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I've just been approached, not by an old-fashioned Philosopher-King, but rather by a modern up-to-date Philosopher-Entrepreneur:
So one goal is to form a global cartel of co-operative revenue maximizers. How can I pass this up?
Hi,
We are forming a global for-profit company consisting of talented
individuals in areas of human knowledge. The following offer letter
is intended for all the members of your organization and is intended
not to be competitive with the aims of your organization. Please
disseminate to those interested. Note that S4 Group (not yet
registered) currently has good scientific results (we can prove that
the universe is 4-dimensional and have a replacement for quantum
mechanics that could explain spirit) that will be commercially
profitable and is open to 6 billion. My background is Princeton AB,
incomplete PhD from Columbia/MIT, and a decade of experience in
startups, finance, biotechnology, etc.
NOTE: Email acceptance will be respected as it is by US Courts.
November 15, 2008
New York
Dear Sir/Madam:
S4 Group will be registered with the New York State Department of
Corporations as a Limited Liability Company. You are invited as
an equal partner in ownership and profits of this entity as an
investor; that is to say as a Corporate Officer as well as an equal
member of the Board of Directors.
Monthly investement amount for this entity is set to
$100/month but could be lower if sufficiently many agree globally. If
you are unable to afford this investment amount and
would like to be a partner, your investment amount will be waived with
the provision that when you receive wages from the partnership, you
will repay without interest an amount equal to the investment that
partners who have invested in a regular schedule to be determined
later.
1. Communications are Trade Secrets
If you decline the offer for partnership, please note that all
communication (emails/scientific claims/business strategy) with regard
to this partnership are trade secrets and to be treated as
intellectual property. If you accept the partnership offer, you may
discuss the ideas, the scientific claims, and other partnership
information to prospective partners only or to prospective clients of
S4 products and services.
2. Invitation of New Partners
You agree to waive your rights under New York State Partnership law to
vote on the inclusion of new partners into the Partnership. In
particular, as a member of the Partnership, you are free to invite new
equal partners who have read and understood the tenets of New York
Partnership laws and wish to contribute constructively to the
Partnership. There is no restriction on citizenship, race,
ideological views, health conditions for partnership; the only
requirements are access to the internet, the agreement to be available
to follow NY State Partnership Law, and a commitment to the ideals of
Truth, Justice, Brotherhood, Equality, and Liberty.
3. Restriction of Partnership Discussion Topics
S4 Group will adhere to the freedom of speech tenet of the US
Constitution internally to the Partnership. This is necessary in
order for artists, theologians, scientists and other talent to discuss
their work freely. You agree to not take legal action in any nation
against any other partner for any ideas, thoughts, views that you deem
as disparaging to you; instead, you agree to either engage in a
rational debate, bring the comments to all members of the Partnership,
or ignore such communication as irrelevent to your work. Furthermore,
you agree to refrain from discussing the shortcomings of any other
partner in the success of the Partnership unless your talent is to
improve productivity of particular partners and you wish to discuss
your achievements in having produced results.
4. Financial Management
S4 Group will, as soon as necessary, create a transparent accounting
system visible over the internet. The specifications of the system
are the following. Initial operating costs of the partnership are
costs of the physical address for the partnership: 1087 Flushing
Avenue, Suite 408, Brooklyn NY 11237 and the cost of my labor in
organizing the partnership, not to exceed $42,000/year. Excess funds
of the Partnership will be kept in trading accounts per partner. Each
partner will have full discretion in the use of his or her account
without the requirement to consult with other partners; furthermore,
the account balances will be readjusted when new partners join the
Partnership.
Any partner who sells any product or service produced within S4 Group
is entitled to 15% of the proceeds and the remaining will get
distributed into N accounts where N is the number of partners. This
process will be automated, and no one partner will be responsible for
the functioning of this process.
5. Accounting Practices
All partners will have access to the account activity of all other
partners. Accounting irregularities by a partner will possibly result
in expulsion from the partnership by a joint vote and the contacting
of appropriate national authorities for violation of national laws.
In particular, misappropriation of Partnership funds for personal use,
for activities not permitted by US laws, for misreporting of
Partnership fund use according to the New York Partnership laws will
result in contacting appropriate regulatory body for financial
regulation.
6. Right to Initiate Debate
You agree to accept the right of any partner to challenge the
activities of any other partner on consistency with the five ideals of
Truth, Justice, Equality, Brotherhood, and Freedom. Such a challenge
has no punitive legal action attached to it, and the partner
challenged will have the option of not responding or to engage in
rational debate.
7. Default Strategy for Business with Corporate Entities
You agree to the default strategy of negotiation or business with
global corporate entities is through mathematical game theory. In
particular, if a mathematical game theory strategy for maximal revenue
generation is proved and presented, you agree to present an optimal
strategy based on rational grounds or provide partners with better
reasons on rational grounds in your counter-proposal for a business
strategy. The default S4 model assumptions for corporations are
revenue-maximization, survival of the fittest corporation by
competition in the markets, formation of global cartels of cooperative
revenue-maximizers. In this model, for example, if an effective
strategy for revenue-maximization of S4 is to invite all the employees
of a corporation into our Partnership, you agree to debate such a
strategy on business grounds.
8. Guidance for Internal Functioning
You agree to read, when you have the opportunity to do so, The
Republic of Plato for guidance of activities in the Partnership
without the necessity of discussion with other Partners. As the
organizer, I interpret this text as a descriptive rather than
prescriptive text; you have no obligation to agree with this
interpretation of the text.
Thank you for your being. You are welcome to join S4 later if you are
unable to do so now.
Zulfikar Ahmed
We are forming a global for-profit company consisting of talented
individuals in areas of human knowledge. The following offer letter
is intended for all the members of your organization and is intended
not to be competitive with the aims of your organization. Please
disseminate to those interested. Note that S4 Group (not yet
registered) currently has good scientific results (we can prove that
the universe is 4-dimensional and have a replacement for quantum
mechanics that could explain spirit) that will be commercially
profitable and is open to 6 billion. My background is Princeton AB,
incomplete PhD from Columbia/MIT, and a decade of experience in
startups, finance, biotechnology, etc.
NOTE: Email acceptance will be respected as it is by US Courts.
November 15, 2008
New York
Dear Sir/Madam:
S4 Group will be registered with the New York State Department of
Corporations as a Limited Liability Company. You are invited as
an equal partner in ownership and profits of this entity as an
investor; that is to say as a Corporate Officer as well as an equal
member of the Board of Directors.
Monthly investement amount for this entity is set to
$100/month but could be lower if sufficiently many agree globally. If
you are unable to afford this investment amount and
would like to be a partner, your investment amount will be waived with
the provision that when you receive wages from the partnership, you
will repay without interest an amount equal to the investment that
partners who have invested in a regular schedule to be determined
later.
1. Communications are Trade Secrets
If you decline the offer for partnership, please note that all
communication (emails/scientific claims/business strategy) with regard
to this partnership are trade secrets and to be treated as
intellectual property. If you accept the partnership offer, you may
discuss the ideas, the scientific claims, and other partnership
information to prospective partners only or to prospective clients of
S4 products and services.
2. Invitation of New Partners
You agree to waive your rights under New York State Partnership law to
vote on the inclusion of new partners into the Partnership. In
particular, as a member of the Partnership, you are free to invite new
equal partners who have read and understood the tenets of New York
Partnership laws and wish to contribute constructively to the
Partnership. There is no restriction on citizenship, race,
ideological views, health conditions for partnership; the only
requirements are access to the internet, the agreement to be available
to follow NY State Partnership Law, and a commitment to the ideals of
Truth, Justice, Brotherhood, Equality, and Liberty.
3. Restriction of Partnership Discussion Topics
S4 Group will adhere to the freedom of speech tenet of the US
Constitution internally to the Partnership. This is necessary in
order for artists, theologians, scientists and other talent to discuss
their work freely. You agree to not take legal action in any nation
against any other partner for any ideas, thoughts, views that you deem
as disparaging to you; instead, you agree to either engage in a
rational debate, bring the comments to all members of the Partnership,
or ignore such communication as irrelevent to your work. Furthermore,
you agree to refrain from discussing the shortcomings of any other
partner in the success of the Partnership unless your talent is to
improve productivity of particular partners and you wish to discuss
your achievements in having produced results.
4. Financial Management
S4 Group will, as soon as necessary, create a transparent accounting
system visible over the internet. The specifications of the system
are the following. Initial operating costs of the partnership are
costs of the physical address for the partnership: 1087 Flushing
Avenue, Suite 408, Brooklyn NY 11237 and the cost of my labor in
organizing the partnership, not to exceed $42,000/year. Excess funds
of the Partnership will be kept in trading accounts per partner. Each
partner will have full discretion in the use of his or her account
without the requirement to consult with other partners; furthermore,
the account balances will be readjusted when new partners join the
Partnership.
Any partner who sells any product or service produced within S4 Group
is entitled to 15% of the proceeds and the remaining will get
distributed into N accounts where N is the number of partners. This
process will be automated, and no one partner will be responsible for
the functioning of this process.
5. Accounting Practices
All partners will have access to the account activity of all other
partners. Accounting irregularities by a partner will possibly result
in expulsion from the partnership by a joint vote and the contacting
of appropriate national authorities for violation of national laws.
In particular, misappropriation of Partnership funds for personal use,
for activities not permitted by US laws, for misreporting of
Partnership fund use according to the New York Partnership laws will
result in contacting appropriate regulatory body for financial
regulation.
6. Right to Initiate Debate
You agree to accept the right of any partner to challenge the
activities of any other partner on consistency with the five ideals of
Truth, Justice, Equality, Brotherhood, and Freedom. Such a challenge
has no punitive legal action attached to it, and the partner
challenged will have the option of not responding or to engage in
rational debate.
7. Default Strategy for Business with Corporate Entities
You agree to the default strategy of negotiation or business with
global corporate entities is through mathematical game theory. In
particular, if a mathematical game theory strategy for maximal revenue
generation is proved and presented, you agree to present an optimal
strategy based on rational grounds or provide partners with better
reasons on rational grounds in your counter-proposal for a business
strategy. The default S4 model assumptions for corporations are
revenue-maximization, survival of the fittest corporation by
competition in the markets, formation of global cartels of cooperative
revenue-maximizers. In this model, for example, if an effective
strategy for revenue-maximization of S4 is to invite all the employees
of a corporation into our Partnership, you agree to debate such a
strategy on business grounds.
8. Guidance for Internal Functioning
You agree to read, when you have the opportunity to do so, The
Republic of Plato for guidance of activities in the Partnership
without the necessity of discussion with other Partners. As the
organizer, I interpret this text as a descriptive rather than
prescriptive text; you have no obligation to agree with this
interpretation of the text.
Thank you for your being. You are welcome to join S4 later if you are
unable to do so now.
Zulfikar Ahmed
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