Like so many in our world, I am much too busy for sanity, so that I am stealing time even to write this.  What I am doing here is to outline the main ideas and then I plan to do a series of podcasts working through each idea and more.

As I have stated numerous times.  The knowledge and the means exist to create lasting prosperity.  If that is true, why is it not happening everywhere?  There are a number of reasons.

The knowledge is multidimensional and human beings don’t handle more than two dimensions very well.

There is lack of leadership, thinking and organizing.

Now to the main answers.

1. The right kinds of commerce create prosperity.
2. General prosperity happens when you have the right kinds of culture.
3. Commerce is about demand and supply.
4. There is more than enough demand in our world to create prosperity for the foreseeable future. The problem is how to distribute and plan the supply.
5. Supply is about production, which needs to be valued appropriately as do innovation, expertise and organization.
6. The role of money needs to be better understood and structured (surprise, surprise!); the velocity of money is key and that happens when more commerce is supported.
7. Exploitation and “gaming the system” need to be minimized, which normally means that smaller is better.
8. Government and corruption need to be minimized.
9. Freedom and equality are the dominant human values and with overlap of both values more than 95% of humans fundamentally agree.  In other words there is no real policy problem regarding implementation of those values.
10. The processes of getting to prosperity and maintaining it involves different systems.

All of the above can be thought through and implemented relatively quickly (15-20 years) to bring about prosperity.

The example of Singapore is the best one we have that demonstrates how policy can be implemented.  We have more knowledge and better technologies, so we can do significantly better than that example.

Jim Namaste
jmn AT uppnow.org

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Recent economic developments and Mr.  Obama’s address to Congress Wednesday have motivated me to do something with this web site which I abandoned for some time because I have been quite busy, to understate it, working on “real job creation.”

To get going I shall start with some general comments as per title of this post and then flesh these comments out ongoing in the coming days and weeks.

The Good:  Action is needed and it is needed quickly.  Some positive action is better than no action and Mr. Obama’s jobs plan pays for needed jobs.  It will have positive effects and, if executed well, will not be a significant waste of money.

The Bad:  The jobs plan extends the general ignorance of policy makers and politicians about the ways real job creation actually happens, as outlined on this web site.  The jobs plan does not directly address job creation in the fastest, most efficient way.

The Ugly:  Because the jobs plan does not go far enough in dealing directly and fundamentally with issues of commerce and prosperity, the dangers that exist underneath the U.S. and world’s economies will persist and likely explode sooner than anybody wants.

Something must be done about the Ugly and it must be done now, to repeat Mr. Obama’s repeated calls for action.

jmn

Real Job Creation

Winning the Economic Game: Defense or Offense, part 1.

Winning the Economic Policy Formation and Implementation Game: Defense or Offense, part 2.