5×5 Free Market

The objective of the 5×5 Free Market standard is to repeat the success of courts declaring the Federal communications monopoly unconstitutional in 1982.

Summary of 5×5 Free Market, returns to signaling to meet needs in free markets and compliance with the Constitution:

• Privately funded networks 5 times more efficient than roads,
• pay 5% of gross transport revenues to use airspace over approved public rights-of-way.
• Regulated by the 3,000 times safer record of theme park standards.

Oil-wars inspired 5×5 Free Market:

10 of the last 10 Presidents identified foreign oil addiction as a direct threat to national security (link). Examples:

• President Nixon, 1974, “At the end of this decade, in the year 1980, the United States will not be dependent on any other country for the energy we need. We will hold our future in our hands alone.” 
• President Carter, 1979, “This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our Nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our Nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.”
• President Bush, 1992, “There is no security for the United States in further dependence on foreign oil.”

In 1960, President Eisenhower realized the Interstate Highways were a mistake in cities:

• “The President referred to a previous conversation with General Bragdon. He went on to say that the matter of running Interstate routes through the congested parts of the cities was entirely against his original concept and wishes; that he never anticipated that the program would turn out this way. He pointed out that when the Clay Committee Report was rendered, he had studied it carefully, and that he was certainly not aware of any concept of using the program to build up an extensive intra-city route network as part of the program he sponsored. He added that those who had not advised him that such was being done, and those who had steered the program in such a direction, had not followed his wishes.”
• The economic harm to cities has been incredible (link).

A West Point education, infantry experience, and oil-wars since 1990 forced a deep study into how to end foreign oil addiction. The book Climate Change Root Cause explains the lessons in greater detail.

The Liberty Paradox: There are 2 mechanisms in human institutions. They conflict and are both essential. 5×5 combines both in their proper role:

1. 1. TopDown: Coercion to plan. Governments coerce compliance to safety requirements. The essential role of government is to minimize violence from war and crime by coercing compliance with law. 
   2. BottomUp: Innovation is a compliance failure. Two aspects of liberty are essential to innovating the general welfare:
      1. Tolerance of Disrputive Minorities offering choices.
         • Inventors are one of the tiniest and most disruptive minorities.
      2. Tolerance of the Wisdom of the many, sorting those choices in free markets and free speech.
         • The aggregated wisdom of all of us, with each of us acting in our own self-interest, is wiser than the wisest of us at choosing between choices.

The Wisdom of the Many, an economy based on signaling, is illustrated by infrastructure built in free markets prior to 1916:

• American cities were walkable.
• Commerce and community are pedestrian activities.
• Every US city over 10,000 people had one or more privately funded streetcar networks providing Mobility As A Service (MaaS).
• There were 260,000 miles of 470 ton-mpg railroads connecting cities. 

The role government exercised shifted in 1916 from coercing safety failures to central planning of “natural monopolies.” Coercion to plan replaced signaling in markets:

• Federal-Aid Highway Acts initiated the mercantile highway monopoly.
• MaaS has been replaced by a mandate that to be economically competitive, families must own 2 cars that are parked 95% of the time, at a cost of $12,182/year each.
• Incrementally, walkability was reduced to less than 1.2% of American cities (link) despite that 1.2% producing 20% of US GDP.

The US Constitution forbids such mercantile monopolies. A demonstration against a government transportation monopoly triggered a war, the Boston Tea Party. To prevent rebuilding that path to war, the Constitutional Convention voted 8 states to 3 that state governments are sovereign over “internal improvements” and forbid federal highhways, canals, etc…. 

• Government central planners built the economy around highways, violating the Preamble, post Roads, No Preference clauses of the Constitution; rebuilding the path to perpetual oil wars since 1990, $39 trillion in federal debt, traffic jams, and Climate Change.
• 21 Presidential veto messages enforced the Constitution prior to 1916.
• President Eisenhower realized the Interstates were a mistake in 1960.
• Nixon and every President since recognized for foreign oil addiction is a direct threat to nation security.
• 9/11 attacks were funded  by oil dollars.
• Government mercantile highway monopoly continues to expanded despite the orders of Presidents, sacrifice by soldiers, and harm to the economies of cities.

When you sit in traffic, it resulted from coercion to plan. When you walk in a busy pedestrian shopping area, it resulted from signaling.

Separate Roles

The roles of the policeman and businessman must be isolated: 

• A policeman in commerce will claim sovereign immunity from accountability.
• An unpoliced businessman will spoil the commons to increase his income.

Prior to the 1973 Oil Embargo the US, Sweden, and Denmark had the same:

• Oil use per persone of 43 megawatt-hour/year.
• Safety record for pedestrian and bike road-kills.

Following the 1973 Oil Embargo road policies diverged:

• US policies continued sprawl depite warnings by the Bragdon Committee (1957-1959).
• Sweden and Denmark changed highway-centric policies to focus on walkable and bikeable streets. Per person oil consumption was cut to 60% below the US. Pedestrian and bike rider roadkill rates were cut to 400% below US policies.

Government officials do not hold themselves accountable for killing bike riders and pedestrians as they build more highways.

Build on the Success of the Morgantown PRT:

 

Congressional Study, Automated Guideway Transit

Memorandum of Understanding

5×5 separates the roles:

• Governments enforce safety regulations. The ASTM-F24 regulations have 3.7 injuries per million versus DOT 11,200 serious injuries per million.
• Innovator fund their efforts.
• The Wisdom of the Many sorts commercially viable ideas.

MOU download

Fundable Agreement

Download contract that is fundable. This to those used by cities for cell towers, power networks, cable tv, and other networks that service the public.

 

 

As filed in the Massachusetts Legislature:

Example Letters of Interest in funding networks regulated under the 5x5Solar standard.

Link to the Franchise Agreement similar to those used by cities for cell towers, power networks, cable tv, and other networks that service the public.

The 5x5Solar provides a regulatory framework to privately fund solutions to 75% of US traffic problems:

• • 60% of Americans cannot afford to replace their cars.

• • Car costs a family about $12,182, is parked 95% of the time with ~85% of car costs leaving the local economy.

• • Study: How Car Ownership is Keeping Americans From Financial Stability

Examples of the 5x5Solar standard for allowing innovation

Law and bill in the Massachusetts Legislature, as signed in Atoka, Macon, and North Central Texas Coalition of Governments.

Barrier to Innovation:

Congressional Study “Automate Guideway Transit” identified government “institutional failures” as blocking deployment of networks like the Morgantown PRT for “four to six decades….” Correcting current government transportation monopolies.

Known Regulations provides Liberty to innovate:

Governments are created to minimize violence from war and crimes by coercing compliance with laws.

Innovation is a compliance failure. Innovating the general welfare requires liberty. Two aspects of Liberty intertwine in a Darwinian crucible of creative destruction to create the “general welfare”:

• • Tolerance of Disruptive Minorities offering choices.
    • • There are few Disruptive Minorities as tiny and disruptive as inventors or those correcting long-standing injustices. Poking fun at himself for inventing a compound republic, Madison refers to these people as the “obnoxious individual” in Federalist #10.

• • Tolerance of people sorting choices via free markets and free speech, the Wisdom of the Many.
    • • Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” is not invisible, just tiny. It is the vast accumulation of tiny acts of liberty by each of us as we choose between choices.
    • • The aggregated wisdom of all of us, with each of us acting in our own self-interest, is wiser than the wisest of us at choosing between choices.

To defend liberty against government coercion, Constitutions limit government coercion to enumerated powers. The US Constitutions and most state constitutions enumerate limits forbidding the cur