Sure, now that I am off my God-delusion that He would see my through my existential crisis I would welcome some fresh insights on how to conduct myself in order to become more righteous. It is clear that I was not righteous all this time over the past 20years of dharmayudha believing it to be a God-ordained mission that I have been given the responsiblity for as the promised Messiah to bring humanity to its senses:
The Economics of Green Socialism
It has been argued here (
The Inevitable Economic Doomsday Scenario for the World) that the world needs to reassess its economic direction if it is to avoid a catastrophic economic stagnation at some time in the future. To address this issue the concept of Green Socialism was introduced. What does Green Socialism mean in practical and economic terms. We need to start with a definition of socialism.
Socialism means being social, which is to live in harmony with ones fellow human beings, in a symbiotic manner. It implies that the resources of the state must be shared in a manner among the citizens that takes account of individual’s needs and abilities. It does not mean that all human beings are equal and deserve all goods and services in equal measure. Above all, it does not mean a command authoritarian state controlling the lives of the people through dictation on how they should live and what they should do. Human needs for liberty and independence should be catered for in any discussion of socialism. Within those human needs we know that humans are social animals so that there is a need to encourage communities in which the national community is the largest relevant society. Socialism means that every person should get his basic living needs met and this is his right as without governments man was free to gather whatever resources he wanted from the natural environment for a million years. No one starved because everything was free in nature. Humans got together with other human beings in the spirit of camaraderie and pooling effort to survive and thrive in nature. It is governments that gave private ownership of land to individuals that has stopped humans enjoying the freedom to do so. So socialism requires small government not large.
In the implementation of socialism one must therefore incorporate in it the individual’s freedom to act and interact without coercion. Socialism must also recognise that prosperity comes from a free market economy in which individuals have that freedom to set up businesses and provide goods and services in accordance with market demand. This will entail coping with competition which promotes efficiency and innovation. Human innovative and pioneering spirit must never be dampened coercively. So socialism does not mean subservience to a state authority that will allocate tasks for the individual members and pay them for their work. Socialism does not require a command economy in which government owns all the means of production in which people are then forced to work and survive under state coercion. Socialism means understanding human mentality and then putting up the appropriate community that optimises the survival of all. It is the opposite of capitalism in which individuals live in isolation of the community with unlimited private ownership, and having no responsibilities for other members and having no social interaction with other members of the state.
Under socialism no human being should have an unfair economic advantage over others so that they start on a level playing field and achieve their biological potentials in life. This means that all children start off with the same facilities. There is therefore a role for government in ensuring that this takes place through taxes including inheritance taxes. The state will then provide basic needs including education and health services.
Green socialism takes this form of human community living further in that it harmonises human activities with the natural environment in terms of what is sustainable and desirable as man shares the planet with other plants and animals, and this has to be done such that future generations can also thrive on the planet. This is because humans care for their children and their grand children as an emotional need. Green socialism makes the planet richer for future generations from austerity now.
What are the components of the austerity of green socialism given the above definition of socialism? The essential requirement of the economics of green socialism in today’s economy is to tax the rich and maintain very high interest rates to reduce credit fuelled consumption and investment as well as promoting savings. The need to consider what we leave behind for future generations is also socialism so that all nations must take steps to erase national debt that will be a burden on them. We have no right to burden future generations with debt from our overconsumption on credit now.
All national governments will be set targets on the level of capital they are required to build up in accordance with the resources of their environment and historically accumulated fluid money. This will be the job of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). No government will be allowed to run a national debt. In this way national government will be storing fluid money for future generations with the IMF in the form of gold.
