It’s About Commerce and Culture, Stupid

I have started to work through in more detail what is required to have prosperity.  As you can imagine it is not that simple, but neither is it that difficult.

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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