John David,

No I was responding to John Rawson. Sorry, should have been more specific.

I don’t believe I said I was the only philosopher here.

As for agendas, it’s getting much, much better here, but I’ve seen enough of the resistance to integrating ideas here and elsewhere that is a blatant clue that agendas are indeed in the works somehow and somewhere. I do make note of the fact that you were one of the first here with the courage to express openness to Social Credit ideas and policies without taint of invalidation or ridicule and I compliment you on the character that shows.

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@ John Rawson,

“No Steve, I have made the logical statement that competition gets weaker in “better times”. (It gets ferocious in “bad times”.) You meed to prove that it will not be zero under a S C regime.

That’s easy John. Competition in an acquisitive pursuit like a profit making economic system….is inherent. Grace only eliminates things that are inherently bad or evil which profit and competition are not. Enslavement to a dominating idea like debt and loan ONLY despite the fact that the idea of monetary grace as in gifting is the only truly workable and valid economic and monetary solution IS an inherent evil. The rest of imperfect Life the integrative and resolving aspect of Grace simply transforms.

So long as the BIG/Dividend is not financed by taxes and a
discount accompanies it (except for the rapidity of transformation to the economy of having a large deflationary discount) I don’t really care if the dividend is a smallish $400-500/mo. The immediate stable upturn of the economy combined with the increasing loss of aggregate incomes due to AI will awaken everyone to its necessity. That plus you get people accustomed to a dividend and regressive forces will never reverse it. Look at the incomplete reform of Social Security. They’ve been trying to eliminate it for 80 years to no avail.

But again, the implementation of the combined policies of dividend and discount is essential. The idea that businesses seeing a steady stream of additional demand coming will not arbitrarily raise their prices, if not immediately then soon thereafter, is sheer Keynesian half assed policy kant and will lead to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s like saying that just implementing a public banking system without a sovereign authority guided by policy mandates reflecting Grace will solve the problem. Of course it won’t. The ethical force/bulwark of the concept and policies of Grace are essential to avoiding corruption and the return of control to private finance.

That’s some excellent political analysis Mish. The only reason I gave Trump any consideration was because I thought, being an anti-establishment outsider, he might be open to monetary reform. I see less and less evidence that this is true.

Now if libertarians and Austrians want to get on the bandwagon with my price deflationary retail discount innovation of Social Credit policies that integrates Austrian economic intentions, and form a natural alliance with small to medium businesses and consumers both of which have an interest in there being more money in the hands of the consumer….why it’d be a movement.

Study and contemplate Grace, not ungraciousness, and when you have to or correctly decide to confront and handle ungraciousness integrate the experience immediately or immediately after you have gathered any experience or knowledge that adds depth and ethical resolve to yourself and your Life.

The ultimate economic efficiency and guarantor of a free flowing economy is a sustained and substantially discounted flow (as in 30-40% or more) of (rebated back to merchants) retail price deflation,  and that is accompanied by a relatively abundant universal dividend payment to individuals (which approaches a middle class level of income).  This reverses the present entropic reality of a scarcity of total individual incomes in simultaneous ratio to total costs/prices, and stabilizes a modern profit making economic system by creating a ratio where the flow of individual incomes continually and increasingly exceeds costs/prices and therefore creates an abundance “Gap”, a “higher Disequilibrium”  that brings immanent individual monetary and economic freedom, increasing free flowingness and stability to the system and a vector toward the evolution of money as a ticket for the distribution of production.