Total downside

Total downside is: Study, learn, absorb the plan and the facts, and tell two friends till they are at the point of telling two friends.

[Doubling and doubling, it reaches 1000 in ten steps, 1,000,000 in 20 steps, 1,000,000,000 in 30 steps. And all the people who come before the one billion add up to another billion. This a big job, but it is spread over billions of people, so it is little per person. And when everyone sees, there's a will and a clear short way, explained in writings below. So it's education only. All people needed to start using fire was education.]

Upside is: US$40 an hour for every working person in the world, including housewives and students, world peace, liberty and justice for all, dramatic [like, 99% plus] reduction of war, crime and weaponry, end of the super-overpaid and super-overpowered running and controlling everything to their selfdestructive and other-destructive wishes, lying their heads off, not caring a bit about ordinary folk, end of miseries and angers of super-underpay, prevention of continuing escalation of violence from the present super-super-extreme level to using the atomic bomb, automatic solution of millions of problems in all areas of human living that are offshoots of the present super-super-extreme overpay and underpay.

How possible? The world average pay is US$40 an hour for all working people including housewives and students. We have pay from 100,000 time that, to 10,000th of that. That causes super-super-extreme disorder and violence, compared to what we could have, and it causes millions of insoluble problems. By studying the reality, seeing what we have and what we could have, and so becoming clear what we want, and then teaching it to two people so that the word spreads to everyone, a universal human will is formed to have the change, and then there are simple non-bureaucratic small law changes that can make the huge difference. Our problems have grown for 1000s of years, and are now very big, but the cause is not big, but small, but left unfixed for a very long time. So although the problem is big, the solution is small. Like all the problems a dripping tap could cause over a long time, which is fixed by fixing the tap.

We have been attacking the symptoms for 1000s of years, and the disease hasn't gone away, but has gone on growing, slowly and imperceptibly eroding happiness, so we have lost a lot [like 99% plus] of the natural level of happiness, so a lot of lost and forgotten happiness can be recovered by a small correction in the right place.
It is a matter of learning to see the reality, and a matter of unlearning all the answers we have come up with, that haven't identified the source of the problem, haven't fixed the dripping tap.

So what we have, the downside, is education of ourselves, and two others. This is sufficient to spread the word to everyone quickly. Once everyone is clear that this is the answer, it is easy to fix the root problem, and then all the offshoot problems disappear.

It is small in one way: Just learning and teaching it to two. It is large in another: Reaching everyone in the world. It is small again in another way: When everyone is clear, fixing the problem is easy. It is big in one way: Striking at the root of all the problems. It is small in another way: It is far easier to chop a tree of problems down at the root than the branches. We have been hacking at the branch problems, and the tree has been growing faster than we have removed problems.
Of course all this depends on whether it is correct or not. That is for you to decide. To decide correctly, people have to judge it by comparison with reality alone, not by comparison with accepted ideas, which have got us into this giant mess.

We have to learn how big a mess it is, because we all block out unpleasant stuff. But to find a solution, you have to see the problem. So a bit of courage, cool thinking, objectivity, impartiality, fairness, is necessary.

And one has to allow the new idea to settle in to our thinking. We have to ponder, and consider fairly whether it may indeed agree with reality. We have to ponder it many times, from every angle, go over it again and again, to get clear. To give it time to wash out all the erroneous thinking.

It is an investment, a risk, to choose to spend time considering a new idea, to see if it is true. But there is no other way to learn anything new that is good.
Once upon a time, fire was a new idea, and in great conflict with accepted ideas about fire, which were simply to run like heck whenever you saw fire. People had to make an investment of time to judge the new idea, handling and using fire.

The world is very complex, and a million theories about it can arise, and there is some support in the huge complexity of life for millions of theories. It took us till 1500 or so to figure out what the planets were doing, and all they were doing was going round and round. It didn't help that we also were going round and round, in two ways.

This idea is essentially very simple: overpay and underpay have, after 1000s of years, got very extreme, and are producing extreme effects, like violence, millions of offshoot problems and extreme unhappiness. We quantify pay justice, and aim towards it. Everyone without exception is much, much better off with pay justice [we show this] so almost everyone will want it. And what everyone wants, everyone quickly gets. Like fire. Pay injustice makes everything behave in such a way to increase pay injustice, but we explain the reality, and people see how we are actually hurting ourselves, not helping ourselves, as we think we are doing.
If everyone teaches just two people, and they teach two people each, well, doubling and doubling, word quickly gets around. Especially as the benefits are extreme, far greater than the benefits of fire, for example, or of insurance.

Basically, we have been sucked into letting people have unlimited fortunes, although individual contribution to wealth is limited. And now they wander around, bossing the roost, stealing and murdering, warmongering and cannonfoddering, at will. Not good.

By educating ourselves, we come to a clarity. From this clarity, we have moral force. When over 99% of people are perfectly clear that super-overpay is just plain theft, as we don't think now, it is pretty hard for superoverpay to carry on. Besides, with over 99% with this clarity, most of the 'muscle' of the super-overpaid is for this change. So the super-overpaid who can't get clear it is to their very great advantage to have pay justice have no muscle. It's one against a 1000. There is no fight, because there is no chance of winning. The super-overpaid have been able to maintain their position because enough people have been supportive of their position. The super-overpaid have constantly put out their version of reality, and it has prevailed sufficiently to permit them to hold position and power. It may seem to you that super-overpay is not plain theft, and that there is no way people can be made to change their minds about that, whatever the arguments. There is a temptation to think that what has been held to be true by most people for 1000s of years can't be wrong. But of course we have been wrong before, and it is no shame that we have been wrong: It is a very big, complex world, and we can see very little of it, and we remember very little of what we have experienced. It is natural that it will take time to get a clear picture. Someone said that what we learn from history is that we never learn the lesson of history. Well, maybe this is that lesson. Sometimes it is hard to see a pattern in things. But once you see that patten, you can never not see it ever again. The structure of a tree can be quite hidden by leaves. Once you see it, you are very certain it is there. You see it all the time, 'everything' illustrates it, confirms it. So this plan is just getting to that point. It is about doing some thinking, but it isn't about social struggle, conflict, upheaval.
As I say, this idea is essentially simple: If one person takes the property of 1000 people, that person is going to be worse off, much worse off, not better off, as we tend to think: They are going to have, merely 1000 times more than they can use, and they are have 1000 enemies instead of 1000 friends, and those enemies are going to be a very unpleasant environment, uneducated, unhealthy, unattractive.

We have to learn to see that this is the way it is. Both the overpaid and the underpaid are worse off. Pay injustice isn't good for anybody. Which is good news, if people can learn to see it, because there is a simple way to get rid of both overpay and underpay. We can all have fairpay, and everyone is far happier. It is just a matter of seeing it. It doesn't involve any sacrifice for anyone, it is a win-win situation.

The underpaid have also thought that overpay is good, so everyone has been supporting a system that hurts us all. We have to look hard, with fresh, clean vision, at the reality, and see that the truth is otherwise.

Overpay is no good, because the underpaid do not take underpay lightly. Money is the joker good, good for just about everything, so the theft of it is the theft of just about everything, and so is not taken lightly. The underpaid may be fooled for a while, that somehow overpay is right, but when it pinches too hard, they get mad, and their power has always overcome the greatest overpay and overpower. Every empire has fallen, every plutocracy has been brought down. Injury energises. The underpaid have lost many battles, but have always won the war. The attacks on overpay have gone on until the overpay is gone. People are too dangerous to rob from. Overpay is self-defeating. It has always fallen. The heap of wealth, however large, is finite, and the attacks are endless, so the costs of defending the overpay are endless, so all heaps of overpay must fall.

The overpaid have put forward heaps of rationalisations for their overpay, as part of their self-defense, and the underpaid have bought into them, because the underpaid have wished to use them to reduce their underpay, but this has left the overpaid free to get richer far faster, and so pay injustice has grown, until the underpaid have got mad and got even. But then they have let overpay get away again. And so through history no real change has occurred. Overpay-underpay has grown, got extreme, been overturned, and then grown again.

When we see through this pattern, the miserable pattern will stop. The happy pattern, prevention of overpay, will replace it.

The ways the overpaid have got overpaid have not all been obvious, like conquest and plunder. There are subtler ways the overpay has increased. As soon as we see these subtler ways also, we will be in a position of control over them.

We have not been able to see the most extreme overpay as plain theft. The very word overpay is hardly in our list of ideas. This is what we have to learn. How overpay occurs, where it begins. When we know where it begins, we can stop it right there. Instead of overpay-underpay growing extreme, making everyone very unhappy, we know where to act, and what to do to stop it.

What we have done is seen that some people got rich, and then we have thought up explanations to justify it. And then we have been unable to get rid of overpay. We have felt obliged to put up with it, to accept it. Actually, all the explanations to justify it are, I think you will agree, false. And when we see instead how overpay really happens, we can see our way clear to seeing that overpay is actually bad not good, even for the overpaid, and so get rid of it. As long as we lacked a clear explanation of how overpay occurs, and that it occurs unjustly, we have been driven to support it, and to think it is good.

We ought to have thought that, if you gave the overpaid and underpaid equal tools, information, materials, intelligence and faculties, the overpaid would not produce any more than anyone else. We have pay from 100,000 times average to 10,000th of average. We ought to have been able to see this has to be nonsense, but, lacking an explanation for it, we have been driven to accept overpay, and not even call it overpay, and so our societies have, over and over again, got more overpaid and underpaid and more and more violent, till they have fallen apart. And then grown up from nothing again. This time, the falling apart will happen with bombs capable of destroying all planet life, so we simply cannot afford another falling apart. We have to learn the truth of the matter, or perish all.

Unfortunately, many people are very excited by the possibility of unlimited wealth, and totally uninclined to listen to anything that seems to lead to the stopping of play. The greater overpay and underpay are, the more people are driven blindly to get overpay or just more pay, instead of fairpay, getting out as much as you put in. Both overpay and underpay are stimuli to just climb, climb to get more. And overpay and underpay are super-super-extreme now. How do you tell a gambler totally focussed on the game, that, even if he wins, he will lose bigtime? the underpaid want the game to continue, because they are naturally wishing their underpay to be destroyed, and the overpaid have such endless defense costs, they want the game to continue also. Overpay-underpay greatly encourages the game that drives overpay-underpay to increase, increasing violence and misery for everyone. The overpaid see underpay all around them, this stimulates them to get further away from underpay. The underpaid live underpay, and naturally want to get away from it. But the whole game increases overpay-underpay.

Also, if the underpaid are not too badly off, they often settle for underpay, but this unfortunately makes it easier for overpay to increase. And then all are overwhelmed in the general fall, in revolutions.

And so it has gone on, for 1000s of years.

When we just see that the rationalisations for overpay are false, we are free to see clearly that overpay is nonsense, is unjust, is theft, and when we see that overpay is actually necessarily always miserable for the overpaid, well, the game falls apart. It is inconceivable to us that overpay, wealth, could be necessarily always extreme misery, but so I feel confident I can show, both from logic and from the unanimous evidence of history.

When overpay is seen as not in the self-interest of anyone, the way is clear to get rid of it, thus getting rid of underpay, and thus getting rid of the miseries of both. Since 99% are underpaid, we can expect that 99% will be somewhat willing to have their opinions changed, and we can expect that some of the 1% overpaid will be able to look at the facts objectively, so the majority will be overwhelming, and the incorrigible among the 1% will be a small, pitied minority, who will have no recourse but to fall in with the general opinion.

I think the arguments against the happiness of overpay are very compelling.
There is a reason the underpaid, the great majority, think that overpay is good. They have significant desires left unsatisfied by their underpay. They naturally look at overpay as allowing the satisfaction of these significant large desires. Overpay is to the underpaid as an oasis to the thirsty. The greater the underpay, the more desires are unsatisfied, and the more overpay seems the mecca and heaven of things. The greater the overpay, the greater the heaven it seems. If the underpaid get the chance, they just rush up the ladder to greater and greater overpay. But desires are limited. The needs and desires of the body are finite. Satisfaction waits on desire. However much the overpay, there is still only one stomach for food, two feet for shoes, one body for bed, and so on. overpay is just 3000 pairs of shoes for two feet, 1000 rooms for one body. Maybe people don't want to hear that, but the overpaid experience it, if they are honest and thoughtful.

The overpaid who have been underpaid, and suffered from feeling ignored, invisible, unloved, despised, rejected, underpowered, etc, like Joseph Kennedy, Hitler and so on, may feel a vindictive joy in being on top, may revel vengefully in having a superfluity, but satisfaction is limited by the finity of desires.

And the overpaid have to deal with everyone wanting to be on top. The way for everyone to be on top of course, is to have everyone on an equal footing. When some are above others, the feeling of equality drives those below to strive to rise as high as the highest. So the ones on top have to suffer the constant efforts of invasion of all those below. Or to constantly fear that invasion.

The ones on top are put into a hopeless bind: They have to strengthen their subordinates to enable them to defend them, and have to weaken them to prevent their climbing up. The more they strengthen them, the more they must fear them. And the more they weaken them, the more they must fear that their subordinates cannot protect them. They are forced to weaken them and to strengthen them. The same applies to slaves. They must weaken them to keep them slaves, and must strengthen them to keep them productive and a defense. A hopelessly painful situation. Just no fun at all. They must read their subordinates with impossible exactitude, to know their degree of ambition and humility, their willingness to be subordinate, and their ambition to be on top. The man with a strong will to be on top finds it hard to imagine anything else from his subordinates. He projects his own will and wish on them, and suspects them of plotting against him. They in turn fear he plots their destruction, which may drive them to destroy him to save themselves. If the man on top dies a natural death or not, he has a hard life. And a person in such a situation can hardly govern well, so insubordination further down in the hierarchy of society grows.

Whether at the top of a business, a nation or an empire, such must be the pattern of life for the leader. Caesar was good for the empire's strength, but his very strength made him feared. Both strength and weakness in the leader will tend to his removal. It is hardly a wonder that so many settle for underpay and underpower! You have to have a great blindness to wish to be on top.

The sense of equality in people is very strong. Being under drives people to rise. We know we have as much right to be on top as any other person. This ensures that inequality will always be desperately unstable, a turmoil, a nightmare. Not everyone cares greatly to be the equal of the one on top, but enough people to make being on top extremely precarious. Even the ones who do not greatly care to take the risks to be on top will do something to harm when they can with safety. Like the butler who spat in the rich man's soup. Or the disaffected ones who open the gates of the city to another conqueror in hope of reward.

The king can strengthen the barons so they will keep the people down, but them he has to fear they will take over. The stronger they are, the more he has to please them and become their servant. If he tries to weaken them, they may revolt and replace him, or go over to the enemy. Stalin uses the KGB to terrorise the populace, but then they may decide they want the top place. If Stalin purges his subordinates, they rise in resistance. If the barons are weak, the people may attack the king. Every leader craves loyalty, but gets treachery in time. Leaaders use divine right, divinity, or man of destiny to try to put themselves above attack, but the power of this illusion is limited, some may be quite untaken in by it.

With equality, everyone is near to the top, and the drive to rise is least. And the lust or desperation to hold on to the top position is least, because the fall is least. And everyone is strongly activated to hold others to equality. With equality, the advantages of being on the top are smallest, and so the best for the job have the easiest path to get to the top, and government is most satisfactory, and therefore disaffection is smallest. Inequality intensifies the competition for top spot.

People are too dangerous to annoy. The sense of justice, of equality, is of enormous power. Yes, there is a store of humility, of forbearance, of longsuffering, of meekness, of acceptance of lower position, but it is not unlimited, it is not reliable, dependable. You can never be sure where it exists and where it doesn't. One day the battered wife sets fire to your bed.

It is lonely at the top. Belonging to the tribe, the sense of being accepted, of being a peer among peers, is one of the most powerful elements of happiness. We are a social animal. We need the feeling of being protected by others. The fiercest dictators have their muscle round up people to 'show' their affection under threat. Or just imagine the people love them.

Every super-underpay contains super-energetic people who will climb to the top, and challenge every holder of that position. The Sicilian Mafia rise to the top of America. Every poverty is constantly sending up challengers for top position. The person on top must fight them all, a never-ending tide. Every plunderer attracts plunderers. Poverty goes where the money is. With equality, with fairpay, with pay justice, with no one taking out more than they put in, there will be no poor and no heap of wealth to attract them.

People could be educated in the miseries of overpay and overpower. History would provide enough examples to bore everyone. And logic or common sense will quickly support the same conclusion. No one likes being under. The only way we can all be on top is with equality.

The fool and his money are soon parted. And we think: Haha, serves him right, who cares. We don't think: This parting is theft. We don't think: This fool is me. But we are all somewhere along a spectrum from least to most money-foolish. Can we afford to allow this theft? Does this theft help anyone? The mandarins, the brains, of China took more and more money to themselves. And so came the Cultural Revolution, and the break-up of the mandarins. The same in Germany, the brainier took advantage, and then along came Hitler, humiliated, vengeful, and his army of Nazis, attacking the intellectuals, the brains who took advantage. 40% of Nazis were primary-school teachers. We think so lightly of paying primary-school teachers less. But they don't think less of themselves, they do not accept our estimation of them. They live the humiliation, in poorer homes, in lack of social respect, every day. The will to equality is fierce. From humiliation, they bobbed up and were glad to indulge their new-found positions of power over others, to take that demonstration to the limit without mercy. The English Rothschild has the wit to see the value of getting information on the victor of Waterloo before anyone else, and then has the further wit to pretend that England has lost, so that everyone sells their English shares cheap, and Rothschild has his agents secretly buy them up, and the shares go through the roof when the truth comes through.

This is a great deal of money, and hence power, for very little work. Which means a lot of work and very little money and power for others. Which creates violence proportional to the overpay-underpay, which gets to everyone, from richest to poorest. And the overpower-underpower assists more stealing. The underpaid get less satisfaction, and the overpaid get no more satisfaction. And everyone gets more violence. Everyone is somewhere along the spectrum from least to most money-foolish. So everyone is being stolen from, all along the spectrum. Theft. Injury. Anger. Violence. Weaponry. Ever-increasing.

We say: Buyer beware. In other words: Let the seller be free to try to fleece, and let the onus be all on the buyer to try to defeat this effort. [to be continued]