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Very important points. Very very important points. Crucial points. Lifesaving points. None-more-important-in-the-world points. [Check it out if you don't believe me. Suspend your prejudgement. The truth becomes stranger and stranger as people drift carelessly further and further away from it. Check the logic.]

Violence [war, crime and weaponry] have been growing for thousands of years.
We now have 60 times PDC [planet death capability].
All happiness is real happiness, there is no happiness in unreality. Pursuit of happiness depends totally on pursuit of reality.
Money is a joker good, good for almost all good things.
Therefore theft of money is the greatest injury, the joker injury, the injury in almost everything.
Justice is equal pay for equal work.
We have pay from US$30,000,000,000 for a year's work to US$30 for a year's work.
Pay injustice, theft of everything, all needs, all wants, political power, status, standing, causes the greatest anger and violence.
Violence is endlessly escalative, as both sides try to prevail, and so use everbigger weaponry.
World income is around US$300 trillion [=US$300,000 billion] and there are about one billion families.
That is, US$300,000 per average-sized family working average hard.
In other words, the average family is making US$300,000 of wealth, of goods each year.
99% of people are underpaid, getting down to 10,000th of the wealth they make.
1% are overpaid, getting up to 100,000 times the wealth they make.
We have super-extreme theft, causing super-extreme violence, causing super-extreme unhappiness.
Therefore we can be super-extremely happier.
No one wants extinction.
Everyone wants maximal happiness.
Fairpay of US$300,000 a year satisfies all needs and all but the teenytiniest of desires.
So desires left unsatisfied by fairpay are all teenytiny.
So overpay cannot add much satisfaction, the added happiness of overwealth is very tiny.
Money is good, but desires get smaller and smaller as desires are satisfied.
So money reaches a point where it runs out of power to add satisfaction.
Fairpay buys very comfortable chairs, beds, rooms, very good food, drink, sex, cars, holidays, education, medicine, everything.
Overpay implies underpay. If someone takes out more than they put in by their own work, others have to take out less than they put in.
Overpay is theft, injustice. Overpay is money for no work, causing work for no money for others, causing resentment.
The overpaid are surrounded by the underpaid, who resent the theft, and try to get it back, in millions of ways.
So the danger of overpay is proportional to the size of the overpay.
Through all history, the overpaid have always in time been brought down by the underpaid.
The erosion of overpay is naturally constant, relentless.
Overpay, however large it is, is finite, whereas the erosion by the underpaid and overpaid is endless, so the overpaid always fall.
So overpay adds little satisfaction, and adds great and always fatal danger.
So overpay is net very bad, not net good, for anyone.
Underpay, theft, is obviously not good for anyone.
So removal of overpay and underpay is good for everyone.
That is, pay justice is good for everyone and bad for no one.
Pay injustice is good for no one and bad for everyone.
We have super-extreme pay injustice, so we can all be super-extremely happier.
By thinking our way from our one error to reality.
Self-earned money is always good.
Working twice as hard and getting twice as much is perfectly good.
Putting in twice as much and taking out twice as much is no theft, no injury, causes no anger.
Other-earned money, overpay, theft is very bad, because it comes with an angry person permanently attached.
For underpaid people, more money is still good, because it is their own earnings, and because they still have sizeable desires unsatisfied.
So underpaid people have no experience of money changing from being good to being bad.
Money changes from being perfectly good to being perfectly bad at the border between underpay and overpay.
At the point when all but very small desires are satisfied and money becomes overpay, theft, causing danger and violence.
The highest pay per year's work is a billion times the lowest pay per year's work.
So we can say that the pay injustice factor at the present time in history has grown to one billion.
And the violence factor and the unhappiness factor are the same, one billion.
And so the factor for potential increase of happiness is also one billion.
That is, we can be very extremely happier, because we now have very extreme injustice, violence and unhappiness.
We are in a very bad place, so we can be very much happier, if we can get out of it.
It is not extremely hard to understand and come to see that overpay and underpay are bad, are in no one's interest.
So people can be taught it.
When people know how they can all be much happier, there is no one to stop them.
When people understood insurance, they knew they liked it, and so they soon got it.
And so on for many things we have got for ourselves.
People have always known that money is good.
They have made the mistake of thinking that, since money is good, more money must be proportionately better.
Forgetting that self-earning is limited, so more money starts to be theft, causing violence, causing unhappiness.
And that desires are not infinite, but get smaller and smaller, meaning that money stops having power to add happiness.
So everyone has pursued getting limitless money, causing limitless theft, violence and thus unhappiness.
Violence is not limited.
Violence grows even if pay injustice is not growing, because both sides try to prevail, and so make ever-bigger weaponry, as we see from history.
And pay injustice is always growing, because money makes money, and no money makes no money.
And money is power, power to steal and conquer and plunder and enslave.
Power to make laws that favour the moneymaking of the overpaid in power.
So pay injustice, violence and misery always grow and grow.
So we have, with one little error, got into a very bad place after 1000s of years in which pay injustice has grown.
It seems harmless enough to strive to get as much as you can for your work.
But some have been extremely successful at getting overpaid, so 99% have been unlucky, and have got underpaid.
And 90% have been very unlucky and got very underpaid.
They are working very hard for very little, are having very little power, and are suffering very much.
Although everyone is working hard and every family working average hard is making US$300,000 of wealth every year.
So that there is super-plenty for everyone.
But everyone is very unhappy.
The overpaid are very unhappy because they have very little more satisfaction and an enormously greater danger and the enormous constant toil of trying to protect themselves.
The underpaid are unhappy because money is a joker good and buys millions of good things, and they can't buy them, although they have done the work that has made them.
And everyone is very unhappy because the violence has grown and grown to a very dangerous level for everyone.
Our weapons can fill every sky with permanent clouds, blocking out the sun, dropping the world temperature 25 degrees, which will stop every plant growing or living, and thus kill every living thing on the planet.
It is like leaving a tap leaking, and coming back to the house a year later and finding it rotting to the ground.
But we can reverse our little error.
We can start aiming to get out as much as we put in, and then no one will be overpaid and no one underpaid, and there will be no violence and no unhappiness.
Well, almost all violence and unhappiness will be gone.
The overpaid will get the same amount of satisfaction, and will be freed from the terrible, extreme danger of having large surplus amounts of money, useless to them, which buys millions of good things, and so attracts others constantly endlessly to try to grab it.
The underpaid will get far more satisfaction, by having all the money they have earned, and will be free from being enslaved and abused by the overpaid and overpowerful, and free from the endless war of trying to get their earnings, a fairshare.
Everyone will be free from the killing of all planet life.
Life can go on, and life can be far happier for everyone.
Everyone will have far greater trust of everyone, because the drive to theft will be minimal, because everyone will have plenty.
Everyone will be far closer.
Because everyone has thought that more money was always good, people have not done a very good job of stopping the ways in which people can get overpaid.
In fact, the more underpaid they were, the more they have been inclined to support the ways people can get overpaid.
And the overpaid have generally been in power in government, and have left open many ways that they can get more overpaid.
So no one has been trying to stop overpay, to stop ways of taking out more than you have put in by your own work.
When everyone sees that overpay is bad not good, for overpaid and underpaid, they will take steps to stop it.
It is easy to think that, since money is good, more money is better.
It takes a little more effort to realise that more money starts to be bad when it becomes overpay.
When overpay is possible, a few people get richer and richer and most people get poorer and poorer.
This then reaches a stage when it is obvious that there is pay injustice, and then people get angry, and then violence starts evergrowing and things just get ever-worse.
Violence gets everywhere that people can get, it gets into palace and slum.
But in a way it is good news that things have got so bad, because it means that things can be so much better.
People get used to the way things are, and then they think that things can't be much better.
But when you are in a very bad situation, things can be much better.
Things can be much better than people can imagine things can be better.
Because it has been such a long time since things were that much better, they have no memory of it.
They imagine things have always been this bad, and that things must always be this bad.
People see how badly people behave now, and they assume that people will always act this bad.
But if you remove the cause of them acting so badly, they won't act so badly.
And that cause is extreme overpay and underpay, and the constant extreme fighting caused by the extreme overpay and underpay.
If you have two children with two lunchboxes, and one child has both lunchboxes, the child with nothing will fight the other, and the other will fight back.
But as soon as both children have one lunchbox each, they will stop fighting and start becoming friends again.
And that is how it has been through all human history.
People are just going for all they can get hold of, and consequently fighting and fighting.
Everyone loves getting money for no work.
Everyone thinks that getting money for no work is good, is great.
Everyone thinks: The more I can get for less work, the better it will be for me.
Where are they wrong?
Well, money is a license to take out good things from the social pool of wealth, of good things.
But all those good things are made by work.
If not your work, other people's work.
Taking out more than you put in by your work, means others have to put in more than they get out.
Theft has occurred.
Slavery has occurred.
Slavery is getting out less than you put in.
Which makes for anger, violence.
And violence escalates endlessly, with everbigger weapons.
Getting money for no work doesn't seem like theft to people.
It doesn't seem as if anyone gets hurt.
It just seems like good luck.
But it causes all the violence, all the wars and crime and all the endless growth of war, crime and weaponry.
It means 99% of people get poorer and poorer and poorer and poorer, and more insecure.
And 1% of people get richer and richer and richer and richer, and more insecure.
And everyone is forced to fight harder and harder and harder.
And meaner and meaner and meaner.
Everyone likes getting money for no work.
Everyone is sure that it is good for them, that it increases their happiness.
Consequently, there are many ways in human societies in which one can perfectly legally get money for no work.
Inheritance, lotteries, unlimited profits, capital gains, and many other ways.
1% gain financially from these ways, and 99% lose financially from these ways, and everyone loses by the evergrowing violence caused by it.
1% end up with more money than work, 99% end up with more work than money.
But everyone loves money for no work, because they do not see the downside, and they do not see that money can add no satisfaction or happiness above fairpay.
For every money for no work, others have to do some work for no pay.
But people think that the money for no work that comes to them comes from - well, they don't think where it comes from.
If you think about it, it has to come from someone else's work.
The things you buy with money for no work, where do they come from?
Who makes them?
Somebody.
If you find a gold nugget, who do you steal from?
You are not stealing from anyone, the gold nugget is just lying there, belonging to no one, it seems.
But then you change it into money and buy things.
You have done little work, and yet you get things that people have worked to make.
You have put in less than you have taken out.
If you found enough gold, you could buy everything that everyone had ever made.
Everyone would be your slave.
Clearly that would not be right.
Clearly that would annoy people.
And quite rightly.
Why should everyone be your slave just because you find something?
It doesn't seem bad if you just find one gold nugget, or a gold mine, it then isn't noticeable that you are robbing anyone.
But you take out more than you put in, so you add something to the store of injustice and violence.
The gold belongs to Mother nature, not to you.
Mother nature made it, not you.
But Mother Nature doesn't get mad if you take from her.
But since everyone has equal right to Mother Nature's gifts, since no one has a greater right to nature's gifts than another person, you take it from everyone else.
If everyone finds the same amount of gold, it doesn't matter, justice is not disturbed.
But you are really finding everyone's gold, and appropriating it.
You are making a right to the gold just from your luck, just from the accident of it being you finding it.
Which is not a rational basis for a claim on it.
The only rational basis for taking out products of work is putting in products of work, not luck.
Have you added to the store of wealth?
No, Mother Nature has done almost all the work.
And her gifts belong to no one person more than another person.
But people say: I will let him get money for no work, because then I will be free to get money for no work.
Forgetting that they are also making themselves free to get work for no money.
In fact, giving themselves a 99% chance of getting more work than money, and giving themselves a 100% chance of getting evergrowing violence.
Evergrowing war, crime and weaponry, which is now so close to killing us all, and closing.
If people come to see the gigantic downside of money for no work, they will shun it.
If a god had said to humanity: Okay, humanity, you can have money for no work, but you will also have to have the evergrowing miseries of overpay 1% of the time, the evergrowing miseries of underpay 99% of the time, and evergrowing violence for everyone 100% of the time, culminating in extinction in the 21st century, humanity would have said no thanks.
It is fairly simple to understand that overpay will always be under endless attack from everyone, overpaid and underpaid.
This will necessitate constant vigilance, constant labour, constant care and alertness, no freedom from exertion to keep.
And history shows that this is indeed what has happened.
Overpay will always be finite, however great, and the attacks on overpay will be endless, from every direction, in every way, so it is clear that every heap of overwealth, individual, national and imperial, must fall in finite time.
And history shows that this has indeed always happened.
It is like trying to keep half a lake at a higher level than the other half.
It is just a huge effort and expense for no benefit.
The easiest way to keep water at a certain level is to surround it with water at the same level.
It saves building and maintaining a huge dam.
The Palestinians have about 20th the income per unit of work as the Israelis.
Consequently the two are firing rockets at each other, and will continue to do so till doomsday [maybe 30 years off].
Ever bigger rockets, causing ever greater misery.
Many lives tied up toiling in maintaining, and trying to tear down, a dam in the middle of a lake.
Toiling forever, and getting nowhere, at enormous, endless cost in lives, money, suffering, troubles, labour and time.
It would be far, far cheaper to give the Palestinians equal pay per unit of work.
Both the Israelis and the Palestinians are extremely poor, in safety, leisure, happiness, trust, amity, pleasure, freedom, laughter, fun, dance, song, lightheartedness, ease.
They are extremely rich in suffering, horror, brutality, danger, labour, expenses, griefs, struggles, losses, crises, terror, pain, cruelty.
Blood, sweat, toil and tears.
And so it is everywhere in the world, between every overpay and underpay.
When everyone sees that money for no work doesn't pay, costs everything, they will quickly find and adopt a way to get rid of it.
All it would take is a law making everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased estates.
The private heir has done nothing for that fortune.
Everyone has done everything to make the goods that that fortune represents and buys.
So such a law is just.
And pay justice destroys violence and extinction.
All the super-overpay built up over thousands of years would rain down on everyone in two generations.
All the super-crests of our super-extremely stormy sea would fill all the troughs.
Calm.
$300,000 a year income for the average-sized family working average hard.
Proportionately more or less for bigger or smaller families, and for families working harder or less hard than average.
Unimaginable peace and plenty, laughter and good cheer.
It would not be necessary to identify and find all the legal and illegal thefts and root them out one by one.
It would not be necessary even to prevent anyone building up a great overfortune in a lifetime.
All the overfortune of one lifetime's accumulation would be returned to its earners by making a law making everyone the heirs of large deceased estates.
Overfortunes would be prevented from growing endlessly over time.
With that one law, inequality would never become extreme enough to cause 100th the present violence.
The endless drift of wealth from earners to non-earners would be effectively countered by that one law.
If people wished, they could also limit fortunes to the maximum that one person can earn in a lifetime by his own work.
Not others' work, not Mother Nature's work.
Which is certainly less than US$10 million.
100 hours x 50 weeks x 50 years x US$40.
But that would be a refinement, a tiny addition to the peace.
Inequality, theft, is built right into transaction itself.
The two things exchanged cannot be equal in the work gone into them.
The work value of the two things must be x and x+y.
One must contain more work than the other.
Every transaction must be a fair-exchange-no-robbery [the x's] plus a theft [the y], a transference of some work from one to the other.
The merchant buys cheap, sells dear.
Companies strive to lower costs and raise prices.
That is, to reduce the workvalue going in to the product and maximise the workvalue in the price.
It is the easiest thing in the world for a company to charge $11 for something that has had $10 of work gone into it by all concerned.
Whenever a company comes out of the year with a 10% profit after paying the owners fairly for their work, that 10% has to belong to underpaid workers and overcharged customers.
This follows necessarily from the premise that the owners have been fairpaid for their work.
In a nonprofit organisation without volunteers, everyone gets paid, so what are profits?
Clearly profits are the difference between total costs, including fairpay for owners or bosses, and prices.
Between incomes and outgoes.
And the outgoes are payments for work.
The outgoes stand for all the work gone into the product, the work done by workers and owners or runners of the company.
10% profit may not seem too bad, but in just 100 years that theft will compound to 16,000 times the capital.
Money for no work.
Money of course makes money.
And that has to mean that the person did not make the money.
A billion dollars will 'make' $50 million a year for no work at a modest 5%.
And sometimes people can get 40%, 100%.
That is, it will rake $50 million from other people's pockets.
Money rakes money.
The $50 million will buy $50 million of other people's work products.
In situations of scarcity, of high demand and low supply, the price may be able to be 40% above costs including the fair cost of owners' work.
That will multiply the capital by 10,000 times in less than 30 years.
As it did for Bill Gates.
In new technology, we have built-in scarcity.
Everyone wants one, and supply is still gearing up.
That is the major reason that Bill Gates 'made' $50 billion out of $5 million in less than 30 years.
There is nothing in our systems to prevent price being above total costs.
Everyone loves it, though, as it seems that money has been made out of thin air.
Everyone believes in this impossibility because they want to.
Anyone who makes a profit is happy.
The little error that caused the global disaster.
But we are not suggesting getting rid of profits, or any of the other legal thefts, as this would be too invasive, disruptive and expensive.
We suggest something that corrects the accumulation of legal theft, overwealth, that is growing the violence, without being disruptive.
A moment's reflection reminds us that the profit-money comes, not out of thin air, but over the counter from people's pockets.
Companies make legal theft profits on the back of trade.
Ideally, the customers give up an amount of work equal to the amount of work in the product.
Profit seems innocent enough.
Who gets hurt?
The customer doesn't know that he has put more work into paying the price than has gone into the product.
The customer doesn't know that he has donated money to the company, on top of a fair trade of equal work for equal work.
The workers may not guess that they have donated work to the company.
Workers are more suspicious that they have donated than customers are.
Customers just think: I have the money, I want the product.
Customers pursue the best deal they can get, but they cannot determine the exact workvalue of a product.
They rarely have the opportunity to buy from a nonprofit company, a company that aims to make price equal to total costs.
A nonprofit company raises and lowers prices to break even, with everyone who contributed to the product paid.
It seems no one gets hurt by profits, until we look at the 99% of people underpaid, the 90% of people paid less than a 100th of the value their work adds, the 50% of people paid less than a 1000th of the value their work adds, and the ever-escalating war and crime this generates, to everyone's extreme cost.
We have an attitude of 'everyone free to grab all they can and the devil take the losers'.
But the devil takes everyone.
Everyone gets swallowed up in violence, which is ever-growing, which is now extreme.
The theft built in to every transaction accumulates over the trillions of transactions.
Causes the evergrowing spread of overpay and underpay, the evergrowing increase in war, crime and weaponry.
A few people will come out of all their transactions with neither more nor less than their own money.
But most will come out with more or less.
A few will come out with large net gain, many will come out with smaller net gain.
A few will come out with large net loss, many will come out with smaller net loss.
Inevitably, because no one can precisely determine workvalue of things exchanged, transacted.
And then there are all the other legal thefts.
And the successful illegal thefts.
Making pay injustice, violence and extinction.
Which no one wants.
People see profits.
But the reality is profits-theft-violence-unhappiness-extinction.
Like pulling at a lump of gold and having the mine collapse on you.
Not seeing the connection.
But what about Donald Trump, say. He's doing all right, and he's not in any great danger, is he?
He can buy whatever he wants, he can go wherever he wants when he wants, he can look at a skyscraper and say: I own this.
And he doesn't have to do very much to maintain his safety, does he?
But in what way is the skyscraper his?
He didn't build it.
He has legal ownership, a piece of paper.
He stands in a lift, like anyone else.
He sits in a chair like anyone else.
He can buy expensive things, but he cannot consume more than a fairpaid person.
He can say, this is an expensive wine, an expensive chair, an expensive suit, an expensive car, but he cannot get any more pleasure from them.
He pays 10 times as much to get 1% more satisfaction, if that.
How much pleasure do solid gold taps give, really?
We throw a glamourising stardust over our imagination of wealth, but with a little clear seeing, this stardust vanishes.
And what is the cost of this overpay to him?
His environment is underpay.
The world is our garden, we look on it, we live in it.
And what is our pleasure if our garden is full of stinking black swamps, is this what gardeners aim at?
Genocide, starvation, slavery, sex slavery, violence, crime, war, concentration camps, death camps, conflicts, hate, anger, disease, suffering, massacre, riot, revolt, revolution, assassination, kidnapping, ignorance, illiteracy, innumeracy, waste, destruction, bombs, bullets, fear, danger, bad news, crises, troubles, corruption, theft, battles, protests, secret police, torture, disappearances, terror, suicide bombers, the perfect-storm society, blindness, victimisation, power struggles, environmental poisoning, pollution, lies, fraud, trickery, driveby shootings, unrest, skyjackings, treachery, murder, suppression of technologies, of cancer cures, better cars, etc, etc.
Scientific progress, medical progress would be 100 times present progress, if 90% of people were not too poor to go to university, if 90% of the scientists we have were not tied up in the consequences of overpay-underpay, in the courts, hospitals, prisons, police, army, military-industrial complex, diplomacy, politics, universities.
In one way or another, this stinking environment will 'get on the clothes' of the overpaid.
No one thinks that having maximal pay injustice, one person having everything, would be anything but maximally bad.
So no one can really think that the present reality, with 1% getting 98% of world wealth, is anything but near-maximally bad.
Legal and illegal theft has resulted in 1% getting overpaid US$250 trillion a year.
Earning 1% and getting 98%.
The 99% getting 2% instead of 99%, getting what they get instead of US$300,000 a year per average-sized family working average hard.
90% getting less than US$3,000, 50% getting less than US$300.
A person who steals everything from 1000 people has gained merely more than he can use, and lost everything.
Lost community with the human tribe, lost trust, fellowship, friendship, closeness, protection, company, support.
Belonging to a community is one of the single most important perquisites to happiness.
The poorer everyone else gets relatively, the more isolated the rich become.
Superrich wives are effectively unemployed, and so have the same mental health issues as the poor unemployed.
Superrich children suffer psychologically from absent parents.
The unrich person spends her money on her family, the rich person spends his family on his money.
When everyone tries to get just more out of finite store of wealth, the products of work, everyone is against everyone.
The fighting is endless and useless.
The more you get, the more people are trying to grab from you.
However little you have, people are grabbing from you.
Forever.
Children fighting to get all the birthday cake and spending all their time fighting for cake forever.
And destroying most of the cake.
And surrounded by enemies, and filled with fear or hate towards all.
With no leisure, no cake, no friends, no play, no happy party.
When we sell to a friend, we strive to make the transaction as equable as possible.
We wish to avoid enmity, theft.
But when it is not a friend, we indulge in unfairness.
We imagine this stranger will go off and leave us alone.
But that offence, that act of unfriendliness, is an act of poisoning our environment.
We have injected a malice into society, which is our own atmosphere.
And that malice travels about freely, knocking its way around.
And everyone gets hit by a share of all the malice injected.
And every hit increases heat, increases injurying.
Injury ricochets as untiringly as atoms.
And unlike atoms, injury accelerates.
If you spit in someone's face, they don't spit in your face, they knock you down.
Why do we imagine that we can make enemies and not get hurt?
Why do we imagine that they people we defraud just go away and never hurt us?
Technology has brought us all much closer together.
200 years ago, a day away was 50 miles.
Today, a day away is 12,500 miles.
The world is in effect contracted to 50 miles radius.
A 250-fold compaction.
The person you injure is in effect no more than 50 miles away.
When you concentrate atoms in a gas by pressure, you increase temperature.
The atoms hit more often, faster, closer together.
The same amount of heat is compacted in smaller space.
The same amount of injury is ricocheting in 250th of the space.
A person may not be able to detect the injury from one transaction, but he can detect it when multiplied by millions of transactions.
When he can see that he is working equally hard and getting far less.
And money is power, so extreme overpay-underpay is extreme overpower-underpower.
Tyranny, fascism, communism, dictatorship, undemocracy, warmongering, slavery, wage slavery, cannonfoddering, persecution, murder, massacre, genocide, concentration camps, death camps, sex slavery, injustice, war crimes, sexual inequality.
The most democratic countries of today are very far from being perfectly democratic.
Undemocracy is proportional to pay injustice, overpay and underpay.
And all this unhappiness can be destroyed by making everyone heirs of large deceased estates.
Every human being with an account into which an equal share of all large deceased estates is paid.
No need for the huge bureaucratic cost of distinguishing the overpaid and underpaid.
For simplicity, costsaving and laboursaving, the overpaid can also receive an equal share, as they are being trimmed at death anyway.
The private heir has done nothing to make that money, everyone has done everything to make that money.
That money has been raked from everyone.
Clearly the deceased has not made that money.
The deceased has clearly not done enough work to make the goods that the money can buy.
A person with one billion would have to have done as much work as in making one thousand $1 million houses.
One $1 million house every 18 days for 50 years.
From nothing but the planet and his body.
And a person with US$18 billion would have to to make a $1 million house every day for 50 years.
Produce $1 million worth of goods every day.
And each billion brings in $50 million a year for no work at all.
Interest arises from profits.
Everyone loves interest.
It is one bit of good news in a world of overlabour and underpay.
A bit of free money, a bit of relief from the struggle, a bonus, money for no work.
It seems good when you are underpaid anyway.
But allowing interest allows the super-overpaid super-interest.
You get a little straw to suck the milkshake but a few get a huge straw.
The bigger the fortune, the bigger the straw.
The smaller the fortune, the smaller the straw.
The bigger fortune has more leisure, more facilities to get information and act on it faster.
They get the plums.
They hire people to hunt them out.
They get higher interest rates, and lower risk.
They do insider trading because they are the insiders.
The net effect is that 99% of people lose more than they gain.
99% of people would have more money if they didn't allow interest.
They would have all they earn, they wouldn't be underpaid.
And no one would be super-overpaid and super-overpowered to control, enslave, cannonfodder and rob everyone else.
There would be no one sucking on the milkshake with a huge straw.
No billionaires getting $50 million, every year, for every billion they have, for no work at all, for others' work.
But we are not saying get rid of interest, although it is legal theft.
We are saying, correct for all the legal and illegal thefts, past present and future, by returning overpay to its true earners, its true heirs, by making everyone heirs of the large deceased estates.
There are many legal thefts, and it would be impossible to root them all out, even with enormous labour and expense.
Another legal theft: every creature gets an equal share in nature's bounty on birth, except humans.
Every creature has free access to fish, fruit, leaves, grass, worms, whatever they eat.
Every creature has a place they can make a home, a burrow, a cave, a nest.
But humans have stolen this birthright from the new generation, by having ownership of all the land and everything on it and in it.
The new humans have no free food, no free place to stand or lie.
This right is taken from them by ownership.
It is difficult for people even to grasp this right, this theft, it is so unfamiliar, so far in the past.
This right is restored, without prohibiting private property, by making everyone heirs of deceased overfortunes.
And the evergrowing overpay-underpay misery is averted too.
There are capital gains.
A person buys land, it goes up in value [because others build a city around it, increase the infrastructure around it] making the land more valuable.
Again, everyone loves the idea, money for nothing, a relief from having to earn and over-earn every dollar.
But the rewards are in proportion to the fortune.
The most overpaid get most of it.
They have more spare cash, more time to investigate, to find the plums, the high returns with low risk.
Leaving the low returns and higher risk to the small players.
And leaving nothing to the 99% who have no land or shares.
The whole community adds the value to the land and shares, by building the infrastructure [bridges, hospitals, schools, shops, houses, roads etc].
The landowners and stockholders get all the added value.
And in proportion to the size of their holdings.
The most overpaid get most, the less overpaid get less, the underpaid get least or nothing, and yet everyone puts in roughly equal work.
Unfairness increases, violence increases, war increases, crime increases, weaponry increases, extinction [maximal violence] gets closer.
People are paid for natural gifts, and, again, everyone loves this, thinking that this is a way to make money.
But natural gifts are nature's work, not the person's work.
They are gifts, not work.
And someone has to pay for pay without work by work without pay.
This payment for gifts has to be paid for.
It is paid for by 99% of us, in work without pay, in wage slavery and full slavery.
It is paid for by 100% of us, in evergrowing violence and extinction.
We think it would be nice, to have a gift, brains, beauty, brawn, music, and get paid a lot for it.
We also get paid in violence and extinction, in nasties, in the overpower and underpower that makes sadism, torture, arrogant government, brutality, war, crime, danger.
We think: I will just take the money and try to avoid the violence.
We think: The money will give me enough power to avoid the violence.
But the anger, the violence can get everywhere that humans can get.
And it is most attracted, naturally, to the biggest heaps of wealth.
The biggest heaps are most attacked, soonest eroded.
Plenty of people have maintained big heaps of overpay for a lifetime, but plenty more have not.
But you rarely hear about those, they disappear from history as their fortune disappears, so we underestimate their huge numbers.
And history is full of the falls of the very overpaid.
Being paid for gifts! So odd. Yet universally accepted, without thinking.
Jenny gets a gift, so she is entitled to demand a payment from those who didn't receive a gift? Just completely odd. Completely nonsensical.
And why should the ungifted be obliged to pay?
And yet we do.
It would make little sense, but it would make more sense, if the gifted had to compensate the ungifted.
It is a complete mystery how we got hold of this nonsensical idea of paying people for receiving gifts.
It is a complete mystery how it happens that we have never suspected the nonsense of this.
We say: He is gifted, he deserves more money.
We think the person is giving us this gift they have.
But it is mother nature who is giving us this gift.
The gifted person should be paid for all their work, developing their gift, and not at all for 'their' gift, for which they of course did no work.
The gifted person can be paid for their no-work in having the gift, only by other people working for no pay.
By 99% working for no pay some of the time, working for no pay up to 99.99% of the time.
Paying people for having a gift is handing over money, which is a license to take workproducts from the pool of social wealth.
We seem to exert ourselves mightily to find even nonsensical excuses to make someone else rich.
People say: Bill Gates is a genius.
But how do we measure his genius?
By how much money he 'made'.
So it seems to us precisely just that he should have every penny he 'made', because that is how big his genius is.
We don't know how big his genius is, we can't measure size of genius, and we can't put a dollar figure on how much a unit of genius should be paid.
And we can't pay people for having been given gifts, without others working for no pay, which causes evergrowing violence.
We pay people for experience, yet the experience is a gift obtained without effort during paid work.
We pay people for 'responsibility', and yet lower-echelon jobs are not done irresponsibly.
We pay people for business risk, although the risk is in risking a sprat to catch a mackerel for himself.
We don't feel an impulse to pay a fisherman for trying to catch a fish for himself.
And we don't pay people for worker risk, which is greater.
Far more workers are killed at work than rich people.
We should be paying students for studying, because it is society that benefits.
Instead, the parents, scholarships or the students themselves pay for studying.
And then we pay them forever after for having studied, although there is no work in having studied.
Justice is equal pay for equal work.
Paying for no work means others working for no pay.
And yet we are allowing all these payments for no work.
Which causes evergrowing pay injustice, which is causing super-extreme unnecessary sufferings of millions of kinds, and has driven us to the edge of self-annihilation.
It has caused such great suffering and danger that we literally actually cannot bear to think about them.
And so we cannot hear the solution, because we cannot face the problem.
The problem is simple, we have pay for equal work [one year's work] from US$30 million to US$30, instead of averaage-family pay of US$300,000 for average hardness of working.
Money, wealth, has drifted from all workers to few, like sand piling up against a wall.
Money, the joker good, good for almost all good things, including necessities and most desires, has drained away from most.
Money injustice, which is injustice in all necessities and desires, all happiness.
Obviously, if a malicious imp takes all the goods of the whole community and heaps them outside the door of one, the thing to do is return the goods.
We have this malicious imp, without a doubt.
If the overpaid keep the goods, they come under violent attack, which we see all around us today, in the most extreme forms, and in all history.
So neither the overpaid nor the underpaid benefit from the deed of the imp.
Both the overpaid and the underpaid are hurt extremely by the deed of the imp.
Instead of the overpaid being in the swim of a functional society, a respected and equally entitled member in a fully functional society, the overpaid is surrounded by his human tribe in extreme dysfunction and disarray.
His garden, other people, is ruined, his roses blasted, his trees fallen and rotted. An ugly mess. Starvation, ignorance, brutality, destruction.
His life consists of trying to get more good out of a surplus of goods than out of a plenty of goods, wading through the filth of other people in distress, trying and failing to stay clean.
If pay justice were a swimming pool one metre deep, 90% of our pool water is up in a thin needle going up 1000 kilometres, the pool 90% drained.
And in endless extreme commotion, crests falling fast to troughs, troughs rising to crests.
No one can swim.
90% are trying to get by in water less than 1 cm deep.
10% are trying to swim up the slope and the needle.
And the needle is in rapid rise and fall.
Yet everyone is working, more or less equally.
Virtually all people are supervised, slackers get noticed and warned or fired.
The hardest worker cannot work more than 10% harder than the average in the same time period.
Everyone who works an hour sacrifices an hour of their life.
The swimming pool of work is level, with little wavelets.
You look out the window, it doesn't look bad, everything looks fine and functional.
Most places in most cities are peaceful and functional.
But if you bring up all the things you have put out of sight and out of mind, because they are not so goodlooking, your garden is most unpleasant, most unsatisfying.
The city goes along peacefully for years, and then suddenly, strangely, the city has to cough up a generation to go somewhere and murder and be murdered.
To stand around amid bullets and bombs for five years.
The way to remember the dead is to labour earnestly to understand how such things can be prevented permanently.
The gift to the dead is to labour sincerely to give humanity back a future, and a happy decent one.
To care for yourself with maximal earnestness.
Happiness is everyone's everything. Happiness is entirely dependent on reality, on realism.
To care for yourself, to love yourself, you have to commit to realism.
The intensity, the excitement, the pleasure, the love with which we live is in proportion to the intensity with which we strive to find and face reality and hence to pursue our happiness.
Those who pursue their happiness most ardently live most satisfyingly, most gladly, most knowingly, most calmly.
Every one is happy, more or less.
But only with a very large dose, a very stiff drink, of fantasy, pretend.
And reality is heartless, and one day turns up and demands that we pay our backdues in full.
And every one of our fantasies, our selfdeceptions, our pleasant illusions is broken before our eyes.
So is there something that people can learn that is very greatly to their advantage?
I think there is.
Try as hard as I can, I can't see any way it could be untrue.
We have to be patient with new ideas, we have to let them sink in, we have to forget them and come back to them, we have to give them time to soak through our brains.
We come back to them and find some of the strangeness has worn away, and familiarity has increased.
We doubt the unfamiliar, and gain in confidence as a new thing becomes familiar.
Once upon a time, the idea of the earth orbiting in space was just plain disturbing. Earth is supposed to be solid, dammit. But now we love our ball floating in space.
Once upon a time, insurance was unfamiliar.
Once upon a long long time ago, having a law against murder was the newfangled ridiculous impractical idea of some idiot.