Just thought of an interesting use in a world with Human Assets via what I call Life Shares.
When a sheep, err, human is born, it gets a set number of Life Shares, say, 1 Million shares in him/herself.
As the sheep, err, human grows, natural life events happen - like going to college or becoming some soccer phenom.
These events bring about opportunity for any Human Asset inside the World Human Asset Market. For instance, the 18 year old soccer phenom is spotted at some game and a number of people speculate on his Life Shares causing the value of his Human Self to go up.
He can now choose to sell any portion of his 1 million Life Shares.
The Good:
He now has options he wouldn't have had in an un-chipped world with no WHAM. He can use the proceed to better himself, pay for college or take the time off to train and become a professional soccer player. Or he can choose to buy tons of drugs and a ferrari and wrap it around a pole.
The Bad:
People make bad decisions, especially at an early age so many young people would sell too many of their Life Shares early on in life. This would eventually lead to the individual selling 51% of his life shares at which point he no longer controls his/her life.
The majority shareholders now control all aspects of his life, including major events such as marriage or if and when he will have children.
Refusal to play by the Market Rules would result in an automatic shut-off of the chip implant which would be a death sentence since without the chip you wouldn't be able to buy any food, so it's safe to say most would rather be slaves, err, Active Human Assets - so once again, this would only work if everyone is chipped.
The Ugly:
Like with any market, the rich and elite always find a way to abuse the system and get more rich and powerful. In this case world bankers can take advantage of food shortages, create wars, addictions, excessive debt and any other thing you can think of which would make someone desperate enough to sell their life shares for next to nothing.
How many people desperate enough, hungry enough, to feed an addiction, in too much debt or living in 3rd world countries wouldn't sell 51%+ of their life shares for a paltry amount of money, like $10,000? The elite would go on a massive manipulation spree and collect a few billion Active Human Assets.
The number 1 cost of most Large Multinational Corporations is the Cost of Labor.
I just solved their problem!
As majority owner you can now dictate your human assets to migrate to any location, fight wars, build infrastructure, work on massive assembly lines or any other task you deem necessary and labor intensive, for nothing more than the cost of living.
Of course in a free world like we have (*cough) there would always be an option to buy back Some of your life shares and become free again, but given your wages as a Corporate Owned Asset are so low, buying back your life shares would take you a long, long time.
This is of course nothing more than legal slavery. But it will be labeled something very PC or PS (Polite Society) like Active Human Assets (AHA), not slaves. Because slaves never had a choice, while Human Assets are free to willingly buy and sell their own Life Shares and just like Bitcoin has been recently labeled property [when it's clearly NOT] by extension, anything [or anyone] inside this property [Blockchain] will also be property or an asset, a Human Asset - as reclassified by the future Global Freedom Council on Active Human Assets Worldwide.
Are you guys getting this? GATT, WHAM and AHA. Lol....
Man, this would be an awesome movie to watch: Breaking out of the BlockCHAIN.
Were you by chance watching Jordan Maxwell when you came up with this? Its damn near what you are talking about.
-Your birth certificate is worth $$$$, you are traded on the stock market already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3RYTsz0EmU