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- CIE is an investment in lowering your cost of living and increasing your quality of life. As a member of a community, there is always the opportunity to do a favor for a neighbor and have a neighbor do a favor for you. The more things you accomplish through favors, the fewer things you have to pay for thereby lowering your cost of living. The more favors you give and receive, the more you get to know your neighbors and the higher your quality of life. CIE keeps track of those favors, creating an incentive to do more of them, and accumulates the tools to make those favors easy to perform.
- CIE treats contributions of labor as capital contributions and issues shares for that labor. Anyone holding shares owns a percentage interest in the assets of CIE and shareholder voting rights. You can also spend your shares for goods and services offered by CIE – collecting on your favors. All transactions in shares trade at cost to CIE whereas those same goods and services are available at market prices for money. Share transactions represent a reduced cost of living for the shareholder and the money transactions allow CIE to acquire buildings, tools, equipment and supplies to further increase the incentives for contributions of labor.
- We do not know what products or services CIE will offer in the beginning because that will depend on what favors the residents need and what favors the participants are willing to offer. We do know how the economics of CIE will work. One possible scenario is described in CIE Operations.
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