The Story Of Our Time (Demo)

Paul Krugman continues to be stuck in his belief that unlimited spending is always the answer without explaining what happens to the flow of the tax extracted and debt-derived monies. In the name of “job creation” Krugman fails to see that the real wealth-creating benefits flow to the OWNERS of the companies receiving the stimulus monies. As increasingly the non-human factor of production––productive capital––is responsible for producing (the physical and processed work) the products and services needed and wanted by society, there will be less and less good-paying jobs that can be sustained as necessary to production. The 1 percent will continue to seek out “customers with money” globally but increasingly will face the reality of no growth to support their ability to output products and services through their productive capital asset ownership.

At the core of understanding America’s economic disintegration and seemingly intractable economic problems is the need to learn a new way of thinking that explains why the operation of our modern industrial economy is simply not working. Although tectonic shifts and advances in the technologies of production promise the increasing abundance of exponential growth in the economy’s capacity to produce products and services with much less human effort, there is widespread poverty and a disintegration of middle class status. Even when the economy has experienced some degree of growth, too many people remain poor or are excluded from the resulting limited economic abundance. The notion that the economic benefits flowing to a wealthy class will “trickle-down” is a non-sensible theory and only results in “trickle” menial, low-pay jobs, private charity, and public taxpayer-supported welfare, in plain view and disguised.

What has and continues to escape the focus of conventional economists, and the politics of progressives, centralists and conservatives, is that the wealthy are rich because they own productive capital––non-human wealth-creating assets used to produce products and services. The reality is that in most economic tasks and in the overall economy, productive capital (not human labor) is independently doing evermore of the work that results in the products and services produced for consumption. It is productive capital’s increasing productiveness and evolution, rather than human effort (productivity conventionally considered) that is the productive means most responsible for economic growth. Effectively, technological innovation and invention limits new higher productivity jobs to relatively fewer workers, leaving most other people willing and able to work with lower paying job opportunities or no jobs at all. This increasing majority is finding it more and more difficult to afford the products and services that are increasingly produced by productive capital.

It is essential that people focus their thinking on the understanding of who and what creates wealth, in order to fully understand how to solve growing income inequality and the disintegration of the nation wherein the majority of citizens are regulated to low-pay job serfdom and public welfare.

The required new thinking must respect property rights, and the right of all citizens to acquire private and individual ownership of wealth-creating productive capital assets. This is the path to prosperity, opportunity, and economic justice––the ONLY path that will assure democratic and free market conditions.

This new paradigm is the subject of the Agenda of The Just Third Way Movement at http://foreconomicjustice.org/?p=5797 and is founded on the concept of Monetary Justice (http://capitalhomestead.org/page/monetary-justice).

A Petition to reform the Federal Reserve to provide capital credit to ALL Americans can be supported at http://signon.org/sign/amend-the-federal-reserve.fb27?source=c.fb&r_by=3904687. The proposed Capital Homestead Act (http://www.cesj.org/homestead/index.htm and http://www.cesj.org/homestead/summary-cha.htm) would accomplish the necessary reforms.