A Humanistic Social Structure

A successful social structure must be especially sensitive to the issue of status. Humans hate being subordinated to others. They will either strive to escape a position of subordination, repress the fact of subordination, or reluctantly accept a life of suffering if they know of no better realistic alternatives. We must therefore devise a social system that promotes status relations of equality.

However, equal status is only the first prerequisite to the happy society. There must also exist sufficient opportunities for engaging in enjoyable economic activity. A method of producing marketable goods and services through the producers’ pursuit of their passions is necessary. Additionally, this system must also be capable of harmoniously distributing the less enjoyable work.

So let’s say there is a firm that follows these principles. How would the consumer verify this? A sophisticated system of reviews is one option. An “Enlightened Economy Network” might also work, but would necessitate official verification, which adds unnecessary labor-needs, raises prices, and worst of all adds a layer of bureaucracy. Alternatively, workers might simply not want to work at a firm that does not follow these principles. However, there are always those desperate for income who will tolerate poor conditions and not speak out for the fear of losing their source of income. Still, we mustn’t let challenges of this sort get in the way of the creation of a system superior to the current one. The beginning is in the promotion of the new system.

What is necessary to start a humanistic firm are adequately skilled people and financial capital to purchase what cannot be produced internally (unless those other firms are willing to barter directly or through barter credits). This does not seem like an insurmountable challenge. One must begin by simply advertising the idea for the firm.

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