So, in the U.S. we extend social security benefits to the entire adult population. Simultaneously, we establish independent 'education funds' for each child at birth that could only be tapped when the child turns 18 (or some other magical age) -- something on the order of a $3000 investment can provide the cost of an ivy league education at age 18.
That sounds like the extraction of a lot of "surplus value" from the American working force, to me -- unless it's some kind of pyramid scheme or other creative accounting ploy.
Investments don't grow on sunlight: they are "fed" bodies and spirits. Also, a real Ivy League education (I suppose there is such a thing -- I certainly did not have it at Yale in the mid-60s: I had assignments and grades i.e., Sisyphus stuff.) This also connects with the notion of "two economies": what can be automated and thus made cheaper, and what requires direct human concern and therefore relatively keeps getting more expensive.
And we start immediately educating people to the possibility of a different way of life, of raising children, of.....
But these good and necessary activities do not address how to channel individuals away from the desire to gain power over others. I admit that I don't have a clue at this point how to do it, but unless this is done I fear that the other necessary components will fail to achieve what we want.
The Polish sociologist Jan Sszepanski hoped for a reorganization os society based not on competition for bigger pieces of the existing pie, but on creativity which makes the pie bigger for all. But who is going to convince most even upper middle class Americans that WImbleton is a big bore because we can predict with certainty that one or another of the players will win a predefined prize?
Now let us deconstruct famous men (and women)....
And reclaim the center of life for Everyman, woman, child *as this-unique individual*. As Nicholas of Cusa said: In an infinite universe, the center is everywhere and the prriphery is nowhere. We still live in a finite universe where the vice presidents revolve around the CxOs, the first line managers revolve around the vice presidents, the grunts revolve around the managers....
\brad mccormick
Barry Stennett
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