Editing Cashflow

'''Cashflow''' is key to the [[revenue model]], especially of a [[self-funding]] system that will require revenue to balance every expenditure, and will not rely on [[donation]] or heroic volunteers to bail it out of problems:

To qualify as self-funding, a system must take in [[financial capital]] (not quite the same thing as [[money]]) before it must pay it out.  A [[nonprofit]] relies on donations and a [[line of credit]] based on the assumption that donations are coming, to meet its cashflow requirements usually.

However, it is also allowed to sell things, hold property or receive royalties, and often does this for [[fundraising]] purposes.  Usually to maintain [[charitable status]] in most countries, it can't actually develop anything to sell directly, but it can accept things that are saleable, and do the selling.

Ways [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] could handle cashflow are discussed at [[Consumerium:cashflow]].  Although some [[Consumerium Services]] like [[spot audit]] may generate cash through arrangements with other [[essential projects]] and [[governance organization]]s supervising these, it seems unlikely that a [[healthy buying infrastructure]] can generate cashflow on its own sufficient to support [[Consumerium maintenance]], and allaying all [[worst cases]] and unanticipated [[threats]].  For these reasons it might well be necessary to work to create a larger [[healthy signal infrastructure]] with others, and work closely with them on [[hardware requirements]] all can rely on.