4/9/09

Wikipedia

*"Socialism* refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or egalitarian method of compensation.^[1] ^[2] "

Good god no! Government is a dying industry and cannot even manage itself much less a complex market economy. We are talking about distributed capitalism. Great leaders who create wealth should be handsomely compensated and lazy, free riders (CEOs included) should be banished into the wilderness. Capitalism is so great, everyone should be one. But our economy has become too complex to allow 15th century organizational structures to dominate any longer. No less that Warren Buffett has said "The idea that you hand over huge positions in society simply because someone came from the right womb - I just think it's almost un-American." And we are heading towards a country where the "American Dream" is a fantasy and the only people who are able to start things are those from "dynastic wealth". The age of the small business man is over, as increasing regulation falls disproportionally on to small businesses who do not have the resources to manage those regulator burdens. As opportunity becomes further out of reach to bright, hardworking Americans, it will lead to a radicalized society with young people ready to tear down what exists without anything equally complex to replace it.

Incorporated Democracy is going to unshackle the corporate structure because people will come to see that self regulating corporations can be deregulated and that they will step up to take on a lot of the social issues that are being heaped on government. So that we can achieve the small "c" conservative vision of smaller government and an open market. It puts the focus on the entities which create and generate wealth, instead of entities (government) that are basic service organizations down stream of wealth generation. Incorporated Democracy is about unleashing the engine of (self regulating) capitalism to save the world.

Michael Rogers
“Great things are wanting to be done.” -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States



XXXX XXXXX wrote:
> Incentivized socialism?
>
>
> On 4/9/09 12:16 PM, "Shinneyboo Creek Cabins" wrote:
>
> *My tree is the decidedly un-sexy idea of the evolution of
> organizational structures. My study of the evolution of
> cooperation has
> led me to identify the mechanisms at play in this second tread of the
> evolutionary story that runs concurrent to the traditional
> "dog-eat-dog"
> view. It goes like this -- in order to keep free riders from
> taking all
> the benefits of cooperation, and therefore creating a barrier to
> cooperation, it is necessary in designing human organizational
> structures to insure that cooperators are able to capture the
> effects of
> cooperation.
>
> We did this 230 years ago with governments, where we designed American
> Democracy to have checks and balances on power, branches of
> government,
> and elected/accountable leadership in order to insure that those who
> gained power in our political democracy could be removed if they
> became
> free riders. But now governments are a declining power and
> corporations
> are ascendant. 2007 was the first time in human history that of
> the 100
> largest economies in the world, more than half are now
> corporations not
> traditional governments. **It is hopeless naive to base an economic
> system, as our current one is, on the hope that leaders will do
> what is
> right.*
> *
> This latest implosion of ponzi capitalism only exposes the urgent need
> for self regulating economic structures because our society is so
> dependent on multinational corporations. Incorporated Democracy is the
> cure to a vast myriad of social ills.
> *
>
> Michael Rogers
>
> “Great things are wanting to be done.”
> -- John Adams, 2nd President of the United States



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What is your tree?
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