Dividend and Discount: Imagine

Everyone needs to imagine receiving $1500-2000 per month for the entirety of their adult life (18 years of age and over). They also need to imagine that it is tax free and given over and above whatever they might make via employment.

Students and parents need to imagine their children receiving this continuous dividend while they attend college/post secondary education of their choice.

Businessmen need to imagine how such a Dividend will guarantee a continuously adequate amount of actually available individual income to purchase their products and services. Businesses also need to imagine how implementing this Dividend would mean the elimination of taxes they pay for unemployment insurance, welfare and eventually also Social Security because they would immediately become redundant. Employees of course need to imagine not having to pay these taxes as well.

Progressive theorists need to imagine the incredibly increased economic democracy and freedom from domination by market forces that such a policy would immediately effect.

Conservative and Libertarian theorists need to imagine the incredible cost savings occurring as a result of eliminating the bureaucracies associated with welfare, unemployment and Social Security.

Politicians need to imagine the satisfaction of their constituents with these policies…and their dissatisfaction at not having them or losing them.

Clergy and other helping professionals, and all individuals concerned about values need to imagine how much more time they and their clients will have to teach/model/learn truly adult, responsible, gracious and wise values and behaviors.

Historians and the general populace both need to recognize that it was, much more often than not, the individual who did not have the constraints of worrying about where their next meal was coming from that the advancements of society originated from, and also that despite the onerousness which has characterized economic life for centuries that the overwhelming number of individuals were able to integrate a sense of constructive purpose into their lives, and increasingly so if they incorporated Wisdom, i.e. an integrative means of actually looking at their environment and life.

And so each and every individual needs to imagine the joyous, abundant and freeing results of what a society and a civilization truly based on the aspects and policies of the pinnacle of Wisdom, Grace and graciousness, would enable.

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