Thinking about losers

Thinking about losers. If you have a running race with ten people, you have nine losers. By having a race, you *create* nine losers.

America seems to be *very* hierarchical. I applied for a job with Encyclopedia Britannica [despite the name, American] and the pay *doubled* at every rise in level. Which looks good while you are imagining yourself rising, but of course most cannot rise. Thus loser means an enormous amount in America.

Richard Semler of Semco, Brazil wrote a book Maverick, in which he describes greatly lowering the hierarchy. His company made huge profits at a time when Brazilian profits were very poor.

I have read that mental illness is high in competitive societies, low in cooperative societies.

I think of Hitler, loser. 40% or 60% [I can't remember] of Nazis were primary school teachers, ie 'losers'. The Nazi thing was anti-intellectual, because the intellectuals had collared the winnings. Same thing in China, with the 'cultural revolution', in which the powergrab of the mandarins [the brainier, the winners, and the more aggressive, pushy] was broken up. What happened to liberty, equality and fraternity? The more unequal the 'rewards', the deeper the 'loserness' is, and the deeper the hell, hopelessness and humiliation.

An old Readers Digest article praised Sweden for having learned that: **None enjoy unless all enjoy**. People are too dangerous to annoy. Witness putting the Palestinians in refugee camps for 50 years, stealing their land, giving them no opportunity even to start again from scratch. Poverty, underpay, underpower, is the mother of explosives.

I was surprised to find that most American universities have fewer than a million volumes in the library, while Harvard has 90 million.

Society puts up a ladder, and everyone thoughtlessly eagerly tries to climb the ladder. No one thinks about not climbing the ladder, thinks about making the ladder horizontal, a seat for everyone. Never thinks about whether it is unjust, unliberty, undemocratic, tyrannous to have the ladder. Everyone hanging onto the ladder, struggling to get past others, kicking down at others trying to get up, till the ladder breaks under the weight.

America was based on prevention of wealth concentration. Wealth is power, inequality of wealth is inequality of power, is tyranny-slavery, nondemocracy. 'Liberty and justice for all'. Pay justice. But where are the philosophers of pay justice? Who is asking what precisely, numerically, is pay justice? Our economic systems contain many wideopen legal thefts, pay for no work [overpay], causing work for no pay [underpay] for others. The ladder system was okay as long as there was mobility. [Although mobility is a poor substitute for pay justice.] But now mobility has gridlocked, immobility has hardened.

Inequality has triumphed, and unliberty and unfraternity. Americans don't look globally, but hey, after 200 years of transport technology reducing distance so that a day away has gone from 50 miles to 12,500 miles, it's a global reality. Just look at your shop shelves. And what do we have globally, that is, what do we have in the real picture? Pay for a year's work from $10 to $10,000,000,000. An inequality factor of *one billion*. Which means violence, weaponry, terrorism, chaos, misery, torture, genocide, disinformation factor of one billion.

The war between winners and losers, first casualty of war is truth. The dumbing down of America, keeping you ignorant of the world. The more inequality, the more power to steal, and the more money needed to fight all the wars of offence and defence. America $9 trillion in debt.

Where is Britain's empire? Spain's Inca plunder? Wealth concentration means everyone attacks the wealth heap. Everyone in the world is on the ladder. And this time, with 60 times PDC [planet death capability].

Time to move away from plunder, towards cooperation, recognition that people are too dangerous to annoy?

At any time, there are Hitlers gathering the losers in a reverse push against plunder. Unfortunately, the mindset of losers is to revenge the humiliation by becoming plunderers. Hitler plundered Europe, and Europe plundered back. The humiliation made a pride that doomed itself.

The third world is at 51% of world wealth now, and climbing 10% every 30 years. And heading for 98% of population by 2100. The 500 years of first-world plundering is heading for a big reverse plunder. Like Rome. With atomic weapons.

Reality check is: liberty, equality and fraternity [friendliness] now, or nuclear extinction very soon, say, 30 years. Pay/year from $10 to $10,000,000,000. That is, pay/year from 10,000th to 100,000 times world average of $40/hour, $100,000/yr, for every worker including housewives and students. That is, family pay/year of $200,000 without student. For every family in the world.

Which will mean 100 times faster progress, with 90% of scientists not tied up in inequality-violence, in military-industrial complex, universities, government, hospitals, business, and 90% of potential scientists not too poor to become scientists [innovators, etc]. If we had had equality instead of the ladder, we would have been among the stars by now.

And global average life expectancy would be over 100, maybe over 120 or 150. [Since the legal definition of murder means shortening the life of anyone alive, we are murdering everyone, including ourselves.]

Is liberty, equality, fraternity beginning to look like worth a look?

The ancient Israelites [ideally, anyway] cancelled all debt every 7 years, to prevent inequality growing monstrous. Six years of ratracing, one year of everyone re-equalised. [Handicaps for 'losers' removed.] 99% of people are underpaid, are paid less than the world average, of $40 an hour [2007 dollars, which I better mention, before the US dollar takes a nosedive.]

Globally, we have had 3000 years of inequality growing monstrous. And the violence gets to everyone, richest to poorest. Common sense, anyone? Doing yourself the biggest favour in history, anyone?

The change can be achieved gently in two generations by making everyone equal heirs of large deceased estates. [The private heir has done nothing to make that money, and everyone has done everything to make the goods that money buys, so this is just. A tiny bureaucracy to settle the estates and distribute electronically.]

Or making everyone equal receivers of a 1% per month increase in the money supply. [An even smaller bureaucracy. A computer could do it.]

Justice, equal pay for equal work, means peace, order, democracy, freedom, friendliness, safety, noncorruption, truth, etc - everything good. Inequality, of which we have giga amounts, means warmongering and cannonfoddering, disorder, distress, disinformation, brutality, global disaster, and, soon, nuclear extinction.

Make Daddy proud and choose inequality, as I know you will, and blow yourselves to fook! Pursuit of happiness, pah!

[No, son, equality doesn't mean paying slackers, it means adjusting for the many pays-for-no-work, overpays, in commerce.]