«Translation of what I said in 4cf7ca01.9652%mountaingate@k...» - cosmichistory @ ウィキ

[This was originally a reply to "M.M" <michio@k...> in a discussion on Prout and some other options. I have translated it into English upon his request.]

If it looked like a big problem to you, M.M, you could go as far back as Hegel and remove him off your path of philosophical development. You could, of course, add to Hegel as well.

Likewise, where Sarkar and Batra have missed something, we can add things in. If you add basic income or negative income tax to Prout, it will be free from the biggest defect it currently has.

No economic philosophy will make its way toward social implementation without providing carefully worked-out compensational policies. Few Proutists have understood it yet.

In the process of Prout implementation, society changes and this means some people will be driven out of their positions. For example, military-related workers and institutional investors will decrease in number. And there will be fewer salespeople in those sectors, too. A shrinking field means a fiercer competition. Some will have to give up their career and work elsewhere.

And yet if the basic income or the negative income tax should be provided here, each worker will be able to be trained or re-educated and keep up their efforts to re-enter the competition until they feel they have fully done what they can and be able to accept the outcome, be it a success or not.

Such compensational policies are especially essential in putting into practice policies of explicitly planned economy. People usually accept a shift in their career as part of reality in life if it has been caused by a defeat in free competition. But a shift in career caused by reason of someone's philosophy or policies is quite unacceptable.

(I live on trading stocks. Should the Prout implementation reach 100% and all production be achieved through cooperative associations, my income will drop to zero. On that very day, without a basic income or negative income tax system implemented side by side along the Prout systems, I will be forced to work on a job that some Prout organizers have chosen against my will. In such a case, I will be much less happy as I don't have employee fitness and aptidude.)