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11. Solutions 1: Immediate
11.1.
Excess Resources
Taxes - if one has excess resources (a continuously redefined term starting at $200
million in assets) one is definitely benefiting more from the system (plutocracy) than
those who are homeless. We want 25% of their
assets (graduated 10% at $100M to 50% at $1B) as excess resources taxes to go directly to
bringing up the bottom and solving major problems. The
people at the bottom (homeless, have-nots, etc.) are the casualties, as in a war, of
capitalism. The rich are always getting
richer and the poor getting poorer and this produces those casualties. Excess Resources Taxes are not aimed at
"income". Instead Excess Resources
Taxes are aimed at the basis of wealth: Assets. The
intent is to slow the growth of the wealth of the rich while funding the cost of treating
the casualties.
11.1.1.
Various
studies, over the last few years, show that the rich are getting richer at about 16% per
year while the poor get poorer at about 6% per year.
Proponents of Excess Resources Taxes say let the rich get richer a little slower
for three reasons:
11.1.1.1.
To feed, house,
council, educate, reeducate, retrain and rehabilitate the casualties,
11.1.1.2.
Reduce the
ability of the rich in the areas of buying our government (legally, of course, via
lobbying, feathering the nests of elected officials with golden parachutes) and passing
laws that are counter to the will of an educated and informed electorate,
11.1.1.3.
reduce, over
time, the numbers of individuals controlling billions of dollars. These people are potential Power Mad Nuts. Power does corrupt.
They are Monarchs within the framework of Democracy.
Many are constantly trying to subvert democracy and remove or prevent laws that
protect the people from the effects of the greed of these Monarchs. They naturally tend to change our democracy into a
plutocracy (government by the rich and powerful). As
mentioned before, most of the laws in a democracy are to control greed. Proponents of this solution state that until the
world has enlightened democracy that limits the power of these modern day monarchs, greed
driven power mad megalomaniacs will continue to set human beings against each other (WARS)
for the profit of selling arms to both sides AND frightened neighbors. ...[Note: present a classic "rich power mad
nut" story somewhere before these uses of this phrase]
11.1.2.
Actually
transfer ownership to "the people" or money equivalent for the rehabilitation of
"the peoples' casualties". This way
“the people” get a little richer too, instead of poorer.
11.1.2.1.
These are real
casualties from the wars: acquiring and/or protecting the wealth of the rich.
11.1.3.
Much
of the wealth of the rich is tied up in the production of arms: hand guns, assault
weapons, ..., tanks, planes, bombs, ships, missiles, ..., advanced space weapons systems.
[ an advantage of Japan: out of the weapons racket which requires periodic wars and
threats of wars to maintain the arms business and associated profits ]
11.1.4.
We
would like to phase out wealth based upon arms production.
They can hire a group of thugs from country A and send them to country B to commit
atrocities in the "proclaimed" name of A. Thus
starting a war and sell arms to both sides or at least one side. Press coverage causes fear in other countries who
reevaluate their arms needs: more arms sold now and for years to come.
11.1.4.1.
The owners and
major stockholders of weapons manufacturers should be investigated in the same manner as
the owners of legalized gambling organizations. Organized
activities behind weapons manufacturers is far more important than whether a gambler is
being systematically cheated by organized activity behind the casino.
11.2.
Education
Imperative: To cut education funds and/or education research funds is to subvert democracy
(uneducated electorate can be told anything) and impose slavery (illegal to educate
slaves). To function properly a
democracy must have an educated vigilant electorate – more and better education is
mandatory. Make it a real education - never
let the money interests have such strategic advantages as cutting education so that the
“free” press can tell an uneducated majority how to think, feel and vote - force
the greedy to fund the actions required to keep greed focused and directed toward real
progress and away from taking over the electorate and the government and changing our
direction to theirs.
11.2.1.
Education
must be highly funded (excess resources taxes or some other) because ignorance is slavery. Remember that capitalism flourishes where slavery
is legal. Those systems are always maintained
by deliberately not educating the slaves. And
in “free” systems capitalism always seeks to pay the least possible to the
workers. In order to move from a slave to a
free system under capitalism it has always required a war of rebellion, civil war, etc. at
the National level; strikes and civil disobedience, etc. on the local level. Capitalist do not want to give up the extra
profits that accompany slavery of every kind. Hence
it is necessary to have child labor laws,--- safety laws --- laws governing the number of
hours an employee must work without extra compensation --- laws against sweat shops --- laws
against firing employees for no good reason just before they become eligible to retire on
a company funded pension --- ... This large number, and growing, of "Labor Laws"
is necessary. These laws control the greed
of individual employers. As individual
employers invent new ways to take advantage of employees, new laws are belatedly passed to
plug the new holes in the shield against the ill-effects of uncontrolled greed.
11.2.2.
Some
say the modern “free” system is still slavery.
Click
The Company Store. The modern slaves get paid almost enough to
satisfy their needs, any "wants" come at the expense of some needs. This keeps the modern slaves on the treadmill. The Company Store maintains this situation. If the slaves get paid more, the cost of all
goods/needs will increase to keep the slaves indebted to The Company Store. Somehow, because there are so many businesses
involved, we tend to loose sight of the facts that we are slaves: we must work or suffer
dire consequences. As mentioned before, the
existence, and maintenance, of the bottom is the whip in the “free”
system. Fear of the whip (Physical or
Economic) and minimal education is how any slave system is maintained.
11.2.3.
Teach
“Thinking Fundamentals”. Mandate
Chess or Go for every student. Note: Japan's
national game is GO. These games quickly
teach that impulsive, poorly thought out, action fails repeatedly.
11.2.4.
Popularize
the debate again. Education must extend to
include Popular Politics - a magazine we need like Popular Science or Popular Mechanics
– Dual Editors for pro and con every issue. We
must teach everyone how to see through rhetoric, misleading ads and nonsense.
11.2.5.
Publicly
owned press - or at least one --- Dual Editors for pro and con every issue.
11.3. Extended Equal Time Law. Equal Time for the candidates AND for the reading of The Record of the Candidates (the voters' memory: creates enlightened voters) AND for the posting of the sources and amounts of their donors.
11.4. End wars, started by International Corporations, in Africa, Brazil, etc. for control of the natural resources (diamonds, other gems, gold, raw minerals, oil, wood, etc.) in these countries. Start with pinpointing the source of the arms involved. Many of these countries can't feed their people. So if the entire country is poor (They don't have any money), how can rebel groups or oppressive governments afford to buy arms? By selling, or promising to sell, the country's resources? The people of these countries should be benefiting from the wealth of their natural resources. Instead the people are dying while factions fight over the natural resources to sell out to some outside interests and leave the people poorer. When a country is rich in natural resources but their people are living in poverty, SOMETHING IS WRONG. Stop pretending that the people are just stupid for allowing themselves to be conned out of their riches and recognize that some corporation (and/or individual Power Mad Nut) is getting rich (NOT ACCIDENTALLY) instead of the people of these countries. Maybe the U.N. should have an international detective squad working on these burglaries (theft of 3rd world resources by unscrupulous individuals, corporations, 1st world countries on behalf of indigenous corporations). Find them and fine them for restitution (to the people of these countries) and penalties (the cost of catching and publicizing/prosecuting, the cost of U.N. peacekeeping). For example consider the Nigeria - Biafran War: Who funded Biafran arms in the attempt to take away (as a new free ? country named Biafra) the oil producing part of Nigeria? Was it the U.S. oil company that is now polluting that part of Nigeria while extracting that oil in the least ecological (cheapest but deadliest) way?
11.4.1. U.N. Peacekeeping must be extended to the impounding of the country's resources over which corporate sponsored factions are fighting. The U.N., as part of the peacekeeping process, should see to it that the exploitation these resources be done by and for the people of the countries involved. Step in when a country appears to need to spend large amounts of money on arms to fight off neighboring countries (arms funded how?) or to oppress their own people. Step in when governments start selling their countries natural resources for personal gain/POWER. STOP PRETENDING that these countries are just full of stupid people, RECOGNIZE OUTSIDE INFLUENCE and DO SOMETHING.
11.4.1.1. There is lengthy data showing the U.S. CIA has been involved in arms running, dope running, the destabilization of countries and the assassinations of leaders of countries. The saying is, respect to Africa leaders, "If they (Corporations, CIA, etc.) can't buy 'em off, then they kill 'em off". There is ample evidence that the U.S. is a white racist country that has consistently (with very few exceptions) applied that policy to Black American leaders. Before that they did it to Africans who "sold" slaves to the slavers. Those Africans who didn't sell out were shipped out, as slaves. Africa has been raped repeatedly since U.S. Slavery began. It is still going on while the world pretends it is not happening. Like they pretended terrorism didn't exist. I repeat, When a country is rich in natural resources but their people are living in poverty, SOMETHING IS WRONG.
11.4.2. End IMF and other international lending
organizations support of rogue and oppressive regimes by forcing them to forgive all debts
when the people of the country take over in a democracy, NOT A PLUTOCRACY run by
INTERNATIONAL BIG MONEY. i.e. End IMF charging newly freed countries for
the debts incurred by former rouge regimes and used to purchase arms instead of the intended
development.
11.4.2.1. There have been many cases where Foreign Aid and IMF funds have been tied to, or specifically assigned to, 1st world corporations. These corporations then squandered the money, overran and over-billed and/or built infrastructure that benefited themselves or other corporations. Very little trickled down to the people of any of these "3rd world" (kept down) countries.
12. Solutions 2:
Intermediate Term: - working toward
the long term solution of Leisure and Luxury for everyone forever: S A A - E E S
(pronounced SAW EASE) is the Society for the Advancement of Automation
--- as an End to Economic Slavery.
The need for such a society becomes obvious once we know that Total Automation is
coming. The picture below shows what must be
done. Capitalism and Total Automation appear
to be mutually exclusive. A transition must
be planned and accomplished: The Bridge. The
Abyss, the chasm labeled chaos, could swallow humanity; we already possess the means
(H-bombs) to destroy humanity. Or
perhaps the 10% who own 90% of the wealth will be all that survive.
12.1.
Introduction -
Total automation is coming. It is as
unstoppable as the modern car or airplane after the model T or Kitty hawk. Most people will not be working because the
robots/machines are doing most, then all the work. How
are they to live: (1) like the Alphas of Brave New World or (2) like 1984 where Big Brother
is an 'intelligent' computer?
12.2.
Planning the
transition from 90% working, 10% unemployed to 10% working, 90% unemployed.
13. Solutions 3: Long Term: Leisure and
Luxury for ALL and Forever. Totally
Automated Society = Leisure and Luxury for everyone including those who choose to
work.
13.1.
Technological introduction - Total Automation - Economic Perpetual Motion
13.1.1.
The
Robot - 4 foot, 2 inches tall, seeing, hearing, walking, talking plastic robot that can
perform skilled and unskilled labor.
13.1.2.
The
New Slave - Teach these robots to mine ore, build factories, to build robots, build
'goodies' for people in remote parts of the earth then on the moon, on the planets.
13.1.3.
The
Expansion Sequence - The robots build robot manned space ships on the planets and send
them to the stars. Their mandate: If you
find planets that human beings can live on, mine ore build factories, build robots, build
roads, bridges and dwellings for human use, build space ships to come back and ferry us
there. If you find other planets, mine ore,
build factories, build more robot space ships, send them to the stars. This represents a bacteriological growth rate of
robot space ships moving out to more and more stars.
With such a growth rate humanity can, riding on the robot space ships, expand over
the entire Universe eventually, or expand into the Universe until the end of time,
whichever comes first.
13.2.
Economic introduction
13.2.1. Economic Perpetual Motion: With robots doing all the work and robot starships carrying us to the stars, we have an unusual situation. If all of humanity died out for whatever reason, the robots would continue manufacturing things and robots and starships until the end of time or the end of the Universe. That is a kind of Economic Perpetual Motion.
13.2.2.
The
CREDIT is a medium of exchange within this totally automated society. The 'goodies' of the civilization are
'purchasable' from automated factories. It
represents one's CREDIT to humanity. Once
earned, credits are never lost. Credits
provide you with a level of living equivalent to your contribution(s) to the civilization. When one makes a contribution, one earns credit
and one's level of living increases. If your
invention, book, art, etc., looses favor over time, your level of credit remains at its
highest attained (determined by usage as recorded by the automated system --- you also earn credits for finding holes in the
automated system. Beat the system and you earn credits, and the
system gets improved,
continuously.)
13.2.3.
Of
course associating with persons with high credits earns credits as it does for completed
courses.
13.2.4.
Any
job carries status (credits) - so few people working because there are so few jobs - very
high credits go with working. Working is one
way to get those excess goodies (big yachts, etc.)
13.2.5.
High
credits come from the arts also based on the size of the artists' following.
13.2.6.
Live
well with no job (Luxury level of the bottom is continuously rising) - the more education
you get from your robot tutors, the better you live. - invent something that people use,
you move up a notch permanently - not back down when the invention is replaced by
something better - create some art ... up a notch
13.2.7.
Solve
some of humanity's problems and move up a notch and maybe even a job (access to more
upward notches) implementing your solution
13.3. Educational
introduction
13.3.1.
Personal Robot Tutor: "your free ride through life has been paid for
by the blood, sweat and tears of all humanity prior to the establishment of this totally
automated society. We hope you will
contribute something to humanity, but you don't have to do anything but enjoy your life. Our fundamental premise is that the better you are
educated, the more likely you will be able to contribute something to society or
humanity. On
that basis the level of your free ride through life will be increased with every course
you complete. Large increases in your level
of living come when you contribute something ... " . The robot
tutor is looking at the data base(s) of all human knowledge and emulating the best
presentations by the best human professors.
13.4.
Political introduction
13.4.1.
Suppose
you had, instead of power mad nuts and bullshit artists, you had the best qualified people
to vote into office and you can voice your opinion and have it heard by the robots and
tabulated as an opinion or a vote.
13.4.2.
You
can even ask the candidates questions via the nearest robot slave. Then you can see and hear the candidates reply,
not necessarily live. If the candidate has
ever spoken publicly on any subject, your local robot slave can show you that speech.
13.4.3.
The
nearest robot can also provide you with the complete or compressed record of any
candidate.
13.5.
Sociological introduction
13.5.1.
The
machines know you and your likes and dislikes and can match your friends and associates to
you.
13.5.2.
The
Transition - full employment until it is set up then retire in leisure and luxury - your
grand children may not have to work.
13.5.3.
13.5.4.
13.5.5.
13.5.6.
move
13.5.7.
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