When We Give Things Their Real Value, Everything Falls Into Place

The CPR Formula.

In The Second Renaissance (published in April 2025), we opened the door to a completely new way of understanding the economy, governance, and the relationship between human life and the systems that sustain it. There, we introduced concepts such as bio-economy, regenerative economy, and the automation of public administration within the framework of the Ecosocial Regenerative System (S.E.R.).

Now, in our upcoming book (scheduled for release next year) we expand those ideas and present a mathematical tool designed to redefine how we measure, evaluate, and assign the true value of goods, services, processes, and collective decisions: the CPR regenerative value formula.

This article does not aim to explain the formula in full detail, but rather to offer a general understanding of its underlying principle, so the reader may grasp its logic before exploring its full implementation in the book.

What is the core idea behind this formula?

The formula is born from a simple intuition: life is not measured in money, but in movement, energy, and transformation. Instead of asking how much something “costs,” the formula observes how much time it took to create, how much energy it required, which living resources participated, how much creative and intellectual resources are needed... and above all, how much it changes and improves the world it touches. It is a mathematics that breathes, one that recognizes that an hour of teaching may be worth more than an hour of brute force but brute force should be better paid than fashion..., and that a liter of pure water carries centuries of silent work from the earth. Thus, every human action and every gift of nature receives a value proportional to its ability to regenerate, nourish, and sustain life.

This formula, for example, also takes into account all the costs contributed by nature (costs that she never charges us back) for whether in ecological impact, material wear, or entropy.

And through that vision, payment stops being an arbitrary number. The formula adapts like water: it flows where it is most needed and rewards each person and each natural element according to their true contribution to the fabric of existence. A tree that cleans the air, a teacher who ignites a mind, a hand that builds with earth, a river that nourishes a valley, each receives a fair, transparent, and measurable compensation. Not by hierarchy or market forces, but by the deeper truth of what they offer. In this way, the formula becomes a bridge between economy and life, reminding us that real value is never imposed, it is revealed, when we learn to see the world through the eyes of regeneration.

What is the core idea behind this formula?

The fundamental premise is simple yet powerful:

The real value of something does not depend solely on its monetary cost or the effort invested, but on the regenerative impact it produces, the energy it requires, the time it involves, and the degree of transformation it generates in the living system around it.

In other words, the formula seeks to measure not only what something truly costs, but what something changes.

The logic of the model

In traditional economic systems, value tends to be assigned according to:

• supply and demand,

• speculation,

• market perception,

• or margins imposed by intermediaries.

In a regenerative system, these criteria are insufficient because they ignore the real costs something imposes on the planet and the real benefits it brings to life.

That is why our formula incorporates elements such as:

• Time invested

• Energy used

• Resources required

• Creative and intellectual extension of the work

• Transformative potential of the good or service

• And other factors inherent to living systems

Together, these elements allow us to calculate a regenerative value—a value that does not destroy, exhaust, or speculate, but instead honors the logic of life.

A key principle: the vital value

Within the model appears a central concept: vital value.

This represents the capacity of something an action, a decision, a system, or a service to increase resilience, autonomy, and health in the environment of which it is part.

It is not the same to:

• build an ordinary cement wall

  as to

• build a local earth wall that regulates temperature, breathes, stores carbon, and endures for generations.

The formula allows us to measure that difference.

What is this formula useful for?

This mathematical model will allow communities to:

• Make informed decisions

Leaders and members of eco-villages, autonomous communities, and regenerative projects will be able to evaluate which option produces the greatest benefit for the system.

• Establish fair compensation

Not based on speculation, but on time, energy, intelligence, and regeneration involved.

• Automate public administration inside the S.E.R.

The formula becomes the core of an automated, transparent, sensor-based governance system where:

• an impartial algorithm,

• fully auditable through blockchain,

• guided by real data,

makes decisions free from personal interests or political impulses something we call "evolutionary baggage or remnants".

• Replace corruptible structures

With a model where communities can trust the administration of resources, public works, priorities, and projects.

A formula for the world that is coming

This mathematical model is not a theoretical luxury.

It is a necessary tool for future autonomous settlements where:

• water is limited,

• energy must be optimized,

• community interdependence is essential,

• and regeneration matters more than growth.

In that context, traditional economic models simply do not work.

We need a new way to measure, assign, and govern value.

An invitation to the reader

This article offers only a general introduction to the principle behind the CPR formula.

In the upcoming book, we will present:

• its full structure,

• its mathematical mechanics,

• practical examples,

• real-world applications,

• and how to implement it through AI, sensors, and blockchain.

We will also show how this model integrates with:

• Oxidative Money,

• Accumulated Democracy,

• and the regenerative bio-economy of the S.E.R.

• Block Chain

• Public administration automation

In other words, the formula seeks to measure not only what something costs, but what something changes.

We are living through a civilizational shift.

The world ahead demands new tools, new ideas, and new ways of organizing collective life.