Sunday, February 12, 2012
Redefining prosperity
Redefining prosperity requires a global movement of people willing to challenge the conventional belief that individuals and entities have some sort of right to claim ownership to portions of the planet. For most of us this involves ownership of land parcels in our cities and suburbs on which sit our homes or other buildings. We construct buildings, and they are legitimate forms of private property. We do not construct or create or produce the land; land is provided freely by nature to us all. Yet, we have carved up the planet into nation-states, with the people who happen to occupy that territory in recent centuries or decades claiming sovereignty and the right to keep others out. And, within the nation-state individuals and entities have managed to form systems of law the result of which is that the overwhelming majority of people are required to pay huge charges to a small minority for access to nature. Unless and until we deal with the problem of landed privilege, of land and natural resource monopoly, there will be no real prosperity shared by the people of the planet.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Recommended Reading
To all visitors --
A full employment world would mean a permanent end to poverty as well as an end to the boom-t0-bust swings in our economies our experts describe as the "business cycle."
The path toward a full employment world is relatively straightforward, at least in the abstract. The political will to do what is required is missing and subverted by centuries of entrenched privilege that plagues our systems of law and how we pay for public goods and services (i.e., taxation policies).
This is not the time or place for a long statement of principles on why we experience the problems of periodic economic crashes, constant unemployment and generational poverty. Rather, I ask that you visit my online education and research project, the School of Cooperative Individualism, and begin to read, then think deeply about the material made available there.
Edward J. Dodson, Director
School of Cooperative Individualism
www.cooperativeindividualism.org
A full employment world would mean a permanent end to poverty as well as an end to the boom-t0-bust swings in our economies our experts describe as the "business cycle."
The path toward a full employment world is relatively straightforward, at least in the abstract. The political will to do what is required is missing and subverted by centuries of entrenched privilege that plagues our systems of law and how we pay for public goods and services (i.e., taxation policies).
This is not the time or place for a long statement of principles on why we experience the problems of periodic economic crashes, constant unemployment and generational poverty. Rather, I ask that you visit my online education and research project, the School of Cooperative Individualism, and begin to read, then think deeply about the material made available there.
Edward J. Dodson, Director
School of Cooperative Individualism
www.cooperativeindividualism.org
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