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Political Philosophy and Points for Guaranteed Minimum Income
The
arguments against a guaranteed minimum annual income for all citizens
of the U.S.A. are fairly well known.
1)
Promotes laziness
2)
Lives off the work of others
3)
Requires high taxation
4)
Allows lower classes to reproduce until food supply is exhausted
All
of the points were developed in the era before effective birth
control was invented. It has been demonstrated since the late 1960s
that women with adequate income and birth control devices choose to
have 2 or fewer children. Ricardo’s Iron law of wages is not valid
in a modern post-industrial economy generally.
In
the U.S.A. today more than 100 million Americans are unemployed;
non-working adults. Fifty percent of the populous is already
receiving some sort of federal payment even if just food stamps. Much
of the banking sector and corporate world was sustained with zero
interest loans from the Federal Reserve. Much of what I suggest in
the following actually already exists in a grossly imperfect,
unbalanced form. Rectification of ways and means to govern responsive
to manifest political, environmental and social challenges is the
point of the following ideas.
With
a full planetary population living in an ecosphere believed by the
cognoscenti to be able to sustain just two billion souls at the
present level of resource use, and the population being presently
north of seven billion people, leadership in finding new ways to
adapt free enterprise and its genius for invention to the real social
criterion is needed. New political philosophy products ought to
provide practical ways to adapt free enterprise and democracy to
optimize democratic values within the given condition of the
ecosphere and demographic facts.
This
paper is intended to sketch some ways to change from the present
global system, led by the United States and Wall Street, moving
inertially as evolving corporatist plutonomy with de facto
imperialism wherein free enterprise is reduced by over-powerful
corporate and government suppression while democracy is suborned to
the power of wealth. That system probably leads to quasi-imperialism
with the slavery of royal leadership regardless of the titles they
bear (i.e. Politburo of the Communist Party, King of France, CEO of
Syndicate Soft). It could leads to mass oppression and possible
extirpation of the human race. There is a choice between human and
inhuman forms of government-the latter perhaps preferable for a
generation of pseudo-scientific atheists stimulated by Skinnerianism.
With
a guaranteed minimum income citizens are relieved from the excess
leverage of the market on labor. The blind pursuit of money leads to
much intra-social corruption in relationships. Values promoted simply
to get money may and have corrupt better social investments in
upgrading physical infrastructure, recovering lost environment and so
forth.
With
a guaranteed minimum income citizens would have comparable level of
sustenance to that they might produce for themselves in a natural
environment as hunter-gatherers or farmers without being trod upon by
social aggressors plundering for power. Citizens would also have less
spinelessness when it comes to making moral choices between good
economic-environmental values and bad where the bad pays more, or is
even the only source of money for the poor or working class.
Citizens
would also have less compelling cause to exploit the environment
themselves to wrest a living from it. Examples might be taking of
valuable furs, cutting down wild forests, building tract homes and
valuable wild and farmland, driving polluting automobiles because
everyone else seems to be.
With
a guaranteed minimum income and a sober awareness of the need for
secure boundaries socially in regard to nature, it would be desirable
to vet free enterprise projects before they get started. Regulations
for conforming to optimal resource use with ,low impact and entropy
would exist as business zoning laws any new business would need to
conform to. Business with fewer than 30 employees would be basically
free to go ahead, yet business with more, up to a cap of 5000
employees, would have to pass a popular vote, perhaps with business
juries, reviewing the value to society of the new business on
environmental and production value criteria, before passing into law.
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It
would be useful to limit the size of corporations regarding employee
numbers in order to promote efficiency. Corporations with greater
efficiency would return greater profit to shareholders and society.
Corporations would as well remain more competitive and unable to
accumulate too much economic and political dominance such that it
would corrupt the democracy with its influence.
A
modern and efficiency ecological economy with a free enterprise and
democratic criteria should support the annual economic and social
stabilization for all citizens. It former generations its was the
case that family and jobs could endure through a lifetime without
displacement from the creative destruction of the market. While
creativity is necessary it need not be destructive within a more
suitable political philosophy practically applied. Value theory
should conform to real social values in its application. Democracy
should not suffer value to define it’s behavior. Value should be
created by social will for excellence.
Taxation
would limit the accumulation of wealth so as not to interfere
destructively with democracy, free enterprise, social well being and
ecological health. The most wealthy could earn no more than 300 times
that of the poor (average) at the minimum income. Social values and
material production should promote a more compassionate ecospheric
spartan society with Christian spiritual values unburdened by
theocracy with excess wealth being neither necessary for raising a
family, inventing or producing new materials etc. In fact social
designs of physical structures for living health, security and
privacy should be post-modern minimalist with a modicum of ecospheric
hedonistic enjoyment of the natural ecosphere, as it is given by
God-in-the-Universe and is good.
Inventors
would receive exclusive patents for just five years and thereafter
10% royalties from anyone producing their works for the market. That
benefit would be for life and for the life of their first generation
heir then pass. Society needs to be able to generically reproduce
valuable new technology and business methods, keep a profit motive,
and advance society even as the ecosphere is restored to health and
brought to new, barren worlds.
When
the wealth of inventors surpasses the 300 times individual capital
cap the excess income is also diverted to government that must itself
neither go in debt or keep much capital excess.
The
government would provide capital excess for loans for individual
development and health, explore and colonize space, provide for
public education even if that is through private schools.
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Rationing
Mass per Citizen for Human Fabrication in the Distant Future?
Feb
6, 2014
Human
society without achieving a critical level of creative, adaptive
thought may evolve toward maximum exploitation of available mass
converting it to a high entropy format depleting environmental
sustainability or even the existence of a given planetary body
clumped together under the influence of gravity. Thus one may
anticipate distant future political efforts to counteract the noted
characteristic of purely egoistic use of mass without consideration
of the concatenating social effects.
Human
society evolving like bacteria in a Petri dish consume all available
food or mass available to process it adding entropy in order to
provide comfort, prestige and so forth. Yet unlike uncreative
bacteria human society and numerous individuals have bursts of
creative, inventive thought, thus they are capable of consuming and
adding entropy to mass at a far higher rate than that of bacteria.
Not simply consuming food and reproducing more of their own kind to
deplete resources human beings convert orderly environmental mass
into vast tonnage per person of luxurious dwelling, automobile and so
forth accelerating the irreversible conversion of mass with low
entropy into mass with high entropy.
One
might consider that human beings in an unregulated social environment
might eventually be conformed by external forces in the processed
environment into a maximum density format such as crystal structures
determined by a coefficient of technological capacity, minimal
spacing and remaining resources. The alternative to that might be
species depletion by elites to provide liberal time for existence of
the remnant former minority with quantitative easing of the resource
tension via controversial means (if they were debated) such as
holocausts. In times of resource tension extreme measures
historically arise.
A
future society with substantial remaining unprocessed mass and a
viable environment might limit the tonnage per individual for
fabrication including housing, transport and so forth demanding the
most extreme inventive thought materially from its citizens if they
are to get the most out of the mass quota. I would guess that a vast,
thin polymer geodesic sphere computer absorbing sunlight and floating
in zero gravity might be an efficient direction if it were capable of
sustaining human life inside. It’s hard to say. Yet it is
interesting to thinking about what sort of physical social
environment would develop if forethought and intelligence were
required of builders rather than mass-producing housing tracts with
low, low creative thought involved as if they were farming
for-themselves adding so much non-ecospherically sustainable
structure at unreasonable rates of interest.
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