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6.3.
A
constitutional right to an education is meaningless if the state can ignore the need for
continuously increasing funding (people, methods and buildings). The unbelievable billions of dollars (continuously
increasing) thrown into the bottomless pit of stopping illegal narcotics could more than
fund much better education.
6.4.
Why
haven't we got the best teachers on earth on tape, disc and/or live internet to better
educate us all? Because it doesn't make money like the present system and will put
teachers out of jobs?
7. 2000 AD: Where are we going? We've come a long
way 1900 AD to 2000 AD. How do we now solve,
or plan to solve, the remaining problems resulting from the collision of Freedom,
Democracy and Capitalism. How can we keep new
democracies from making the same mistakes as we made?
How do we keep them from being exploited by multinational corporations, individuals
and other Nations, any or all of which may be run by power mad nuts? How can we plan to make even more social,
political, educational and economic progress 2000 AD to 2100 AD?
7.1.
Humanity’s survival is not assured. We have work to do.
7.1.1.
Humanity on Earth is like all of
humanity living on a single volcanic island in the middle of an impassable ocean and we
have no boats; and the volcano is rumbling (global warming, solar flares, giant asteroids,
nova, etc.). Humanity’s survival is not
assured until we get off this star.
7.2.
Part
I Looks at some of the classes of problems today. One
of today's problems is only partially addressed today: the survival of human beings. Saving the planet is only part of the problem.
7.3.
Part
II looks at some general (non-patch-work) solutions.
( click
for outline of 7.4 thru 8.1.8)
9.1.
Capitalistic
organizations are not democratically run and fundamentally conflicts with Democracy.
How will it be possible for the people to have anything but a Plutocracy masquerading as a
Democracy?
9.2.
Pollution
caused by industry
9.2.1.
Oil/Carbon
dioxide...won't use gas for corporate economic reasons...corporations bought up and
scuttled the electric trolleys of this country
9.2.2.
Pesticides
make money...poison foods
9.2.3.
Growth
hormones grow bigger meat animals...cause cancer and weight gain
9.2.4.
Chemicals
in cigarettes to keep them from going out when left unattended....a known fire hazard
9.2.5.
The
elimination of the electric trolley cars
9.3.
Monopolistic
tendencies
9.3.1.
Economic
ups and downs due to corporate fighting and "excessive" profit seeking and
speculation
9.3.2.
Purchase
and destruction of corporations
9.4.
The
unemployed...(later slaves req'd by capitalism)
9.5.
The
homeless
9.6.
The
crime
9.6.1.
The
TOP: The Wall Streets
9.6.2.
The
BOTTOM: The Ghettos
9.6.3.
Police
Brutality (The Electronic Whip) - show everyone what will happen to you if you don't work. This is a major part of the Economic Whip which
keeps the slaves of capitalism working their asses off.
9.6.4.
Justice:
directly proportional to the amount of money and/or influence you or your supporters have
9.6.4.1.
prosecutors
withholding info that would clear defendants
9.6.4.2.
The
Death Penalty may be a good idea but cannot be permitted as long as 9.6.4.1 (old ??4.7.1.)
exists
9.7.
The
"free" press is profit driven by big money interests
9.7.1.
The
Media: TV, Newspapers, magazines
9.7.2.
who's
propaganda/biases
9.7.2.1.
Editor,
Owner, Advertisers are all "Money's" interests
9.7.3.
"MONEY'$"
(BIG MONEY) propaganda/biases
9.7.4.
can
make or break any idea/interest
9.7.5.
Never
gives equal air to both sides except "by law" in the political arena during
their campaigns for public office and their staged 'debates' ... then they slant their
"news" programs to erase the "equal time"
9.7.6.
Election
"gimmicking" using the "free" press. Increasing actual
sophisticated multi-level ELECTION FRAUD.
9.7.7.
heavy
lobbying of elected officials by big money interests....changing the effect of popular
vote
10. Some Underlying Problems.
10.1.
The driving
force of Capitalism is Greed.
10.1.1.
Skip
the value judgments. ... Greed, like fire or explosions, can be harnessed.
e.g. We harness fire and the controlled explosion that is the driving force taking
our puny spaceships into space.
10.1.2.
Much
of the Law in a democracy concerns just such controls.
When a large company buys up all the suppliers of its' competitors in order to
force these competitors out of business, "antitrust laws" come into effect. Sometimes these laws are effective in preventing
the destruction of small companies. Laws to
keep greed in check. Keeping greed in check,
however is not the same as harnessing greed.
10.1.2.1.
An example of
harnessing verses controlling greed: Patent laws harness greed by giving the inventor a
temporary monopoly over the invention. These
laws push in the direction of newer and better everything for everybody via the
marketplace. Controls in the form of
enforcement are required to prevent those other than the inventor from copying and selling
this new 'whatever' without payment to the inventor.
We still don't always get the benefit of the better everything. There are no laws preventing a competitor, about
to be displaced by the new invention, from buying the patent from the inventor and never
producing the better 'whatever'. Such
purchases are sometimes coerced by threatening the inventor with anything from a
discrediting advertising campaign to running the inventor out of business before his
product has a chance to reach the marketplace. Rumors
have always been in circulation about many
fuel saving devices, allegedly bought up by the oil companies, that never came to market. Here is a case where greed could defeat the very
purpose of the patent laws. To control this
breach we could amend the patent laws such that if it can be shown that an invention has
not come to market within a specified period of time, the patent returns to the inventor
or becomes invalid and is published so that anyone can pounce on it and produce the new
'whatever'.
10.1.3.
Greed,
like fire, must be completely controlled or many people will get hurt. Unfortunately it usually takes a catastrophe, of
greed getting out of hand, to force elected officials to ignore their big money pension
providers (the rich and powerful) and pass / enforce laws controlling greed. Just look how much less the rich pay in taxes
compared to 20 years ago: 80% of $1 million income is now 38%. Consequently
these Laws must be constantly defended and updated to prevent ever more innovative
attempts to eliminate or skirt the Law as it is written at any given time... They (BIG
MONEY) pay the best legal minds, often the legislators themselves, to find ways around the
Law (antitrust, oil cartel examples), or write loopholes into the law.
10.1.3.1.
Greed is
immoral. Greed was once considered one of the
"7 deadly sins" by several of the religions.
In the U.S. today "greed" is a virtue.
Organized religion doesn't speak out about it, possibly because they are themselves
greedy. You hear of them speaking out on the
sexual improprieties of public "sinners" and other trivia (pornography,
abortion), but you never hear of them condemning the greedy. Rather they speak of the greedy (often Power Mad
Nuts) in glowing, almost worshipful, terms. With
homelessness and corporate executive salaries at obscene levels ($36 million a year in
salary, bonuses and stock options is normal today), we hear nothing from organized
religion repudiating greed or requiring penance from the greedy. A proper penance could be the greedy must pay (10%
surcharge) for the rehabilitation of the casualties of capitalism: the poor, the underclass, the homeless, the
insane, those driven into crime, etc. i.e. Move "the bottom" up a notch.
10.1.4.
(**move
this**) A movement to limit terms in all elected offices is aimed at decreasing the
control over legislators exercised by the "Big Money People". However, since it requires money to run for
elected office, the "Big Money People" cannot be kept out. More-over it assumes that the supply of competent
legislators is unlimited. This is not the
case. Therefore it systematically removes
competent legislators from office and replaces them with "bullshit artist" FRONT
MEN.
10.1.5.
The
Greed Harnessing System makes people work hard (under the economic lash) and delivers
great progress via greed motivated innovation. At
this point it is not called greed, but rather "incentivized" competition or
"a desire to improve oneself and one's family".
This is fine unless this improvement is forever (taking over the world) and the end
justifies the means.
10.1.6.
but
it causes problems - constantly trying to destroy its controls/containment - in the name
of "mo' money, mo' money, mo' money..."
10.2.
Capitalism
requires slaves called workers paid as little as possible.
10.2.1.
without
the incentive of money to those who have none, many dirty jobs would not get done. People, especially women, could not be bought.
10.2.2.
Give
the workers just enough to almost satisfy their needs, any "wants" come at the
expense of needs. Hope of moving up drives
many to a higher level which means, for most, there is merely a new set of
"needs" and "wants"; round and round we go.
10.2.3.
Those
who tire of chasing the carrot held constantly before our eyes get the stick ... find themselves without a job (1) at all, (2)
unable to "keep up" (like swimming - must keep head above water). Both become desperate.
10.2.4.
Without
a job you get beaten hard by the economic whip. There can be no provision to support you. That would be a disincentive to other hard workers
(carrot chasers).
10.2.5.
Capitalism
speaks of 'job markets' in discussing options in hiring the best people for the least
money. This is based on (1) the number of
desperate unemployed, (2) the amount of money (goodies) being offered and (3) the
requirements of the moment in a profit making (ad)venture.
10.2.6.
If
you cannot find a job, someone else must hold you up until you can "get back on your
feet". If you have no such family or
friends who can AND will help you, you slide down a greased pole to "the
bottom". The longer it takes one to get
a job, the less capable one feels with respect to getting a job. At this point even honest people contemplate
crime. Those who refuse to eat out of garbage
cans or beg for food may well be the strongest ones.
Some of the strongest and/or smartest succumb to the seductive result of
contemplating crime.
10.2.7.
Homelessness
follows quickly for all but the strongest. Death,
disease, victimization, imprisonment (new slavery but some consider this better) stalk
both the strong and the weak. The right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness does not exist at the bottom. Its like the
"Survival among starving rats in the trash heap ..."
10.2.8.
Driven
by "you are worthless" if you cannot move up, the desperate are stressed often
beyond the individual's tolerance and they crack ... some in the nuthouses, some in crime,
most are victims on the streets of the bottom, a few succeed thereby giving the world a
new nut with money and power
10.2.9.
slaves
/ workers fight technology / automation to preserve jobs thus hindering progress
10.2.10.
The Real Cost --- how
many hours, minutes, seconds did you work to buy that ?
10.2.11.
More
recognition and larger long term rewards to individuals who develop something new. Make them like lottery winners. Make people try to come up with ways of improving
things knowing that success is more likely than winning the lottery.
10.3.
Capitalism has
Economic Storms
10.3.1.
Depressions
10.3.2.
Recessions
10.4.
Capitalism
requires/breeds power seekers (potential power mad nuts)
10.4.1.
Is
it the money, the things it can buy (goodies, people: women in particular) or is it POWER?
10.4.2.
Power
corrupts and money is power - the power seekers run corporations and run for public office
10.4.3.
Laws
limit the power of those in office but there are no laws limiting the power of private
citizens. Their power is sometimes limited by
others competing for power.
10.4.4.
Often
people/corporations merge to drive their competitors out of business in order to
monopolize a lucrative industry/market - there are a few inadequate laws against
monopolies. The will of the people be damned,
"get those profits up or you will be on your way to the bottom - The Law? Well
just get our market share up to the limit of the law - say 95%"
10.5.
Greed or
Ambition? (note: Power, Revolts and
Revolutions - power is seldom voluntarily relinquished)
10.5.1.
Going
from $1 million to $10 million: greed or ambition?
10.5.2.
$10
$100
greed or ambition?
10.5.3.
$100
$1 billion greed or
ambition?
10.5.4.
$1
billion $10 billion greed or ambition?
10.5.5.
$10 $100
greed or ambition?
10.5.6.
No
one individual above $100 billion ... yet. Should
this kind of power ($100 Billion in assets) be in the hands of any one individual ...
seriously?
10.5.7.
If
power corrupts, like dope/drugs, how do you assess the minds of each group (above)? At what point do they become dangerous to a
democratic society (indirectly buy off officials, lobby to thwart the vote of the people,
can destroy individuals and groups by any of several legal and illegal means). The effect of this dope (money / power) is to
convince one of one's own infallibility: "What I believe is best for the world is in
fact the best."
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