Socratic FAQ
The increase of poor people leads to crime, malnutrition, low-intellect, unemployment, overcrowding in cities where the poor gather to find work, etc. These affect everyone, even the rich.
Poverty increases during economic crises, like the current global inflation.
Barter Credits
Pantrypoints deploys a points-based economic system as an “Economy-as-a-Service” (EaaS).
This service facilitates moneyless “barter-credits” as an alternative to money so that you have an option to either buy with money or purchase with points.
Money is expensive. It is a material thing that needs to be printed or stored in vaults, and guarded and carried in your pocket.
It loses value because of inflation. Credit cards are liable to fraud, fees, and interest rates.
Cryptocurrencies try to reduce this cost by being totally electronic, but are even more subject to scams and hacking than credit cards.
Money supply is ultimately controlled by banks, not by people, as explained by Jeremy Grantham:
Of course. Points are stored online or on paper-cards that cannot be used by third parties. It does not need expensive vaults nor ATMs.
The value of each point is pegged to 1 kilogram of rice which ‘inflates’ far less than money. With Pantrypoints, you can go to a store and buy things on barter-credit by relying on the trust between you and the seller.
Traction and Users
We have been using the system since 2017 to reduce our money expenses as we establish our startup. So it already works.
Historically, it was used in a large scale by the Inca Empire, Khmer Empire, Arabia, the Mongols, and most countries before they were colonized by the Europeans who imposed the use of money.
We have a limited budget which allows us a cost of $20 per server. Moreover, data privacy laws require registration if there are more 1,000 users.
So we have a maximum of 1,000 registered users or 300 concurrent users per server. After it goes over, the server crashes. This means the experiment worked. This happened a lot during the pandemic when a lot of people suddenly went online to look for jobs or to barter.
We then spin up a new server for a new town with new features as a new experiment. Some users create multiple accounts and some are bots that succeed with captcha. So we estimate that there are really only 100-300 real users per server.
Points-Banking and Points-Taxation
Pantrypreneur and ISAIAH
No. There will be private versions that businesses can use for operations.
For example, it can be used to give points to employees so that the business can save on cash. We call this Pantrypreneur which will have its own machine learning system called ISAIAH.
Pool Clearing
It’s a trade system proposed by British ecoonmist EF Schumacher wherein the trading countries act as one pool. The members of the pool constantly coordinate with each other to make world trade efficient.
This is very different from the current world trade system established by Bretton Woods wherein the United States has a superior position and the US dollar is the international reserve currency. In Pool Clearing, the price of grains is the common measure.
We are working on a blockchain which is pegged to grains such as rice or wheat. One coin in Asia represents the value of 1 kilogram of rice, for example.
This is only tradeable between governments. It matches ‘bank gold’ which is different from market gold traded by citizens.
Try It
We have a volunteers who test and contribute to maintain them. So please don’t expect them to be bug-free yet. We will register a real company in Q4 2022 or Q1 2023 depending on the commitments that we get. We piggyback on an NGO to help us implement them.
We predicted that a global stagflation by 2020 would make people interested in our solution sooner or later.
The banking crisis of 2023 came a bit late, but at least it’s here.