Indirect-Slavery [& The Abolitionist Path to the ‘End of History’]
[https://youtu.be/-f9gzd2Gvtk]
CC: Jon Owen, Pastor & CEO, Wayside Chapel
Bill Gye OAM, CEO, Community Mental Health Australia (CMHA)
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Selected Political Leaders:
- PM Scott Morrison
- Anthony Albanese
- Adam Bandt
- Barnaby Joyce
- Andrea Leong
Selected Peak Business Organisation Leaders:
- Jennifer Westacott AO (CEO, Business Council of Australia)
- Anne Nalder (CEO & Founder, Small Business Association of Australia)
- Innes Willox AM (Chief Executive, Australian Industry Group)
- Andrew McKellar (CEO, Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry)
- Alexi Boyd (CEO, Council of Small Business of Australia)
- Steve Knott AM (Chief Executive, Australian Resources & Energy Group)
Selected Public Service Leaders:
- Peter Woolcott (Australian Public Service Commissioner)
- Blair Exell (Acting CEO, National Indigenous Australians Agency)
- Brad Archer (CEO, Climate Change Authority)
- Chris Jordan AO (Commissioner of Taxation)
- David Gruen (Australian Statistician)
- David Anderson (Managing Director, Australian Broadcasting Commission)
- Greg Moriarty (Defence Secretary)
- Philip Lowe (Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia)
- Rebecca Skinner (CEO, Services Australia)
- Reece Kershaw APM (Commissioner, Australian Federal Police)
- Steven Kennedy (Secretary to the Australian Treasury)
- Rod Sims, (Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)
- Michael Brennan (Chair, Productivity Commission)
Selected Social Service Leaders:
- Peter McNamara (President, Australian Council of Social Service)
- Cassandra Goldie (CEO, Australian Council of Social Service)
- Kasy Chambers (Executive Director, Anglicare)
- Michele O’Neil (President, Australian Council of Trade Unions)
Selected Media, Lobbyists & Think Tank Leaders:
- Paul Kelly (Editor-at-Large, The Australian)
- Peter Jennings PSM (Executive Director, Australian Strategic Policy Institute)
- Paul Oosting (National Director, Getup)
- Danielle Wood (CEO, The Grattan Institute)
- Emily Sims (Director of Research, Prosper Australia)
- Emma Dawson (Executive Director, Per Capita)
- Julia Thornton (Australian Fabian Society & Accountability Round Table)
- Billy Colless (National Chair, Australian Fabian Society)
- Nick Cater (Executive Director, Menzies Research Centre)
- Michael Fullilove AM (Executive Director, Lowy Institute)
- Ben Oquist (Executive Director, The Australia Institute)
- Tim Hollo (Executive Director, The Green Institute)
- John Roskam (Executive Director, Institute of Public Affairs)
- Tom Switzer (Executive Director, Centre for Independent Studies)
- Ursula Kohler (Manager, The Centre for Strategy & Governance)
- Bryce Wakefield (Executive Director, Australian Institute of International Affairs)
- Ron Manners AO (Chairman, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation)
- Travers McLeod (CEO, Centre for Policy Development)
- Fiona McLeod AO (Chair, Accountability Round Table)
- Russell Ross (Secretary, Economics Society of Australia)
The Civilisationism Noticeboard
‘This week Anglicare became the first major charity in Australia to call for a state-funded basic income’.
Matt Wade, Sydney Morning Herald, August 14, 2021
Nature-Consistent Minimalist Universal Empowerment Infrastructure’s (MUEI) 5 Cornerstones:
- Universal Rule of Law (including merit-based reward)
- Universal Liberal Democracy (including compulsory-voting)
- Universal Education
- Universal Healthcare
- The Universal Survival Income (USI) substituted for Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW).
[Please Note: The USI is a non-Band-Aid self-funding tiny-government wealth-and-prosperity-optimising ‘we-are-all-in-this-together’-civilising infrastructure, which is also a pro-business pro-worker pro-environment pro-minority (including pro-indigenous and pro-women) pro-sovereignty freedom-unleashing Indirect-Slavery Abolisher.
Not enough?
In addition, it is Poverty, Unemployment, Stigma & Harassment (PUSH) eradicating, which will make all our culminating exponentiating perfect storm of Socio-Econo-Enviro- (SEE) catastrophes manageable.
Thus, for 2022, The USI is our supreme policy reform or we can keep focusing on ‘managing’ our scenic journey down-the-gurgler.]
Funding
The USI isn’t costly Band-Aid Welfare; on the contrary, it’s Exceptional-Return-on-Investment Infrastructure
The USI is 2-way such that, akin to the other MUEI, it assists both country as well as individual.
That is, its return-on-investment magnitude is such as to make Australia, at least, twice as prosperous.
The investment may be obtained by:
- Abolishing the tax-free threshold, which is no longer needed since every adult receives $20,000 per year
- Raising the GST to 20% and broadening it so that it is full-breadth, which also delivers anti-distortion benefits as well as capturing tax-revenue before multinationals’ profits are whisked overseas, which, in turn, evens the playing field for Australian businesses
- Eradicating Centrelink, Job Search Agency contracts plus all the jobs-for-jobs’-sake paid-work and the Manage-the-Manufactured-Mess (Triple-M) paid-work, which means vastly lower non-GST taxes, more manufacturing and vastly more prosperity with far less environmental damage.
Hello groundswell.
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August 25, 2021
Hi
Please click below to watch the CDO’s latest contribution:
Indirect-Slavery [& The Abolitionist Path to the ‘End of History’]
[https://youtu.be/-f9gzd2Gvtk]
Thank you.
Best regards
Paul Ross
Founder
The Citizen’s Dividend Organisation (CDO) Australia
The Civilisationism Organisation (TCO)
Humanity is being confronted by a perfect storm of culminating exponentiating Socio-Econo-Enviro- (SEE) Catastrophes including:
- Socio: poverty, stigmatisation, homelessness, mental-illness, excapism (such as drug & alcohol abuse), suicide, domestic-violence etc.
- Econo: unemployment, the welfare-to-work distortion, Jobs-Jobs-Jobs (Triple-J) politics, which has led to BS jobs-for-jobs’-sake & Manage-the-Manufactured-Mess (Triple-M) paid-work, the massive inefficiency of not ‘exclusively producing and delivering the goods & services we desire’ etc.; and,
- Enviro:
- Natural: ecosystem destruction, species extinction, the explosive human population plague, plastic islands, climate change etc.
- International: our weaknesses boost Democracy’s enemies, which is currently catalysing international rivalry such as with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
Hypothesis: These catastrophes are due to a single foundational ‘Society-Individual Interface’ contradiction whose deleterious effects are cascading through every facet of society.
The relevant contradiction is the partial absence of the natural-morality-derived minimalist ‘Universal Empowerment Infrastructure’ (UEI), which consists of the 5 interdependent interactively-fortifying cornerstones of:
- Universal Rule of Law (including merit-based reward) – [In Australia] comparatively robust;
- Universal Liberal Democracy (including compulsory-voting) – comparatively robust;
- Universal Healthcare – comparatively robust;
- Universal Education – comparatively robust;
- Universal Survival Income (USI) substituted in place of Universal Minimum Hourly Wages (UMHoW) – No, not yet.
[This USI-absence detracts from each of the other cornerstones making them all far less effective – for example, The USI-absence means homelife for many children is far less harmonious than it should be, which means, amongst other things, their capacity to concentrate on their education is compromised.]
The Socio-Econo-Environment-Harmonising Universal Survival Income (USI):
It’s not that it is the solution;
It’s that its absence is the problem.
The Taxpayer-to-Citizen-Transfer [Please note: Regarding the Society-Individual interface, unlike the current system, this is not a ‘cost’ but a ‘transfer’ and, in addition, it is not 1-way Welfare, which predominantly benefits recipients, but 2-way Infrastructure that, as with the other UEI cornerstones, has a return equivalent to multiples of the investment because it helps maximise societally-contributive self-actualisation.]
Around $20,000 per year x 18 million (non-incarcerated in-country adult Australian citizens) + $5,000 x 4.5 million (children) = $386 billion.
This may be achieved by (2018 figures):
- Abolishment of the Tax-Free Threshold ($35 billion);
- Reallocating $150 billion of the $175 billion Social Services budget (yes, federally, we are already spending almost half of what we need), which still leaves $25 billion to top up pensions and disability payments; and,
- Inserting a 20% full-breadth GST (no – it’s not regressive if the Disempowered are net beneficiaries; also, the wealthy and multinationals’ capacity to avoid a GST is particularly limited), which results in $200 billion minus $60 billion (from the current 10% gap-ridden GST) equaling an additional $140 billion.
In addition to this $325 billion total, there will be massive human-capital, efficiency, societal-involvement and trust gains, which means, not only is the USI easily afforded, we will be, at least, twice as prosperous such that it will amount to a win-win-win in which all community segments – the wealthy; the middle-class; and, the currently disempowered – all win.
In the process, the economy will also be transformed from an inefficient, resource-wasting and environment-trashing own-goal one to ‘an efficient production and distribution of goods and services we desire’ one.
That is, currently, around half our 13 million paid-workers have jobs that are either:
- Jobs-for-jobs-sake B.S. paid-work – such as excess public service jobs and subsidised/protected private enterprise jobs; or,
- Manage-the-Manufactured-Mess (‘Triple-M’) paid-work – such as Centrelink and excess legal, charity, mental-health etc jobs.
Then, there is the massive permeating benefit of achieving full-employment.
That is, with everyone taken care of and invested with the freedom to say ‘no’ to an employer plus the present social-status premium on paid-work over unpaid-work rectified, there will be a massive flow of power to the disempowered and working classes, which will lead to a workers’ paradise.
Yet, this workers’ paradise will enable significant labour-market deregulation (i.e. everyone is already being looked after so, while we may continue to feel an emotional attachment to, for instance, economy-wide minimum-wages, in practice, there will no longer be a need for them).
And, this means many of our millions of volunteers can get paid something and our young, elderly, relatively unskilled, disabled, unpaid-carers, 800,000+ unemployed and 1.1 million+ underemployed can, if they desire, get paid-work (or, more work) such that ‘anyone who, at the going rate, wants paid-work, can get it’.
In addition, the USI will eradicate the current welfare-to-paid-work distortion where there is a disincentive to acquire paid-work because, in doing so, one loses one’s welfare.
Furthermore, full-employment will result in wages and conditions being bid-up.
And yet, business, as well as benefiting from deregulation, rather than having to tolerate the current crop of unhappy conscripts, will benefit from an army of volunteer workers, which given, with regard to morale and productivity, ‘one bad apple spoils the barrel’, will deliver massive productivity efficiencies.
This means our tradables’ sector – especially manufacturing – will roar.
The Citizen’s Dividend Organisation’s Commitment (August 1, 2019):
1. Short-term (interim) – At the 2022 Australian Federal Election (unlike in 2019), at least one registered political party will have the USI as its signature policy such that the USI is an election issue; and,
2. Medium-term (end) – At the 2025 Australian Federal Election, the winner has a mandate for the implementation of a USI, which it then prosecutes.
Without The Universal Survival Income (USI),
It’s Impossible to Save the Environment.