We are a port in the storm. A ship taking safe harbour. Our economic ark. We are an immune response to a collective illness. > [!danger] I will set my brothers free, and save our city, so we may save the world. >I can not fully tell you how. Rather, I must show you. > > >>[!tip]- This is community in my 21st century: >> >> >>Festering with foolishness, our seas run foul with the filth of globalized nonsense. Pouring through our ports, flooding our lives with madness. A delusional totalitarianism is tearing apart our families, our fortunes, and our futures. Fools salt our earth with lies. Filling our very minds with spies. >> >>We of the land we call Vancouver are drowning in a flood we dare not face. But we here are not alone. Far from it. We rest upon a pier bristling with spears. Contently, we may dance with our fears. >> >>This Ark I captain is a boat full of blades and spades. A lever. A weapon forged of words and word-like wards. Born of the wounds within our hearts. Of cuts dealt deep by our systems escaping containments.. > >> [!check]- I, Shane Andersen, am in charge until November 2062. >>I have no ownership. Rather it is owned by my friends & family, and further more, some of those who will make up its crew. Along with a few who are something new. >> >>The reasons for this are complicated, and not for sharing simply. My power here will have little material. I will stand on nothing but the faith of my friends and family. >> >>The Andersen Ark is not mine. It is merely something I am making. >> >>This is a generational ship. For by no other measure may we keep our heading. >> >>I will step-down by November of 2062.^[In November of 2062 I will be 75.] Though by November of 2042^[In November of 2042 I will be 55.] I will loosen my grip as much as I can. By then we should have a crew, and hopefully some new captain candidates. Though hopefully a shareholders board will handle the generational transition. > >Though this ship is born of a dystopic Cyberpunk, I am answering the call as a Solarpunk Noah might so we may shift the weight of our fate. Rather than two of every animal, it is a stable population of each production possible. Security from stormy seas, flooded worlds, or war webs. > >Theseus' shallow bottom boat ready to be butchered each day anew as the great boar Gullinbursti is in Valhalla. A longboat which can shed long houses while forever growing it's gait and rate. > >> [!question]- An unregulatable Financial Services firm? >>Somewhat like an Investment Bank, we are **as a** bank which avoids [[Usury]] and we are **as an** investment which does not return directly what is interred. >> >>We are a community rendered in corporate armor. >> >> There is an opportunity within the Vancouver ALR's shattered monetary sensibility. An [[ALR arbitrage opportunity]]. We will capture it by securing [[water, food, shelter, health, wealth, and opportunity]] more directly than those blinded by [[Monetary Hegemony]]. >> >>> [!warning]- Accessibility: >>> There is no way into the Andersen Ark before 2043 without passing through my [[Proprietorship]] in at least some manner. >> >>> [!example]- Currency contribution is limited. >>>As per my [30-30-30](https://fuckfinance.ca/30-30-30) investment reasoning, those who participate financially may not contribute more than 60% of their monetary excesses. Though commonly and practically the limit is 30%. As investing in yourself would have to overlap in order to surpass that limit. >> >>> [!failure]- Not against, rather for: >>> We are not against the [[status quo]]. Rather we are a diversification from it. An alternative still within a Western tradition. >>> >>> Though at this point in your reading, my [[Axioms]] are of great pertinence. We: - Farm genius. - Resist usury[[Journal/Usury|.]] - Safeguard opportunity. - Provide an example. - Pay attention to time. - Are a hedge against regression. - Wrestle as the [[Arms of our Ark]]