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Own the Robot
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In Front of the Fed
Do the Right Thing

A World Waiting to be Born

“The dawn of this new civilization is the single most explosive fact of our lifetimes … It is the birth of the first truly humane civilization in world history.” — Futurist Alvin Toffler

The world stands poised at a fork in the road, the most momentous in history. One path leads to the World Economic Forum (WEF) misnamed “stakeholder” capitalism in which the stakeholders have no input and no say. The other choice is ecological Universal Capital Ownership (UCO), in which each and every individual has agency and freedom, true stakeholders. A Negative Income Tax (NIT) serves as a safety net in case UCO investments fail and a person is also unemployed. Poverty in the midst of plenty is eliminated, even while costing the taxpayer less overall. Our environment can truly become a priority once the scarcity mindset imposed by our current monetary system is consigned to the history books. People owning things personally tend to become stewards, rather than extractors.

Compounding interest, an exponential formula, has left the world awash in odious debt, even while driving massive amounts of ‘busywork’, needlessly churning and burning resources, to service that debt. The output of the busywork and real production of wealth is measured by gross domestic product (GDP), that considers money flows only. If a person earning $45,000 a year goes to jail and the incarceration costs $60,000 a year, then the GDP will consider that 25% increase in funds flowing for that person as ‘growth’. The nation will be deemed wealthier by legacy economists. Alaska had a banner GDP year when the Exxon Valdez grounded, because of cleanup costs. War is good for business is the ultimate expression of how backwards this wealth yardstick is.

It is time for what systems scientist and ecological economist Kenneth Boulding termed the Knowledge Age. This is something fundamentally different than the proposed WEF Intelligent Age, which heavily overcentralizes power and the catastrophic results of such a structure in a complex society. Ecological Universal Capital Ownership can build a world where everyone has a true ownership stake in the economy, freedom from drudgery, a voice in the government, freedom of expression and a healthy environment. Beware of distractions and diversions put forward by an obsolete power structure. Most political choices today are servants of false suppositions around our monetary system. Whatever is physically possible is financially possible. The rest is superstition. “Our problems are man-made — therefore, they can be solved by man.” — John F. Kennedy

“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion.” – Thomas Jefferson

‘The masses’ designation is an artificial construct

In the late 1960s, NASA sought to understand the nature of creative genius and commissioned a study led by George Land. The focus was on young children, aged 3 to 5. A group of 1,600 children were given a creativity test initially designed for NASA recruits. The results were surprising; 98% of the preschoolers were labeled as creative geniuses. A follow-up study revealed their creativity dropped to 30% at age 10 and further down to 12% at age 15. When the test was extended to 280,000 adults, only 2% maintained their creative genius.

Nature played a role in that adults are more aware of ‘tried and true’ ways of doing things and the brain changes to reflect this. Yet 2% of adults maintained their creative genius despite their life experience. This strongly suggests nurture, not nature, is the primary culprit. Essentially, the 2% of adults survived the indoctrination inherent in our educational system, where people are trained to serve the existing power structure. Everything from the mainstream mass media to fluoride to processed food help keep your mind imprisoned in what is known as ‘convergent thinking’, where the individual is considered an adjunct of the masses.

With the Internet threatening to remove the blinders from more and more people, the most short-sighted of the current power structure are looking to impose censorship and a controlled economy through Central Bank Digital Currencies, Digital IDs, a UBI and a Surveillance Society. The surface motivation is to remediate the health of earth’s ecosphere and give basic sustenance to those displaced by automation. However, the WEF ‘own nothing’ theme and control mechanisms are designed to return the 99% of the population to full-on feudalism. Their Great Reset is aptly named in that it suggests a going back. The Great Awakening is the other option for humanity. It is more difficult to design environmental safeguards under a freer society, but it is the politically sustainable way forward. A systems scientist maxim that speaks to this is “the easy way out usually leads back in”. History suggests that those who bet against human dignity and creativity ultimately lose. The biological urge to freedom in humans is a wise design. The information flows of the future will require the ‘bandwidth’ of billions of fully informed, awake people; not the bottleneck of a small controlling group.