Arthur
There is more to this dilemma than distributing income - first it needs to be created. For the last couple of hundred years we have assumed that wealth is created when people do a job for someone else, who then pays them part of what they have created. The worker then spends this income in what we call the economy. This works fine so long as everyone (or most people) have the opportunity to do a job. For most of the past thirty years or so this has not been the case (or at least the jobs which have been available have been badly degraded) as technology now means we need fewer humans to do the sort of jobs which we needed them for a hundred years ago. This doesn't mean that the amount of work which needs to be done has decreased, just that much of this work doesn't look like the conventional job. What work remains to be done is, for the most part, local and intimately connected to people's local needs (caring, restoring, creating..). So, if we allowed people locally to create money (as many communities already do) this "new money" can then be distributed - and if appropriate there are even ways to think about guaranteed minimum incomes in this context. Charles Brass futures foundation www.futuresfoundation.org.au From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Wednesday, 3 April 2013 7:55 AM To: 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Jobs Boom Built on Cheap Energy Has Yet to Appear Politicians win elections by promising jobs, jobs, jobs. So far the promises seem to be working and they are in office. Once in office they are at a loss of what to do. (printing more and more money is likely to end badly) Jobs used to be a means to an end; now jobs are a way of distributing income. We need new ways to distribute income...something you, Sally, have been working on: a guaranteed annual income. Arthur From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 3:26 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] NYTimes.com: Jobs Boom Built on Cheap Energy Has Yet to Appear At 13:09 02/04/2013, you wrote: How can anyone believe it will be back to business as usual? Sally An awful lot of people are still in denial -- financial journalists, stockbrokers, managers of pension funds, to say the least -- they can't afford to think of what is likely to be a very different world. In particular, there'll be no boost from the shale gas So far, it has only substituted for the LNG (liquified natural gas).that America had been importing from Qatar. Shale gas production in America has already been stabilized because all the existing gas-fired power stations are in use and it will be years before enough new ones have been built. 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