A sustainable dynamic economy with focus on human
Analysis, reflection and impulses on the current world situation
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. What caused the economic upswing in Germany and Japan? 13.5.2022 |
Analysis
Exploitation no longer takes place nationally, but internationally.
Although there is a high technical development, people are becoming more and more dissatisfied and ill.
The wild capitalism (laisser-faire capitalism, neo-liberalism) destroys our livelihood and future by short-term profit maximization.
Thinking too short ("quarterly thinking").
Too much concentration of power
Uncontrolled financial industry (making money without performance generates very bad character traits see online ex-banker Ronald Bernard. "They hate people"). Meaningless need arousal and too fast throwing away of the products, this wastes the limited resources, resource wars are the result.
The exploitation of people and countries runs like in colonial times (neo-colonialism see film "We come as friends”), there is war for resources and markets etc.
We are degraded to consumers and stupidity is making progress instead of being producers, as is the case with human dignity and which creates great joie de vivre.
In a "laisser-faire" system (neo-liberalism), part of the population becomes a loser and they become a social explosive (neo-Nazi problems).
Concerning profit it is more interesting to reduce the life-time of the product. But that strategy we reduce the life-time of the planet as well and wars are fought over resources!
The pharmaceutical industry is quite interested in sick people who generate profit.
The agricultural industry is destroying the basis of our lives for profit.
The military industry wants war and confrontation for business.
We can't go on like this anymore! Maybe the problem is not only capitalism but the corruption of people. Power corrupts and great power corrupts all the more, as we all know.
The originally good, decent, just person loses all these qualities as soon as he or she has climbed the power or career ladder far enough. People at the top are often power-hungry and paranoid narcissists, are manipulative and self-centered, and they have little empathy.
Summary
The globally dominating and differently developed capitalist economic and financial system with its legitimate goal of unconditional profit maximization naturally leads to ruthless cut-throat competition, to short-lived and partly nonsensical products through the exploitation of people and countries, the destruction of our planet as well as warlike distribution struggles for resources and markets. This system is neither reasonable nor can it offer a humane life.
A crisis is also an opportunity to reflect on what is really important for a society.
The people and not the profit must be put in the centre.
A social, ecological and sustainable economy must be the goal.
The crisis cannot be solved with national egoism.
Strategy
- Analysis of who is offensively advancing this destructive system. One quickly finds what one is looking for (1).
- Analysis of whether these externally supported groups are compatible with national interests.
- Take appropriate measures (politely, clearly, publicly, legally, etc.).
- Good ideas can motivate people e.g. the Belt & Road initiative or a new awareness communicated by Christina von Dreien.
- The goal must be a sustainable production of durable goods.
- Fair prices for the poor countries so that they can preserve their nature and participate in the world market in health, joie de vivre and dignity ("selective world market participation"). Fair trade is the right approach.
- Good relations between all countries to secure peace.
- Independent mediators to reduce international tensions.
- Control over the financial system by the state.
- Ethical risk assessments and public welfare evaluations for all financial products and actions.
- stop business by speculation
- Transparency of all assets to prevent tax evasion and avoidance.
- Strengthening of antitrust and tax law to prevent companies from becoming too powerful
- International companies also have to pay taxes in the country where they generate sales.
- Establishment of a direct representation of the people ("Swiss model").
- Elimination of excessive lobbying (transparency!) and infiltration by secret societies.
- Effective cartel offices that pay attention to a balance of power and prevent a concentration of power that is too great.
- An unconditional basic income has many advantages and has already been successfully tested in countries like Finland, Brazil or Namibia and is under discussion in other countries.
- Enlightenment, transparency and monitoring through free journalism (e.g. rubikon.news; nachdenkseiten.de; telepolis.de; free21.org; voltairenet.org; kla.tv https://kenfm.de; https://amerika21.de; globalresearch.ca; https://southfront.org)
The cooperative Volks- und Raiffeisenbanken and the public savings banks are one of the economic success factors for the preservation and expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises. The decisive factors are the objectives and the ownership structure. Capitalist private institutions do little to ensure social justice.
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the mainstay of the economy, highly innovative, efficient and dynamic. The corporations are often the opposite.
The big corporations and big banks destroy the good banks and the valuable small and medium-sized businesses and thus the basis of economic success.
- When prosperity is more homogeneously distributed, all, the non-privileged materially win, the privileged idealistically.
- To perceive oneself as a whole organism, if a part suffers, everyone suffers.
- Man must be the most important and not too much an idea and money, Mammon.
- Professional representatives of the non-privileged (trade unions, unemployed representatives) can provide justice.
- Trade unions need to internationalise. The NGOs that work for justice also.
- The NGOs must not be infiltrated and misused for certain purposes.
- The awareness "together we are all more", how can we learn from each other.
- The financial market must again be under state control and not vice versa.
- The military industrial complex must be under strict state control and not vice versa.
- The common good must be protected by law and not rewarded to those who work against it. Establishment of an enforceable polluter-pays principle, whereby those who make profits at the expense and risk of the general public are held liable (must pay for that).
- The economy of the common good (Christian Felber) as an alternative concept to the current purely profit maximization striving current economic form.
- Control instances for the judiciary that they could keep their neutrality.
- Public recognition of social benefits can motivate people to do so.
- Solidarity tax instead of wealth tax and distinction for those who are particularly committed in this respect.
- Laws to guarantee the longevity of products.
- Parity representatives of all ethnic groups and classes in parliament.
- Clear transparency with which lobby representatives the politicians have contacted and what the content was.
- No secret "elite circles" where politicians are manipulated. But more contact to the citizens by citizen telephones, contact possibilities etc.
No government support of the churches and media through tax models to force them to behave "in conformity with the government". Separation of church and state!
- The rich are often lonely, isolated people. Here others can help you get ahead.
- Environmental tax in the sense that anyone who causes major environmental damage to the community must also pay more and vice versa.
- New definition of the tasks of the military, in addition to defense for civilian services, so that the time of army people is used wisely. No illegal foreign missions of the army!
- Excessive consumption often arises from inner emptiness and is a spiritual issue. So there is potential for development. In fact, there is a lot at the esoteric market.
- Furthermore, it is very important to make scientifically proven reincarnation known, so that people act decently. And the karma law as well, "what I do, comes back to me".
- Maybe social self-initiatives are really a way to show alternatives.
- Maybe a major (financial) crisis is almost inevitable to provide the necessary trigger for
necessary changes. This is often the same case in personal life.
- The good thing about the energy revolution is that it has a lot of advantages for most people, including financial ones. Only a few lose. So the topic is definitely sexy.
- Trade agreements must not be at the expense of the weaker ones. This is poison for both sides, because by a homogeneous distribution of wealth benefits everyone.
- A regional economy of short distances, preferably local or regional.
- All services that cover basic necessities of life must be excluded from all trade agreements.
- Local supply and services of general interest must be oriented towards the common good and democratically organized and controlled.
- World trade must be based on complementary products and cooperation.
Experience shows that people with a lot of power often corrupt or are corrupted (see John Perkins). How can this be prevented?
- Citizen participation!
- Federalism (what can be managed at lower level should be managed there)
- Independent bodies with areas of responsibility that decide as a collective. Decisions do not depend on a single person, but are the result of a democratic and transparent process.
- Lobbying must be limited and transparent.
The health industry urgently needs to be reformed towards a health system that is interested in the health of its citizens!
- Pharmaceuticals and vaccines must serve the citizen and not vice versa. Citizens and politicians are often a means to an end!
- The prices of pharmaceuticals must not be set by themselves freely.
- Obscene profits must not be generated with the disease of other people!
- No money must be made with vaccines, the state must intervene here!
- The situation must not be allowed to arise where it is profitable for some people to be ill. The advertising budget of the pharmaceutical industry is shockingly high!
- Health is not a commodity, it is a fundamental right for everyone!
- Hospitals may not make profits.
- Deficits are to be compensated if a hospital is necessary for nationwide care.
- Financing must ensure that the costs of maintaining a hospital are covered for exceptional emergency situations.
- Medical treatment in hospitals is part of the public services of general interest and is therefore a sovereign state task.
- Privately owned hospitals should be returned to the government.
- Adequate hospital staffing is an elementary prerequisite for good treatment and care
- The nursing profession must be upgraded and better paid.
State support must be used to oblige companies to
- sustainable production methods and compliance with environmental standards, in particular immediate reduction of CO2 emissions
- Compliance with international resolutions on human rights, ILO labour standards and fair pay
- Waiver of tax avoidance, dividends and bonuses.
- a progressive capital levy for very large assets
- the consistent combating of tax evasion
- Structural change to environmentally friendly mobility
- Large corporations must be effectively taxed by means of a total group tax, which makes profit transfers abroad obsolete.
- Affordable living for all!
- Permanent rent limitations
- more public and cooperative housing
- the socialization of housing groups
- a new housing non-profit organization and a stop on land privatization
- Agriculture needs strict regulations for animal husbandry and soil use
- climate-damaging agricultural subsidies must be abolished
- Small-scale organic farming must be promoted in order to ensure healthy food.
Working hours
People experience "forced deceleration" as a new quality of life and want to maintain it. We should make the reduction of working hours a permanent condition.
Curbing unbridled globalization
Personality
"The principle of personality means that the human being must be at the center of all actions. That the economy may strive for effectiveness and profit, but ultimately economic activity should always be in the service of people. This has been the basic idea of the social market economy. That people must ultimately be the measure of all things in economic, social and political action."
Solidarity: a society based on solidarity
Subsidiarity
"Everything that can be done at the lower level should also be done by that level. But that higher levels serve the autonomy of the lower level. So here with us: Everything that can be done at the local or country level should also be done there. The state or the federal government steps in when it can no longer be done at the lower level.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/oswald-von-nell-breuning-was-von-der-katholischen.1278.de.html?dram:article_id=313638
Examples and successes
- Partial aspects have already been successfully implemented in many different ways.
- Particular successes of the pragmatic social ecological market economy are Brazil (under Lula), Ecuador, Portugal and Germany.
We need a financial system in which the creation of money, the cycle of money, the effect of interest and the purpose of banks is clearly regulated
- We need a global Glass-Steagall partitioning system for the banks immediately (separation of investment-bancing and others).
- We need a national bank with government loans for investment in infrastructure and the real economy.
- We need a new Bretton Woods credit system that can help the development of the planet, especially in the energy sector.
- We need to replace the geopolitics and confrontation against nations with confidence-building cooperation to achieve the common goals of humanity.
- We urgently need a financial transaction tax ("Tobin tax") so that the "financial industry" can also contribute more to the common good.
- A reduction in military spending generates opportunities to invest in infrastructure etc. We live in the IT-century so most of the traditional weapons are obsolet.
Decent minimum wage.
- No religion must be misused to exercise power over people or to justify anything. Human must be respected as a free being.
- Reacting and acting instead of debating, lamenting and fantasizing. Freedom cannot be "debated" but must be fought for intelligently.
- Transforming the fruits of anger into constructive activities.
- Make the above honest Internet information sources known.
- Contribute your own content to the various sites.
- Make Youtube videos on the various topics.
- Address and write to NGOs, politicians, political parties.
- Networking with other like-minded people.
- Greenhouse gas taxes, environmental taxes
- Credits may not result in public sector austerity programs.
- The financial transaction tax is overdue and quickly brings urgently needed capital without need.
- Tax avoidance quickly brings urgently needed capital.
- Taxing transnational corporations quickly brings urgently needed capital.
- The progressive tax ("solidarity tax") quickly brings urgently needed capital.
The above aspects only cost courage and decision-making ability. The profit for most is beyond imagination.
- The implementation is already partly done.
In the Belt & Road initiative, some of the above visions are present and partly already realized. It is a choice between plague and cholera, and the Belt & Road initiative is clearly to be assigned to the economy of life, whereas the other is the economy of death, which we will then follow (nuclear war, etc.).
More
(1) good new concept: Christian Felber, economy of common good. https://www.ecogood.org/en/