A Vision for the New Year and Beyond, End/Beginning

The centralization would focus on guaranteeing the essentials of life, the decentralization to recognize and reward different degrees of individual talent and initiative. The Nation, with input from all stakeholders, would guarantee the essentials of life. Local communities, with input from all stakeholders, would determine how to recognize and reward different degrees of individual talent and initiative. Again, the resources to do this would come from recognizing the hidden costs and interdependencies and shifting those existing resources to achieve more of what we want and less of what we don’t want, less waste, corruption, unfairness and inequality to a sustainable world that works compassionately to bring out the full potential and best for everyone and everything in it.

We’d be saying, “as a citizen, irrespective of race, sex, religion, blah, blah, blah (as we’re supposed to be now and are not), you are guaranteed X. As a resident of this community, here’s how you can use your initiative and talent to have more than the minimum guarantee. It might be working with kids or senior citizens, mowing lawns, analyzing budgets, being a fire fighter or police officer.”

 

Of course there are holes you could drive a Mack truck thru in this vision. It’s inconsistent and not ready for prime time. But there is much of relevance, much food for thought, much that can be used to create a better, more effective and efficient vision and a sustainable world that works compassionately to bring out the full potential and best for everyone and everything in it.