The Need and Feasibility of the UN to Lead the Human Community in Creating a Digital Planet(020)
— An Open Letter to UN Secretary-General Guterres and Global Sages
5.2.6 Subverting the Nature of Wealth Value in the Digital Earth
Since the birth of modern capitalism hundreds of years ago, while greatly promoting the development of human material civilization, it has also brought a series of problems, such as alienation of human nature, unfair distribution, excessive exploitation of natural resources leading to ecological deterioration of the earth, and economic crises. These problems have become more and more serious as time goes on. To the extent that we initially believed in this open letter that capitalism is strangling the United Nations. Throughout the history of the development of capitalism for hundreds of years, human society has constantly tried various methods of reform and improvement, but as Secretary-General Guterres pointed out, modern capitalism has at least morally decayed. So how can we rebuild a new economic system on the digital earth of the metaverse today, and ensure that it does not follow in the footsteps of capitalism, and does not become another morally depraved behemoth?
Of course, we have fully considered this point. Because from the beginning, we have been emphasizing that the new economy must create moral money, and print moral money. The simplest understanding is that the new economic system and the capitalist economic system have essential differences in terms of their capital attributes.
On the material earth, the value of wealth is realized through possession. Whether it is a house, a car, a stock, an antique, or a work of art, it must be possessed. Under the premise of possession, the rarer this form of wealth is and the greater the market demand, the higher its value. We call this “possession-type wealth”.
In the digital earth, the value of wealth is realized through sharing. Whether it is music, painting, movies, dramas, or TV shows, it must be shared. Under the premise of sharing, the more popular this form of wealth is and the higher the consensus among people, the higher its value. We call this “sharing-type wealth”.
Material wealth belongs to the possession type, while spiritual wealth belongs to the sharing type.
Capital itself is neither good nor evil, and its natural attribute is profit-seeking. Under the guidance of a competitive profit-seeking mechanism, it embodies the evil attributes of shortsightedness, cruelty, and bloodthirstiness. Under the guidance of a sharing profit-seeking mechanism, it also has to embody the kind attributes of tolerance, harmony, mutual benefit, and win-win.
On material Earth, because material wealth dominates, possessive views of wealth influence people’s values. In order to maximize their wealth value, people prefer to own as little as possible, ideally monopolizing it. To achieve the goal of ownership by a few (shareholders) or exclusive ownership, people must fight each other and compete. From competition, to struggle, to war. In this process, the relationship between people is greatly opposed, a zero-sum game, where one person’s gain is another’s loss. Society is filled with distorted and even perverted human phenomena such as the survival of the fittest, deceit, and fraud, forming the foundation of evil human nature under the capitalist system.
In the digital Earth, sharing wealth will dominate. In the pursuit of profit, people must share and seek greater consensus. Sharing and seeking consensus require the other’s inner and spiritual recognition. Only when I care about him, help him, satisfy him, have value and meaning to him, will he recognize and have consensus. This will inevitably create an interpersonal atmosphere of mutual benefit, cooperation, and win-win, where I am for everyone and everyone is for me. In this process, the relationship between people will be thoroughly improved. The foundation of evil human nature is lost, and the foundation of kind human nature emerges. At this time, the beautiful attributes of true goodness and love will be presented by capital.
The subversive nature of wealth value makes capital, in order to pursue profit, have to transform from “bloodthirsty” capital to “kind” capital. Under market economy conditions, these different capital attributes will inevitably create completely different economic ecological models.
“The world’s richest 26 people own as much wealth as half the global population.” “Since the pandemic began, the wealth of the world’s top 10 billionaires has doubled. Due to the pandemic, 99% of human income has worsened.” This is the current status of the traditional economic ecology on material Earth. The reason for this is determined by the possessive attribute of wealth. In order to pursue profit, capital can only choose to help the party with the strongest possession, and abandon the party with the weaker possession. This is what Guterres said: it helps the rich and punishes the poor. Therefore, the group with weaker possession can only continue to seek outside for survival. Due to the lack of funding and technical support, they can only crudely exploit the earth’s material resources and accelerate carbon emissions, leading to further deterioration of the earth’s ecological environment. As the earth’s ecological environment further deteriorates, the weaker possession of the weak possession group seeking outside becomes even weaker. When the possession is weaker, they can only exploit and emit more crudely… This is the vicious cycle of traditional economic ecology in human society on material Earth.
As shown in the picture above, Guterres believes that Pakistan has suffered greatly from the devastating floods caused by climate change, yet has not made any contribution to addressing climate change. Pakistan would argue that we cannot even feed ourselves without funds, resources, and technology, and our only hope now is to prevent more than 200 million people from starving to death. Reduce emissions? We simply don’t have that ability. Can the United Nations give us money or food to prevent more than 200 million people from starving? No. Undoubtedly, this is a one-way street, and ultimately, the poor, the rich, and the material Earth will all perish together.
In the digital Earth, this situation has completely changed. Capital is still driven by profits, but it cannot choose to help a few people; it must choose to help the vast majority of people. This is determined by the sharing nature of wealth. Because only by helping the group that is most likely to produce the most extensive sharing can the maximum consensus be obtained and the maximum value of wealth be created. The most basic understanding of this can be seen in the Metcalfe’s Law, which has been widely verified in the Internet era.
Metcalfe’s Law states that the value of a network is equal to the square of the number of nodes in the network, and the value of the network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users. This means that the more users there are, the greater the value of the network. However, in the Internet era, because the value of the network is still exclusive and monopolistic, the property of wealth still belongs to the possession type. In the new economic ecosystem of the digital Earth, value is shared, and everyone can fairly obtain this value. Capital helping a group to maximize means building maximum consensus and creating maximum value. This maximum value will be shared by the maximum group, and this value-sharing effect will attract more people to enter, and the value will be further maximized…
This is the infinite value and virtuous circle of the new economic ecosystem mentioned earlier. This new economic ecosystem model is no longer just an idea or a concept, but has already been put into practice. All the concepts, views, designs, and models mentioned above have been developed into concrete product forms and constructed into implementable business models. Therefore, if there is any unclear or incomprehensible point in the above understanding, combined with the detailed planning and specific process in the implementation plan later, I believe that a more objective and true experience can be obtained.
The core part of cognition is mainly these contents. For the convenience of everyone’s cognition and understanding, we will summarize briefly again.
In order for the United Nations to live up to its name and fulfill its own beliefs and missions, it must have an independent economic system. However, this system cannot be achieved in the Realverse, but only in the metaverse. To build a new economic system in the metaverse, cognitive problems must be addressed first.
First, it is necessary to understand what the metaverse and the digital earth are. Our understanding of the metaverse has three major differences from others in the industry. Firstly, the metaverse is independent and does not rely on the Realverse. Secondly, the metaverse has a clear division of labor with the Realverse. Thirdly, the metaverse is the home of human spirit and soul.
The digital earth, including other types of digital planets, needs to be jointly constructed by humans. The principles of construction include decentralization, complete openness, bottom-up approach, value cultivation, and value equality.
Secondly, it is necessary to understand how the value of the metaverse and the digital earth is derived. Under the premise of the universe’s division of labor, AI produces material wealth, while human beings produce spiritual wealth. Material wealth is limited, while spiritual wealth is infinite. This infinite wealth has a greater temptation for capital, can attract traditional capital, and lock them into the cage of the new system, making it impossible for them to do evil again.
Finally, it is important to understand that spiritual wealth is a sharing type of wealth, while material wealth is a possessive type of wealth. The different nature of wealth will bring about completely different interpersonal relationships. Driven by the value of sharing wealth, human society will abandon the vicious environment of the survival of the fittest, deceit, and fraud, and rebuild a good economic environment of mutual benefit, cooperation, and win-win.
In the next section, we will discuss the most substantive “truth of cognition.”
(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（020）
— — 致联合国秘书长古特雷斯及全球贤达的公开信
5.2.6 数字地球财富价值的性质颠覆
现代资本主义诞生几百年来，在极大地推动了人类物质文明发展的同时，也带来了像人性异化、分配不公、过度发掘自然资源导致地球生态恶化，以及经济危机等一系列问题。这些问题，越到后期发展得越严重。以至于我们在这封公开信最开始就认为，资本正在扼杀联合国。在资本主义几百年发展史上，人类社会不断尝试过各种各样的改良和改进方法，最终却依然如同古特雷斯秘书长所指出的那样，现代资本主义至少在道德上是沦丧了。那么，我们今天要在元宇宙数字地球上重新打造一个新经济体系，这个体系又如何保证它不蹈资本主义覆辙，不成为另外一头道德沦丧的巨龙呢。
当然，这一点我们无疑充分考虑过。因为，我们从最开始就一直在强调：新经济要创造道德的钱，要印道德的钱。最简单的理解，就是新经济体系与资本主义经济体系，在资本属性上，有着本质的区别。
物质地球上，财富价值通过占有体现。无论是房子、车子、股票、古董、艺术品，都必须占有。在占有前提下，这种财富形态越稀有、市场需求越大，它的价值也越高。我们称之为“占有型财富”。
数字地球中，财富价值通过分享体现。无论是音乐、绘画、电影、戏剧、电视剧，都必须分享。在分享前提下，这种财富形态越普及、人们共识越高，它的价值才越高。我们称之为“分享型财富”。
物质型财富都属于占有型，精神型财富都属于分享型。
资本本身是无善无恶的，它的自然属性就是逐利。在争斗型逐利机制引导下，它就体现出短视、残忍、嗜血的邪恶属性。而在共享型逐利机制引导下，它也不得不体现出宽容、和谐、互利、共赢的和善属性。
物质地球上，由于物质型财富占据主导地位。因此，占有型财富观左右着人们的价值观。为了让自己的财富价值最大化，占有的人越少越好、最好是独占。于是，为了达到少数人（股东）占有或独家占有的目的，彼此之间只能是你争我斗、你抢我夺。从竞争、斗争，直到战争。在这个过程中，人与人的关系被极大的对立起来，零和博弈、你死我活。社会上，充斥着弱肉强食、尔虞我诈、坑蒙拐骗等人性扭曲甚至变态现象。构成了资本主义制度下邪恶人性的基础。
数字地球中，分享型财富将占据主导地位。同样是为了逐利，人们却不得不去分享，去谋求更大共识。而分享和谋求共识，需要对方的内心认可、精神认可。而只有我关心他、帮助他、满足他、对他有价值和意义，他才会认可、才会有共识。这就必然造就一个我为人人、人人为我，互利互惠、合作共赢的人际氛围。在这个过程中，人与人的关系将被彻底改善。邪恶人性基础丧失，和善人性基础崛起。这时，资本所呈现的也将是真善爱的美好属性。
财富价值的性质颠覆，让资本为了逐利，而不得不从“嗜血”资本转化为“和善”资本。在市场经济条件下，这种资本属性的不同，造就的必然是完全不同的经济生态模型。
“世界上最富有的 26 人拥有的财富相当于全球人口的一半”。“自大流行开始以来，世界上最富有的10人的财富翻了一番。由于大流行，人类99%的收入变得更糟。”这是目前物质地球上传统经济生态的现状。之所以如此，是由占有型财富属性决定的。为了逐利，资本只能选择帮助占有力最强的一方，而抛弃占有力弱的一方。这就是古特雷斯说的：它帮助富人，惩罚穷人。那么，占有力弱的群体为了生存，只能继续向外求，由于缺乏资金、技术的支持，只能粗暴发掘地球物质资源、加速碳排放，导致地球生态环境进一步恶化。地球生态进一步恶化，占有力弱群体向外求的占有力就更弱了。占有力更弱时，只能更粗暴发掘和排放……这就是物质地球上人类社会的恶性循环传统经济生态。
如上图所示，古特雷斯认为巴基斯坦深受气候变化导致的毁灭性洪水之害，可是，却没能为气候变化做任何贡献。而巴基斯坦会认为，我们在既没有资金、又没有资源、还缺乏技术的情况下，连饭都吃不跑，我们现在唯一的希望是让2亿多人不饿死。减排？我们实在是没那个能力。你联合国能给我们钱吗，或者，你联合国能给我们粮食，让2亿多人不挨饿吗？不能啊。毫无疑问，这是一条不归路，最终必然是穷人、富人，连同这颗物质地球一起同归于尽。
在数字地球中，这种情况完全变了。资本依然是为了逐利，可是，它却不能选择帮助少数人，而必须选择帮助绝大多数人了。这也是由财富的分享型属性决定的。因为，只有帮助哪些最有可能产生最广泛分享的群体，才能获得最大化共识，才能创造财富价值的最大化。对此，最初级的理解，可以参照在互联网时代，已经得到广泛验证的梅特卡夫定律。
梅特卡夫定律的内容是：一个网络的价值等于该网络内节点数的平方，而且该网络的价值与联网用户数的平方成正比。就是说用户越多，网络的价值越大。但互联网时代，由于网络价值依然是独享、独占的，财富属性也依然属于占有型。而数字地球的新经济生态，价值是共享的，所有人都能公平获得这个价值。资本去帮助一个群体实现最大化、就是在构建最大化共识、就是在创造最大化价值。而这个最大化价值又将被这个最大化群体所分享、共享，这种价值共享效应，又会吸引更多人进入，价值被更大化……
这就是前面谈到的无限价值、良性循环新经济生态。这个新经济生态模型已经不再仅仅是一个构思、一个设想了，而是早已付诸实践。以上所有的概念、观点、设计、模式，都已经打造成了具体的产品形态，并构建出了可实施的商业模式。因此，对以上认知有任何不清楚或不明白的地方，结合后面实施方案中的详细规划和具体流程，相信都能得到更客观、更真实的体验。
认知的核心部分，主要就是以上这些内容。为便于大家认知和理解。我们再做个简要归纳。
联合国要名副其实，要实现自己的主张和使命，必须要有自己独立的经济体系。而这个体系在实宇宙中不可能实现，只有在元宇宙中才有可能。而在元宇宙中打造新经济体，必须先解决认知问题。
首先，要明白元宇宙和数字地球究竟是怎么回事。我们理解的元宇宙与业界其他人理解的元宇宙有三大区别。其一，元宇宙是独立的，并不依赖实宇宙。其二，元宇宙与实宇宙有清晰分工。其三，元宇宙是人类精神和灵魂的家园。
而数字地球，包括其他各类数字星球，都需要人类来共同打造。打造原则包括：去中心化、完全开放、由下而上、价值养成和价值平等。
其次，要明白元宇宙和数字地球的价值是怎么来的。在宇宙大分工前提下，AI分工生产物质型财富；人类分工生产精神型财富。物质型财富是有限的，而精神型财富是无限的。这种无限财富价值对资本有更大诱惑力，可以吸引传统资本，并把它们关进新制度的笼子里，使其无法再作恶。
最后，要明白精神型财富属于分享型财富，而物质型财富属于占有性财富。财富性质不同，带来的将是完全不同的人际关系。在分享型财富价值驱动下。人类社会将摒弃弱肉强食、尔虞我诈、坑蒙拐骗的恶劣环境，重新构建一个我为人人、人人为我，互利互惠、合作共赢的良好经济环境。
下一节，我们将谈谈最具实质意义的“认知的真相”。
（未完待续）
