Easy, painless strategic plan to make human life better and safer

Easy, painless strategic plan of action to make human life better and safer.

There is an assumption that nothing can be done to put an end to unlimited power and corruption, or, perhaps it is truer to say, there is a lack of considering the possibility. It looks as though people transfer the child-parent relation to the citizen-leader relationship, it seems that people no more ask the question, can overpower be permanently removed from human life, than a little child asks can bad guardians be removed. [Biology tells us that human evolution has involved the retention of juvenile characteristics into adulthood [neoteny] and perhaps this applies psychologically too, and we are victims of the carrying over of juvenile obedience [an effective survival strategy for young animals] into adulthood. Many people set up as moral police and few ask to see their license. Whereas animals part from their parents quickly, easily and permanently, we do not. This human characteristic has advantages and disadvantages. False ethics is obedience and disobedience. True ethics is independently doing your best, seeking reality and thus happiness. Some cultures have ceremonies to mark the changeover point. The overpowerful promote obedience, inability to respond, and we have people with up to 100,000 times fair share of power.]
But there are factors in favour of the possibility of putting an end to unlimited power and corruption.
1. It can be powerfully argued that we are heading straight and fast for extinction, by nuclear winter or other means, which presumably not even the overpowered want. [Weaponry power at 60 times PDC [planet death capability] and tension, anger, injustice, madness and weaponry power rising.]
2. It can be powerfully argued that the overpowered are not so much active and free in their behaviour, as victims, like people chained to an exercise machine set to steadily accelerate, and, again, it can be argued that this is something that not even the overpowered want. And, whether you believe it or not at this stage, it can be powerfully argued that overpay is necessarily miserable, not happy. Think Shakespeare's Richard III. And miserable in proportion to the size of the overpay.
3. The super-overpaid and super-overpowerful are a very tiny minority. More than 99.99% of people have incomes less than five times the global average. Globally, there are only about 10 million millionaires, 1 in 600+ people, less than 0.2%, and only 100,000 with fortunes over US$20 million, 1 in 60,000+, less than 0.002%.
Can 60,000 people persuade 1 to prefer survival and happiness to misery and extinction? At the moment, the underpaid are unaware of the powerful arguments that overpay is misery, and that extinction is inevitable on the present path. In fact, many of the underpaid, at this stage of 'missed understandings', support and defend overpay, and all the rationalisations for overpay, because they see overpay as a beacon of hope to their underpay and underpower.
4. The 3+ billion adults can be reached, just by word of mouth, in just 31 times the time it takes to reach and inform two people. 4 billion candles can be lit from just one candle in just 31 times the time it takes to light two candles. ['Don't complain about the darkness, light a candle.'] It may take just a month or a year to reach and inform the thinking of two people, just by word of mouth, and therefore just 31 months or years to convince humanity of the benefits of pay justice.
5. History is unanimous on the non-survival of heaps of overwealth, individual, national and imperial, and logic is strong in support of this too. History has fewer examples of equality [pay justice], but history is again unanimous on the strength, sustainability and happiness of equality. [The early period of empires, the Marshall Plan, the high wages philosophy of Henry Ford, MacArthur's land reforms in Japan, etc.] Wisdom and logic are also unanimous on these points. The universal pursuit of unlimited fortune has been by deafness to all voices of wisdom. ['Money like manure is best when spread', Francis Bacon. Spread in proportion to work, which, per-hour, is close to equal.] There is hope in the great length of time we have spent failing to prove that pay injustice causes happiness. Examples abound. The penny may drop. The understanding may break out of the dense thornthicket of human life. Ambition detached from taking out no more than you put in may come to feel self-disrespectful and self-harming.
6. 99% of people are underpaid, and I guess that there are many among the 1% who prefer survival and happiness to overpay and extinction, and that there are some among them who are open or openable to the arguments that these are the options, so the majority is potentially great enough to include many among the 'muscle' of the overpaid, so education can produce a power ratio so extreme that the concrete-mindset overpaid will potentially concede without battle. When opinion is 'in the air', when opinion is 'everywhere', when the leaders know the people are clear and convinced, they have no 'steam'.
7. Word of mouth is hard to police, hard to suppress, so education by word of mouth can spread relatively freely to the point that even the 0.001% concrete-mindset super-overpaid can get a whiff that this might be very, very good 'even' for them. There is no need for an organisation, which the overpaid can burn, bomb, raid, character-assassinate or infiltrate and eviscerate. There is need only for the character to examine with objective self-interest, teach two, and cross the fingers that the average level of character in the human race is at least equal.
8. The herd instinct works for change as more minds are changed, although the herd instinct works against change in the beginning. 10% of people adapted is 100% of people adapted. [Or 99.99% of people adapted. I doubt if the concrete-mindset super-overpaid are susceptible to the herd instinct, but they may be.]
9. People have adapted to startling new ideas many, many times. The idea of handling and using fire must have seemed like purest insanity. ['Money, like fire, is a good slave, a bad master.'] Having a law against murder was a new idea once, which got around, was considered, soaked in, became approved. The idea of being a dashboard away from exploding petrol had its critics. Insurance had to have been learned, considered, weighed and found good. The idea of being on a ball floating in space would have made people queasy. The learning curve is not new to people, and they have conquered it.
10. The possibility of extinction soonish, and the sudden recent acceleration of danger may prick humans awake. We have multiplied our power to kill ourselves by a factor of 60,000 in 50 years, thanks to e=mc2, from power to kill 100,000 in a day to being able to snowball and irradiate the planet. By transport technology we have compressed the violence like a gas by a factor of 250 in the last 200 years, from a day away being 50 miles to being 12,500 miles. An increase of danger factor of 15,000,000. Quite a prick.
11. We can be literally 100 times happier. This 'unbelievable' conclusion follows from very believable premises. Imagine if a government, say, committed the super-extreme injustice of taking 90% of after-tax income permanently off 90% of citizens and giving it all to 1%. There would be 81% loss of happiness just in the financial loss to the 90%. [Money is the joker good, it is good for virtually all good things.] Then there would be the enormous increase in violence [civil war, robbery, murder, mayhem, rape]. Riots have happened in relatively peaceful, egalitarian New Zealand over not getting a 6% payrise. [There have been only two deaths in people-government clashes in NZ.] The 1% would suffer social isolation, endless labour and cost of selfdefense, and losses. [The energy of the underpaid is endless.] The 90% would suffer from their decreased social power, the increased social power of the 1%. All these additional factors could easily raise the loss of happiness from 81% to 99%. Therefore reversing the practice would likely increase happiness by a factor of 100. We have in the real world far greater pay injustice. The 1% get, not 82 times as much, but up to 100,000 times as much. The 9% in the middle get, not fairpay, but between fairpay and 100th of fairpay. The 90% get, not 10th, but between 100th and 10,000th of fairpay. [One billion on less than a dollar a day per family [between 100th and 10,000th of fairpay], three billion on less than $2 a day, below 50th of fairpay.] If equality was a swimming pool one metre deep, our pool is 98% up in a thin, thin needle going up 100 kilometres, and 90% of the pool is between 1cm and 0.1mm deep. [Global means every locality. Global issues are local issues.] Therefore 100 times happier is not excessive, impractical, unrealistic. Decline of happiness has been imperceptibly slow but over a very long time. [Although the unprecedented horrors of WWII might give clues.]
12. Once there is a 99+% will to pay justice, pay justice can be approximated with very little pain or disturbance of social systems. Everyone in the world can be made equal heirs of large deceased estates. The private heir has done nothing to earn that fortune [except, probably, suffer absence of parents]. Everyone has done everything to earn that fortune, to do the work that has made the goods that the money represents and buys. The deceased has not earned by own work more than $10 million of that fortune. [100 hours x 50 weeks x 50 years x US$40. Rather surprisingly, all arguments for higher-than-average pay per hour turn out to be fallacious. Hence also, all arguments for lower-than-average pay per hour.] Governments can be responsible for making sure everyone has access to a bank [mobile where appropriate]. [Governments gain by reduced social costs and labour. The extremely rich-poor Middle East spends around 50% of GNP on defense, mostly internal.] No need for the enormous bureaucratic cost of distinguishing the 1% overpaid and 99% underpaid. The 1% are being trimmed by the law anyway. A small department finalising estates and moving the money directly, electronically to all accounts [one per person of course] with the click of a set-up system. The super-overpay accumulated over 3000+ years will gently rain down over two generations, making the overpaid happier and safer. Warmongering and cannonfoddering will cease. [A person with one billion can now hire a million soldiers for 1000 days at $1 a day. With pay justice, one person will be hardput to hire one soldier.] Or, requiring even less administration and intervention, money supply can be increased 1% per month by adding equal shares of 1% of the money supply to all accounts. The inflation effect reduces overpay more than the extra money raises it, the extra money raises underpay more than the inflation effect lowers it. Inflation is not bad when the underpaid are getting more [mostly much more] in the extra money than losing in the inflation. Once the undue influence of the super-overpaid is gone, and once people see the benefits of pay justice, finer adjustments towards pay justice can be made.
13. This plan is immediately empowering, immediately begins to erode the passivity thrust upon the underpaid. And one can do it until a better plan comes along. Action in a plan in which one has confidence is already a happiness.
14. There is enormous strategic power and efficiency in a plan that strikes at the root. 'There are a 1000 striking at the branches of the tree of problems for every one who is striking at the root', Henry Thoreau. Small things are easier for people. Can't see the forest for the leaves. Only those who see the big picture are awake. Time spent in committee is inversely proportional to the importance of the subject. In other words, we reverse-prioritise. To our enormous cost. If you try to destroy a tree by cutting at branches, the rest of the tree is growing while you labour at one branch. The world tree of problems is growing faster than people are succeeding at cutting branches. If you strike at the root, you are attacking all the branches at once. The tree gathers itself for your convenience into the trunk. Cutting the tree at the trunk removes the tree permanently. But we have limited mental vision of a big, big world, and branches appear in front of our eye. It appears that a branch problem is plenty big enough for the efforts of one person. We think: If a branch problem is very big, how big must the root problem be? And we bite off a problem plenty big enough for our energies. But attacking the tree at trunk or root level is far easier. If we can resist the temptation to attack at branch level, and instead follow the branch back to the trunk, every step we take on that route from branches towards the trunk increases the number of branches our labours attack, increases our power and efficiency, shrinks the problems. We would think someone mad who tried to remove a tree by cutting branches, when the trunk is right there at ground level, offering itself gathered into one. It would be mad to remove just the one leaf of a poisonous tree that poisoned someone. Again and again, the root of problems is pay injustice, whether the problem is warmongering, government failure to respond to the will of the people, saving the whales, the war on marijuana, dangerous cars and pharmaceuticals, suppression of cheaper solutions, environmental pollution, crime, corruption, hidden agendas, strikes, racial 'tensions', religious wars. [Races and religions live in amity where there is no pay injustice, where there is no theft of wealth and power along religious or racial lines.] None enjoy unless all enjoy. Money is a joker good, good for everything, and money is power, so pay injustice is at the root of everything. Wealth [overpay] breeds insolence, said Theognis 2500 years ago. Limited mental vision, falsely distinguishing self-interest from the interest of everyone despite the connectedness of everyone, works against all enjoying, and therefore against any enjoying. What made Hitler think he was strong enough to steal the world was extraordinary failure to grasp the power of others. It is the same failure, different only in degree, that lies behind every arrogant government, corporation and group, and it is the same failure behind striking at branches instead of root. It requires mental discipline to resist striking at branches. Knowledge is power. Truth is perspective. Happiness depends entirely on truth, on perspective, on seeing the whole tree. How much governing is a government unable to do because it is fighting wars [within government and business, the nation and worldwide] to get or keep an unfair share of power? The goods of the world gather themselves in money. The portability and non-perishability of money, increased by electronic money, work against us. How much could a person steal if there were only goods? But this gathering in money can work for us if we focus on pay injustice, if we focus on the ricocheting deathlessness of the greatest injury, overpay and love of overpay. Grabbing from nature is harmless, because nature gives freely. Grabbing from each other is all harm, because others do not give freely. This root distinction is all we need get to remove 99+% of human unhappiness. This plan allows people to strike at the global root at home, just by talking with two friends. What follows, if it is true, that people fight injuries [legal and illegal]? Pay injustice is the huge raging bear in the chinashop of human culture. When it is gone, we can begin to pick up the pieces.

Force has achieved nothing. 3000 years of force have not prevented the steady growth of overpay-underpay and the growth of violence [war, crime and weaponry] that is caused by pay injustice. The underpaid have lost battles, they have never lost a war, all empires have fallen, but the underpaid have never prevented, or even in general tried to prevent, the regrowth of pay injustice after revolutions. There are two American dreams. One is the Jeffersonian dream of permanent prevention of tyranny, the permanent survival of democracy and freedom, liberty and justice for all, by prevention of 'wealth concentration', [overpay-underpay, pay injustice, unlimited fortunes for what is necessarily limited contribution by own work]. The other is freedom to pursue unlimited fortunes. The 'addicted' or just thoughtless gambler is induced to part with his wealth by the dream of wealth. 99.99% of gamblers could produce the same effect in their lives by writing a cheque to the casino and leaving. And post-revolution humanity has been the same. Our ideas are always at the root of our behaviour, and force is but a doomed attempt to graft behaviour on a dominant rootstock.
Therefore, education, quite free from the slightest element of force, including 'moral' pressure, is the only option we have. Education in these points has been nigh zero. The arguments against overpay have never, to my of-course limited knowledge, been formulated before. Few if anyone has suspected, sufficiently strongly to seek them out, that there are powerful arguments in favour of pay justice. Those who have spoken out against 'Mammon' have never given reasons, or the reasons have been suppressed by the overpaid. The very idea of overpay is hardly in the vocabulary of thought. The powerful arguments that it is true that the gambler loses whether s/he wins or loses money should be given so that humanity can have them. At the least, on the Keynesian principle of: Because they cannot hear sense, does that mean I should speak nonsense to them? We cannot assume that the resistance, the 3000-year-old mindset, is unconquerable. As powerful as the arguments are that there are large handicaps to human realism, we cannot assume, we do not have the luxury of assuming, that they are unconquerable. The possibility of extinction by nuclear or other weaponry or technology may be the very thing that will create, that is creating, the opening of minds to new mindsets. So there is hope even in the possibility of extinction soonish.
The disadvantages of underpay are obvious to all. It is the conviction that overpay is good for the overpaid, the conviction that more money is always good, that has driven overpaid and underpaid through the gore of human history for 3000+ years. If this conviction can be overthrown, by study of reality, the way is cleared to the human embracing of pay justice.
One strategy that could be used, perhaps is used, on gamblers is to show them the house and car they would have had if they had not gambled. The world-average family pay is US$200,000, or US$300,000 if there is a student in the house. The world-average worker pay is US$100,000 a year, including housewives and students. World annual income is US$300 trillion, and there are about 3 billion workers, including housewives and students. [World annual income [purchasing power parity figures] is taken from Sprout and Weaver, International distribution of income 1960-1987, Kyklos, v45, 1992, pp237-258, compounded with global inflation since 1987.]
People think they are pretty happy, happy enough. You can apparently cook a frog without it noticing if you raise the temperature slow enough. Decline of happiness has been imperceptibly slow, but it has been over 3000+ years. Pay justice is of course equal pay for equal work. We have family pay for a year's work from $30 to $30,000,000,000. That is, from 10,000th to 100,000 times average. A pay injustice factor of one billion. A violence factor of one billion. A brutality factor of one billion. A disinformation factor of one billion. A waste and destruction factor of one billion. For instance, technological progress would have gone ahead, will go ahead something like 100 times faster with pay justice. 90% of tertiary minds we have are tied up in the myriad consequences of pay injustice violence, in the military-industrial complex, in the courts, police, hospitals, universities, government, business. And 90% of the tertiary minds we have are too poor to become scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs, etc.
Arguments against the goodness and happiness of overpay.
1. Violence is proportional to pay injustice and inversely proportional to distance between people. Violence gets to everyone. Violence gets everywhere people get. No one is exempt, no one is safe. Although violence is localised and temporary, it is unconfined. And people move about. Honey attracts bears. Bigger banks have stronger vaults because they need them. Empires attract vandals. Overpay implies underpay, relative and absolute. Overpay is attacked by greater and equal overpay as well as by underpay. However great the overpay, it is finite, and meanwhile the energy of the underpaid is endless, so every overpay must fall. The underpaid can only throw grains of sand, but they can throw them forever. [Ezra Pound's epithet for the poor, unkillable. And anyway, the rich need the poor to do the work.] And the underpaid are often of mind to throw what they can. Sand erodes rocks. Every underpay is constantly sending the most ambitious, hardest fighters, the next Mafia. And meanwhile the rich get 'soft'. [Conditions for political prisoners under the Russian monarchy were kindly. Rich nations hobble their anti-crime power with decencies.] The overpaid are endlessly in a painful, hopeless bind: they have to make their subordinates as strong as possible to defend them, and as weak as possible not to attack them. Every time the overpaid smack down their subordinates, they increase their own danger. And every time they strengthen their subordinates, they increase their danger. Whenever the overpaid keep the slaves down, they weaken themselves against attack. Eg, the American South. Contrast the Roman Empire, which was 70% slaves at one point, but the slaves were educated, therefore pro-Roman. If soldiers don't get enough loot, they may go over to the other side. Alexander the so-called Great said he could always defeat a town with a golden arrow [bribes to the disaffected]. Both underpay and the golden carrot of overpay are enormous stimuli to war and crime. The super-overpaid have always been falling like drops in a fountain. We underestimate their numbers because people are not interested by the fallen.
2. The overpaid are isolated from the human tribe in freedom and amity. The feeling of belonging to a group is one of the greatest determinants of human happiness. The absolute hermit is rare. The World Happiness Index is constantly finding poor countries happiest. This is not because of their poverty, but because of their high level of belonging, of social trust, of being together with others without fear. Even under attack or oppression, they have company. There are many people of equal wealth among the poor, very few of equal wealth among the rich. 'Beggars fear no thieves.' Among equals, power is equal, so theft has lower chance of success.
3. There is rapidly decreasing marginal utility with overpay, because desires are limited by the body. The super-rich cannot sit in more comfortable chairs, eat more delicious food, occupy more room, wear more clothes and shoes, have more sex, drugs and rock and roll than the fairpaid. They can spend more but they can't consume more. The underpaid glamourise overpay because they have desires unsatisfied, they have no consciousness of satiety. This keeps the stardust bright. The overpaid are not rolling in delights proportional to the size of their overpay. Gluttony is a vice, not because it is distasteful, but because it is a failure. Satisfaction waits on appetite.
'[Wo]mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to [wo]mankind', JFK.

100 times happier?! No way! Pie in the sky! - Yes way! Pie on your plate!

100 times happier? No way! Pie in the sky! Yes way! Pie on your plate!



What if we have been getting unhappier for a very long time, so slowly that one lifetime cannot detect the overall fall? Where did I read that if you raise the temperature slowly enough, a live frog or something will cook without noticing?


Global fair pay for the family working at world-average hardness is US$200,000 [two workers, including, if applicable, a houseperson].
There is enough world income to pay every worker, including housewives and tertiary students, US$100,000 a year, US$40 an hour. That is, every worker, including housewives and students, is producing US$100,000 worth of goods or services per year, or $40 worth of goods or services an hour. [The whole of society benefits from study, so students are in justice paid, by society, for studying.] World annual income is US$300 trillion, and there are about 3 billion workers, including housewives and tertiary students. US$100,000 per worker.
The overpaid have been getting more overpaid and the underpaid more underpaid for 1000s of years.
No one has bothered to, or has been able to, determine how much fairpay is, so no one has known how much less than fairpay they are getting. People just go for some more money, when they feel that they are being underpaid, but no one has known how much underpaid they are.
The range of pay for a year's work is from $30 to $30,000,000,000 [billion].
Pay justice is equal pay for equal work, and we have pay from x to 1,000,000,000x for equal work, from 10,000th the fairpay to 100,000 times the fairpay.
Pay justice ['equality'] is one of the most important causes of happiness, pay injustice one of the biggest causes of unhappiness, for both overpaid and underpaid.
Violence [war and crime] is proportional to pay injustice.
Violence gets to everyone, overpaid and underpaid.
Violence is ever-growing, even without growth of pay injustice.
Pay injustice is growing.
The body is limited, finite, and bodily desires are limited, finite. When the tank is full, further petrol is useless, valueless to the vehicle. Drinking water after thirst is satisfied becomes torture.
Money is good, it buys most good things. It buys most necessities and millions of desires, major and minor. Money is the joker good, it is good for most things.
The pool of social wealth is limited, finite, not infinite. Number of workers is finite, number of hours of work is finite, nature's bounty is great but finite, quantity of materials is finite. Individual contribution by work is finite. So unlimitation of fortunes is unjust, is overpay, is theft, creates underpay. No one can take out more than they put in without others having to take out less than they put in. The size of the social pool of wealth can expand, with machines, with IT, with discoveries of more of nature's bounty, for example, but it is always finite. Individual contribution to the pool of wealth is always finite, so pay can always exceed fairpay.
There has never been a rational determination of what exactly constitutes pay justice. Pay justice is equal pay for equal work. But there has never been an exact determination of what constitutes work and what doesn't. People have been paid for many things that are not work, not personal sacrifice of time and energy. Pay for no work for some means work for no pay for others. Greed is wanting or allowing oneself to be paid for no work, wanting or allowing oneself to be paid for no work, for things that are not work, not personal sacrifice, as well as for one's work. Greed is love of overpay.
Attacks on overpay are proportional to the size of the overpay. Bigger banks have stronger vaults because they need them. Being attacked is not happiness.
An overfortune, however great it is, is finite, limited. But the attacks on it are endless. Underpay, theft of money, which is the joker good, is the theft of everything, so it gives endless energy to attack. So every overfortune is necessarily doomed, as history shows. The underpaid can only throw grains of sand, but sand erodes rocks. The underpaid have lost battles, they have never lost a war. Every empire has grown, though small, with pay justice, and every empire, though large, has fallen with pay injustice, overpay and underpay.
Every overfortune is eroded by the ceaseless cost of its defence, and so is driven to get money by more taking, which increases the underpay, which increases the speed of its fall.
Every time a heap of overpay [individual, national or imperial] is brought down, heaps of overpay start growing again, because no one has known where overpay starts, no one has known wherre to draw the line.
Overpay is miserable, because overpay cannot provide more satisfaction, because bodily desires are finite, and because overpay is always under attack [from both underpaid and overpaid]. Even if the overpaid manage to die a natural death, they have been forced to continuously defend the overfortune.
The overpaid are always in a hopeless, stressful bind: they are forced to make their subordinates strong to defend them, and weak to not attack them. They must always pay them well to quell the subordinates' inclination to attack them, and always pay them less to keep them too weak to attack them. They must find subordinates aggressive enough to be good defenders for them, and not aggressive enough to want to attack them. Every time they whack the subordinates down increases the 'steam' of the subordinates to attack them. Every time they lift the subordinates up, they increase the power of the subordinates to attack them. There is no balance point between the two. Every strength to defend them is strength to attack them. Every weakness is weakness to defend them. The overpaid person needs maximum strength and maximum weakness in their subordinates.
The overpaid are isolated, even from their subordinates and friends. But belonging to a community in amity and acceptance is one of the major causes of happiness. Loss of the human tribe is one of the greatest disasters, or is the greatest disaster to the human spirit. We are social animals.
It is not love of money that is the root of virtually all evils, but love of overpay that is the root of virtually all evils of humanity. Love of overpay is love of getting pay disproportionate to, in excess of, personal work, sacrifice of time and energy.
Money is power, power to rake money. This aggravates pay injustice, accelerates pay injustice.
Self-earned money is always good. Working 10% harder and getting 10% more is perfectly good, perfectly harmless to oneself. One is putting in more and getting out proportionately more. There is no overpay, no theft. There is no creation of underpay, no injury, no creation of enemies. Other-earned money is always bad, it is theft, it creates enemies.
Injury ricochets as untiringly as atoms. And, unlike atoms, injury increases with every ricochet.
People have thought money is good, and therefore they have thought that more money is always better. Self-earned money is always good, other-earned money is always bad, it always comes with an angry, a righteously angry person attached.
Because people have thought money is good, they have supported and allowed unlimited fortunes.
The more underpaid people are, the more that overfortune is a beacon of hope for them. The more underpaid people are, the more they dote on overpay.
The more that people are underpaid, the more they have gone for just more, and the less they have gone for getting out as much as they have put in. The more they have been underpaid, and the higher overpay has been, the more they have wanted overpay. Arguing from equality, they have argued that if anyone can have a superfortune, they can too. Pay injustice promotes the practice of pay injustice with everyone. Fairpay seems like injustice as long as there is overpay. Meanwhile, the overpaid are driven to seek more money by the endless costs of selfdefence. So no one has been interested in pursuing fairpay.
Everyone has supported all the ways that support and promote pay injustice. The underpaid have supported them because they can repair their underpay. The overpaid have supported them because they, more than anyone, fail to suspect that more money is not proportionately good. The overpaid are often those who least can imagine the effect of injury on others. Hitler thought that stealing Europe was a good idea. His unconsciousness of others was extreme, or total. Most people suspect that trying to steal Europe would not be a good idea.
The consciousness of the danger to themselves of themselves being overpaid has inhibited many people from venturing there, has made people turn away from pursuit of overpay or even of fairpay. Failure to distinguish money and other-earned money has made them think all money is bad. This has aided overpay. They have left the field more open for the overpaid. Similarly, failure to distinguish private property and other-earned private property has led people to abandon private property, or to fail to oppose the taking of private property, which has made it easier for the greedy to amass private property [eg, Communism].
Some people came down on the side of private property good, because they knew there was something good about private property, others came down on the side of private property bad, because they knew there was something bad about private property. And they have fought each other.
Self-earned money is perfectly good, it is taking out as much as you put in. It is as innocent and right, as spiritual, as godly, as good as a bear fishing and a bear eating.
Because of this all-or-nothing mindset about money, people have been put in a fog, in which they have been unable to pursue the identification of pay justice, the line between self-earned and other-earned money. This fog has been so dense that people have been forced to assume that what a person gets is what they have earned, although people get from $30 to $30,000,000,000 a year, from 10,000th to 100,000 times the world-average pay per year. [The figures for inequality, 'wealth disparity', we have heard have greatly muted the reality, because the figures are for groups of people, within which higher and lower pays are mixed.] People have been unable to say that greed is bad [destructive of happiness]. People have been unable to form the ideas of overpay and underpay.
There are so many rationalisations for higher-than-average pay per hour that people have been unable to decide that there has to be something wrong with extremely high incomes. When these rationalisations are sifted for rationality, it turns out that there are no reasons for higher-than-average pay per hour. Tertiary students should be paid for studying, because it is work, sacrifice of time and energy. [Society has the right to decide how much studying it wants to buy.] Both the overpaid and the underpaid have supported these rationalisations for higher-than-average pay per hour, the overpaid have supported them because they just want more, and whatever argument, true or false, helps them get it, is good to them, the underpaid have supported them because they hope to reduce their underpay by them.
The rationalisations for overpay make the underpaid more underpaid, because the overpaid profit from the rationalisations far more. Every opening for pay for no work is an opening for work for no pay for others. While the underpaid may gain something from them, they lose more. Their net financial gain is negative. Every unjust little straw the underpaid get, in order to suck on the milkshake of wealth, the overpaid get an unjust big straw. Only work adds to the pool of wealth, only work entitles to take out.
It may seem better if one is free to take out as much as one can, than to be limited to taking out only as much as you put in, but being limited to taking out only as much as you put in also limits everyone else to the same.
Before job specialisation, division of labour, everyone did their own work and consumed their own production. Pay injustice was impossible, except by obvious theft. Job specialisation required a pooling of products of work, so that everyone could get a mix of goods. This made it possible to get out more than you put in, making theft, making violence, ever-increasing, as both sides tried to prevail, with ever bigger weapons.
With job specialisation, trade was necessary. With trade came money, a convenient artificial barter item with the advantages of nonperishability, portability and divisibility. If you grew lettuces, and needed a wheelbarrow, it was hard to find someone who made wheelbarrows and wanted 100 lettuces, and your lettuces perished on the way. It was much easier to find people who wanted lettuces, and to exchange them for money, and then find someone making wheelbarrows, and give money for one.
But it was here that the transaction imp stepped in. It is impossible to determine the exact value of anything [the exact amount of work, of sacrifice of time and energy, that has gone into the product]. So the workvalues of any two things exchanged have to be x and x+y. So every transaction has to be a fair-exchange-no-robbery [the x's] plus a robbery [the y]. So theft is built in to every transaction, even if the parties intend no theft. And the theft is invisible, unobvious. Over trillions of transactions over time, very few will break even, most will net gain or lose, a few will net gain or lose a lot. Inequality will grow with every transaction. And become obvious. The underpaid will blame the overpaid, but the overpaid will know that they have done nothing intentionally wrong, and so will be reluctant to say they have more than they should have. [Are you calling me a thief?!] So the two sides will fight, the underpaid certain they have been injured, the overpaid confident they have not injured. All this without greed. The overpaid begin to seek rationalisations for their overpay, and the underpaid begin to use the rationalisations to try to repair their underpay.
Add in the greedy [shortsighted, selfdestructive] desire to make the y as big as possible, by stealing wages and puffing product, add in the power that money gives to make money, to plunder and coerce, and you speed up the evergrowing inequality.
We pay for natural gifts. But natural gifts are work that nature has done, not the person. The person should be paid for every bit of work they do developing their gift [if the product is something people want], but not for the gift. [Which is as big a nonsense as paying people for receiving birthday gifts. 'Ah, I see Uncle Jack has given you a guitar. How much do I owe you?'] 99% are underpaid, 99% are net funding this pay for no work [overpay] by work for no pay [underpay]. But the underpaid see it as a way they can repair their underpay, and support it. So no one can see the nonsense. We pay people for having studied, although having studied is not work. 99% are funding this pay for no work. But the underpaid support it, hoping to get on the paying end of it. We pay for experience, although experience is gained in paid work at no effort by the person. People think: Ah, I will one day be paid for my experience, that will be good. And then when someone is super-overpaid, we are forced to think: He must have tremendous experience. Or any of the other rationalisations for higher-than-average pay per hour of work. We pay for skill, but that is either gift or experience. We allow pay for 'responsibility', although that is gift, not work. Or it may not exist. No one can measure it, quantify it, and no one can set a correct payment per unit of it if we could quantify it. Yet we still allow 'responsibility' as a reason to justify higher-than-average pay per hour. And then we set ourselves to climb the ladder of success, getting a 'more responsible' job with 'more pay'. And the people in 'less responsible' jobs are left feeling inferior, are not looked up to as much, although they are doing their jobs as responsibly, or perhaps more responsibly. And, since the 'responsible' person has not added anything to the pool of wealth by his 'responsibility', the 99% underpaid have to work without pay to make the goods the 'responsible' person takes out [buys with the money he is paid for 'responsibility'] without having put anything in. [The 'responsibility' may add to the pool of wealth, but nature has done the work in giving the person the responsible character. The person doesn't work harder being responsible. It flows effortlessly from character. If it exists. If someone says: I am paid this grand salary because of my onerous responsibilities, ask them: Who measured your responsibility?] We pay for business risk, although the person is risking for themselves! [I'm going fishing for myself, I'm going to be risking my bait. Pay me now, will you, I might not see you later.] And we don't pay a limited sum, we pay unlimitedly. However much he gets, risk justifies it, or helps to justify it.
Once all these rationalisations for higher-than-average pay are seen for what they are, we can determine the maximum self-earned fortune. It is 100 hours x 50 weeks x 50 years x $40 - US$10 million. [We should subtract the minimum lifetime spending, but we are only need a ballpark figure that is definitely above the maximum self-earnable fortune, and near it.] Then we can limit fortunes with a clear conscience. This will stop underpay going so terribly, brutally low. The injury will be greatly reduced. The violence, which gets to everyone, will be greatly reduced. Happiness for all will soar.
I like the idea of limiting pay to 50 hours a week, to discourage overwork. Overwork steals from the self, the family and the community. Balance of work and leisure is vital for quality work. Leisure gives perspective to see when you need a change of direction. Leisure is thought. Thought is good. Ad this allows us to lower the maximum to $5 million, which will raise the underpay more, and reduce the violence more, and increase happiness more.
If pay justice was a swimming pool one metre deep, our pool is 98% up in a thin, thin needle going up 100,000 metres, 100 kilometres. A simple way of bringing this down gently, without making economic waves, is to make everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased fortunes. The overpay will rain down on everyone over two generations. The deceased could not have made the overfortune. The private heir did nothing to make the fortune. Everyone in the world did everything to make the goods that the money represents and buys. So such a law is just. Justice is good for everyone, because injustice makes violence, and violence gets to everyone. We pay everyone, the overpaid and the underpaid, only because it saves the enormous bureaucratic cost and labour of distinguishing the two. The overpaid are being trimmed by the law anyway. Underpay will come up close to fairpay. Governments to be responsible for making sure everyone has access to a bank. [Governments profit from the reduced social costs of war and crime.] The equal shares to be transferred immediately, directly, electronically. The overpower and misery of the overpaid will be being whittled steadily, effectively, and the money going to the underpaid will immediately start to pour waters on the fires of terrorism, uneducation, anger, disease, starvation, slavery, etc.
Another possible way is to run a 1% per month increase of the money supply by putting equal shares of the 1% into all bank accounts [one per person, of course]. The inflation effect will bring overfortunes down more than the equal share will raise them, the inflation effect will bring underfortunes down less than the equal share will raise them. Fortunes will approach fairfortune from both sides. This method is even less interfering than the first idea. And it is even easier to administer. Set everyone up with accounts, work out what 1% of the money supply is, work out the number of people there are, and electronically write equal shares into the accounts. Inflation is only bad if people have to earn at the old rate and buy at the new rate. But the underpaid will be getting more money than the inflation will trim from their fortune, and the overpaid are not short of money.
So how much happier can we be? We have a pay injustice factor of one billion. We have a violence factor of one billion. We have a potential for increase of happiness factor of one billion.
Imagine if a government committed the super-extreme injustice of taking 90% of aftertax income off 90% of workers and giving it all to 1%.

free gift - not selling anything

free gift
not selling anything
purely a free gift
improve your life outofsight
ideas are at the bottom of everything
our ideas are behind all our actions
new ideas mean a new life
here's a new idea, a free gift to you
check it out
if you like it, you're welcome
if it improves your life outofsight, you're welcome

money has been misbehaving
money has somehow been taking itself off from everybody and drifting to a few people
money is good for virtually all good things
so money drifting from all earners to few is virtually everything good drifting from all earners to few
money drifting where it shouldn't be is very bad
making it drift back where it should be is very good
loss of money is loss of virtually everything
plus people fight when they find money is moving where it shouldn't
and the fighting just gets bigger and bigger
fighting has been getting bigger and bigger for a long time now
not good
making money drift back where it should be would stop the fighting
how far has money drifted from where it should be?
if money where it should be was a swimming pool one metre deep, our pool of money is 98% up in a thin, thin needle going up 100 kilometres, 100,000 metres
90% of the pool is less than 1cm deep
90% of the pool is between 1cm and tenth of 1mm deep
the water very, very extremely where it shouldn't be
and the water is in constant turmoil, crests falling from astronomical heights, troughs rising
nobody can swim
and everyone is forced to fight to try to get it back where it belongs, or to try to keep it where it is
not having the money is bad enough
but the fighting makes it even worse
and the fighting constantly grows, as both sides try to prevail, and so make ever bigger weapons
so we are in a lot more unhappiness than we would be if money hadn't drifted
so we have a very big opportunity for increase of happiness
we are in a very bad way
so we can be in a much better way
better than we can begin to imagine, because things have been bad for so long, we have lost all memory and power of imagination of how things would be if money hadn't got up and drifted
this is an idea of how to make money drift back where it should be
which will stop the fighting and will give people back the money they have earned that has drifted
and save the overpaid from misery of doomed selfdefence
here are a lot of ideas to help you get clear that making money drift back where it should be will be very good for absolutely everyone
to get clear how it has drifted
why it is bad for the people it has drifted from [easy to understand]
why it is bad for the people it has drifted to [a bit harder to understand]
if everyone can be bought to confident understanding that the drifting is bad for everyone, then there is a universal human will to make it drift back
and where there is a universal will, it is soon done
without struggle or conflict
because everyone is of one mind
and then everyone is better off
if the money is made to drift back, every family in the world working average-hard will be on $300,000 a year
and there won't be any fighting
there won't be extreme imbalance of power
everyone will be able to swim
plenty for everyone
money has been drifting for a very long time
so it has got very far from where it should be
pay for a year's work now ranges from 10,000th of average to 100,000 times average
from $30 to $30,000,000,000 for a family's year's work
the idea of inequality we get from the figures we get greatly understates the truth
because the figures we get are averages of groups
within each group, the higher figures are mixed with lower figures
but I am giving the highest and lowest individual family figures
which shows the injustice is far worse than appears from the figures we get
we have a ratio between highest and lowest individual family pay for equal work of one billion
a pay injustice factor of one billion
a money theft factor of one billion
a violence factor of one billion
a potential for increase of happiness factor of one billion
and increasing
so there is a lot of fighting
and fighting gets to everyone
the fighting gets everywhere people get
because the fighting is carried by people
and the fighting has produced ever bigger weapons, as one side tries to get it back and the other side tries to hold on to it
and those weapons have got very, very bad
we have got to 60 times PDC [planet death capability]
good for no one
in the past 50 years, we have increased our capacity to kill ourselves by 60,000 times, thanks to e=mc2
from being able to kill 100,000 in one day [dresden, hiroshima, 87 firebombed cities of japan]
to being able to kill 6,000,000,000+
by putting up enough smoke, above the rain washout level, to block out permanently enough sun to drop the world temperature 25 degrees
which is three times colder than an iceage
enough to destroy all food
and then there is the million years of radiation to keep everything dead
and the fighting and the anger, the hatred and the ignorance, are still growing
bringing us ever closer to the time these weapons are used
which may be 100 years away, 30 years away or a day away
probably not all at once, probably here a bomb, there a bomb, increasing
they have already dropped 600 tonnes of depleted uranium
which shows great foolish faith in the absolute separation of parts of the world, great faith in the absence of winds and other transport
also, technology has in the last 200 years effectively shrunk the world by a factor of 250, from a day away being 50 miles, to being 12,500 miles,
concentrating the violence like pressurising a gas, making injury ricochet faster and harder
so we can be in a far better position
we can be far, far happier
besides the prospect of a triple iceage, there is the evergrowing fighting, the danger and the cost in lives, money, destruction of good things, labour of reconstruction
and not having all the money we have earned
not being able to have as many things as we deserve, as our work has made
the fighting involves everyone, both the ones the money has drifted from and the ones the money has drifted to
the fight is between these two
which is devastating to quality of life on both sides of the fight
for the overpaid, the 99% underpay is constantly sending up challengers
and the overpaid get soft, and the underpaid get hard, fight meaner and dirtier, hit faster and harder
which is why the sicilian mafia is at the top of america
and the world is ever sending up new mafias to challenge the old
the golden carrot of super-overpay and the super-underpay are both enormous stimuli to crime
so undoing the drift of money will save everyone from evergrowing fighting
we can easily reverse the 1000s of years of drifting the wrong way by making everyone in the world equal heirs of large deceased estates
the deceased cannot have made so much money
the private heirs have done nothing to make that money
everyone in the world has done the work to make that money
everyone in the world has done the work that made the things that the drifted money buys
so such a law is a fair law
fairness minimises anger rage fighting
we have very extreme unfairness, so we have very extreme anger rage fighting
and fighting affects everyone sooner or later, some way or another, in many ways
a law giving equal shares of the large deceased estates to everyone would stop the fighting over a few having far more than they have earned, and most having far less than they have earned
it would stop the evergrowing fighting and danger and human-made disasters
all the overpay accumulated over 1000s of years would gently rain down, over two generations,
without economic disturbance
pouring water on fires of starvation and terrorism, disease and uneducation, immediately
giving equal shares to everyone, 1% overpaid and 99% underpaid, saves the enormous bureaucratic cost and labour of distinguishing the two
and the overpaid are being trimmed by the law anyway
the drifting of money, which buys just about everything, is the root of virtually all the problems and troubles we have
the undrifting of money is the root of virtually all the goodness of life we are missing out on
and money is power too
so unfairness in money is unfairness in power
people with more power can do what they like to people with less power
they control which laws exist, and which laws are followed
they can conceal what they are doing
they control government, courts, education, information, everything
a person with one billion can hire a million soldiers for a 1000 days at $1 a day
which is very bad for the people who become soldiers on $1 a day
very bad for the civilians killed in the wars
very bad for the generals who lose and for the generals who win
with fairness, one person would be hard put to hire one soldier
which is far better
war is very profitable, because much of what is purchased gets quickly destroyed
there are warmongers, who create wars
warmongers sell to both sides
it may seem that the people with far more than they have earned by their own work would sit around enjoying themselves
but they are under attack in many ways from those who have less than they have earned
and they are under attack from those with as much or more than them, from those who would like to grab what they have
so they have endless trouble and fighting and protecting themselves on their hands
and this makes them need more money, which they get from the people with less money and power
and the more a person has, the more they are under attack in one way or another from rich and poor
having more forces them to take more, which makes the attacks on them even stronger
so things just get worse and worse
all this evergrowing suffering is gone with fairpay
fighting is minimised
which is good for everybody
it may seem that it doesn't matter if some people have heaps
but it means suffering and trouble, war and crime, warmongering and cannonfoddering of the underpaid people, evergrowing
we can get rid of all this suffering and trouble
we just have to work at getting clear in our heads that it is good for us
that every single one of us, overpaid and underpaid, will indeed be much, much happier by curing wrong drift of money from all to few
since fairness is good for everyone, and if everyone can get clear that it is indeed good for everyone, we can get it very easily
passing such a law is easy once everyone is certain it is extremely in their own interest
so all we need to do is work at understanding the reality
and then spreading the word to others
until everyone is clear that here is a good thing that we have all been overlooking, missing out on
like fire, which is a very good thing, and there was a time we were missing out on its enormous benefits just because we couldn't see it
so ideas, new insights into the big big world, make an enormous difference to happiness
getting clear about fire made our lives much, much better
getting clear about insurance made our lives much better
getting clear about the internal combustion engine made our lives much better
and getting clear about money will make our lives much, much better
the idea of having anything to do with fire must have seemed the craziest idea at first
and the idea of being a dashboard away from exploding petrol had its detractors
we think that the more money we get, and the less work we have to do to get it, the better it is
our horizon is limited, we don't see what is over our horizon
we play with a cute furry tail and we wonder how the tiger got here
people who get a lot of money are looked up to, as models and as successes
but gettting out more than we put in means others getting out less than they put in by their work
it is theft, and theft is injury, and theft of money [wealth, property, earnings] is the greatest injury, and no one takes injury lying down
people get angry when they find they have been stolen from
when they find they have to do more work to get less
so over the horizon of getting more money for less work is fighting, war and crime, evergrowing
a few getting hold of most power
much more power than most people
what seems to be good is actually very, very bad for us
what seems to be in our interests is actually the root cause of most of the miseries we suffer
we go on doing the thing we think is good, and we go on suffering
when we put the two together, we see that we have been hurting ourselves without knowing it
as soon as we see that, we will stop
when we see that more money for less work means having to fight everyone all the time
means a world in perpetual war and crime, getting worse, getting extremely dangerous, we will stop
as a child stops running into the road when it gets a clear understanding of the danger, when it sees its self-interest
it seems to the underpaid that more money is good, because they have desires and needs still unsatisfied, which more money would satisfy
but the ones with overpay experience something that the underpaid don't know about
desires and needs are limited
so more money, above fairpay, stops being able to deliver more satisfaction
like, when your stomach is full, food becomes nothing to you
when you are thirsty, drinking water is great
but when you have quenched your thirst, drinking water is unpleasant, is no longer a good thing, no longer a pleasure
with fairpay of $300,000 a year, all but the teenytiniest of desires are satisfied
overpay can add practically nothing to pleasure or comfort
the overpaid cannot sit in more seats, lie in more beds, eat more food, drink more, fill more room, have more sex, drugs and rock and roll, than the fairpaid
the overpaid can spend more, but they can't get more satisfaction
they can own skyscrapers, companies, big boats, palaces, great areas of land, but they can't consume more
solid gold taps sound terribly exciting to the underpaid, but they are just taps
overwealth sounds good to the underpaid, because they still have desires unsatisfied
overwealth is a beacon of hope to them
so they allow overwealth, support overwealth
meanwhile the overpaid have this tremendous, endless war on their hands
a person who steals all the goods of 1000 people has merely more goods than he can consume, and now has 1000 vigorous enemies
plus the enmity of others who have also stolen the property of 1000 people
plus his environment, other people, has been devastated
instead of happy healthy wealthy people, he is surrounded by poverty, uneducation, anger, dirt and disease, as we are
how is the person who steals the property of the tribe, and is hiding in the forest, up a tree, trembling for his life, surrounded by goods more than he can consume, happier?
rockefeller behind electric fences and guard dogs
a concentration camp with swimming pool
hitler in the bunker, stalin in his kremlin cell, marie antoinette, charles I of england with their heads on the block
belonging to a community in amity and trust is one of the greatest factors in happiness
the world happiness index is constantly finding poor countries happiest
why?
not because they are poor, but because they have more equality than anyone else in the world
they would be even happier with both equality and fairpay, freedom from vulnerability to all those with more power
and we would be far happier, with as much equality as the poorest, and fairpay, and freedom from vulnerability to all those with more power, and freedom from attack from those below
there is enough to pay every worker in the world, including all housewives and tertiary students, $100,000 a year, $40 an hour
every worker in the world, including housewives and tertiary students, is earning $100,000 a year, $40 an hour
they are adding that much to the pool of wealth, the pool of products of work and nature's bounty
[world income is taken from sprout and weaver, kyklos journal, v45, 1992, pages 237-258, compounded with global inflation since]
we assume that cavepeople were less happy than us, but they had both equality and fairpay, a swimming pool
we can have equality, fairpay and technology
instead of that happiness, we have 98% of the water in the human swimming pool drained
and it is very bad for the 1% who have the 98%
we would have had, we would have, if we got pay fairness, scientific progress 100 times as fast as we have now
because 90% of the scientists and inventors we have now are tied up in the myriad consequences of the super-super-extreme overpay and underpay, in the military-industrial complex, in the courts, in the universities, in the hospitals, in the government, in business, and 90% of the people who could be scientists and inventors are too poor to become scientists and inventors
so we have completely lost sight of, completely forgotten, how much we have lost
we have lost around 99% of natural birthright happiness
we would be around 100 times happier
unbelievable?
we all know how much unhappiness would increase if a government, say, started taking 90% of aftertax income off 90% of people and gave it all to 1%
first, there would be loss of 81% of happiness from the taking of 81% of national wealth from the 90% [90% of 90% is 81%]
then, on top of that, there would be the tremendous conflict caused, which would greatly increase deaths, grief, fear, anxieties, crime, imprisonment, injuries, brutality
there would be no increase of pleasure for the 1%, because of the limits of bodily desire, of appetite, and there would be tremendous increase in trouble, danger and security-labour for the 1%
the 1% would be isolated from the human tribe
they would have fear, even of others in the 1%, for they would have a lot that could be stolen by others among the 1%
there would be the loss of progress, with most people tied up in fighting and selfdefence, rebuilding infrastructure [cities] and repairing bodies
looking after the victims of war and crime
there would be the loss of production of goods from the loss of the labour of most being tied up in the fighting in one way or another
there would be lives wasted tied up in the fighting, in government army police hospitals courts etc, which would otherwise be doing more pleasant, satisfying work
with equal pay for equal work, people drift to the paying work that gives them most intrinsic satisfaction
instead of doing the work that brings the most money
all these factors would very easily add a loss of another 18% of national and individual happiness, bringing the total to 99%
we would have 100th of the happiness
99% of natural, easy happiness would be destroyed
everyone would lose big
so happiness would increase 100 times if the above super-extreme theft was reversed
we in this world have unfairness greater than this super-extreme theft
far greater
in the above example, the 1% get only 82 times fairpay
in this world of ours, the 1% get up to 100,000 times fairpay, they get up to $30,000,000,000 a year
in the above example, the 90% get a 10th of what they earn
they can buy only a 10th of what they make by their work
in this world of ours, the 90% get between 100th and 10,000th of what they make by their work
they can buy only between 100th and 10,000th of what they make by their work
and they have 100th to 10,000th of the fairshare of political power
in the above example, the 9% in the middle get fairpay, but they are in the midst of fighting, they are under attack from the 1% and the 90%
in the real world, the 9% between the 1% and the 90% get between fairpay and 100th of fairpay, and everyone is fighting everyone
because everyone is just going for more, by all means
so we can be far happier than the people in the above imaginary state
and they would be 100 times happier with the reversal of the super-extreme theft of 90% from 90%
the 1% can be far happier, free from fighting everyone, and free to return and be humans among humans, with no less satisfaction of desires
the 90% can be far happier, free from victimisation and bullying by the more powerful, with far more satisfaction, with 100 to 10,000 times more money
the 9% can be far happier, free from being caught up in the fighting everywhere, and with 1 to 100 times more money
to get from here to there, from super-misery to this far greater happiness, requires only realising the enormous hidden downside of what seems good to us, getting more money for less work
working twice as hard and taking out twice as much is perfectly good and harmless to ourselves
because there is no theft, which means no creation of anger, no fighting evergrowing
[and the fairtax is the same amount as for others, because the person working twice as hard consumes only the same amount of government services]
it may seem that we are reasonably happy, that we are getting along reasonably well, and that there is no need to increase our happiness
but there are monuments in every town to the fallen in war
and there are other, invisible monuments to the people who had to adjust to the fact that someone was not coming home from war
and other invisible monuments to those who came back from the war broken
and other, invisible monuments to the 100% of people who missed out on 100 times faster scientific progress
and other invisible monuments to the victims of crime
and to the people who died or suffered for lack of the science we would have had
and monuments to the people who didn't die in war, but whose lives were taken up in the fighting, and in spending lives in the army and police, instead of being free from that unnecessary labour
we think that, if we go after more, we will get more, and we have got far, far less
how can that be? how can going after more get you far, far less?
one, because opening the accepted social behaviour up to everyone getting just more means some getting far more than they earned by their own labour, their own sacrifice of time and energy
us giving ourselves a straw to get out more, means some others getting a far bigger straw
giving yourself the right to get as much as you can means everyone getting the right to go after as much as they can
result, everyone grabbing from everyone endlessly, 1% with up to 100,000 times the average pay per unit of work
99% with down to 10,000th of average pay per unit of work
and two, generating violence evergrowing to the present 60 times PDC
it may seem better, when you are a child among 100 children with 1000 sweets, if you are free to get as many sweets as you can get
it may seem worse if you are limited to ten sweets
but then everyone else is limited to ten sweets, and so a few cannot take most of the sweets, leaving very little for the others, making war for all
limiting the number of sweets means more sweets for 99%
and if everyone is to be free to try to get all the sweets, everyone will fight everyone endlessly
the ones with few sweets will be driven by having fewer sweets
the ones with many sweets will be driven by being free to get more
the fighting will never stop, will exhaust everyone, will injure everyone
only the person with nothing will be free from having to endlessly protect his sweets
the people with most will be being most grabbed from, will therefore in quick time lose the sweets they have
every heap of overwealth in history, individual, national and imperial, has been brought down
the overpaid have always been falling from their great height like drops of a fountain
[we underestimate their numbers because they mostly pass from history as they fall from the heights, or they never get into history]
the underpaid can only throw grains of sand, but sand erodes rocks
the underpaid have lost many battles, they have never lost a war
to bring the analogy closer to reality, imagine it isn't children and sweets, but a community in which everyone brings the products of their work to a communal hall and the gamerule is that everyone just goes for grabbing as much of it as they can, grabbing from each other too
when it isn't just sweets, but money, which buys virtually every need and desire, every product of work, things get a lot more hairy
work produces goods, and the natural entitlement is to get out as much as you put in
[we pool the goods to remix them because we specialise in goods production]
anything else is theft, theft is injury, and injury ricochets as untiringly as atoms
worse than atoms, injury grows, as people revenge an injury with a bigger injury
10 sweets is $300,000 a year per family for an average amount of work
if there is water, and there is no limit to how high it can go, a little will go higher and higher and most will get lower and lower
if there is a limit to how high it can go, there is a limit on how low it can go
the pool of social wealth is vast, but limited
if it can go limitlessly higher than level, it must go limitlessly lower than level
we have said, let it go limitlessly high, and it has also gone limitlessly low, and on top of that, generated limitless violence and brutality at all levels
freedom to get out more than you put in is freedom for everyone to be under attack from everyone forever
and a lot of the wealth will have to be wasted on the weapons of attack, and the repair of the damage
very rich-poor Middle East spends 50% of its wealth on fighting, more egalitarian Scandinavia spends only 2%
and even Scandinavia could spend less on fighting, by having more fairness
it is not love of money that is the root of virtually all unnecessary evils
it is love of overpay that is the root of virtually all unnecessary evils
it is not private property that is bad, it is other-earned private property, which sounds good to us
unlimited fortunes for what is necessarily limited contribution
communism took 98% off everyone, and collapsed
nazism took 98% off everyone, and collapsed
we are in a global system that takes 98% off everyone
so haven't we been making a mistake, isn't it true that we have overlooked something
and doesn't that mean the very good news that it is really true that we can be much, much happier
that we don't have to live like this, that this isn't the best life we can have?
people think war is human nature, but human nature is how we were before inequality started growing from nothing
fistfights, not ICBMs, not death camps and world wars, just shouting and threatening
money makes money
that means that the person doesn't make the money, the money does
that is, money rakes money that has been made by other people
a billion makes $50 million a year, every year, for no work by the person, by work by others, at a modest 5%
and the big rates of return, 20%, 40%, with less risk, are mostly reserved for the big investors
having more money is like having a rake to rake more money
the more money you have, the faster you can rake money
the less money you have, the slower you can rake money
so inequality grows and accelerates and so violence grows and accelerates, as we know has happened through history
people still jump on get-rich schemes, and they are in fact opening the cage of a tiger
which consumes all, rich and poor
how is it possible that anyone can get money without earning it by their own work?
there are many wideopen unhidden legal ways in our present systems
for example, new technology has built-in scarcity
there is high demand, everyone wants it
and the factories to supply it are still gearing up
high demand and low supply means high prices, prices well above the total costs of making, including owner work
prices 40% above total costs means a profit rate of 40%
it takes only an annual 40% profit rate to increase fortune 10,000 times in 30 years
which is how Bill Gates 'made' 'his' billions
how Bill Gates has been paid $500,000 per workhour for 30 years
although he certainly couldn't make $500,000 worth of goods per hour
he gets, every hour, another legal license to take out of the social pool of wealth another $500,000 worth of goods, which other people have made
this is only one of many legal thefts, legal pay injustices, in our present system
and it is good for no one, rich or poor, overpaid and underpaid
as soon as we see we have been letting the tiger out of the cage, to consume everyone, we will stop doing it
and happiness, safety, peace will increase 100-fold or more
and extinction by evergrowing violence will be stopped in its coming
a new idea which can prevent a zillion unnecessary sufferings
prevent a million more girls every year sold into a lifetime of sexual slavery
prevent 99% of people getting down to 10,000th of what they earn
prevent 2 million people going blind every year for lack of 4c of vitamin A
and a billion other horrors and wastes
prevent the overpaid living lives of desperation, without belonging to the human community
attacked on all sides, like Hitler, Ceausescu, Caesar, and a billion others, at all levels of the inequality
the mental labour of acquiring a new idea of what is going on, of how one thing connects to another
pays you a bigger bonus that you would ever dream of getting in your wildest dreams
because a little error has grown for so long
drops which have made an ocean of grief, disorder and danger for everyone
we stand on the brink of extinction and on the brink of a golden age, with only the labour of exploring a new idea between them
is this too big a project, just learning a new idea and passing it on to two of your closest people?
have I explained the idea well enough?
are you now clear on it and enthusiastic?
are you now certain that we have the greatest opportunity for increase in happiness in the history of the world?
if so, consider this: every adult in the world can get this idea, just by word of mouth alone, in just 31 times the time it takes two people to get it
if every person who gets clear and certain about it passes it on to just two people, to the point of them being clear about it and keen to tell two people each, everyone will know this new idea in just 31 times the time to tell two people, by word of mouth alone [it's maths, it's true]
one candle will light 4 billion candles in just 31 times the time to light two candles, if everyone lights only two candles when theirs gets lit
just the natural, easy way news gets around about a good new film
there are 3 billion adults to reach, but 3 billion adults to reach them, with all their resources, talents, skills and energies
with 99% underpaid, and no one wanting extinction, the majority wanting this change will be 99+%, which will include most of the 'muscle' of the super-overpaid
word of mouth will keep this idea under the radar of the most overpaid, who, without first examining the idea to see if it would be good for them too, will oppose it by financing anyone who will speak up for the old mindset
keeping it under the radar longest will give time for the super-overpaid, the superendangered, to get a whiff that this might be good for them too
if everyone gets this idea, the rest of the way is easy
there are easy ways standing by, waiting for people to get the will, the strong clear certain will, by ruminating the idea into the milk of seeing clearly the opportunity
are you feeling at this point unclear and uncertain about this idea, but feel the idea looks as though it might have something?
give it time, forget about it, read it again in a week, you may get clear just from this
I have spent 20 years getting my head this far around it, give it time to soak through all the pathways of our complex, partitioned brain
if you still feel unclear after this, there are more explanations and more points covered at happinessfinneganswake.blogspot.com
and if you want even more, there is a 500-page book in bite-sized bits at www.globalhappiness.org [not an org]
this super-super-extreme overpay and underpay is the root of human [mis]culture, so it branches in all directions, into all areas of human life
cut the root, evergrowing theft of money, the big straw, and you will be amazed how many branch-evils in the world will wither up and die
and they will be gone forever
if you still feel unclear and uncertain, but still feel that there might be something good here, you are extremely welcome to discuss it
my email is with the blogspot
but light not heat, please!
there is vast suffering in the world, so it is good taste to pursue light, bad taste to indulge in heat
it is not an injury to anyone for others to have honest different opinions
these opinions here are sincerely held, with sympathy for everyone, so they don't deserve unpleasantness
or are you now feeling that the idea is not good at all, is bad in some way?
would you be so kind as to communicate your opinion with me, giving reasons for your opinion, and being open to discussion, so that I can learn something, maybe see and clear up a misunderstanding, or learn a better way to express it, or learn how I am wrong
I can be wrong, and you can be wrong too
maybe with further explanation, you will clarify something, and thus improve your life
improving your life, getting rid of bad stuff, increasing your happiness, is not a subject to dismiss lightly with a hasty judgement
giving the grounds for your disagreement, and being open to discussion, are not agreeing
you are not compromising your position by discussing
you are just acknowledging the fact that everyone can be wrong, no one knows everything, everyone can learn
we didn't make ourselves, we are not to blame for being wrong!
our brains are only so big, and our world is a lot bigger
so we see some things and overlook some others
you could be right, and add something to this idea, you could show it is wrong
I think it is right, I could be wrong, I could be right
everyone must judge for themselves
this is not about force, any more than use of fire, insurance or the engine were forced on people
this is: look over there, isn't that an oasis?
this is not about sacrifice, this is about your plate piled high
all happiness is real, so happiness depends entirely on realism
unrealism means unhappiness
judge well, think hard and coolly, ponder long and hard, there is deep mindset to overcome, it is happiness at stake, which is everyone's everything
money, like fire, is a good slave and a bad master
when we learned to master fire, it was a million-year-old prejudice in favour of running like heck which we overcame
the bushman in the film The gods must be crazy II, faced with a fire racing towards them,
ran back to the fire, grabbed a burning branch, and raced forward and started another fire ahead
so that they would have burned land to be safe on
cool thinking made the difference between being perfectly unharmed and being burned alive

Assuming ..., the plan

Assuming people are knowing the problem, namely super-extreme pay injustice, causing myriad problems, including ever-escalating violence, causing myriad miseries for all humans at all levels, and pushing us closer to the terminal point.
The plan.
To introduce the simplest way of redistributing wealth justly back to the earners, which might be making everyone in the world the heirs of large deceased estates. The private heir has done nothing to make that money, everyone has done everything to make that money, so that way is just, and it is easy to show that it is just. This permits overpay for one generation, which does minimal damage, and stops the endless accumulation of overfortune over many generations, which does 99% of the damage. This requires no measurement of fortunes. Large estates are simply divided equally among all people, and electronically directly transmitted to all accounts. Everyone to have one account into which these monies are paid. This will cause most of the thin but terribly tall needle of overpay to shower back down on people in two generations, 50 years. There is no need to distinguish the overpaid and not give them an equal share, because that would be very costly of labour and money, and because the overpaid are being trimmed at death anyway.
The way to do it is simple once there is a will to do it. In order to do this, we need to create first a universal human will to do it. We have to demonstrate that justice is good. We have to define precisely to people's satisfaction what is justice, what is equal pay for equal work, what is work and what is not work, and why we pay for work and not for other things. We have to bring every adult to clear and adequate ideas of the enormous benefit of pay justice for every human being. There are three billion adults to reach, but three billion adults to reach them, with all their resources, energy and talents. This is not propaganda, indoctrination, but invitation to see an overlooked reality. Like seeing the value of having insurance, of having a law against murder. There was a time before those ideas, and there was a time when people took those new ideas on board, and decided they liked them, and then the ways to have them soon followed on the will to have them. If each person who 'gets' this idea teaches it to just two people, chosen from their closest friends, every adult in the world will get it in just 31 times the time it takes for two people to get it. If people can be taught, if people teach it, it will be taught. In the same way the news gets around about a new film. We have used force for millenia and force has not worked. People who use force to teach ideas are usually trying to teach wrong ideas, ideas that are not in people's interests. True ideas have reason behind them, and if people can grasp reason, reason will teach. Where force has made people conform outwardly to ideas, there has not been a solid idea to uphold the institution based on those ideas. For instance, the cry of liberty, equality and fraternity was not really learned by anyone in the French revolution, and so it was not preserved or defended, it decayed. So education is the only way, the only chance we have.
How to get people to want to teach two people. Teach them the enormous real benefits to them, namely non-extinction, and 100-fold safety peace and happiness. The extreme pay injustice. The connection between injustice and problems, especially violence. That injury ricochets as untiringly as atoms. That pay injustice, theft of money is the joker injury because money is the joker good, good for virtually all goods. That overpay can give very little more happiness, because of the decreasing marginal utility of money when almost all desires have been satisfied, which they are by fairpay of US$275,000 a year per average family, and because overpay, however large, is finite, and the erosion of overpay by underpay and overpay is endless, endlessly costly in time, life, labour and fortune, and so must fail, as history shows it always has. That self-earned money [taking out of the pool of social wealth as much as you put in, nontheft] is perfectly good, but other-earned money [taking out more than you put in by your work, theft] is perfectly bad, because every theft comes with an angry person attached, because inequality always grows, making violence and weaponry ever-growing, making life ever-more unpleasant.
If it is really true that both overpay and underpay are bad, not good, and if people can be brought to realise this, then the will is made. When the universal will is made, there is no opposition, no social struggle, no likelihood of failure.
The arguments that overpay is bad, not good, as people think, are not hard to understand. And the examples of history unanimously support them, and demonstrate them, by the many examples of overpay always delivering misery, and the examples of pay justice always delivering happiness. Education is the only chance we have, but there are many ways people come to convictions besides rationality, and these are the difficulties. But conversation, dialogue, discussion, with closest friends have the best chance of overcoming these barriers to human survival and happiness.
So the plan is first digesting and incorporating the rational arguments by sincere testing of them in one's mind, and then from a position of seeing clearly the enormous benefits, teaching them to two friends with sufficient impression that they will teach two friends, and so on. Word of mouth stays under the radar of those who are still devoted to overpay as good, and who would oppose, by force, fear and false arguments, the spreading of the message in public media. Money is good, it buys most good things, including necessities, but human history is the result of concluding from this truth the falsehood that more money is always better, forgetting the diminution of marginal desires and the limitation of self-earned money.
Details have to be gone into to convince. Many points have to be covered, many species of false ideas have to be exposed. But if, as it seems to me, overpay is bad for the overpaid, it follows that any reduction of overpay and underpay is good for all. So the plan is the learning and teaching of clear ideas, the unlearning of false ideas, generating a practically universal human will. No one can condemn this plan as impractical without seeing if, and how quickly, they themselves are convinced by the arguments, if they submit to sounding the ideas sincerely. As long as they do not inspect the arguments, they may prejudge the ideas to be impractical. It is only if they open themselves to experiencing their own barriers falling, that they can judge whether and how quickly others will learn.
The sometimes hard-to-believe conclusions here are based on easily believable premises. This plan hinges on changing people's ideas. And we can never assume to know that people will never change their ideas, or will take an impossibly long time to do so, or will take as long, or longer, than we do.
The rational arguments have never, to my knowledge, been stated before. The difficulty is getting people to take time to ponder them, chew them over, digest them, assimilate them.

You know the saying?

You know the saying 'the rich get richer and the poor get poorer'.
But did you ever think that this is just plain theft?
That it means that the overpaid get evermore dollars for each bit of work they do, and the underpaid get everless?
And did you ever think that this has been going on for thousands of years and so has gone very far indeed?
Can you believe, we now have yearly pay from a low of $30 to a high of $30,000,000,000.
And have you thought that this is theft of the thing which is a joker good, good for just about everything, all necessities and desires?
And that this theft therefore makes people very angry and desperate, and makes people fight?
And that this is why violence [war, crime and weaponry] have been increasing for those same thousands of years?
From sticks and stones to ICBMs and world wars.
To the present point of 60 times PDC [planet death capability]?
So we really want to do something about it if we can?
Have you wondered how many people get less than fairpay?
At the present stage of things, 99% of people get less than fairpay.
have you ever wondered what you'd get if you weren't underpaid?
The average-sized family working average-hard would be on $300,000 a year, if 99% of us hadn't been slipping lower and lower for 1000s of years.
Of course 99% are getting below-average pay!
If you pull taffy up out of a pot, the higher you pull, the lower the taffy in the pot gets.
If a malicious imp takes everyone's things and leaves them outside the door of one person, the obvious thing is to give them back.
If the person outside whose house the things get left tries to keep them, there will be trouble.
Everyone else will be worse off, and that one person will be worse off, having a huge fight on his hands.
Can 1 person keep the property of 99 people?
Can it do him any good to do so?
He will have gained a lot of surplus things, and lost all position and respect in the community.
Have to work day and night to hold onto the things.
Can 1% keep the property of 99% of people?
Through all history they have tried, and through all history they have eventually lost.
Through all history they have had to labour mightily all their lives to hold on to it.
And always in the end failed and been clobbered.
And the two fighting sides have invented everbigger weaponry, to the danger of all.
What is the use of overwealth?
After necessities, major desires and minor desires are satisfied, right down to the littlest things, what can more money add to happiness?
Fairpay [$300,000] satisfies every need, all major desires and millions of smaller and smaller desires, down to children's toys and bobbypins.
So overpay can add only the satisfaction of the teenytiniest desires.
You can spend more, but you can't get much out of it anymore.
Except a heap of fighting, danger, labour and cost hanging on to it.
So if both overpay and underpay are bad, why have we got so much of it?
Are we missing something?
Even if desires were infinite, and the overpaid were happy in proportion to their overpay, would that be any reason to steal happiness from 99%?
Have you ever thought that money is power, so extreme overpay-underpay is extreme overpower-underpower?
Which means the less powerful being bossed around by the more powerful?
And means the more powerful doing whatever they like, which is usually not pleasant for the underpowered?
And then the underpaid getting mad and clobbering them?
And all this conflict and weaponry is rushing to a climax in destruction of everything, thanks to e=mc2.
Have you heard that the bombs we have will block out the sun with the smoke, lowering the planet temperature 25 degrees, which is three times colder than an iceage?
With the rich still getting richer and the fighting still getting intenser, can we avoid arriving at using those bombs, if we keep going the way we are?
With the weapons, and the super-extreme overpay and underpay generating everincreasing violence, how can extinction not arrive?
Maybe not this century, maybe this century, maybe tomorrow, maybe this afternoon.
Probably not all at once, probably here a bomb, there a bomb, a little more, a little more.
They have already used depleted uranium.
Can we do better?
Do the overpaid want to become extinct?
Are the overpaid free from trouble?
All heaps of wealth [kings, emperors, empires] in history have been levelled in time.
However great the overfortune, it is still limited in size.
But the attacks on it by the robbed are endless, so every heap of overwealth falls.
Bigger banks have stronger vaults because they need them.
Bigger heaps of honey attract more bears.
And desires get teenytiny above fairpay of $300,000 a year.
Who benefits from overpay and underpay?
The overpaid get no more pleasure, a lot more danger and labour, and extinction as the cherry on top.
The underpaid get nonsatisfaction of minor and mjor desires, of needs, constant labour of fighting for rights and fairshare, and extinction.
Not exactly a bargain for anyone.
How does money drift from all the workers to a few?
Who or what is the malicious imp who has been moving goods from everyone to few and so got everyone into this almighty mother of all pickles?
Whenever you buy or sell anything, the two things exchanged are never exactly equal in value.
So there is a little hidden theft in every transaction.
One person gives more than they receive.
Over trillions of transactions, this little drop of theft grows into the ocean of overpay and underpay.
Over many transactions, a few people will break even.
But most will gain or lose.
A few will gain big, a few will lose big.
If you toss a coin millions of times you won't of course get heads tails heads tails all the way.
You'll get strings of heads, strings of tails.
There will be lots of strings of two.
The longer the strings of heads or tails, the rarer they will be.
But they will occur.
In the same way, most will lose or gain from lots of transactions.
And the more transactions go on, the greater the gain or loss will be.
Anyone can go from gaining to losing, or the other way, at any time.
But over everyone, underpay and overpay will ever-increase.
And then this growth is accelerated by everyone trying to get as much and give as little as possible.
And then money 'makes' money.
A pile of money, once got, will start pulling in more money.
A billion pulls in $50 million, every year, for no work by them, at a modest 5% interest.
And sometimes there are far higher returns than 5%.
But they can buy things with the money they get for no work.
Things which have been made by work.
So they sometimes get products of work for no work. Overpay.
So others sometimes get work for no money. Underpay.
Leading to fighting and extinction for all.
Like a boiler getting hotter and hotter till it explodes.
A little tiny theft in every transaction, and the world is going to blow.
We can correct for this by making everyone heirs of large deceased estates.
The private heir has done nothing, everyone has done everything for this money, so such a law is just.
And justice in pay makes peace.
The country or planet built on injustice cannot stand.
The purpose of government is justice.
And governments are not powerful enough to give it to us.
Only we are powerful enough to give it to us.
Money drifts from all to few, so we drift it back from few to all.
Money will continue constantly to drift from all to few with every transaction, but we can make it constantly drift back again.
The accumulated overpay of thousands of years will rain down on humanity in two generations.
90% of world income, US$250 trillion a year, or US$250,000 per family, is up in a very very high thin needle of overpay.
The honey will be lowered back into the pot, raising the level, stopping the evergrowing overpay-underpay violence.
How to interest people in doing this?
There are plenty of extremely good reasons for both the overpaid and underpaid people to do this, but people need to know first that everyone else is keen to do it.
No one will take one step forward until everyone else does.
Which is quite sensible because people laugh if you step out of line, if you wear a hat when no one else is, or don't wear a hat when everyone else is.
But we can talk about it with our friends, and then it will in time reach a point where everyone will know that everyone knows about it, and then it won't be so hard to step forward one step.
Then someone wil get excited with the idea of being the first, and then step forward, and then others will be sorry not to have been first, and will step forward to be second, and then more and more will take the step, and then we can laugh at the last ones to step forward.
This laughter is not mean. We have survived by being a herd, and this laughter is a reminder not to wander off from the herd and get killed.
Don't rely on politicians or academics to lead the way. They are either overpay, or bought and sold by overpay, or they are busy studying some tiny corner of the big big world, drowned in so much information that they have lost their common sense, their overview, their perspective.

Happiness plan

HAPPINESS PLAN
Calling all people who care about themselves and their loved ones.
Free, costs no money.
Just have the selflove and seriousness to examine, confront and consider the facts the media don't tell you.
Every person can be much happier, much freer from all the nasties of present human life.
THERE IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS GLOBAL EMERGENCY
The 'unbelievable' conclusions follow simply from very believable premises.
$300,000 a year for the average family.
Practical, realistic.
Overpay and underpay, and the consequent violence [war, crime and weaponry], have been growing for 1000s of years.
So we have been 'saving up' happiness for 1000s of years - time to spend it.
Easy to do, just learn it and teach two friends.
Requires thinking caps firmly on, but every assistance to understanding is very happily given.
No group to join, individual action and choice only.
No social struggle involved, education only, realising the immense danger and the immense opportunity.
World peace, world friendliness, world pleasure.
Increases happiness and quality of life, enormously, for absolutely every person.
Compatible with all beliefs.
No big change in societies, just one new law.
Total downside is: checking it out, adjusting your mindset one notch, and telling two friends about it if you like it.
There is a big problem with this plan: people prejudge that there must be an insurmountable problem with it!
The only real way to stop war and crime, and to avoid human extinction soonish.
Permanently stops arrogant ignoring government, and corruption, exploitation, undemocracy.
Unanimously supported by all history and wisdom, but offers a new, vital distinction.
Creates the soil for intelligent government.
The teenytiny root mistake that is ruining quality of life for everyone everywhere.
The price of this plan is: Look it over carefully, don't jump to conclusions.
We must turn human life from lead to gold now, or perish forever.
This is correcting a universal human error with your own simple good sense.
This is not setting aside your sense for someone's else's notions.
It is the time for the highest heroism and nobility: refining human good sense in the fire of dispassionate discussion.
There are only individuals, only individuals can make a difference.
The human race now needs every bit of human intelligence and responsibility.
Visit happinessfinneganswake.blogspot.com and be open to growth through discussion.
Quote: If we want to hardwire a new behaviour, we just need to give our new mental map enough attention over enough time to ensure it becomes embedded in our brain.
Thought: It's no good knitting for the baby when the nursery's on fire. Prioritise for success. Chop the trunk instead of the branches and get far better results with far less labour. Many people are tied up solving one problem or another. But most of these problems have a root cause. Attacking the root problem automatically kills all the branch problems.