Armando Ernesto Alferez: Utopia5:The rescue and re-making of humankind through a Social-Market system
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This utopia suggests ideas to solve world problems. This utopia bases itself on several premises. Firstly, this system believes that a lot of the problems that we suffer right now are the result of the search and maximisation of power to achieve our needs and unlimited wants. As a result it is necessary to regulate this unequal existence of power while improving the social conditions as well as the material and immaterial wealth of all humans. Secondly, in order to restore international peace and to achieve a future for human kind, it is necessary to improve countries internally first. This can be achieved by using successful measurements from different social systems that help create a fair and more rewarding system for all individuals. Even thought it may sound like something that exists in some systems right now, these actual systems fail on the sincerity of their goals and the implementation of their policies. Thirdly, just like in any successful business organization, the happier all members are the more productive they become and the more they tend to work towards personal and collective goals. Finally, We cannot agree on many things in the international sphere and avoid fierce competition unless we improve the standard of living of all humans first. Further, it is imperative to convince individuals that cooperation and right planning can bring great rewards for all individuals without the need to manipulate or to turn against each other.
It is important to see that once people overcome their fears and need to manipulate situations, once people improve their living standard, once people understand how human history has developed in chaos and survival of the fittest and how this system will bring human more destruction than benefit, once human learn to achieve common goods through mutual cooperation and become aware that it is possible to achieve great things without maximizing material utility, once humans learn that the maximization of utility it is impossible without creating conflicts and once humans realize that there can not exist satisfaction of unlimited material wants through the limited material resources. Then we can set this system aside and jump into a new system or stage of human history, where mutual cooperation, effective use of resources are for every body's benefit. Then humans can start growing internally where they stopped thousand of years ago due to the fear of the unknown and the loss of confidence of how things went.
Then humans can start growing spiritually and mentally to start discovering many of those things that only exist on their fantasies such as the capabilities of our brains and the level of spiritualism that takes us closer to the search of perfection. Then humans can start discovering new worlds and make sure these worlds will be looked after and not only exploited for selfish reasons until they are finished. Then we can consider humans not as a source of evil and destruction but source of life.
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So what do we do?
Through a responsible organisation certain tasks must be developed. Firstly, the standard of living and well being of every citizen must be improved and secured. At the same time, the means to obtain power and its abuse must be regulated and moderated to protect citizens' life and well-being. Then it is important to educate the population so they can become aware of their real situation and to regain that confidence lost, so there is no need to try to manipulate things or situations. This responsibility should rest on the government. As a result a new conception of government is needed, but not as a supreme authority. Instead government could be better visualised as a "Human Welfare Management". The government would be like any individual or institution, which applies for a job and the best candidate gets the job. In this sense, the government owes and responds to its employers, which are each and every citizens of a country. Further, it is necessary to take the power from the government and give it to the entire population through bills of rights that recognise all types of possible violations against any individual. The government is given a chance to prove itself according to guidelines and the fulfilment of the human rights and development of a nation. If the government seems unable to solve problems, or unwilling, or try to use any mean to take the power back from the population, it would be replaced by another suitable group through elections. The aim of this is to secure and deliver the conditions that every citizen deserves and expects out of this Welfare Management system. Consequently, citizens will be more motivated to work for individual and collective goals. In other words, this system will incentive instead of putting restrictions on individuals to achieve their goals.
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