Within our contemporary
capitalist culture, the endless need for money, the need to get ahead, the desire to
be rich, the need to think about one's future, the
availability of people with spare cash, and the fact that everyone has
to economically fend for themselves serves to create an array of social
problems (as listed in the title of this web page).
To stop these social
problems, the AEM has three strategies, aside from being an Egalitarian
society.
- We remove all cash
from the society, and instead provide everybody with a consumer card,
with which we buy or rent everything. Other than the federal
treasury, nobody can add money to your consumer card account, which
makes it impossible to transfer money from one person's account into
another.
- Because the Egalitarian state owns all
businesses, and because only the treasury can deposit money into
your account, everybody can only buy or rent from
the state (by using their consumer
cards), and everyone can only sell to, or stop renting from the
state.
- Nobody can acquire money
other than by working for it (unless one is receiving social
security). Therefore, there is no credit
system, no interest on savings, no investment schemes, no gambling, and no
inheritance (See our 'The Capitalist
Scam' (Part 1) page for an explanation about why we regard
inheritance as a form of corruption that serves to keep rich families rich,
and poor families poor, and also why it is inappropriate within a
capitalist society). In an Egalitarian society, these
money-making quests will not be
necessary.
These three strategies
make it impossible for anybody to receive money from anybody else or to
give money to anybody else, which makes it impossible for anybody to....
- blackmail individuals for money,
- corrupt individuals or governments with money,
- operate
black-markets,
- receive protection money,
- operate organised crime,
- sell illegal drugs and
other contraband,
- gamble
for money,
- remain in the country unseen as an
illegal immigrant,
- operate slave prostitution rackets,
- swindle people, and
- earn black money (i.e. earnings that
are not declared).
It also makes it impossible to steal
money, and even if one could steal cash, there are no businesses that accept cash, which
makes cash useless and worthless within the AEM's Egalitarian
society.
If you have read our 'The
Installation of the AEM's Egalitarian Constitution will be Relatively
Painless for Everybody' web page, you will also be aware that the
state intends to provide addicts of illegal drugs with their substances,
so that the illegal drug trade can't operate and continue to develop
further (so all existing addicts can breath a sigh of relief).
Further, within our
current capitalist culture, there are many people running scams,
overcharging, selling shoddy or substandard products and services, and
charging people for things that don't need fixing. And more often than not, it is left up to the
individual to pay for legal services in an attempt to recoup one's
loses, which is why many people are deterred from doing so, especially
when they have no guarantee that they are going to win their legal
battle. First, in the AEM's Egalitarian society, there is no incentive
for anyone to overcharge anybody anymore, or to make people pay for
repairs that they don't need, because one will receive
the same pay no matter how much one charges, repairs, or replaces.
Secondly, should these practices still occur to some extent, it is the
state that will be ripped-off and not the individual because most
re-usable items are owned by the state and only rented by individuals. Therefore, it
would be the state who needs to take legal
action, not the individual. Thirdly, all products and services, along with the materials
needed, are
provided by the state, which means that
there is no incentive for those workers who provide these services to
cut corners or to skimp on materials in an attempt to reduce their
costs, because it is not their cost to bare. Also, the state has no incentive to rip you off either because if
you are being ripped off, then so is the Head of State, the Leader of
the Government, their families, and everybody else, because everybody
has to pay the same prices that you do, while receiving the same wage
that you do.
Because the state is able to deduct money
for our expenses from our bank accounts, it becomes impossible to renege
on one economic commitment to such thing as raising a child or paying
off a fine.
Another source of
economic heartbreak within our capitalist society, which is often
responsible for average people losing tens of thousands of dollars, is
created by the endless quest to get ahead and the need to think ahead in
relation to being economically comfortable in one's old age. These
schemes are all about making money from money, which is why they
usually serve to advantage people who are wealthy (i.e. the more money
one possesses, the more money one can make from that money, which is why
these schemes were devised). Such
schemes include, receiving interest on your savings, superannuation
schemes, investing your money in the share market, the futures market, or some
other (often high-risk) venture or business. In the AEM's Egalitarian
society, getting ahead and worrying about your economic future become
redundant issues. That is, we don't want you to possess more wealth than
other people, and we take as much care of you in your old age as we do
with the Head of State in his/her old age. Therefore, there is no need
for people to get ahead and therefore, there is no reason to invest
money in anything, and the state doesn't need for you to invest in
anything. As such, these schemes will no longer be available. And this
is why we make it impossible for anybody to make money from money, or to
acquire money in any other way, other than by working for the state. And
by only possessing a consumer card, and because one can only buy or rent
from the state, it is impossible to make money from money no matter what
one does. And because you no longer need to concern yourself with these
money issues, you will no longer need inheritance. Last, but not least, these schemes are another
thriving source of money/property crime, and these crimes can also occur no longer.
How easy was that to stop
these social problems that are endemic within our capitalist society?
Not only that, we stop all these social problems for next to nothing,
and save the country billions of dollars each year, and we also save $20 - $30 Billion (after tax),
which is the profit that the banking and finance industries suck from Australians
each year.
In the AEM's Egalitarian society, you will never need to waste
any more
of your time, brains, and energy plotting and scheming about how to
acquire more money, and neither will those people who would
otherwise be prepared to be unscrupulous and/or ruthless. You will no longer
be fighting to survive in our civil economic war
(i.e. we have reached civil economic peacetime).
Also, having no taxes stops tax
fraud and the need for a personal accountant and the entire tax
department.
