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The Perfect World

Let us regain the lost and forgotten dignity of man.
In this world you have to pay for every basic right, except the right to produce offspring.
The right to food and shelter.
The right to fairness and justice.
The right to education and healthcare.
You have to pay for all these basic, inalienable rights.
But you do not have to pay for the right to reproduce.
Is food, shelter, fairness, justice, education or healthcare worth more than the life of a human being?
Must we not pay for a human being when we pay for everything else?
Must we not require by law, a payment for bringing a new human into the world?

This is the salvation of humanity. There is no other way for humanity to be truly saved from suffering or total extinction. Basic financial capability must be a legal requirement to become a parent in every country. For the elimination of inequalities, for the abolition of crime, for the sustainability of progress and for the protection of the environment, there is no other solution.

God seems to think that suffering has a purpose. Well, I don’t. No one has to suffer. Suffering is not needed anymore. Suffering is dispensable. Suffering can end now. We can live within our means so that we don’t have to fight with one another for getting what we need and we can use technology to do the tough work that absolutely cannot be avoided.

In the perfect world, everyone will be born into households that take care of food, shelter and education up to an age (ideally 25 yrs) when the person becomes useful to society and has the rest of his or her livelihood secured. People will be freer to choose the type of work they desire, because there is no excess of manpower in any field because of a controlled population. Controlled in numbers and secured in living standards.

Crime will be effectively contained and will be minimal because there is far less need to commit crime. People will be able to both avoid situations where they are forced to commit a crime and be able to afford better security for themselves so as to prevent a successful crime. People will be more interested in enjoying their life rather than being driven to amass money, since the basic necessities of life will be secured by law. Also, existing laws would be better enforced since the government will have enough resources to do so due to a self-sustaining population.

Environmental safety standards will be upheld and maintained because such standards have become affordable and the great overload of demand on natural resources has vanished and been replaced instead by a state of excess natural resources and time, giving nature the precious time it needs to repair, regenerate and replace used and depleted resources.

Child labor or abuse will be better contained by the laws securing children and preventing abuse being effectively enforced. The laws would be better enforced because of the transparency that would be the result of the child’s better access to education, the media and government agencies who will, in turn be better equipped to both intervene and to take action.

The government will be equipped to enforce laws protecting the people who are weak or underprivileged in any manner because a poor people means a poor, cash-starved, resource-stripped, debt-ridden government, while a rich or prosperous people means a prosperous, well-equipped government with resources to spare. This government will find itself capable enough to protect your rights. We will not be left helpless when we are cheated. We won’t be harassed because the simple penalty for harassment, however small, will be imposed on the offender through law by a capable and effective government which can spare the necessary resources and it will be seen to it that he or she pays the price for harassing you in any manner.

Taxes could be eliminated as the government prospers with the people. Any and all forms of government control and regulation could be scrapped gradually as the need for it disappears. That government is best which governs least. We finally have that government which governs the least.

Machines or robots could be made to perform manual labor that’s now being done by humans since such technology would become more affordable to more people and humans would not be in a position where heavy labor is the only option available to earn a living. There will be a dearth of manpower since humans will only work to obtain extra luxuries, comforts or conveniences because law would secure his basic survival from birth to death before his birth. He would not need to work to survive. Hence, robots and machines would have to be developed to do painstaking, injurious or monotonous work that humans grumblingly do today.

Pollution of all kinds will be dramatically minimized, as most people would be affluent enough to switch to non-polluting lifestyles. Non-polluting vehicles, non-polluting kitchens, solar/wind/hydroelectric energy, efficient waste disposal, recycling of waste material, etc. which are affordable in the developed countries today, could become the norm throughout the world if all people are affluent enough to sustain such a lifestyle. People will live longer because they can afford healthier lifestyles and quality healthcare. Noise pollution would be reduced to a minimum because people would be more educated about it and prosperous enough to substitute the causes of it

In the perfect world, there would be joy and pleasure everywhere and in everyone’s life. Technology will simplify life and please all people at all times. There will be contentment because people will not have to work for survival. People will only work to get luxuries or technologies that are beyond simple survival. Survival will not be threatened by any factor. Survival will be guaranteed and no one will fear that he or she may starve or die of thirst tomorrow due to a lack of money.

Animals will be protected because the government will be able to afford enforcement of animal protection laws since resources and money have been freed up for that purpose. Besides that, a self-sustaining human population would not have the pressing need to encroach upon or destroy animal habitat or wildlife.

When everyone is born into a reasonable level of financial capability, the value of the human being in general will rise. On an average, more money will be spent on a human being in all matters. The life, desires, feelings, thoughts and wishes of all humans will be more easily recognized and fulfilled. Everyone will finally have the freedom and security required to live and act in tune with their natural selves. Self-expression would be more aptly rewarded and virtues would be appropriately honored.

All forms of escapism from life harmful to health and well-being would gradually cease to exist, as people would be more contented with life. Drinking, smoking, drugs, etc. as forms of addiction would end. People will still be involved in such lifestyles, but not to the point that it ruins their health or finances. More rewarding pastimes will be dearer and intrinsic to the people. Habits leading to addiction would be felt to be unnecessary as less injurious past times would be the learned natural inclination and favored activity of the people.

Religious, political or ideological fanaticism harmful to oneself or others would fade into oblivion as the opportunities to enjoy life will be more available and in plenty. People will find themselves recognized and respected without having to be a fanatic about anything. Inequality and violence that spur a person towards fanaticism would be vastly reduced. Hence, all fanatical institutions would become less powerful and therefore less dangerous to society.

The economy will not suffer due to stagnation of population growth because purchasing power previously distributed unevenly among many will be concentrated more evenly in the hands of a few. Therefore, lower average individual purchasing power will be replaced by higher average individual purchasing power, while the national purchasing power remains the same.

When manpower is scarce, machinery will have to replace manpower, which will further reduce the cost of production, while improving the quality of it. If people do not work if not paid well enough, we might think that the cost of necessities will rise, but in fact, the production of basic necessities was among the first of industrial processes to be mechanized and therefore is already quite well-mechanized today, making human labor quite dispensable and comparatively expensive. Hence, continuing to use human labor to produce the basic necessities of life will only make the basic necessities of life more expensive. Using the technological advancements instead, would make the necessities of life cheaper. So, we do not have to worry that inflation will make useless the money deposit made by the parents to secure the basic necessities of the child’s entire lifespan. In depositing the money and securing the basic life-necessities of their children, the people of the world have made manual labor expensive and unavailable, hence making a profitable shift to mechanization unhindered and effortless.

Once all people do not have to work for a living, only those who wish to become a parent or acquire a luxury will work. But who will provide such intermittent employment? The existing industrial machinery and business environment would not go away in a single day. They will continue to exist, but be far more mechanized, causing human intervention to be minimal. Therefore, a shortage of human labor would aid the economy through mechanization and consequent improved standards of production. People who want to amass money for luxuries or other purposes will still be in plenty and they will continue the business and economy of today. They will find ingenious ways to amass money and enhance the economy, just as they do today. The only change that will have happened is that people no longer work to secure the basic necessities of life; they will continue to work for everything else they desire, just as we do today. The chief difference is: they work because they want to work, not because they are forced to secure their livelihood.

The End of Work

Work will, in general become far more pleasant and comfortable, and form a much lesser part of people’s lives. Life from birth to death will be secured. It will therefore become possible to do away with work altogether for every member of humanity and still ensure basic survival. In the perfect world, people will have to be paid well enough to work because their basic survival would already be secured, whether they work or not. People will work only if they are paid enough and/or given a work they like to do or find interesting. At last, the worker shall be the true boss who dictates the terms.

It is possible for us to secure the basic survival of all human beings from birth to death before he or she is born. The need to work to survive should not exist. What if a person is born handicapped or falls sick? Does he or she deserve to have the necessities of life cut off from reaching him or her if such a thing happens, since they cannot work anymore? On the contrary, it is when such a thing happens that the necessities of life are most needed, in addition to which medicine and healthcare are also required to cure the person of sickness or disease. We cannot secure the latter without first securing the former. No, the necessities of life ought to be secured from birth to death, no matter what else. Whether a person is handicapped or diseased or not, he or she nevertheless deserves to have his or her basic necessities of life secured from birth to death, because that would be the proper respectable treatment of every new human being born into the world. It is only for extra luxuries or comforts that a person be forced to work. Forcing a person to work for his basic survival is demeaning and derogatory to human dignity and self-respect. It is akin to telling him that he should not have been born, but now that he has been born, if he wants to live, he must work. Man is lowered in dignity when he has to work for his survival. We are like trains that will blow up if it goes below 50 miles/hour. People might think that if no one has to work for survival, everyone’s going to be lazy, useless people. That may or may not be true, but is the alternative, survival of only the fit, causing masses of poverty and suffering on one hand and billionaires on the other, a better solution?

If we ensure that children have their first five years of life financially secured for their basic survival without having to work, we can later on extend that time span to 10, 15, 20, 25 years. It is because we do not do that, that even children are having to work to survive in today’s world. Passing laws against child labor or writing essays condemning it is ineffective and foolish. When we have reached the point when the first 25 years of a person’s life has to be secured right before he or she is born, we still not ought to stop. Though the person would most likely have learnt some trade or skill by then to support himself or herself for the rest of his or her life, basic survival cannot be left to his or her ability to work or not. Basic survival from birth to death ought to be financially secured, and should not be at the mercy of any other external factor. At any time in life a person should have to work only to obtain the luxuries, comforts or conveniences one aspires for in regards to his wishes, dreams or personal projects.

To do this, we first ensure that basic financial capability is required by law to become a parent, i.e., to produce offspring. When this law has been effectively implemented, no person will be born into a poor family, and almost everyone will be provided with the right shelter and education to support themselves till death. Next, we ensure effective implementation of this law, so that no one is left out and everyone will be provided with the right shelter and education to support themselves till death. After a number of years, the law will have been implemented well enough to enable every citizen to deposit a certain fixed amount of money, which can secure the indispensable bare necessities of life for their offspring from birth to death. All that remains is to require that amount of money as a deposit to secure the basic necessities of life, from the parents, by law, before the birth of every child. A deposit that will be regulated and channeled by society or government to ensure that 60-100 years of basic life necessities are provided in a timely manner for the offspring, hence securing his or her entire lifespan before birth. Behold, the perfect world!

Imagine a world where the basic necessities of life for a 100 years are ready for every newborn human. That person would not have to work a single day in his life. It would depend on how many basic necessities of life are secured. If it were just food and water, the person would have to work for shelter and clothing. If all the basic necessities of life: food, water, shelter and clothing are provided for every human being throughout his life, without him having to work for it, that would be the perfect society. This huge fault of society, one that we have learnt not to question, is that one ought to work to live. Such a tenet or statement is a slap in the face of human dignity. If the statement was, “One ought to work to get luxuries in life,” that would sound a whole lot more reasonable. Otherwise, food, water, shelter and clothing would become luxuries, which they are not. They are necessities, not luxuries. Society should realize the difference between necessities and luxuries. If everything is a luxury, one has to work for everything in life, which is the case today. If everything is a necessity, one ought not to have to work for anything in life. Neither is true. Neither can be true. But we follow the former. Everything is not a luxury. Everything is not a necessity, either. Some are necessities, like food, water, clothing and shelter while the rest are luxuries. The air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink and the shelter we live in should never become luxuries, as these are all necessities. If it is not ensured that these are present for a person who is to be born into the world, then these necessities become luxuries for him, he will have to pay for them and consequently his survival is under threat if he does not do what society requires of him or is incapable of doing it. One should therefore not have to work to obtain the basic necessities of survival.

Today, one has to work for everything in life. Nothing is free. The only exception is the air we breathe. But with the ever-increasing pollution, clean air to breathe will become a luxury and will be packaged and sold in future. Just like food, drinking water, clothing and shelter. Once upon a time all these used to be free. But now, all the necessities of life are fast turning into luxuries. Everything has a price tag except the human being. Everything becomes a luxury except a human being. Anyone can have a human being without paying for it. So, no one values a human being. Houses, cars, gadgets, food and shelter will be valued over and above a human because they have a price tag while a human being does not. A human being has to create value for himself by utilizing his talents or capital or skills handed over to him in a manner suiting the requirements of society. Only then he acquires a price tag. Even then his price tag ultimately depends on how much has been handed over to him, in the form of talent, capital or skill, and therefore can be either too high or too low. If he has his basic life necessities secured for his entire lifespan before his birth, his price is reasonably high and he can’t be bought cheap. He will work only if his employer pays him enough to enable him to get some luxury in life that he aspires for. Even if he doesn’t work, he has nothing to fear because his basic necessities for survival will always be available to him. This would happen only if his parents are required to pay for his entire supply of basic necessities of life before his birth. Besides not having to work, this individual will also be able to fully express his individuality, which is not possible in today’s world because one’s unsecured survival is threatened in doing so. But this individual’s survival will not be threatened, no matter what he does or doesn’t do, since it has already been secured before his birth.

The End of Superficiality

Why do people lie? Why do people cheat? Why do we all pretend to be that which we are not? The reason – if we fail to live up to what’s expected of us, our very survival is at risk. What we truly are and other people’s perception of us matters.

Now, imagine a world where everyone’s survival is secured. Would people and organizations go to the lengths they go to today to convince you of their worth? Would they have to? No, they wouldn’t have to, but they may want to. But certainly, they wouldn’t have to. There is the difference. People have no choice in today’s world – they have to meet or exceed standards, good or bad. They cannot relax and be themselves. But when survival is secured – you don’t have to bother what the other person thinks. You can truly say, for the first time in history, “I don’t give a damn what you think.”

People would try to cheat less often, people would get cheated less often. You would want to cheat less often, you would be falsely impressed less often. Not just would everyone be less dependent on what others think of them, others wouldn’t be bothered about who you really are since their life too, is secured and there is nothing you can do to upset their lives in any manner. Even if you thought the worst of someone, it’s your opinion and you are entitled to have any opinion about anybody, just like everyone else, but you are not entitled to act upon that opinion so as to disrupt that person’s life in the least, no matter who you are, just like everyone else.

Even if your opinion is true and that someone truly is the worst person ever, it would make no difference to that person’s life. He or she is the worst – but no one, absolutely no one has the right to disrupt his or her life, just as that worst person is unable to disrupt anyone else’s life. Such a world, a truly fair and unsuperficial world would come into existence if parents were required by law to pay for an entire lifespan of the offspring’s basic needs and the government or some other agency gave back that money in equally divided amounts, at equal intervals of time, throughout the offspring’s lifespan.

A world where you are accepted for who you are. A world where being weak is as good as being strong. A world where being beautiful is as good as being ugly. A world where you are who you are and no one else.

A world where it does not matter if you are stupid or ignorant. A world where the dumb, deaf, stupid and ignorant are equal to the able, agile, learned and successful. A world where the strong of today are unable to dominate or exploit the comparatively weaker. A world where the beautiful and prosperous aren’t admired and respected any more than the ugly and struggling. You have a right to be anyone or anything, as long as you do not infringe upon the rights of others to be anyone or anything. If you do, you have to stop. You must be stopped. But your right to be who you were born as – dumb, deaf, ignorant, stupid, able, agile, learned, beautiful, ugly, rich or poor – will be yours. You can be any of those things and remain so throughout your life, without having to change into something else so as to meet your survival needs. You can survive without being pressured by anyone to change who you are. No one would see any benefit in changing who you are in a world where the strong, talented, knowledgeable, beautiful or prosperous cannot exploit those who are not so. Your unique identity would remain untouched, treated as sacred and as precious as the identity of the rich and famous gets to be treated today. All these are things thought of as impossible, but as you can see, they are not so.

The End of Racism

This is a world wired to your ability to contribute. We are a people wired to contribute. Our society, our progress, our crises - are all products of such a system. A system wired to contribute. If you are a cute and pretty baby, you make people happy, give them pleasure, and that’s a contribution. If you can sing or dance, you make people happy, that’s a contribution. If you have any such abilities with which you can contribute, you are considered valuable. Is it any different at adulthood? Your ability to contribute determines your value.

If we truly want to wipe out racism, we ought to realize that it is just another name for color-preference. If blue is your favorite color, who am I to call you racist? People will have preferences. People have a right to have preferences. To dislike certain people. To like certain races. To dislike certain races. Or colors. Or anything else.

Racism is not the problem. The problem is people being valued on how much they can contribute. The problem is that your value depends on your ability to contribute. Your value should not depend on your ability to contribute, don’t you think? As a human being, you have a certain innate value, whether you can contribute or not. Instead of a society where it is ensured that everyone is treated with a certain minimum value, we have a free-for-all system where people’s ability to contribute determines their value and therefore if they are perceived to have no ability to contribute, they have no value at all and hence are treated below the value of a human being, i.e., as if they were animals. All the suffering in the world can be seen as the instances when people don’t have the ability to contribute or are perceived to be so and hence are treated as valueless by society and consequently end up living below the status of a human being. Large chunks of humanity do not have the ability to contribute usefully or are perceived to be so and hence, they are considered valueless by society.

Technology was meant to ease human suffering, but since it can contribute in a better way, the contributing power of masses of human beings becomes meager by comparison. They become valueless, and in a system where human value is determined by your ability to contribute, are treated below the status of a human being. Those in the possession of such technology are treated many times over the status of a human being since they are contributing (with the help of technology) many times over the ability of an average human being.

Imagine a world where your ability to contribute does not matter at all. Is it possible? We are drawn to the people and things that give us something, contribute. So it will always matter. But suppose all your needs from birth to death: food, shelter, clothing, sanitation, education - are paid for before you are born. And suppose it is the same for everyone else. Everyone (including you) would not be looking out for ways fulfill their needs and desires – they would already be taken care of. No one would care about other people’s ability to contribute. If they want more than what has been paid for before their birth, then they would look around to see as to who can contribute to their happiness. If not, they won’t. And if they don’t, there ends racism, classism, sexism – all forms of biased treatment. Actually there ends your power to treat others in a biased manner, because others’ needs would already be taken care of.

What if the majority of the population is racist in one way or another (because they dislike people of a certain kind – race, color, sex; certainly no one likes everyone, or everything for that matter)? They still cannot hurt the people they dislike or disapprove of. The solution is not to punish the offenders but to empower the offended so that none can offend them. To destroy the offender’s power to offend by empowering the offended. At childhood is one most weak. Most likely to be offended, hurt, the effects of which magnify into adulthood. If childhood is empowered, the roots of all social ills will never form in society. And we can build a perfect world.

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