Frederick Bott
3 min readNov 18, 2023

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This is a very useful stakeholder motivations analysis, thanks for posting it. I had a girlfriend once who tried to explain this to me, but didn't quite paint enough of the picture, I didn't quite get it, but I think you did well here.
Now I get it, it looks like it fits very usefully within my own analysis of the global energy problem.
The Bonobo model works with, and motivates "Energyism", which is fully sustainable, and potentially far more lucrative and rewarding for all, whereas the chimp model of capitalism was more suited to early development, before we had the technology necessary to move to Energyism, which is essentially harvesting free energy from the sun, like all of nature does, we first needed to fight, compete, and do a lot of hard work for our energy locked up as it was in the resources of the planet. Now we have reached the point where we need to change from extracted energy to energy received for free (The sun never asked anything in return).
Isn't it interesting this all fits also into the lifecycle of any individual living being that is born from dependence on the energy of its mother, or hosting egg, to the energy of the environment?
Even a plant goes through this transition, it moves from sucking it's energy up from Earth against gravity as a shoot until it forms its first leaves, then accepts the energy received through its leaves from the sun, allowing this to flow to earth from leaves to Earth, whilst growing itself to an adult, from what it needs from that energy.
We just grew our first leaves as a species, those are the solar farms all over Earth.
The energy flowing through those as yet, is not getting much to Earth, because we still need to monetise that energy. Money issued as debt can't monetise energy for free, but it's really good for hauling energy up out of the planet.
Money is our equivalent of nutrients in the plant.
It starts doing real sustainable good for all, much better than we ever did by extraction, the instant it starts to be issued for free.
The key is to index issue of it to reception of solar energy - permanent solar indexed stimulus, which will both empower and incentivise us as a species united towards the goal of maximising the energy we can beneficially put towards Earth, our mother host.
If we use hydrogen technology to backup that energy received for free by all solar installations then we get also free fuel which does not pollute, all use of it is beneficial, replacing the entire stock of fossil fuels we used before, not only keeping all planes in the air but enabling developments of newer, even better planes and spacecraft, and use of it fundamentally lowers temperature whilst cleaning both air and water - use of it actually does the reverse of what we did by fossil fuels.
The question is, will the idiot chimps even let this happen?
What would a tribe of idiot chimps do if it met a tribe of Benobos? Would they just wipe them out, or would the Benobos somehow educate the chimps to be no longer chimps?
Exciting times, but the showdown appears to be in the middle East.
Thanks for inspiring me to think.

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Frederick Bott
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