Humanism in Essence
A developed economy of a good society
Companies need to voluntarily merge regionally. All people will receive equal humanistic shares of public property, and those who own private property will receive extra shares for it. I do not claim that it will be easy to accomplish, but it is the only way to a good society. Then comes an even harder step, the one that will give the final answer to all the economic problems.
We need to develop the workforce market. Each job should be assigned to the worker who offers the highest productivity, the lowest price, and the highest responsibility at any given time. When workers increase their productivity or provide benefits to society, they will be awarded higher incomes and more humanistic shares. If they do not meet their productivity targets or harm the community, they will bear the consequences by earning lower incomes and losing the stocks they possess.
No economy could be better than the one where the best worker gets each job. Only such an economy could eliminate privileges and injustice. Only such an economy could solve social problems and create a good society.
All people will directly influence the region’s macroeconomic policy, among other things, by deciding how much of their income they want to allocate for taxes. People will also directly determine how the tax money is spent by assigning it to the consumption groups they need most. That would be a democratically planned economy, the most rational and stable economy possible.
The new system will bring people closer to their nature, and then, in some distant future, all individuals in the region might decide to allocate all their incomes for taxes. Then all goods and services will be paid for from the joint consumption budget and delivered to all of the people free of charge. That would form communism, the best society possible.
I wrote more about the new system in the following articles presenting the future of economics, democracy, and values. My book Humanism presents the bright future of humankind.
May 25, 2004