| Subject: | Re: [socialcredit] Re: The "Cook Plan" | | Date: | Tuesday, November 11, 2008 14:14:38 (-0700) | | From: | Martin Hattersley <jmartinh @....ca>
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| In reply to: | Message 5688 (written by Kenneth Palmerton) |
What we are missing is not unnecessary products, but unnecessary work in
order to give us paychecks so that we can buy the basic things we need.
Think for a moment at all the unnecessary work imposed on us by wage-slavery
capitalism. The cost of wars. The gasoline used up in the daily commute to
unnecessary jobs in the financial sector. The pressure for more public
works, not because they are needed, but because the incomes that they
distribute are needed.
It's a sobering thought at this Remembrance time, that when all financial
constraints were taken off in World War II, the world's output of goods and
services skyrocketed, even when a great part of the labour force was engaged
in essentially unproductive work, dropping shells and bombs on our enemies
and their infrastructure, etc. etc.
It doesn't seem impossible to me that if unecessary economic activities were
eliminated by a more sensible financial system, the world could enjoy a
three day week, or even less, supplemented by a National Dividend. What it
would do for the worlds happiness, prosperity and culture would be enormous.
Martin Hattersley, 5929-189 St.,
EDMONTON AB CANADA T6M 2J1
Phone & Fax (780) 483-5442
e-mail <jmartinh@shaw.ca>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Palmerton" <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
To: <socialcredit@elistas.com>
Cc: <kenpalmerton@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [socialcredit] Re: The "Cook Plan"
In-Reply-To: <005a01c94397$2131e310$db80c67c@HomePC>
Hi William.
I think we will always have the problem of cross cutting with our comments.
As always I suggest we just do our best :-)
I am not happy with the idea that we get here from our comfortable
authoritarians about "Overspending", even though I do admit that much of
what we buy is unnecessary rubbish, and damaging to our environment.
An ambivalent and difficult position to defend I know, but it is a part of
my attitude to those who will not even countenance a change in our
dominant system of having employment, through wages, salaries, and
dividends, as the sole method of distributing purchasing power.
While that system survives the product of that employment has to find a
buyer, or the employee starves. Gullible they may be, but their
gullibility helps them to survive the present system :-(((
And I have made the point to you that I think that all the various schemes
to make use of FUTURE income to buy and consume PRESENT production, shows
that the claim that present income is insufficient to buy up and consume
present production, is found proven.
Ken.
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