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How Powerful Evolutionary Forces are Transforming Seven Billion Individual Humans Into a Single Harmonious Social Organism

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — R. Buckminster Fuller   ()>)(      
“Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.” – John Lennon ()>)(
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead   ()>)(
“Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction booklet came with it.” – R. Buckminster Fuller   ()>)(
“The finally victorious way of looking at things will be the most completely impressive way to the normal run of minds.” — William James    ()>)(
“The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating a problem in a way that will allow a solution.” – Bertrand Russell          ()>)(           
“The desire to question and change things comes from the healthiest part of you.” – Gene Tashoff           ()>)(
“The essence of The Coalescence is connectivity.” — Walter Szykitka                ()>)(
“The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind.” – Bob Dylan                ()>)(
“This ain’t no foolin’ around.” – David Byrne                ()>)(
“Money is the root of all evil.” – Jesus                ()>)(
“Love conquers all.” – Virgil                ()>)(
“All you need is love.” – The Beatles            ()>)(
“Music will be thefinal uniter.” — Walter Szykitka

IT’S CAPITALISM, STUPID

The cause of the debt crisis is to be found in the essence of capitalism itself: competition, which – surprise! – produces losers as well as winners.

The primary mechanism through which this contest is engaged is the corporation, which the US Supreme Court recently declared to be the legal equivalent of a person. Here is how it works: corporations hire workers to produce widgets for which they are paid $8.75 each. Later, when the workers become consumers and buy the widgets they produced they are charged $10. The difference: a profit of $1.25 each. That’s a 12.5% skim off the top, a house advantage that would thrill any casino operator.

Here’s how those numbers work out nationally. The monetary value of US gross domestic product (the total of all the various kinds of widgets produced) during the first quarter of this year amounted to an annual rate of $15 trillion. Corporate profits for the same period came in at an annual rate of $1.8 trillion. There it is, the culprit: 12.5% skimmed right off the top. It shouldn’t take a degree in higher math to see that this is a game with a short life expectancy. Before long, the workers will find it more and more difficult, and finally impossible, to keep buying the widgets they make.

Now this is where debt makes its appearance. The only way to keep this game going is for corporations to lend some of their profits back to their underpaid workers and overcharged consumers so they can keep buying those corporate products, but on the promise that those loans will be repaid – with interest. In the long run, of course, this only accelerates the process until finally, as now, it is no longer sustainable.

Meanwhile, the government is also called upon to borrow to make up for its gap between revenue and expenditures in order to fulfill its primary purpose of doing for the people what they are unable to do for themselves as well as the responsibility for assisting the growing number of unfortunate ones who are the sad victims of this Ponzi scheme.

Finally, we end up with our present situation. The world has been unevenly divided into lenders and borrowers, with a handful of lenders, and all the rest borrowers. One mysterious aspect of this entire discussion is how the focus and the blame are placed entirely on the borrowers and not at all on the lenders except to complain that they’ve stopped lending.

As a result, whenever some common good is proposed to fill an urgent need or to rectify the damage done by capitalism’s free-for-all, the answer is always “there’s no money.” When the fact is that there’s plenty of money, but as a natural consequence of capitalism’s competitive animus, it has become concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.

Every dollar of debt is a dollar claim on the borrower’s future income, which only adds to the lender’s already disproportionate wealth, and to the inevitability of capitalism’s final collapse.

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