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.
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!
Thanks for your comments. It's so important to listen to other people to understand their views.
All it will take is a democratic revolution to change the fate of humankind. No annihilation, no bloodshed. Two things must occur. First, people must believe that a better world is possible. They must recognize and reject the monetary and economic slavery that has held them captive for centuries. They must realize that our current leaders have already begun to intentionally exterminate and sterilize people and must understand that there is no future for most of us if we don’t resist them now.
Second, people need to believe that enough other people also recognize the danger that humanity now faces making dramatic change possible. A new alternative party must arise, one that is more than a political party, one that can earn and restore the public’s trust by clearly and honestly stating its objectives, methods and timetable. Specifying a plan that obviously benefits a vast majority of the population will ensure a majority government and the cleansing can begin.
Public cynicism is the biggest threat to real change. Our history certainly justifies it, but we must overcome the psychological barriers that they have erected in our minds and believe in goodness once again.
I'd love to see a mass movement such as you describe, and I too hold out hope for positive change. Keep speaking your truth, Don. Loads of people are looking for a better way.
Many people have wanted changes for a very long-time and have tried to introduce changes But, these Psychopaths' since WW11 have pushed their own AGENDAs. I am not an American. Its not a USA aim to improve our World.
I do think that the USA has to make many, and the biggest changes, as they have and are causing much of the pain world wide.
Small Communities' and local Banks are a positive, they have to be more transparent and answerable.
THIS IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE VARIOUS CHANGES AND NEW STRUCTURES AND SO MUCH MORE.
Please get US out of other Countries and stop USAs never ending war mongering. Putin and China are not war mongering but have been driven to survival measures as Psychopaths' do not heed anyone else except their own Agendas, and have an attitude of WINNING AT ALL COSTS in whatever they do-as many homeless jobless Americans are learning about these irrational Psychopaths'.
Focusing on how these "Psychopaths" obtain their power is the key to disabling it. Apart from inter-generational wealth transfers, profit is the primary tool used to build their wealth and power. True the USA is the most aggressive nation on Earth because so much of its corporate profit is based on war, destruction, illness and the exploitation of foreign nations and their resources. But all western nations are stuck playing the same money game. The winners are making up the rules without the slightest concern for the common good or public interests.
For now, they still need the public to provide the labour to run their empires. AI & robotics may change that very soon. The world's people need to rise-up now and withdraw their labour from the corporate marketplace before it is too late to matter. Rotating strikes staged strategically worldwide would threaten the corporations more than individual workers if organized properly. Gandhi had it figured out.
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!
Thanks for your comments. It's so important to listen to other people to understand their views.
All it will take is a democratic revolution to change the fate of humankind. No annihilation, no bloodshed. Two things must occur. First, people must believe that a better world is possible. They must recognize and reject the monetary and economic slavery that has held them captive for centuries. They must realize that our current leaders have already begun to intentionally exterminate and sterilize people and must understand that there is no future for most of us if we don’t resist them now.
Second, people need to believe that enough other people also recognize the danger that humanity now faces making dramatic change possible. A new alternative party must arise, one that is more than a political party, one that can earn and restore the public’s trust by clearly and honestly stating its objectives, methods and timetable. Specifying a plan that obviously benefits a vast majority of the population will ensure a majority government and the cleansing can begin.
Public cynicism is the biggest threat to real change. Our history certainly justifies it, but we must overcome the psychological barriers that they have erected in our minds and believe in goodness once again.
I'd love to see a mass movement such as you describe, and I too hold out hope for positive change. Keep speaking your truth, Don. Loads of people are looking for a better way.
Thanks Tina. Please follow the link at the end of the article.
Don,
Many people have wanted changes for a very long-time and have tried to introduce changes But, these Psychopaths' since WW11 have pushed their own AGENDAs. I am not an American. Its not a USA aim to improve our World.
I do think that the USA has to make many, and the biggest changes, as they have and are causing much of the pain world wide.
Small Communities' and local Banks are a positive, they have to be more transparent and answerable.
THIS IS A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THE VARIOUS CHANGES AND NEW STRUCTURES AND SO MUCH MORE.
Please get US out of other Countries and stop USAs never ending war mongering. Putin and China are not war mongering but have been driven to survival measures as Psychopaths' do not heed anyone else except their own Agendas, and have an attitude of WINNING AT ALL COSTS in whatever they do-as many homeless jobless Americans are learning about these irrational Psychopaths'.
Focusing on how these "Psychopaths" obtain their power is the key to disabling it. Apart from inter-generational wealth transfers, profit is the primary tool used to build their wealth and power. True the USA is the most aggressive nation on Earth because so much of its corporate profit is based on war, destruction, illness and the exploitation of foreign nations and their resources. But all western nations are stuck playing the same money game. The winners are making up the rules without the slightest concern for the common good or public interests.
For now, they still need the public to provide the labour to run their empires. AI & robotics may change that very soon. The world's people need to rise-up now and withdraw their labour from the corporate marketplace before it is too late to matter. Rotating strikes staged strategically worldwide would threaten the corporations more than individual workers if organized properly. Gandhi had it figured out.
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.