Coopetysm’s Mission Statement

Quest: the optimal government/citizen interface.
Coopetysm: Maximally Civilised Government
Vision

Vision: ‘Universal sustainable stability-prosperity optimisation’.

This vision requires optimising 5 domains – i.e. it requires optimising the SEE–in–G domains:

  1. Socio – i.e. citizen-specific such as mental-health
  2. Econo – a subset of the Socio- as, notwithstanding international trade, it is by citizens for citizens
  3. Enviro-international
  4. Enviro-natural
  5. Government-budget.

(SEE–in–G: Socio-Econo-Enviro-[international/natural]-Government-budget.)

However, for a nation to optimise its SEE-in-G outcomes, it has just 3 tools (the SHOT tools) – i.e.:

  1. Science – generalised understandings of nature (from physics to psychology)
  2. Human-Organisation
  3. Technology.

(SHOT: Science, Human-Organisation & Technology)

Of these 3, the most important is Human-Organisation, which includes everything from families to the economy to our health-system & educational institutions to businesses & not-for-profits to government.

Mission

Mission: A government/citizen infrastructural interface that achieves, at the national-level, ‘universal sustainable stability-prosperity optimisation’ via maximising citizens’ ‘societally-contributive self-actualisation’.

Core Values

Core Values: particularly amongst citizens:

  1. Minimise unnecessary suffering
  2. Maximise freedom, opportunity & aspiration
  3. Optimise interaction.
Strategy

Strategy: Coopetytion-maximising governance (Coopetysm) as the means of optimising ‘The National Cycle’s’ ‘citizens’ interaction’.

Coopetytion is defined as:

‘the catalysing of Coopetition’

in which

Coopetition is, ‘Cooperation first & foremost and, within that context, Competition as the treasured second.’

Thus, Coopetytion is:

‘the catalysing of Cooperation first & foremost and Competition as the treasured second.’

In nature – from bacteria to sentient-animals – Coopetytion is the default governing principle for all groups, which means it’s a principle of Science, and its supreme formation is a ‘society’.

In conscious-animals, Coopetytion may be termed, ‘natural-morality’.

In human affairs, Coopetytion is pertinent to Human-Organisation – i.e. Human-Organisation is optimised when it’s optimally Coopetyve.

And, while humans have a degree of choice as to whether (and, to what degree) to behave Coopetively/anti-Coopetively, the systems they are subject to play an outsized role on their thinking and behaviour.

These thinking and behaviour swaying systems include:

  1. Culture
  2. Customs
  3. Moralities
  4. Law
  5. Government/bureaucracy.

All these reward/punish (both directly and indirectly), which, in turn, effect the degree of Coopetytion.

Meanwhile, Coopetytion’s ubiquity within nations is evident in:

  1. Sport – i.e. Cooperation in the form of agreement on the rules (the reward/punishment system), playing-fields, umpires and, broader, ‘spirit of the game’ understandings then, within that context, all-out Competition;
  2. Law
  3. Civil-debate
  4. Democracy
  5. The economy to the extent it is a non-exploitative & efficient free-market entity.

Regarding Coopetytion-maximising governance, it involves:

  1. Implementing Coopetytion-maximising legislation; then
  2. Administering that legislation in a Coopetytion-maximising manner.
Goals

Goals: Governance that maximises citizens’ ‘Coopetytion-contributive self-actualisation’.

Maximised citizen ‘Coopetytion-contributive self-actualisation’ is synonymous with maximised ‘societally-contributive self-actualisation’.

This is achieved via governance that empowers, encourages and inspires:

  1. Citizens (and foreigners) to find and pursue their own Coopetytion-contributive self-actualising path
  2. Citizens to inspire and empower other citizens (and foreigners) to find and pursue their Coopetytion-contributive self-actualising path.

This projection of natural-morality encompasses the full spectrum and magnitude of ‘human-rights’ (including minority rights and women’s rights).

Objective

Objective: Government infrastructure – i.e. universal (nationwide) systems – that optimally efficiently (i.e. minimally) and in good-faith maximises citizens’ desire and capacity to ‘Coopetytion-contributively self-actualise’.

Action Plans

Action Plans: Government social-infrastructure that maximises inter-citizen Coopetytion such that (SEE-in-G) outcomes are optimised.

Coopetysm’s social-infrastructures, which are ‘universal, unconditional and guaranteed’, are:

  1. Universal Rule of Coopetyvity-maximising Law
  2. Universal Subsistence Income (USI)
  3. Universal Education
  4. Universal Healthcare.

[Note: These 4 social-infrastructures are minimalist because each buttresses each of the others such that if one is suboptimal (let alone missing), it detracts from all the others’ effectiveness – for example, poverty correlates with lower educational outcomes.]

Regarding ‘Universal Rule of Coopetyvity-maximising Law’, it maximally:

  1. Proportionately (and, to the extent possible, rehabilitatively) punishes extreme anti-Coopetive behaviour particularly in the realm of personal & property security
  2. Facilitates democracy
  3. Protects free-markets (including via a minimally distorting tax-regime)
  4. Promotes sovereignty
  5. Sustains the natural-environment

In sum, in a post-Industrial Revolution ‘society of strangers’, Coopetysm maximally empowers, encourages and inspires citizens to think & behave Coopetively, which means it represents ‘The Optimised Western Model’, which is synonymous with optimally civilised ‘End of History’ governance – i.e. it achieves optimal ‘Universal Liberal Democracy’ in which freedom is maximised such that any more freedom for one citizen detracts from that for others.

In sum, optimised Universal Liberal Democracy requires optimal SEE-in-G infrastructure – i.e.:

  1. Socio: the 4 social-infrastructure floor upon which citizens can build
  2. Econo: physical infrastructure such as roads, buildings, the internet etc. plus laws relating to competition, companies, consumers etc.
  3. Enviro-international: diplomatic missions, armed-forces, treaties etc.
  4. Enviro-natural: laws relating to waste disposal, chemical treatment, resource extraction/use etc.
  5. Government-budget: minimised governmental diminution including lowest least distortionary tax.

Regarding taxation, a possible scenario is:

  1. 20% flat-rate income/profit tax (no tax-free threshold on non-USI income as all receive The USI)
  2. 20% GST (full-breadth)
  3. 2% Land tax.

Regarding the 4 social-infrastructures, in Australia, while we already have robust versions for 3 of them, The USI is still absent, which, among other things, means there’s never existed Universal Liberal Democracy and what we mistake for it is only quasi-Universal Liberal Democracy.

Rectifying this, requires ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’.

‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’

The ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ consists of substituting The Universal Subsistence Income (USI) for both the:

  1. Universal Minimum Hourly Wage (UMHoW) system
  2. Income-Welfare system.

In 2025 Australia, the suggested USI (per year) to all non-incarcerated in-country citizens aged:

  1. 18 – 66 is $24,000
  2. <18 is $6,000 (in most cases, received by the guardian/s)
  3. 66< is $30,000.

[The disabled also receive a ‘top-up’ from the Health Budget as per their health needs, which, because it’s minus The USI amount, has far less onerous application requirements.]

‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ has profound all-pervasive SEE-in-G benefits.

First, with Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW) abolished, unemployment/underemployment – as per its definition of ‘those who want paid-work at the going wage-rate but cannot find it’ – is permanently eradicated because wages are completely flexible.

Plus, The USI universally adds the option of self-employment – i.e. conceptually, one can pay oneself to operate a small-business – for example, making and selling handicrafts.

And, with unemployment perpetually zero, inflation is easily managed.

Meanwhile, with The USI eradicating poverty, other income-Welfare is superfluous, which is why it’s also abolished – i.e. all targeted income-benefits, tax-breaks and subsidies are eradicated including, not just payments to the unemployed, the elderly, the infirm, students, the natural-disaster-afflicted, but also superannuation tax-concessions, childcare-subsidies etc.

Consider this: while The USI’s headline amount is more than the current income-Welfare headline amount, the amount taxpayers pay above receiving The USI (i.e. the ‘net-taxpayer-USI’) is less than current income-Welfare expenditure and, in any case, the GDP-to-USI ratio will ascend from its current level of just 5 to perhaps 50.

Moreover, while income-Welfare is distortive – i.e. has anti-Coopetyve elements – The USI is Coopetyve.

That is, substituting The USI for income-Welfare minimises an array of Socio-Econo- distortions including:

  1. Stigma especially ‘the dole-bludger’ narrative including its racist, disablist, gender and ageist variants
  2. Harassment including ‘mutual obligations’
  3. Escapism
  4. The obtain-paid-work-lose-income-Welfare distortion
  5. Paid-worker-exploitation
  6. Excessive-business-regulation
  7. Corruption
  8. Bureaucracy – i.e. Centrelink & job-search providers
  9. Excessive tax.

Hence, the economy, rather than being, partly, a ‘jobs-for-jobs-sake’ and ‘manage-the-manufactured-mess’ construct, is returned to ‘exclusively efficiently producing and distributing the goods & services citizens need/desire’.

Currently, the economy is a ‘Squandonomy’ consisting of 2 components:

  1. ‘Tsunamic’ – i.e. producing what we want such as food, energy, housing, cars, technology, education, health etc.
  2. ‘Tug-of-war’ – i.e. due to suboptimal systems, citizens are forced to battle one another without producing the end goods & services we wish to consume.

With the economy roughly just 1 part tsunamic and 9 parts tug-of-war, this inefficiency explains why – 265 years (and around 10,000-fold potential SHOT productivity exponentiation) following the potential subsistence transcending event known as The Industrial Revolution – we have a ‘Cost-of-Living Crisis’.

Yet, with ‘The Reform’, business is unleashed – i.e. employers have:

  1. A motivated workforce, which, no longer subject to Subsistence-Income-Servitude (SIS), by definition, wants to be there
  2. Significant labour market deregulation, which increases their international competitiveness
  3. Increased demand (because incomes are up especially amongst the poorer who spend a higher proportion of their income)
  4. A personal USI, which is particularly important for small-business owners
  5. Lower taxes
  6. Less wage/conditions compensation for employees’ taxation because income-tax is lower.

Meanwhile, with the Socio-Econo- optimally automated – i.e. ‘set and forget’ – this means the Enviro- (both international & natural) can be manually prioritised. 

Regarding the government-budget’s bottom-line, ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ not only infrastructurally all-but-solves the Socio- challenges, it also achieves an efficient economy, which, together means, short of Enviro- apocalypse, there will be perpetual budget surpluses (and/or tax decreases) as:

  1. For a given tax regime, tax revenues surge
  2. Government expenditure plummets due to vast savings in charity (i.e. there’s no poverty, minimised alienation and, on the contrary, a universal ‘fun fair’ of opportunity), law-enforcement, health (including mental-health), bureaucracy (Centrelink will be closed), international challenges (as societal strength discourages sovereignty threats) and natural-environment rehabilitation (i.e. the economy’s efficiency and citizens increased freedom means less destruction).

Thus, collectively, there’s a virtuous cycle of lower tax, greater prosperity & crystalised societal-unity, which, specifically, will positively impact business (including improving productivity), decrease government non-USI expenditures, depressurise the government-budget and, politically, allow transformative tax-reform.

However, currently, The USI is blocked by:

  1. Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW), which may be termed ‘The Kiwi Curse’ as, in 1894, New Zealand became the first country to implement it
  2. Income-Welfare, which, over the last century and a half, has been incrementally added
  3. The ‘dole-bludger’ narrative & the erroneous belief ‘The USI is just more income-Welfare’, which it isn’t because, while the latter is targeted, the former is universal with none of the others’ distortions.
What if ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’ Isn’t Implemented?

In short, it ends with societal-collapse, which is what we are exponentially converging toward.

That is, currently, we are facing a culminating perfect storm of exponentiating Socio-Econo-Enviro-[international/natural]-Government-budget (SEE–in–G) catastrophes.

Meanwhile, Science & Technology alone aren’t solutions because they provide at least as many new challenges as they solve – for example, relatively new ways to eradicate humanity include nuclear and biological weapons.

And, what about AI and it being smarter than us?

The solution is, for both our human-problem and AI-problem, ‘natural-morality’ – i.e. Coopetyvity.

That is, both human-society and AI must be maximally ubiquitously infused with Coopetyvity.

Specifically, Human-Organisation must be optimally Coopetysed, which means we must have Coopetysm of which the greatest impediment is the lack of ‘The USI-4-UMHoW Reform’.

This will not only transition our nations to the Coopetysm vision of, ‘societal sustainable stability-prosperity optimisation’, it has the potential to, via the Coopetysm narrative, transcend the Left/Right/Centre paradigm and it’s anti-Coopetive polarisation.

[Updated: July 10, 2025]

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