There are those amongst us who have self determined that they know best how those around them must live in pursuit of a perfect world. There are other amongst us who have self determined that the party of the first part are correct and are willing to follow them. It must also be noted that approximately 49% of the population has an IQ of less than 100, for this is a statistical truism.
Authors Note: 'Utopia' comes from the Greek ‘ou-topos’ meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'
Historically, it seems that the leaders of these utopia seekers have latched onto a sly economic strategy. Countries are often ranked by GDP/Capita; the cunning plan executed by the leaders of the Utopia seekers is quite simple, kill a large swath of the population after they have done a whole lot of work. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can be increased by exporting the goods a country makes, of course if you sell so much of the country’s grain to buy machinery people will starve – USSR. GDP can also rise if you increase production, returning to the IQ situation, someone in a position of power who has no knowledge or experience may assume that birds are eating the crops, and then after the order to exterminate the birds, the insects without a natural predator flourished and devoured the crops – China. Another option in the effort towards providing a high GDP score is to reduce internal costs; this was achieved by killing off the intellectuals and the doctors – Cambodia.
‘That wasn’t real communism’, is a statement often heard when the actions of the USSR, China and Cambodia are brought under criticism. This author must admit that there is a scale under which the principles of communism work, and that scale is small. The nuclear family unit is the best example of communism at work, from each what they can give and unto each what they need, perfectly provides the parent to child relationship, two other examples of where communism works are a monastery or a nunnery. While the power dynamic in these two situations are different, the key is voluntary intent. Within the parent-child dynamic the parents do the work in support of the child all the while slowly ratchet up the responsibility and in the commune environment, once again the laborers step up voluntarily and personal efforts are consented to. They do not see their life as one of drudgery, just as good parents don’t.
Super abundance comes with fantastic problems when coupled with a very robust safety-net. While there will always be a percentage of any population that will want to protest, what are needed to be taken note of is the population percentage, and the topic of, and the damage done within any protest. When a society has a cornucopia of nearly everything, people in other societies will want to partake in that feast, and once the safety-net is universally applied to anyone standing on a country’s soil; this concoction creates two basic outcomes, if not more; these primary outcomes are: an inrush of the impoverished, and a debt spiral that will cripple the country’s economy. The tide that raises all boats will have been made stagnate and those countries that suffer brain-drain will remain poor.
At the time of this writing, the GDP/Capita mandate has been abandoned in favour of a new directive with the introduction of ESG, ESG stands for Environment, Social, and Governance. ESG is a score based system for companies that regulates if a company will or will-not have access to funding, low interest rates for a loan, or an actual investment consideration. Company prosperity and investor returns have been pushed to the back of the corporate purpose bus in favour of ESG via this carrot/stick style incentive based play.
ESG is a social/political action that has been embedded within the business world, yet it comes at a cost and is also subject to manipulation. As an example, Enron has a higher ESG score then TWITTER under Musk, which begs the question – how tilted are the three pillars that makes up ESG, or is it just pseudo whimsical?
There ‘may’ be a longer game being played via ESG. One hypothetical plays out like this: find a product of value, devalue that product via a seemingly altruistic motive, then when the value drops swoop in and ‘rescue’ the value holders, many of whom have already lost some of their wealth; finally change the ESG score so the original value returns and then sell the stocks that were bought low and then sell them on the new high. This is the inverse of a ‘pump and dump scheme’, perhaps a new framing is required, such as ‘drop and pop’. Regardless of the tactic the money always seems to flow in the same direction. This ‘drop and pop’ strategy can also be applied to land ownership, just cast your gaze at LA, San Francisco, Portland and Chicago.
It is obvious to this writer that the ‘powers that are’ have little interest in continuing to maintain the rising tide mantra, all-the-while ensuring that the currently impoverished remain so and are being hobbled at the base of ladder of prosperity, regardless if it a person or a country. Leaving this author to ask the questions, why are the globalist factions of our societies so keen not to actually help anyone outside of their own inner circle; and does the sentence ‘You will own nothing and be happy’ make more sense now?
There are two basic styles of government, top-down and bottom-up. It is hard for those in their high ivory tower to lean out the window and see how those below are doing, while it is quit easy for a man on the ground to see that his neighbor needs a hand. The top-downers call the bottom-up people ‘populists’. According to Google a populist is ‘a person, especially a politician, who strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups.’ Currently being labeled a populist is supposed to be a bad thing; leaving this author to wonder why any politician would not want to appeal to the broadest base possible?
So, when one politician hurls the insult of populism and their political opponent, do you feel politician A is in the tower or on the ground with the general population?
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