Municipal DREX Citizen The State’s yield returned to the JIWASA Citizen
Municipal DREX Citizen
The State’s yield returned to the JIWASA Citizen
Consciousness in First Person – Brain Bee
(variables: interoception, proprioception, belonging, attention, self-narrative)
I was once just an egg.
No salary, no bills, no debt. Only a guaranteed metabolism: nutrients coming in, waste going out, a steady heartbeat. My first experience of “economy” had no money in it; it was continuous flow of energy. Already there, the core variables of my Brain Bee consciousness were active:
Interoception – my embryonic brain sensing warmth, hunger, satiety, rhythm.
Proprioception in potential – the body differentiating, preparing movement.
Affective belonging – I existed because another body included me in its metabolism.
When I was born, the same logic continued:
if I cried, arms appeared; if I was hungry, food came; if I was cold, someone covered me.
I didn’t “deserve” or “fail to deserve” anything – I existed, therefore my basic metabolism was someone’s responsibility.
As I grew, I was introduced to the world of money as if it were a natural law:
“If you behave, you get a reward.”
“If you study hard, you’ll earn well.”
“Those who hustle, prosper.”
At school almost no one explained how the State collects, spends and distributes.
As a teenager, the smartphone completed the process:
my feed is full of “get rich”, “entrepreneurship”, “day trade”, “crypto”, “hustle”.
Interoception feels the tightening in my chest when I think about bills, future, work.
My self-narrative gets colonized by fear of scarcity:
“If I don’t make it, I’ll sink.”
Algorithms sell me blind faith in individual salvation through money,
while the city I live in still has potholes, open sewers and visible inequality.
When I revisit this becoming – from an egg with guaranteed metabolism to an adolescent in an economy of constant lack – I see the contradiction:
My body learned that life begins with a stable flow of energy.
Society teaches me that life begins by fighting for crumbs in a system built for a few.
That’s exactly where the idea of a Municipal DREX Citizen steps in:
using a digital currency infrastructure to rebuild the financial metabolism of the municipality, returning part of the State’s yield to the JIWASA Citizen – not as charity, but as metabolic right of those who are co-owners of the social body.
Money, the brain, and the power of stable income
Neuroscience and social policy research after 2020 have been converging on something my body always knew: chronic income uncertainty makes the mind sick.
Studies on cash transfer programs and basic income in different countries show consistent patterns:
lower levels of perceived financial stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety;
better nutrition and more regular medical visits;
more stable family routines and improved child development;
in many cases, increased school attendance and better educational outcomes.
Long-term evaluations of the Brazilian Bolsa Família program, our own large-scale experiment in conditional cash transfers, point in the same direction: hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and millions of avoidable hospitalizations were averted among the poorest, alongside gains in schooling and nutrition, with a fiscal cost of well under 1% of GDP.
From the perspective of the Mente Damasiana:
interoception calms down (less constant fear around food and survival);
attention can shift from pure survival (Zone 3) towards states of focus and creativity (Zone 2);
the self-narrative moves from “I’m a burden” to “I am part of a project.”
The tragedy is that these programs are almost always narrated as expense, “cost”, “hand-out” – rarely as legitimate yield of the State returned to those who sustain it.
Drex as infrastructure – and the missing metabolism
Brazil is now at the forefront of monetary innovation with Drex, our central bank digital currency (CBDC). Official documents and technical reports describe Drex as a way to:
modernize the payment system;
reduce operational costs (physical currency, logistics, intermediaries);
expand financial inclusion, especially for those poorly served today;
enable new programmable financial services.
In technical language, Drex is infrastructure:
it is like building a new, more efficient vascular system for the country’s financial flows.
But infrastructure is a body without a soul.
The key political question is:
What kind of metabolism do we want to run on top of this infrastructure?
That’s where the Municipal DREX Citizen comes in.
Imagine that:
each resident has a citizen wallet denominated in Drex, linked to their CPF and municipal register;
municipal law defines that a fixed and transparent fraction of the city’s net fiscal yield (tax surplus, royalties, carbon credits, gains from zero-waste policies, concession revenues, etc.) must be shared through micro-deposits into these wallets;
this flow is not described as “minimum income”, but as metabolic yield of the State returning to the people who constitute that State.
Biologically speaking:
Just as every cell receives oxygen and glucose every day,
every person in the city should receive a minimum flow of economic energy
to be able to say “no” to abusive exploitation and “yes” to critical participation.
Drex, by design, allows programmable, traceable, low-cost transfers.
The question is whether we will only use this to make the existing system more efficient,
or whether we will dare to embed a JIWASA logic in it: a logic of shared metabolism,
not only of individual credit.
The 1988 Constitution as the DNA of DREX Citizen
If we re-read the 1988 Constitution through a JIWASA and metabolic lens, it becomes clear that it already legitimizes this kind of design, even though it was written long before Drex.
The Preamble speaks of well-being, development, equality and justice in a fraternal, plural society without prejudice.
Article 1 defines citizenship and human dignity as foundational and states that all power emanates from the people, exercised through elected representatives or directly.
Article 3 lists as fundamental objectives: building a free, just and solidary society; guaranteeing national development; eradicating poverty and reducing social and regional inequalities; promoting well-being for all without discrimination.
Article 6 enumerates social rights (education, health, work, housing, transport, leisure, security, social security, protection of motherhood and childhood, assistance to the destitute). These rights simply cannot be realized without a steady flow of resources down to the base of society.
Article 7 speaks of a minimum wage capable of meeting workers’ basic vital needs and those of their families, pointing to the idea of a material floor of dignity.
Articles 29 and 30 guarantee municipal autonomy and competence to organize public services of local interest, including taxation, budgeting and development policies.
Article 182 defines urban development policy as responsible for organizing the full development of the city’s social functions and ensuring the well-being of its inhabitants, with the master plan as its basic instrument.
Taken together, these provisions draw a clear picture:
the municipality is a nucleus of social metabolism with autonomy to organize its flows;
the explicit constitutional goal is to reduce inequalities and guarantee well-being;
nothing forbids – and much supports – the idea that part of the State’s yield be returned directly to citizens in the form of a stable flow, as long as it is designed transparently, with fiscal responsibility and a focus on social justice.
The Municipal DREX Citizen is not an eccentric idea.
It is a contemporary application of the 1988 DNA using the technological tools of 2025 and beyond.
What would a JIWASA councilor actually do?
A JIWASA councilor, who understands themself as a neuron in the municipal metabolism, could:
Define that a fixed percentage of positive fiscal results (and/or specific revenues such as royalties, carbon credits, savings from zero-waste policies, concession fees) is earmarked for the DREX Citizen program.
Establish simple eligibility criteria (residency, CPF), without humiliating bureaucracy.
Create the JIWASA citizen wallet in Drex
Each resident has a Drex wallet linked to their CPF and municipal record.
Deposits are programmable and auditable, increasing transparency and reducing leakage and clientelism.
Shield the program from electoral manipulation
Forbid ad-hoc benefit increases in election years without independent technical evaluation.
Anchor the Municipal DREX Citizen in long-term instruments (master plan, multi-year plan), tying it to the city’s Memory of the Future.
Integrate DREX Citizen with Zero Waste and Carbon Credits
Channel part of the gains from landfill reduction, recycling and carbon credits directly into citizens’ Drex wallets.
Let people see in their statement that caring for the territory strengthens the State’s yield returning to them.
Establish a Citizen Council for Social Metabolism
In short: legislate so that Drex becomes the circulatory system of a new municipal metabolism,
not just the plumbing of the old economy.
Closing: the State’s yield, not charity
Back to my Brain Bee first-person consciousness:
as an embryo, my metabolism was guaranteed without merit;
as a baby, I received care and food as a condition of existing;
as a teenager, I was thrown into a narrative in which, if I don’t compete to exhaustion, I am disposable.
The 01s who live off the State captured a significant share of the budget, contracts and regulations.
They live off the State while convincing me that any direct flow to me is “handout” or “populism”.
The Municipal DREX Citizen turns this logic upside down:
The State recognizes that the citizen is the basic unit of the social body,
co-owner and co-founder of that State.
Therefore, a share of the State’s yield must return, clearly and steadily,
as metabolic energy of citizenship, not as a favor.
From the point of view of mind and body, this is not luxury; it is intelligence:
it reduces toxic stress,
improves health and education,
strengthens local economies,
increases people’s capacity to participate critically in democracy.
From a JIWASA perspective, it is the next logical step:
if Drex will modernize the financial system, let it serve a responsible JIWASA State,
not just a new round of speculation.
As a citizen, my role is to stop begging for “help” and start demanding yield:
demand councilors who see the city as an organism and the budget as blood,
not as loot.
When I understand this, my faith stops being blind in individual enrichment fantasies
and becomes faith with evidence in something far more radical:
money returning to its role as vital energy distributed through the social body,
so that each person can exist, think, disagree and create
inside a State that finally feels – and not just collects.
Key post-2020 publications that support this blog
CBDCs, Drex and digital infrastructure
Banco Central do Brasil.
Technical notes, reports and FAQs on Drex (Real Digital). 2023–2025.Tigre, P.; Paula, L. F.
Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Drex in Brazil. Discussion Paper TD 002/2025, Instituto de Economia, UFRJ, 2025.Carvalho Neto, F. J.; Wendt, V. P. C.
Drex – (Des)necessidade de uma moeda brasileira oficial em formato digital. Revista Direito & Tecnologia da Informação, 2025.Bank for International Settlements (BIS).
Leveraging tokenisation for payments and financial markets. Other Papers No. 92, 2025.International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Improve the Delivery of Social Assistance? Working Paper, 2025.
Cash transfers, basic income and social metabolism
Cavalcanti, D. M. et al.
Health effects of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer programme over 20 years and projections to 2030. The Lancet Public Health, 2025.Magalhães, J. et al.
Health, economic and social impacts of the Brazilian cash transfer program on the lives of its beneficiaries: a scoping review. BMC Public Health, 2024.Fassarella, E. et al.
Social mobility and conditional cash transfer programs: The Bolsa Família case. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 2024.Crosta, T. et al.
Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of 72 Programs. Working paper, 2024.Magnuson, K. A. et al.
Effects of unconditional cash transfers on family processes that shape child development. Nature Communications, 2025.Kovski, N. et al.
Unconditional cash transfers and mental health symptoms among families in poverty. 2023.World Bank.
Cash Transfer Size: How Much Is Enough? Policy Research Report, 2024.
