Univis 2.6: The CDO’s Federal Budget (2021) Reply

Apology

Regarding The Univisionist 2.5: Disempowered Lives Matter (DLM) – Universally Civilizing Relations/hips article, ‘LGBTIQ+ Lives Matter’ should also have been included and is included in its web version – this faux pas reinforces the entire point of Universal Empowerment Infrastructure (UEI), which is, all people are included automatically unconditionally infrastructurally.

CC:      Jon Owen, Pastor & CEO, Wayside Chapel

May 13, 2021

Hi

Isn’t the Coalition’s budget yet another ‘Band-Aid Budget’ (BAB)?

If an administration is throwing money yet doesn’t have an overarching narrative, it’s likely to be a BAB.

Comparing it with a Civilisationism ‘Infrastructure Budget’ …

Headline Comparison

A Civilisationism budget would pay particular attention to optimising and completing the 5 cornerstone Universal Empowerment Infrastructure (UEI):

  1. Universal Legal Equality (including Merit-based reward)
  2. Universal Liberal Democracy
  3. Universal Healthcare
  4. Universal Education
  5. Universal Survival Income (USI).

[This is minimalist (and also optimalist) because each impacts the other such that the only way to optimise each is to also optimise the other 4.

This is 2-way infrastructure because it assists both society and the individual; as opposed to 1-way welfare, which, ambiguous for society, only up to a point (and, certainly, not optimally), helps the recipient.]

Hence, in principle, the CDO welcomes the Coalition’s announced resource allocations to the NDIS, which, with Medicare, is part of Universal Healthcare. 

In addition, Civilisationism would also look to include Dentistry in the Universal Healthcare cornerstone framework since, as well as being important for self-esteem and hygiene, it is also important for whole-of-body health.

Of course, unlike with the current system, under Civilisationism’s efficient structure, Dentistry is easily affordable.

Regarding the additions to our legal system and education, Civilisationism believes the resources allocated are already in excess of what is needed and this excess is Band-Aiding over the problems caused by the absence of The Universal Survival Income (USI) and is creating other problems such as massive disproportionate Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander incarceration.

That is, The USI absence causes Poverty, Unemployment & Stigma (PUS), which creates tremendous stress for up to 25% (more than 6 million) Australians.

In turn, this means regarding our:

  1. Legal system, people especially with lower-than-average IQs, relatively poor education attainment and those from disadvantaged and unstable backgrounds are infrastructurally provoked and channelled into crime – including via fuelling domestic violence
  2. Democracy, many do not feel part of our society and so, where they can, disengage from contributing to it
  3. Education, this means many children don’t have the stable harmonious homelife necessary for them to educationally flourish at school such that even excellent teaching can only have a marginal benefit.

Thus, The USI is an infrastructural prerequisite to Civilisationism, which cannot be achieved via any amount of artificial ad hoc add-on (Triple-A) Band-Aiding because their indirect effects are inevitably counterproductive.

Regarding the Coalition’s budget’s core pursued outcomes, the single USI reform also optimally achieves:

  1. Full-employment – not with artificial spending so as to ‘get a 4 in front of unemployment’ but, naturally, such that there is a perpetual zero in front of both unemployment and underemployment yet there is no exploitation, which means, there is no, what may be termed, indirect-slavery
  2. Universal Empowerment such that PUS are eradicated and we have a ‘3 Musketeers society’ of ‘All for One and One for All’
  3. Optimised quality of life via maximising societally-contributive self-actualisation

[Please note: Due to Universal Empowerment and the optimisation of societally-contributive self-actualisation, among other things, mental health will be maximised, domestic violence will be minimised, aged-care and disability will be beneficially revolutionised and parents will be childcare-choice-empowered.]

  • Prosperity will no longer be dependent on Iron Ore sales to Xi Jin Ping’s China
  • Tiny yet optimally efficient government – bureaucracy and wanton environmental degradation (i.e. resource use, which has no ‘desired goods & services’ benefit) will be minimised
  • Non-GST taxes will be markedly decreased not because of an ad hoc political decision, which puts future generations into debt, but because it’s simply not needed (please see below: ‘balanced budget’)
  • High aggregate demand (much higher than any ‘Raise the Rate’ incremental increase) – i.e. business will have plenty of customers
  • Business will be unleashed (regulations relaxed because, with Universal Empowerment, they are no longer needed) and entrepreneurialism (and creativity per se) become a fresh air tsunami
  • Boost prosperity – ‘the production and distribution of goods & services we desire’ will, at least, double by 2030 and wastage, at least, halved
  • Balanced budget – the Coalition has given up on this but perpetual surpluses are easily painlessly achieved – i.e. growth, spending-cuts and tax revenue will all boom – such that non-GST taxes will be forced to decrease.

In sum, the problem with the Coalition’s budget is insufficient logic, insufficient imagination and, perhaps, a distorted conviction, which culminates in failing to get to the source of our Socio-Econo-Enviro- (SEE) problems – i.e. The Universal Survival Income (USI) absence.

And, no matter any marketing spin, that fact cannot be fudged over.

In any case, having placed The USI within the context of Universal Empowerment Infrastructure (UEI), we now place The UEI in a yet larger construct (or narrative) by considering the respective visions …

Vision

Coalition Vision: Though not singularised, predominantly, ‘Jobism’ – i.e. ‘jobs, jobs, jobs’ or ‘Triple-J’.

CDO Vision: ‘Civilisationism’ – i.e. ‘Australia as a universally sustainable stability-prosperity optimising society’. 

[Please note: Under Civilisationism, Jobism is redundant because there is no unemployment (full-employment is perpetual) – i.e. The Universal Survival Income (USI) supersedes the Universal Minimum Wage (UMW).  The UMW, no matter our emotional attachment to it, needs replacing because:

  1. With up to 25% of Australians’ Disempowered, it has failed its core objective of preventing exploitation;
  2. It is poisonously preventing full-employment by impeding labour market demand from equalling labour market supply;
  3. With The USI, it won’t be missed.]

Civilisationism Mission: ‘Government is singularly (exclusively) tasked with the minimalist construction and management of societal-wide systems – i.e. infrastructure not Band-Aids – in order to achieve Universal Empowerment such that, via optimising cooperative-competition, it maximises citizens’ societally-contributive self-actualisation’.

Economic Assumptions

Efficient economy definition: ‘The economy exclusively produces and distributes the goods and services we desire except when we can individually achieve it more optimally ourselves such as, perhaps, caring for loved ones and cooking for ourselves etc.’

Full-employment definition: ‘everyone who wants paid-work at the going rate can get paid-work’.

Full-employment is automatically perpetually achieved when the Poverty, Unemployment & Stigma (PUS) eradicating Universal Survival Income (USI) is substituted for the Universal Minimum Wage (UMW).

Labour Market

Present labour market snapshot:

  1. Employed: 13.1 million in paid-work, which includes 6-7 million who are either in:
    1. BS jobs-for-jobs’-sake paid-work
    1. Manage-the-Manufactured-Mess (Triple-M) paid-work – i.e. Band-Aid over the PUS (and their indirect flow-on effects such as crime and anti-social escapism) with excess charities (currently 11% of total GDP), mental-health professionals, law-enforcement etc.

which means only around 7 million are ‘exclusively producing and delivering the goods and services we desire’ with the rest paid for by tax and propped-up by such windfalls as Iron Ore sales and Science & Technology innovation, which could be used to make us more prosperous including increasing our leisure, relaxation and renewal time.

[Though paid-workers in these jobs pay tax, which means they are typically characterised as ‘lifters’, perversely, since they don’t contribute to ‘the goods & services we desire’, their entire wage can constitute a societal loss.]

The Civilisationist labour market:

  1. Full-employment (no unemployment, no underemployment and no participation masking)
  2. No exploitation – people unhappy with their workplace can leave and easily get other paid-work or otherwise invest their time
  3. Carers (including single parents), the mildly disabled etc can easily get paid-work that suits them
  4. Great working conditions, which, in boring, dangerous or unpleasant jobs, will be reflected in high-wages
  5. Exponential productivity in terms of ‘producing and delivering the goods & services we desire’, which will lead to higher wages
  6. The end of BS & Triple-M paid-work plus the impetus on business to have a tip-top culture means worker satisfaction, productivity and international competitiveness soars.

…

With Labor’s Budget Reply also destined to be a Band-Aid Budget (BAB) and no political party – not even a minor one – having The USI as their signature policy, currently, isn’t our democracy a little deficient?

Thank you.

Best regards

Paul Ross
Founder
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  1. The Citizen’s Dividend Organisation (CDO) Australia  
  2. The Universal Empowerment Organisation (UEO)
  3. The Civilisationism Organisation (TCO)

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Humanity is being confronted by a perfect storm of Socio-Econo-Enviro- (SEE) Catastrophes including:

1. Social:

a. Internal: mental illness, domestic violence, drug & alcohol abuse etc.

b. External: our weaknesses boost Democracy’s enemies, which is currently enhancing international rivalry such as with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran;

2. Economic: absolute poverty, relative income inequality, unemployment, homelessness etc.; and,

3. Environmental: ecosystem destruction, species extinction, human population explosion, plastic islands, climate change etc.

Hypothesis: This is 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 ‘Universal Empowerment Infrastructure’ (UEI), which consists of the 5 cornerstones:  

1. Universal Legal Equality (including merit-based reward conditions) – [In Australia] comparatively robust;

2. Universal Liberal Democracy – comparatively robust;

3. Universal Healthcare – comparatively robust;

4. Universal Education – comparatively robust;

5. Universal Basic/Survival Income (UBI/USI) – No, not yet, which, detracting from each of the other 4, makes them far less effective.

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 [Note: Unlike the Current System, this is not a ‘cost’ but a ‘transfer’.]Around $20,000 per year x 18 million (non-incarcerated in-country adult Australian citizens) + $5,000 x 4.5 million (children) = $386 billion (2018 figures).

This may be achieved by:

1. Reallocating $150 billion of the $175 billion Social Services budget (yes, we are already spending half of what we need), which still leaves $25 billion to top up pensions and disability payments;

2. Abolishment of the Tax-Free Threshold ($35 billion); and,

3. Insertion of 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 ‘environment-destroying jobs-for-jobs’-sake’ ‘own-goal’ one to ‘an efficient production of goods and services we desire’ one.

That is, currently, around half our 13 million paid-workers have jobs that are either:

1. Jobs-for-jobs-sake B.S. paid-work – such as excess public service jobs and subsidised/protected private enterprise jobs; or,

2. 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 both taken care of and invested with the freedom to say ‘no’ to an employer plus the rectification of the present social-status premium on paid-work over unpaid-work, which will dissipate the stigma of not having paid-work, this means there will be a massive flow of power to the disempowered and working classes, which will result in 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 our (pre-Covid-19) 5.7 million volunteers can get paid something and our young, elderly, relatively unskilled, disabled, unpaid-carers, 600,000+ unemployed and 1.1 million+ underemployed can, if they desire, get paid-work (or, more work) and, generally, there is full-employment such that ‘anyone who, at the going rate, wants a job, can get one’.  

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 back to life. 

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.