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I concur, Michael.
From a Social Credit (Douglas) perspective
the Cultural Heritage (the cumulative unearned increments of association
and of knowledge developed and discovered by society from the beginning of
human history) does indeed provide the realistic basis, expressed in poetic or
symbolic language, for "an Abundance wherein there is not room to
contain." Social Credit is a Christian policy. Remember how the real
productive capacity of the United States increased enormously so that after the
War (II) the nation's ability to produce was much greater than before--even
though the belief had been expressed by "serious experts" that the nation
could not afford or sustain the demands of engaging in the
War?
But what is efficiency? The
most sophisticated means of devising and deploying the means of destruction
could only be called "efficient" if war is fought because of demonstrably
real external threat. But what if the primal cause of war is
entirely artificial in origin? Social Credit asserts that the major cause
of war in the modern world is a defective price system, operated in
accordance with false principles of financial cost- accountancy--in which, over
time, effective cost-liquidating consumer demand falls increasingly short as the
use of capital increases relative to the use of labour. The necessity
arises to produce more and more less useful consumer articles and capital
expansion by which to generate additional financial income--thereby to
allow the consumer to access a pool of goods incorporating financial
costs and bearing financial prices which exceed, exponentially, currently
available purchasing power in the hands of consumers.
The ultimate and inevitable form of waste is war,
by which incomes are created, distributed and thus made available for purchase
of past production--without the embarrassment of more financially
unclaimable consumer goods appearing for use on the market. In this
context the more "efficiently" a war is conducted, the more "inefficient" is the
process. That is, IF you accept the Social Credit (and Christian )position
regarding the purpose of life and of the economy to support it. The degree
to which production exceeds the natural ability of society to consume--or its
DESIRE to consume--should translate into increasing leisure (the opportunity to
engage in self-chosen activities) in the context of "absolute economic security"
(Douglas). The Social Credit mechanisms of the Compensated Price and
Consumer Dividend are designed to make this happy state of affairs
possible.
There are, unfortuately, people who believe that
all income must be earned by labour or participation in the "work" force.
To them any form of income not tied in some way to contributed effort in
production is a moral excresence--to them the admonition of Christ to "toil not"
is an immoral directive. They do not seem to realize that labour has never
been the sole factor of production and is increasingly a diminishing
factor. Under the present defective rules of financial cost accountancy,
these "work" worshippers manuever themselves into the inevitable position of
supporting policies which involve the necessity of carrying the economy by means
of exponentially increasing debt and physically wasteful and destructive
engagement (War) in order that we may just "carry" on. Well, from the
Social Credit standpoint, it is a pretty sick way of "carrying on."
Does a worm, upon discovering a morsel, freeze with
guilt--beleiving that it must somehow as an act of justification produce
something else before partaking of the meal that looms before it? Such a
stupid and perverted notion would never occur to it. But such thinking
seems to be the guiding rule for humans who have so extracted and abstracted
themselves from reality that they no longer have the guidance of natural
instinct or principles.
Economics is a matter of producing for desired
consumption and has nothing to do with creating work or "employment." It
is simply a functional activity of men and women in the world--something to be
dispensed with and accomplished as quickly and efficiently as possible so that
humans can be released for higher spiritual and cultural activities.
(Douglas) Of course, such ideas as this are anathema to those who fear
individual freedom more than anything else--and who believe that the
prerequisite of social existance is direction of the individual under
centralized control.
Wally Klinck
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disemployment
". . . promising to look after them 'from the
cradle to the grave'." (John)
I believe the Cultural Heritage can do
exactly that. Remember that Douglas quotes H. L. Gantt that the U.S.
economy (as one instance) was only 5% efficient. You agree that we could
and should have a lot less employment?
Michael
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