Underlying all of the problems and machinations you enumerate is Finance’s monopolistic monetary paradigm of Debt Only as in Burden To Repay and as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of new money. There is indeed lots of blame to go around, but your former incarnation as an advocate of Social Credit was actually a more fruitful path.

All C.H. Douglas’ monetary reform policy at retail sale needed was the upgrade from excellent reform to a paradigm change in a single policy with a large percentage discount/rebate at that point instead of merely trying and failing to conquer inflation with a 2-3% compensation.

Neither domination nor covert manipulation is the answer no matter from which side it originates or ends up at, and of course war is never the progressive answer. The paradigm of Debt Only keeps all of the non-survival things you write about here. Thats why Monetary Grace As In Gifting is necessary.

I would be happy to send you a copy of my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics: The Monetary Paradigm and Its Policies. https://www.amazon.com/Wisdomics-Gracenomics-New-Monetary-Paradigm-Policies-ebook/dp/B0C49B9PX7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1552358772&sr=1-1-catcorr

TV: Off topic and self-promoting.
Be ashamed because these are serious matters.
We ain’t selling Girl Scout Cookies.
Steve, you’re way smarter than this.
But I guess Kissingass (Christmas) is only 90 days away.

Me: Awakening people to the most underlying problem that humanity faces (the human civilization long monopolistic monetary paradigm) is never off topic. You want to vouch safe peace? Then end the historicaly verifiable and deepest reasons that empires have gone to war, namely the monetary paradigm of Debt Only has always guaranted the de-stabilization of their domestic economies with the accumulation of PRIVATE debt. This of course then makes it easy for such empires’ oligarchs to make war on their neighbors in the vain hope that stealing their assets will re-stabilize the invader’s domestic economies. ALL present empires are afflicted by both oligarchy and unconsciousness of the new monetary paradigm and its specific policies.

Self promotion in the pursuit of the solution to the deepest problem preventing peace is not an unethical action.

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Me: Capitalism and socialism are just the two sides of a dualism, and Dualism is the very bloody curse word of history and of human thought. Why? Because Dualism is the expression of orthodoxy and its almost inevitable mental result of ego which leads to lots of argumentation but generally almost zero positive temporal universe result. Its static when action is desparately needed…like now.

What we need is trinity/unity/oneness/dynamic integrative process. Consult Hegel’s dialectic of thesis, antithesis and most importantly synthesis. The third way has always been a signature of Wisdom and the pinnacle concept of Wisdom according to all of the world’s wisdom traditions is graciousness as in love in action. Its why I titled my book Wisdomics-Gracenomics. Wisdom is thirdness greater oneness and the natural philosophical concept of grace’s mental attitude and goal. Its the active form of love so it goes somewhere other than egotistical argumentation around capitalism and socialism…that is a thirdness/synthesis like Wisdomics-Gracenomics.

TV: Your foundational assumptions are generally correct, but these are structural problems that will not be solved at the retail counter.

Me: Oh but it will…along with the entirety of the new monetary paradigm program. Why is this? Because:

1) Accounting is the most temporal universe anchoring discipline that humanity has ever invented

2) Private Finance utilizes accounting/equal debits and credits that sum to zero to enforce the temporal universe reality of its monopoly monetary paradigm of Debt Only…and using the same accounting operations to integrate the new paradigm of Gifting into the economy at strategic points in the economic process…will GRACIOUSLY ENFORCE that reality because:

3) Everyone participates in retail sale making it the single aggregative/macro-economic point in the entire economic process

4) Thus a 50% Discount to the consumer at retail sale all of which is rebated back to the merchant granting it to the consumer by The FED or other monetary authority mandated to do so and thus makes them whole on their FULL AND ENTIRE PRICE and:

a) immediately doubles everyone’s purchasing power

b) forever ends inflation by implementing BENEFICIAL price and asset DEFLATION. Is your mind blown yet?

c) potentially doubles the demand for every enterprise’s goods and services so its REEEEALY good for enterpise so it actually rejuvenates profit-making economic systems and ACCOMPLISHES what Marx mistakenly thought would result in “the revolt of the bourgeosie” namely an offer that enterprise cannot refuse because it is so good for them and enables them to wildly benefit by getting the real and deepest problem of Private Finance’s MONOPOLY paradigm off their backs just as much it does everyone else. Oh, the irony that new paradigms effect!