The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(019)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global Sages
5.2.5 Native and Derived Wealth of the Digital Earth
In 2023, Bernard Arnault replaced Elon Musk as the world’s richest man. Since 2018, the Frenchman who runs LVMH has consistently ranked in the top 5 of the Forbes global billionaire list. The top 10 are mostly Americans who operate in high-tech industries, so Bernard Arnault is a bit of an outlier. After the global pandemic in 3 years, more than 90% of the world’s real economy has experienced a significant decline in assets. However, as a real economy group, LVMH’s assets have not only not declined, but have actually increased. This is quite strange. The question is, is LVMH really a real economy group?
Of course not, its main wealth value lies in virtual assets, which is reflected in the value of its many luxury brands. Taking an LV bag that sells for $2,100 as an example, its practical value as a real economy is no more than $100 (the entire manufacturing cost of this bag in China is less than $50). The added value of $2,000 comes entirely from its brand value. As a luxury brand, it undoubtedly meets people’s spiritual needs. People who use this bag, whether to show their identity, flaunt their wealth, or pursue a certain taste, are all satisfying their spiritual needs. Therefore, fundamentally speaking, LVMH is an economic entity that produces spiritual goods. Of course, some of its products also satisfy people’s material needs, although the value of this part is extremely low, it still exists. Therefore, we tentatively call it “quasi-spiritual goods.” Like De Beers diamonds, they are also “quasi-spiritual goods.” All luxury brands and all jewelry companies in the world actually produce “quasi-spiritual goods.” The main function of such goods is to satisfy people’s spiritual needs, not material needs.
If we call the value that satisfies people’s material needs in these products “native wealth,” then the value that satisfies people’s spiritual needs can be called “derived wealth.” For example, De Beers diamonds purely satisfy people’s spiritual needs. They do not have any practical components that satisfy people’s material needs. For this type of product, we regard the value of its material cost as “native wealth.” The added value of the brand that satisfies spiritual needs is “derived wealth.” Furthermore, a gold mine that has been explored is valued as “native wealth.” After processing it into gold jewelry, gold necklaces, and gold ornaments, the added value that is reflected is “derived wealth.” In general, all material resources on Earth represent “native wealth.” The value of products and goods produced using these resources, their added value, represents “derived wealth.”
To avoid ambiguity, we define the concepts of “native wealth” and “derived wealth” as follows: Broadly speaking, “native wealth” refers to all wealth values that cannot be further enhanced or that can be further enhanced but have not yet been enhanced. The narrow definition of “native wealth” refers only to the value of exploitable raw resources, including material and spiritual resources. Broadly speaking, “derived wealth” refers to all additional wealth values created based on the existing value basis. The narrow definition of “derived wealth” refers only to the additional value created by improving the spiritual or material attributes of a product.
According to the above definition, let us make it clear. The human spiritual resources contained in the digital earth are the native wealth on the digital earth. On the digital earth, the spiritual products and commodities developed and innovated using these spiritual resources are all derived wealth. Whether it is native wealth or derived wealth, its form of expression is NFT. To be precise, it is a NFT of new wealth across civilizations.
After Goerl gave a precise concept of the Digital Earth, which is completely different from our physical Earth, we still use the term “Digital Earth” for comparison and cognition with the physical Earth. Both the native wealth and the derived wealth can find corresponding cases on the physical Earth to illustrate.
Fig. 56 not only reflects the difference in value but also mainly the difference in the economic ecology between the Digital Earth and the physical Earth. Here, a rough introduction to this ecological difference is given.
In the physical Earth, there is the concept of “private land,” and people have property rights to “private land.” There is no doubt that the physical Earth came first, and then came “private land.” Therefore, the “property right” of this “private land” is not an inherent right but is granted by the state or group and can also be deprived by the state or group. On “private land,” houses can be built for human physical habitation. Then, the land value can be understood as native wealth, and the value of the house on it can be understood as derived wealth.
The concept that corresponds to “private land” in the Digital Earth is “private territory.” Note that “private territory” came first, and then came the Digital Earth. Therefore, the “wealth sovereignty” represented by “private territory” is an inherent right that does not require anyone’s grant and cannot be deprived of anyone. On “private territory,” “private portals” can be created for human spiritual or soul habitation. The native wealth is reflected in “private territory,” and the derived wealth is reflected in “private portals.”
As mentioned earlier, all the material resources contained on Earth are native wealth on the Earth. Products processed and produced using these material resources, whether they are houses, cars, airplanes, or ships, are all derived wealth. Obviously, the distribution of native wealth in the physical Earth is extremely unfair. Although the value of derived wealth is much higher than that of native wealth, it is ultimately limited. The price of any product or commodity has a limit, and it cannot increase indefinitely.
Returning to the Digital Earth, everything becomes interesting. First of all, native wealth in the Digital Earth is completely equally distributed. Anyone who participates in building the Digital Earth, regardless of whether they come early or late, can get a “private territory (NFT)” for free as long as they participate. The private domain territories of millions of people are connected to form the Digital Earth. Therefore, the reason why the Digital Earth must be jointly built by millions of people is that the Digital Earth is constructed using everyone’s private territory. Everyone is a creator and owner of the Digital Earth. Human spiritual resources in the Digital Earth can be understood as equally distributed in every private territory. Therefore, the value of native wealth that each person participating in building the Digital Earth can obtain is exactly the same.
The significance of this is self-evident. If we explore all the material resources contained in the physical Earth and distribute them completely fairly to every person globally, including babies born later, people can dispose of this native wealth freely, such as pledging, renting, or selling. Then, the disparity between the rich and the poor in our human society would not be as severe as it is now.
Next, the value of wealth on the digital earth can grow infinitely. This is because on the digital earth, both native and derivative wealth are digital wealth, which can be changed at any time and without limit. However, material wealth cannot. For example, if you have a 200-square-meter apartment on the 10th floor of a building on the Bund in Shanghai on the material earth, you cannot increase it to 220 square meters or change it to the 18th floor without harming the interests of others. But in the digital earth, it is different. I can expand the area from 200 to 220 square meters and change the location from the 10th floor to the 18th floor as long as I comply with the rules and do not harm the interests of others. This kind of change is just a change in data, and the change in data is infinite. If this change can bring value growth, then this growth also has infinity.
This division of native and derivative wealth, and the design of fairness and infinity, has laid a solid foundation for the United Nations to build a new economic ecology with infinite value on the digital earth. In this new economic ecology, the United Nations will print money, or issue a new currency, which we call YL. The essence of YL is a numerically stable human achievement value measurement index. At our current stage, we can understand it as a decentralized algorithmic stable coin.
On the digital earth, native wealth supports the initial value of YL, and its value is reflected in the amount of YL. Derivative wealth supports the value of spiritual goods, that is, NFT, whose value is reflected in the price of NFT, which is measured in YL. Therefore, market trading demand and the value of derivative wealth also support the sustained value of YL in the middle and late stages. All digital earth citizens are both issuers and users of YL, both consumers and producers of NFT. This is the new economic model reflected in the previous Figure 55. Such a self-circulating new economic ecology has not yet appeared in the current digital currency field. This is the essential difference between the cross-civilization new wealth NFT system and other NFT and digital currency systems.
When people buy an NFT for their spiritual needs, they are consumers. Since this NFT has value-cultivating properties, they can also increase its value according to the rules after purchase, and become producers again. Their value-cultivation process is actually the process of creating derivative wealth. The value increase of derivative wealth is only a change in digits. But these digits are controlled by encryption algorithms, and no one can cheat, and the market consensus is not easy to break. With the continuous growth of the value of this NFT, the new economic ecology can issue more YL. More YL will incentivize more people to create NFT and cultivate NFT, and the market will have more new and higher-level NFTs. New and high-level NFTs will drive the overall value of the new economic ecology to rise, and further issuance of YL is needed…and the cycle continues. Here, let us make a comparison with LVMH mentioned earlier to deepen our understanding.
As shown in Fig. 57, LVMH’s revenue has continued to rise for over a decade. The key to its success lies in producing “luxury goods that cater to people’s spiritual needs.” For example, even if a family has a lot of money, it’s unlikely that they will buy dozens of refrigerators to put in their home. However, wealthy individuals can buy dozens, hundreds, or even more LV bags without any issue because these bags satisfy their spiritual needs. Therefore, as long as LVMH’s luxury brand image does not collapse and there are no higher-level competitors, its revenue growth is virtually limitless (although there is still a limit, just a high one).
The growth of LVMH’s wealth value mainly depends on the increasing number of luxury goods it produces. For instance, if LVMH sold 100,000 bags last year and sold 110,000 bags this year, its growth rate would be 10%. However, the value of each bag cannot increase further once it is sold. Assuming LVMH can innovate a new economic model using LV bags as an example, which can achieve the following three points: First, the LV bags sold will never wear out; Second, the LV bags sold will not only not depreciate, but will increase in value by more than 10% each year; Third, build a global LV bag trading market where LV bags can be liquidated at any time. If these three points can be achieved, then this new economic model for LV bags will have no ceiling. Of course, LVMH cannot create such a new economic model in the material world under any circumstances.
However, it is possible to achieve this in the digital world and the NFT new wealth system. The model we are building is precisely such a benign and sustainable loop of infinite value new economic ecological model. All the above three points can be achieved here. It is not difficult to imagine that once people no longer use luxury goods to showcase their status, wealth, and taste, but instead use NFTs, LVMH’s road to wealth growth will likely come to an end. This trend has already emerged. The construction of the NFT new wealth system on the digital earth will turn this trend into a mainstream social trend.
Infinite value, sustainable development, and benign health. These new economic characteristics are beyond the imagination of our traditional economy. However, due to the fundamental changes in the scene of wealth creation and even the nature of wealth value, it is possible to create such new economic miracles on the digital earth. This fundamental change in the nature of wealth value will not only lead to changes in the entire human civilization but will also directly change the attributes of traditional financial capital. This is why the new economic ecology of the digital earth has the fundamental reason to completely change the attributes of traditional finance and traditional economy.
(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.
联合国引领人类社会打造数字地球的必要性和可行性（019）
— — 致联合国秘书长古特雷斯及全球贤达的公开信
5.2.5 数字地球的原生财富和派生财富
2023年，马斯克世界首富的位置，被贝尔纳·阿尔诺挤了下来。从2018年以来，这位经营LVMH集团的法国人，稳坐在福布斯全球亿万富豪排行榜前5。而排名前10的基本上都是经营着高科技产业的美国人，贝尔纳·阿尔诺坐在这里，怎么看，都是个另类。3年全球疫情大流行后，世界上90%以上的实体经济都在大滑坡，资产下降了很多。可LVMH作为一家实体经济集团，资产却不降反升。这是不是很奇怪。问题是，LVMH真的是一家实体经济集团吗？
当然不是，它的主要财富价值体现在虚拟资产中，也就是它众多的奢侈品品牌价值中。我们以一款市场价2100美元的LV包为例，作为实体经济的价值，也就是包的实用价值，不会超过100美元（这个包在中国的全部加工生产费不到50美元）。而其2000美元的增值部分，全部来自于其品牌价值。而作为奢侈品的品牌价值，它满足的无疑是人们的精神需求。使用这个包的人，无论是彰显身份、炫富、还是追求品位，都是在满足精神需求。因此，LVMH从本质上看，它是一家生产精神型商品的经济体。当然，它的商品中还有一部分是满足人们的物质需求的，尽管这部分价值极低，但毕竟还有。因此，我们暂且称其为“类精神型商品”。像戴比尔斯钻石，也是“类精神型商品”。世界上所有奢侈品品牌、所有珠宝玉器公司。其实，生产的都是“类精神型商品”。这类商品的主要功能，是满足人们精神需求，而不是物质需求。
如果我们把这类商品中，满足人们物质需求部分的价值，称之为“原生财富”的话。满足人们精神需求部分的价值，就可以称作“派生财富”了。而像戴比尔斯钻石，那个钻石纯粹就是满足人们精神需求的。并没有满足人们物质需求的实用成分。对于这种，我们就把其物质成本部分的价值，视为“原生财富”。满足精神需求的品牌增值部分，就是“派生财富”了。进一步推演，一座被勘探出来的黄金矿，其估值就是“原生财富”。而加工成金首饰、金项链、金摆设后，体现出来的增值部分，就是“派生财富”了。推而广之，地球上所有物质资源，所体现的都是“原生财富”。而利用这些资源生产的产品和商品价值，其增值部分，就是“派生财富”了。
为了不引起歧义，这里我们对“原生财富”和“派生财富”的概念做一个定义：广义的“原生财富”，是指一切价值不可再提升、或可以再提升但还没有提升的财富价值。狭义的“原生财富”，仅指可开发的原始资源价值。包括物质资源和精神资源。广义的“派生财富”，是指一切在原有价值基础上，再增值部分的财富价值。狭义的“派生财富”，仅指利用原始资源开发、创造的商品，在原始资源价值上增值部分的财富价值。包括物质商品和精神商品。
按照上述定义，我们再明确一下。数字地球中蕴含的人类精神资源，就是数字地球上的原生财富。而数字地球上，利用这些精神资源开发、创新的精神产品和商品，都属于派生财富。无论是原生财富还是派生财富，其表现形态都是NFT。准确地说，是跨文明新财富NFT。
在戈尔赋予了数字地球与我们完全不一样的确切概念后，我们依然使用数字地球这个名称，就是为了对应物质地球，便于用物质地球来做对比认知。这个原生财富和派生财富也一样，都可以在物质地球上找到对应案例来说明。
图56体现的不仅仅是价值的区别，更主要在于数字地球与物质地球经济生态的区别。这里，对这种生态区别先做个大致介绍。
物质地球中，有“私有土地”这个概念，人们拥有“私有土地”的财产权。毫无疑问，先有物质地球，后有“私有土地”。因此，这个“私有土地”的“财产权”不是天赋权利，而是国家或集团赋予的，也可以被国家或集团所剥夺。“私有土地”上，可以建造房屋，供人类肉身居住。那么，土地价值可以理解为原生财富，上面的房屋价值，就可以理解为派生财富了。
数字地球中对应“私有土地”的是“私域领土”概念。注意，这里是先有“私域领土”，后有数字地球”。因此，“私域领土”体现的是一种“财富主权”。这个“财富主权”是天赋权利，无需任何人授予，也不可能被任何人剥夺。私域领土上可以打造“私域门户”，供人类精神或灵魂安居。“私域领土”体现的是原生财富，“私域门户”体现的就是派生财富了。
有前面的定义可知，地球上所蕴含的所有物质资源，都是地球上的原生财富。而利用这些物质资源加工生产的产品，无论是房屋、汽车、飞机、轮船，都是派生财富。很显然，物质地球中的原生财富，分配是极不公平的。而派生财富，虽然价值大大高于原生财富了，但终归是有限的。任何一件产品或商品，其价格再高都有个顶、不可能无限增长。
再回到数字地球中来看，这一切就变得很有意思了。
首先，数字地球中的原生财富，是完全公平分配的。任何参与数字地球打造的人。无论他来得早、来得晚，只要他参与，就能免费获得一块“私域领土（NFT）”。亿万人的私域领土连接起来，就形成了数字地球。所以，数字地球为什么必须由亿万大众来共同打造，就是因为这个数字地球是用每个人的私域领土构建起来的。每个人都是造物主、都是数字地球的主人。而数字地球中的人类精神资源，完全可以理解为是平等分布在每一块私域领土中的。这样，每个参与数字地球打造的人，分配到的原生财富价值当然也都一模一样了。
这个意义自然不言而喻。如果物质地球上，我们将蕴含的所有物质资源都勘探出来。然后，完全公平的分给全球每一个人，包括后来出生的婴儿都有份。人们可以自由处置这份原生财富。质押、出租或出售。那么，我们这个人类社会，贫富悬殊一定到不了现在这个程度。
其次，数字地球上的财富价值，可以无限增长。因为数字地球中，无论是原生财富还是派生财富，都是数字财富。而数字财富是可以随时、且无限改变的。但物质财富就不行了。比如，你在物质地球上，在上海外滩某大厦10楼有一套200平米的商品房，在不损害他人利益的前提下，你既不可能让它增加到220平米，更不可能让它变到18楼。
但在数字地球中就不一样了。我完全可以在遵守游戏规则，而且不损伤他人利益的前提下。将面积从200扩展到220平米，将位置从10楼改到18楼。因为这种改变，只是数据的变化，而数据的变化具有无限性。如果这种变化能带来价值增长，那这个增长当然也就具有无限性了。
这种原生财富与派生财富的划分，这种公平性和无限性的设计，就为联合国在数字地球中，建设一个价值无限的新经济生态打下了坚实的基础。
在这个新经济生态中，联合国将印的钱、也就是将发行的新型货币，我们称之为YL。这种YL的本质，是一种数值稳定的人类成就价值衡量指标。我们现阶段，可以将其理解为一种去中心化的算法稳定币。
数字地球中，原生财富支撑着YL前期的初始价值，其价值大小以YL数量的多少来体现。派生财富支撑着精神型商品、也就是NFT的价值。其价值大小以NFT价格高低来体现，而NFT价格又是用YL来衡量的。于是，市场交易需求和派生财富价值，又支撑起了YL的中后期持续价值。所有的数字地球公民，每个人既是YL发行人，又是使用人；既是NFT消费者，又是生产者。这就是前面图55所体现的新经济模型。这样一种可自循环的新经济生态，在当前数字货币领域，显然还没出现。这就是跨文明新财富NFT体系，与其它NFT和数字货币体系的本质区别。
人们因自己的精神需求购买了一个NFT，此时他是消费者。由于这个NFT具有价值养成属性，他购买后又可以按照规则进行价值提升，此时又变成了生产者。他的价值养成过程，其实就是派生财富的创造过程。而派生财富的价值提升，仅仅是数字的变化而已。但这个数字又是由加密算法控制的，任何人都无法作假，市场共识不易破裂。随着这个NFT价值的不断增长，新经济生态就可增发更多YL。更多的YL又会激励更多人创造NFT、养成NFT，市场就会有更多新NFT和更多高级NFT出现。新NFT和高级NFT又会推动新经济生态整体价值上涨，需要进一步增发YL……循环不已。这里，我们不妨再拿前面提到的LVMH来做个对比，以加深理解。
由图57可见，10多年来，LVMH的营收得以持续上涨。其关键就在于，它生产的是“类精神商品”。主要满足人们的精神需求。一个家庭，再有钱，也没见谁买几十台冰箱放家里的。但是，有钱人买几十个、几百个，甚至更多LV包都没问题。因为，LV包满足的是人们的精神需求。所以，只要LVMH奢侈品品牌形象不倒，只要没有更高级竞争品牌出现，其营收增长几乎没有天花板。但不是没有天花板，只是天花板较高而已。LVMH的财富价值增长，主要是靠奢侈品数量增多。比如去年卖了10万个包，今年卖了11万个包，增长了10%。而卖出去的每一个包，其价值并不能再增长。假设LVMH能以LV包为例，创新一种新经济模型。第一，能让卖出去的LV包永不磨损；第二，能让卖出去的LV包不仅不贬值，还会每年增值10%以上；第三，构建一个全球LV包交易市场，随时可以将LV包在市场上变现。若能做到以上三点，那这个LV包的新经济模型，就没有天花板了。当然，LVMH是无论如何，也无法在物质地球上，创造出这样一个新经济模型的。
可在数字地球中，在NFT新财富体系中。我们构建的正是这种可良性循环的无限价值新经济生态模型，上述三点，在这里全部可以实现。不难想象，一旦未来人们彰显身份、炫富、追求品位不再用奢侈品来彰显，而是用NFT来彰显时。LVMH的财富增长之路恐怕也就走到头了。而这种趋势，早已显露出来。数字地球NFT新财富体系的打造，将让这个趋势变为社会主流大潮。
无限价值、可持续发展、良性健康。这些新经济特征，都是我们传统经济根本无法想象的。但是，由于财富创造的根本场景变化了、甚至连财富价值的性质都改变了，所以，才能在数字地球中创造这样的新经济奇迹。而这种财富价值性质的根本变化，不仅会导致整个人类文明的改变，也会直接改变传统金融资本的属性。这就是为什么数字地球新经济生态，具有彻底改变传统金融和传统经济属性的根本原因。
（未完待续）
