The proof of this is the fact that if the US or Britain or any other major nation were forced into war any thought of not financing it would be derided as idiotic if not unpatriotic.

We are actually setting ourselves up for a major war with the lingering economic stagnation we see everywhere. What we need to do is not only recognize this, but also recognize that war is not the answer to our economic woes, especially in an era of smart and devastatingly destructive weaponry. In fact the way to not only prevent war but also to prevent its tendency is to realize that actually free and prosperous people are not nearly as inclined to be manipulated by powers that benefit from war…and so imminent individual economic freedom and continuing systemic economic free flowingness are the real goals economists must advocate, and a universal dividend sufficient to enable an adult individual a near middle class level of lifestyle coupled with a proactively price deflationary discount at retail sale by merchants that is in turn rebated back to participating merchants by a monetary authority….are the specific policies immediately necessary.

Economists need to brush past such considerations as gradualism, worries about idleness and terminally habitual, obsessive and short sighted “solutions” like employment.

Gradualism is the disguise that enslaving forces use to live another day. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” The world evermore surely hurtles toward increasing conflict and war. The rhyming of long term economic down turn and/or stagnation with humanity’s history of conflict is too obvious and too unimaginably destructive today for us to fall for the idea of half measures or lengthy step by step by backward step reform. The time to act is now, and the actions to be taken are the specific policies that will effect individual freedom and systemic free flowingness!

Man is a purpose driven animal, and leisure is not idleness, but rather self determined and attentive activity. Today, even in an increasingly onerous economic system better than 90% of us manage to find sufficient positive and constructive purpose to avoid incarceration.  Instead of people being required to do something the great majority of which they didn’t actually want to do, and that because of innovation and artificial intelligence was in the very near future disruptively even less and less available to them, if individuals were themselves able to determine what they wanted to do as work for pay or simply as several of the myriad other worthwhile purposes other than employment…..how much more free and joyous and creative could such a society be! Employment is not the only, or now even the most available purpose of economics and economic theory, let alone of Life. Economists and the other leaders within nations must work together to help acculturate individuals to their true freedom of choice of life’s purposes which will broaden their energy of hope, compassion and creativity instead of squashing same into a failed experiment like homo economicus.

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Steve Hummel

06/29/2016