The last three years have been a wake-up call to millions of people who previously were too busy living day-to-day to question our social operating system. Then suddenly the Covid-19 emergency bells started ringing and governments everywhere went haywire. Emergency powers dissolved individual rights and freedoms, closed schools and small businesses and mandated citizens to infect themselves with experimental gene-based injections. Fear was used to boldly ratchet up corporate and government power to absurd new levels. Supply chains crashed and the price of everything exploded. Rather than protecting families from harm the pandemic response actually increased the pain, death and suffering we had to endure. People noticed that something was seriously wrong and started questioning the make-believe reality that the mainstream media creates.
Found your post via Jordan Schachtel's Dossier post. I like your thinking. The way we are going is untenable but reinventing an economic system seems like too daunting a prospect. It would require a massive reconstruction after nothing short of revolution and annihilation. However leaders right now, right here today can take concrete steps to design a healthy economy wherein all people share in the wealth (profit) generated but our leaders refuse because they are benefiting from the very elite (a class to which they now belong) who use their positions for their own gain. We need to topple the top down approach to capitalism but many people yell foul because it is a socialist concept, namely that workers participate in the decision making and output of the companies to which they contribute. We don't have a middle class anymore, we have a poor and poorer working class. Workers must be able to invest and share in the wealth they create. The fact that a CEO makes 400X what an average worker does is a case in point of inequality. A worker-stake company could vote to cap that. Imagine the average workers being able to negotiate their contract without fear of being fired? Imagine the average worker being able to discuss and vote on issues of quality control or worker safety? Right now they have no voice, no recourse, not even Unions have enough power to topple the corporate elite. The question is how do we get new leadership? How do we address the corporate elite concentration of wealth? Are we supposed to rely on elections every 4 years? Elections are laughable, recycling the bad actors, and inducting new actors who take the elite bait!
So succinct and right to the point. This should be our new foundation - time as the basis of an economy. Everyone has it and everyone benefits. Why would anyone choose to remain on the same timeline we're on! The only problem I have is with the picture as i feel religion is another bane of our thinking. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this as it fully resonates with my own thinking. Fabulously written.
Found your post via Jordan Schachtel's Dossier post. I like your thinking. The way we are going is untenable but reinventing an economic system seems like too daunting a prospect. It would require a massive reconstruction after nothing short of revolution and annihilation. However leaders right now, right here today can take concrete steps to design a healthy economy wherein all people share in the wealth (profit) generated but our leaders refuse because they are benefiting from the very elite (a class to which they now belong) who use their positions for their own gain. We need to topple the top down approach to capitalism but many people yell foul because it is a socialist concept, namely that workers participate in the decision making and output of the companies to which they contribute. We don't have a middle class anymore, we have a poor and poorer working class. Workers must be able to invest and share in the wealth they create. The fact that a CEO makes 400X what an average worker does is a case in point of inequality. A worker-stake company could vote to cap that. Imagine the average workers being able to negotiate their contract without fear of being fired? Imagine the average worker being able to discuss and vote on issues of quality control or worker safety? Right now they have no voice, no recourse, not even Unions have enough power to topple the corporate elite. The question is how do we get new leadership? How do we address the corporate elite concentration of wealth? Are we supposed to rely on elections every 4 years? Elections are laughable, recycling the bad actors, and inducting new actors who take the elite bait!
So succinct and right to the point. This should be our new foundation - time as the basis of an economy. Everyone has it and everyone benefits. Why would anyone choose to remain on the same timeline we're on! The only problem I have is with the picture as i feel religion is another bane of our thinking. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this as it fully resonates with my own thinking. Fabulously written.