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 this institutional failures requires a known cost of regulations.
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 current government transportation monopolies.
Examples of the 5x5Solar standard for allowing innovation
Massachusetts Legislature, Bill H5248, as signed in Atoka, Macon, and North Central Texas Coalition of Governments.
Memorandum of Understanding (easy to read key points)
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.
