货物交流型区域经济，土地是主要财富形态。市场交易载体是重金属货币；工业文明时代，是资本交易型全球经济，知识产权是主要财富形态。市场交易载体是纸币。这样的归纳是否确切，我们也暂时不去深究。总之，不同文明时代确实有全新的经济形态和财富形态出现，这是一个我们无法否认的事实。那么，我们这个新文明时代的新经济系统、新财富体系在哪里，我们又该怎么去认知或发掘它们。
从人类经济发展史可知。以往的新财富体系，都是在人类经济活动中、在市场运行中，自然而然发展出来的。它的好处是，安全、可靠，而弊端，就是需要耗费漫长的时间。今天，联合国需要自救、人类社会需要自救，时间已经很紧急了。能不能在认知到新财富体系基本规律的前提下，人为去主动促成或构建一个这样的新体系。这或许是人类社会自有经济活动以来，所面临的一次最大挑战。这样的挑战，人类在自然界不乏先例。比如说，当人们了解到了森林生态的生长规律后，就可以用人工造林的方式，打造出一座森林。一种森林生态，在自然演化条件下，可能需要数千年到数万年才能形成。而通过人工造林，只需要几十年就可成型。比如，中国河北的塞罕坝人工森林就是这样迅速打造起来的。
我们认为，人工主动促成一个新财富系统的构建，是完全可行的。因为，我们现在来做这件事，至少有两大参考系或参照系。
第一，就是区块链诞生后，加密数字资产领域呈现出来的新财富体系雏形。像比特币体系、以太坊体系、EOS体系，以及其它众多数字货币经济体系。它们的财富价值，与物质世界无关，完全是依靠人们共识创造出来的。这样一种不属于任何个人或经济实体的经济体系，在自生自灭状态下已经运转了10多年，至今还活着，还具有以万亿美元计的巨大价值。堪称人类经济发展史上不可置信的经济奇迹。这里面，无疑有许多可供参考和借鉴的模式和经验。
第二，就是现有的资本主义财富体系。毕竟，资本主义成熟的模式和经验都摆在那里。我们最大的顾虑不就是安全和可靠吗，可以先模仿、后创新。
比如分三步走。
第一步，向资本主义学习，扬长避短。先把最初的新财富体系雏形构建起来。
第二步，采用快速迭代的方式，不断在实践中去修正和完善。
第三步，量变引起质变，长期的快速迭代，当数量达到一定程度时，必然涌现出质的飞跃。是什么样的飞跃，现在还无法预料，也无需预料。
说到这里，我们必须意识到，任何一个新财富体系、新金融体系，都不是100%安全、100%保险的。即使资本主义金融体制发展到今天，依然存在巨大风险。而我们后面实践篇，将呈现给大家的新财富体系具体模式，可以说极大地规避了资本主义金融风险，而且，更安全、更保险。但是，谁会相信呢。这就是老子感叹的：“信不足焉，有不信焉”。所以，我们这个认知篇想表达的意思是：认知问题的角度是可以转变的。在原有思维模式中，无论如何也无法破解的难题。换一个角度，或许就会有新的发现。
回到主题。如果联合国能认知到，人类社会正在进入一个新文明时代。而这个新文明时代，必然出现一个与之相对应的新财富体系。而这个新财富体系，目前在世界上还没有形成，我们是可以人为去发掘、去促成的。那么，联合国引领人类社会进入元宇宙、打造数字地球，并在数字地球中构建这个新财富体系。最后，在这个新财富体系中印钱，印道德的钱，当然就完全可能了。
那么，人类社会是否正在进入一个新文明时代。我们前面回答了，是的。这个新文明，就是智慧文明。而在一个新文明时代，对社会财富总量起着决定性作用的“跨文明新财富”，我们也有研究结论，就是NFT。这个NFT，是人类精神资源和商品的数字表现形态，也是其价值载体和交换载体。有了NFT这个实质性价值源泉，我们就可以人为的去发掘和促成这个新财富体系，并在这个体系中印钱了。既然这个新财富体系中，价值源泉是人而不是物，是精神资源而不再是物质资源。而我们都知道，地球上的物质资源总是有限的，而人的精神资源却是无限的。那么，这个新财富体系理论上就可以无限印钱了。尽管“现代货币理论（MMT）”也认为，一个大型经济体，只要能控制住通货膨胀，就可以无限印钱。但它们本质不同。前者的钱是由价值产生的，后者的钱是由市场产生的。价值可计量，而市场不可控。所以，后者必然会出现经济危机。而在新财富体系中，经济危机将彻底消失。
于是，联合国不仅能在新财富体系中印钱，还能印出无限多的钱，来满足联合国自救的需要、满足世界上经济不发达国家和地区自救的需要、满足地球自救的需要。尽管这一切听起来是那么的天方夜谭，但是，它在逻辑上完全可以自洽。不仅可以印更多的钱，而且这个钱还符合道德。这又该怎么自圆其说？
我们将要打造的新财富体系，尽管也是模仿、学习资本主义旧财富体系。但我们也说过，两大体系中金融结构的本质不同。新体系不再是资本主义结构，而是人本主义结构。这将导致资本在两大体系中呈现完全不同的属性。
资本主义金融结构下，财富主要来源于物质世界，而人要创造价值只能通过第三方的“物”来实现。也就是说，人要创造财富，只能拜伏在物的脚下，成为资本的工具。.在某种程度上，人希望创造的财富越大，物化越严重。在资本主义机制下，资本可以直接创造财富价值，或者不依赖人而依赖机器创造财富价值，或者将人变为工具来创造财富价值。在这样的环境下，人想要创造财富，除了被资本奴役，没有其他选择。这正是在这个体系中，资本最不道德的地方。
关于这一点，马克思早就意识到了。“活动和产品的普遍交换已成为每一单个人的生存条件，这种普遍交换，他们的相互联系，表现为对他们本身来说是异己的、独立的东西，表现为一种物。在交换价值上，人的社会关系被转化为物的社会关系；人的能力转化为物的能力。”（马克思《政治经济学批判大纲》）
而在人本主义金融结构中，财富主要来源于精神世界，来自于精神资源和商品。而精神资源和商品与人是统一的，人可以直接的、而不再需要通过“物”或其它第三方来创造价值。就像前面举例的“小说NFT”。在这样的环境中，不仅人不需要依赖于资本，反之，资本开始依赖于人。并且，这种依赖性会越来越强。直到最后，资本除了依赖人之外，无论是资本自身还是机器，都无法再创造出新的财富价值了。货币、资本、价值、财富，所有这一切经济要素，都只能围绕着一个个独立的人类个体而运转。直到最后，资本完成其历史使命，退出人类社会经济大舞台。取而代之的，将是人类社会成就表彰系统中的统计数据，无论这种统计数据那时候是叫“价值粒子”，还是叫“权分”。都只是一种不可篡改、永恒存在的加密数据。其主要意义，是衡量一个人的社会贡献及社会成就。他的精神创造和精神成就，对人类社会有多大贡献，被多少人所共享和共识。我们把这样的社会称作“共享主义社会”。
这与马克思、恩格斯所设想的共产主义社会，已经非常相近了。但共产主义需要消灭私有制，在生产资料公有制的基础上去实现。实践证明，这条道路很难获得大多数人的共识。而共享主义依然是私有制，但需要通过共享来实现私有资产的价值最大化。这样的一种机制，更符合人性、更符合经过资本主义洗礼了几百年的社会大众习俗。
继续回到当下，联合国引领人类社会进入元宇宙，在打造数字地球的同时，构建起一套人本主义金融结构的新财富体系。在这种人本主义的金融结构中，价值源泉是人类的精神资源和商品。虽然，资本的逐利性依然存在。但是，在这个体系中，资本无法再把人变成工具去攫取物质资源。它想获得更大的回报，只能从人的精神资源中获取。这样一来，资本想发掘更多精神资源，必须先成就人，。只有通过成就更多的人、发掘出更多的精神资源，才能实现其自身利益的最大化和自身价值的最大化。此时，资本属性已经发生了根本性变化。当资本由奴役人、压榨人，转化为服务人、成就人时，不道德资本也就转化成道德资本了。
对这个原理清楚后，我们就能从根本上相信，元宇宙中的新财富体系。不但无需担心资本的控制和阻扰，反而，资本会为了自身价值最大化，自愿的从不道德资本转化为道德资本。说到底，资本本身是无善无恶的，主要是看在什么经济环境、金融环境中。而环境是人营造的，所以，问题归根到底还是在于人。
资本主义金融体系，是物质地球中的“霸王龙”。而联合国如果能引领人类社会进入元宇宙，实现新文明转型。所构建的人本主义金融体系，将是数字地球上的“沧龙”。既然人本主义金融体系是时代发展的趋势、是人类的未来。资本要逐利、要实现价值最大化，最终必然要进入数字地球的人本主义金融体系中。这意味着，“霸王龙”最终必然被“沧龙”所降服。
认知的框架，到这里可以告一段落了。
这一部分，主要是从人类社会文明进化、转型的角度，来阐述联合国自救所面临的的最大历史机遇和时代机遇。至少，我们的研究表明，人类社会确实正在进入一个新文明时代，我们认为这个时代就是智慧文明时代。因此，即便世界上绝大多数人都还没有意识到，但是，人类由工业文明时代向智慧文明时代转型的进程，早已默默在进行着。从早期的原始文明、农耕文明，到工业文明，都还是“物”的文明。而智慧文明，将是“人”的文明。而任何新文明出现，必然诞生与之相适应的新经济形态，包括新财富体系和新金融体系。
进一步研究表明。智慧文明时代，在新财富体系中起决定性作用“跨文明新财富”也已出现，那就是NFT。作为“跨文明新财富”的NFT不同于市场上炒作的这些NFT，属于人类精神资源和精神商品的数字表现形态。
我们从当今世界上最具工业文明时代代表性的美国社会GDP结构中，可以清晰地看到，在迅速增长的财富类型中，其物质化属性越来越弱，人本化属性越来越强。这与我们总结和提炼的“跨文明新财富”进化趋势相符合。进而，我们认为，以跨文明新财富NFT为主体所构建的新财富体系，将不再是资本化金融结构，而是人本化金融结构。
当联合国引领人类社会进入元宇宙，在数字地球上构建起人本主义金融体系后。联合国不仅可以在里面印钱，印更多的钱，而且印出的还是符合人性的道德的钱。最终，这个人本化新财富体系，不仅能让联合国自救、人类自救，甚至还能拯救缺乏道德约束的现代资本主义。
所以，我们现在面临的问题，不是有没有更好的解决方案。而是从那个方向去寻求新的解决方案。在物质地球上去寻求，几十年过去了，希望越来越渺茫。而如果可以在数字地球中去寻找，那将是一片无垠无际的蓝海。可以激荡出无穷无尽的新方案和新希望。
我们需要的，仅仅是转变认知。
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