The Utopian World Championship

Henk J. deBruin: UTOPIA? PERHAPS, BUT.........NOTHING for NOTHING!

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Utopia is a dream. All religions promise a utopia, a heaven, which is not available on earth. Any trend towards Utopia is impeded by the natural threat of overpopulation, assisted by incongruent and unfair pecuniary laws, rules and regulations, right across the world.
Individual species of flora and fauna develop and thrive until their environment becomes saturated. The breed usually dies out, or otherwise becomes extinct. The present estimate of extinct species is 98% since the big bang! Some species are better prepared against overpopulation, than we are. Marsupials, for example, have their fertility reduced in times of over-population and food shortages due to droughts. We may well be too late in the survival game, and seem to forget that the earth’s surface, available to us, remains constant while the population increases.
Substantial influence can be exerted if man can reduce and ultimately eliminate some of his unnatural institutions. The history of money for example, started as a trading lubricant for our goods and services. It has now become the most important and most damaging commodity.
Research and development, particularly that related to human health, creates excessive wealth in some countries, often starvation in others. It also accelerates population growth, instead of reducing it. Environmental research is overdone. Global warming, for example, is a popular, well-heeled, research activity with questionable results.
The concept of endangered species is somewhat romantic, and difficult to manage. The 98% of extinct plants and animals have unfortunately missed out.
The most difficult problems to solve will be the man-initiated, unnatural laws. It should be possible to review the commodity properties of money.
It seems only fair that every person at birth has an equal start. At present we tolerate the imbalance of a heritage dominated existence?
Policies, such as globalisation, will accelerate our ultimate extinction. The increasing rate of warfare during the 20th century is unlikely to stop. Epidemics, old and new will demand more sacrifices. An approach towards a utopia of some sort should be tried to help us survive.

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The history of money could possibly show us how to backtrack from our unjust financial and political power base.
Bartering was a natural means to share our products and services. As we grew in numbers this ultimately became inconvenient to our forefathers. They invented a common vehicle, coins, which lubricated the exchange of their goods and services. Their banks were socks under the straw bed, with an axe or knife as their security system. Coins were difficult to make but this improved with advances in metallurgical technology.
In stage two IOU’s and paper money assisted trade in the middle ages. Guarantees were required, usually in the form of gold, held in vaults, and administered by Government. By present day standards, there was still some sort of a practical ceiling that kept avarice within reasonable(?) limits
Real trouble started when the management of money became too big. We invented cyber money. Now there is little need for coinage. The worth of our goods and services are recorded in accounts by banks and other authorized institutions. The required bookkeeping by these institutions reduces transparency. It takes away from the equitable interest and authority of the real owner. But saddest of all is that cyber money has become a commodity, and less and less the original trading lubricant it was intended to be. Big companies and moguls trade in this commodity: money, never knowing when and how to stop. They are becoming more powerful than elected governments. Democracy is deteriorating accordingly. It has blown the ceiling from man’s wealth. Like over ripe fruit such wealth eventually starts to rot! Somehow this trading in money as a commodity, not a bartering lubricant, should be rejected. The fact is that the most fundamental law of nature is no longer applicable to man’s money markets: Nothing for nothing!
Furthermore, we may wish to replace the world of big brother by a level playing field at the moment when we are born, just like all animals do. In that case inheritance becomes obsolete. It could be eliminated, perhaps in stages over two or three generations. On our demise acquired wealth should be passed on to the community.
Also a more realistic ceiling on income would assist. Are there really people that work so hard that by the work-for-a-living principle they can earn (or rather take) more than a million dollars per year from the community? All living animals seem to be quite happy with this, give or take the occasional bully amongst them. They seem to be living in a utopia most of their life. Think what would happen to charities, and taxes if inheritance and the money commodity could be removed. A step in the right direction?

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