Great article Peter. I suggest that we take the $1500 per adult x 2 if the household entails a couple…be doubled by implementing a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale. Voila! the $3000 total dividend becomes $6000/mo and $72000/year worth of purchasing power. Its freshman algebra where -50% of price + 50% of price rebate = 0. , or in this case 50% beneficial price and asset deflation to the consumer and 0 loss of price to the merchant (The policy works with the following process: a 50% reduction in the price of virtually everything to the consumer, and the central bank’s charter is amended to mandate that they rebate the 50% consumer discount back to the merchant thus making them whole on their entire price.) And there are other policies that further benefit all economic agents and resolve and stabilize the economy in my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C49B9PX7

Yes, it seems to me that the interface/consciousness concept is about thirdness greater synthesis/oneness of apparent opposites. Its a gestalt, an integrative flowing wholistic understanding. Thirdness has always been about solutions to problems/dualities that tend to become hardened orthodoxies and again appear to be unresolvable. They (thirdnesses) are the signature of wisdom/deeper understandings.

Yes the poem and your critique of neo-classical theory are beautifully and terrifyingly accurate. The question is how do we convince gross moralist Islamists to re-open the strait and stop pursuing their nuclear weapon ambitions? It seems to me that getting competitors to world dominance to ally themselves in order to convince them to do so is less realistic and less likely than finishing the already mostly accomplished job of the latter. Then offering an uber form of The Marshall Plan to the more rational Persian populace including democratizing the money system with a UBI, a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale and the rest of the new monetary and economic paradigm policy program I suggest in my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics. History tells us that Money and new applied ideas/paradigms are how things get done and progress takes place, and that avoiding such change is the route to disaster.

If you make $50k per year how would you like to be able to purchase $100k with that $50k? How would you like to get an even better deal when buying say a $500k house where you only pay the equivalent monthly payment of a $125k loan? Thats what you’re going to learn here today

I. Introducing the 50% Discount/Rebate at Retail Sale. A Paradigm Change in Economics and The Money System With A Single Policy

A. Transformation of chronic painfully erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation. Show the freshman algebra of the discount/rebate math on groceries, an automobile and a new house

B. Demonstration of the policy and Its effects: Doubling of everyone’s purchasing power and simultaneous potential doubling of demand for every commercial agents’ goods and services IOW the definition of good economic times

C. Integrates the normally contentious self interests of consumer and merchant thus it is the answer to the orthodoxies of both capitalism and socialism

D. Show them the math for a 60k EV and a $500k house

E. Show benefits are universal because everyone must and does participate in retail sale and how they are irresistible to both consumer and merchant

F. Introduce and demonstrate the concept of the mega paradigm

G. Show serendipitous nature of the new monetary and economic mega paradigm change and show that its biggest benefit isn’t monetary or economic at all, but psychological/spiritual

H. Finally and affirming the last insight that Gifting begets gratitude, here is the biggest insight of all: The concept behind every historical paradigm change is the natural philosophical concept of grace. Examples.

I. Conclude with repetition of economic and personal benefits

Rebuttal and critique of “Free” Market Theoretics as being a fetishized framework for complete freedom and hence a misnomer for what it actually is which is chaos because there is only freedom within known and enforced/enforceable barriers. Example of yelling Fire! in a theater and statement that economics and the money system are probably the only human systems that don’t have known and enforceable barriers. Libertarians mean well, I’m sure, but again their fetishization of free market theory into total and complete freedom is one of the biggest mental hurdles one needs to overcome in order to see the system as it actually is.

Rebuttal of claim that it will just result in higher inflation (using known and actually enforceable barriers. Also hand demonstartion of chaos, slight freedom with no reform or with palliative reforms and the fact that a paradigm change creates much greater freedom and benefit for everyone not just a self interested party or other minority

Rebuttal of Cynicism…So despite what I just showed you about how beneficial the two primary policies of the new monetary paradigm are for everyone and every economic agent individual and commercial…in the temporal universe that we all inhabit your answer is to not do anything…by not even trying? Thats cynicism, which is the long acculturated and mistaken intellectual disease of modernity…and I’m sorry, I’m sure cynics are otherwise good and decent individuals, but their cynicism is bullshit!!! Why? Because thats exctly what the powers that be want you to think and do…which is nothing.

Instead of cynicism I prefer to live my life as a very smart Italian guy named Antonio Gramsci advised who said “I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.” which means you will ALWAYS ACT TO BRING ABOUT POSITIVE CHANGE. Furthermore, if Antonio Gramsci was alive and heard of the policies I just gave you I believe he would say Eureka! I have finally discovered how to integrate the opposites of capitalism and socialism into a thirdness greater oneness called Wisdomics-Gracenomics that accomplishes the desired state of the Hegelian dialectic. Thesis, Antithesis and SYNTHESIS.

Why? Because retail sale is simultaneously the terminal summing point of cost and terminal ending point of the entire economic process where production exits the economy and becomes consumption. So even though the result of the policy would be a large increase in the money supply it isn’t inflationary but in fact is beneficially deflationary. Holy Shit Batman! Its a paradigm change in a single policy!

Rebuttal to: “Yeah, well what about if the merchant raises their prices before and/or after the rebate?” No, in order to qualify for the wildly beneficial and so irresistible rebate aspect of the policy (it doubles the potential demand for all of the merchant’s goods and services) the merchant must promise not to inflate more than 2% per annum and to maintain any previous discounts on goods and services…and if they cheat or don’t keep their word any revenue they may garner from such cheating will be taxed at a rate of at least 100%.

That creates free marketing where it didn’t exist before because there are presently no known and actually enforceable barriers in “free” market theoretics. (for instance greedflation, deception, hostile take overs etc. etc.) The 50% Discount/Rebate at retail sale establishes known and enforceable barriers and so also establishes ethics in economics where before commercial agents could yell Fire! in the theater of the economy and get away with it. And if you prefer a world where the “little thing” known as ethics doesn’t actually exist…you live on a different planet than the rest of us inhabit.

The concept of grace as in love in action and its multitudinous aspects is the concept behind every historical paradigm change. This is actually a much greater insight than grace (as in Gifting) being the concept behind the mega-paradigm change in economics and the money system. Why? Because all you have to do is look for and apply the relevant aspect(s) of grace to any system, body of knowledge or area of human endeavor…and you’ve discovered the new paradigm! Can’t miss, because grace is active/activism which means its relevant to the temporal universe and is also recognized as the superlative ethic by all of the world’s major wisdom traditions, so its about wisdom, i.e. depth of knowledge/knowing and so is completely and utterly personally relevant as well.

Finally, for all of the apparently powerful and energetic aspects of the cosmos, at the heart of physics the fact is particles/physical reality emerges from the zero point of energy the source of which is utterly powerful and dynamic (an aspect of grace) and so is a huge hint that at base the cosmos itself is actually in a state of grace…and all one really needs to do to experience grace is to “stand in its light.” This is mirrored in various meditative practices especially like in zen buddhist wall gazing where one’s focus is on the present moment (enabling a nascent awareness/integrative experience of one’s awareness and the electro-magnetic flux from zero point) and so becomes an awakening experience of grace.

Its the eureka! experience itself.

…is the paradigm changing mathematical and temporal universe theory of value.

Steve Hummel 03/26/2026

Because it integrates the normally opposed self interests of merchant and consumer by wildly benefiting both agents with the equal increases in both purchasing power (consumer) and demand for goods and services (merchant).

Its what will peacefully accomplish what Marx wanted (economic democracy and revolt of the bourgeoisie) and stabilize, rejuvenate and begin to bring ethics to capitalism by integrating the relevant aspect of the natural philosophical concept and highest human ethic AKA grace (and in this case Gifting) into its very purpose and everyday activity (the point of exchange which is retail sale).

Its the heart and soul of what I call Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

Consumers/workers and merchants/bourgeosie, unite!

Steve Hummel 03/26/2026

I heard Sen. Bookers call for grace as the solution to our deepening political and social antagonisms. I’ve been a student of the most progressive economists on the planet since the recession of 2008, and written a book entitled Wisdomics-Gracenomics with a single innovative policy that is a paradigm change in and of itself. I would love to have an opportunity to speak with Senator Booker or his staff about policy and answer any questions they may have. I’m as democratic and progressive as one can be, but I hasten to add that if the democrats don’t recognize the gracious monetary, economic and even personal power this policy can evoke that I’ll have to resort to pitching it to the republicans who I don’t trust not to bastardize it, but because they generally recognize power when they see it.