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Civilized Citizenship
I was trained in development economics. I am affiliated with no one; associated with no one; identified with nothing. My monologues summarize my reading of human reality; review of human history. Their purpose is to make people aware of the unbearable economic costs of violence, corruption, and prejudice; the untold economic benefits of nonviolence, altruism, and tolerance. My name is irrelevant, though what I say is consequential.
"Until patriarchy is undone, women will remain unequal. True liberation requires the undoing of patriarchy’s every facet, every aspect, and every remnant."
In the twenty-first century Western world, important women have the choice to categorically reject the unholy proposition that men are superior and women are inferior. Important women, influential women, have the choice and intellect and humor to laugh at the men-women superior-inferior paradigm. Notwithstanding, most important women in the West, still at the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, voluntarily accept the unholy proposition that men are superior and women are inferior, men are primary and women are secondary, men are assertive and women are subservient.
Only true liberation would proffer true emancipation. Patriarchy is a doppelganger of subservience. Until patriarchy is undone, women will remain unequal. True liberation requires the undoing of patriarchy’s every facet, every aspect, and every remnant. Women’s secondary and subservient status is entirely caused by patriarchy, which started with Adam’s dominion over Eve. Only true liberation, dismantling the patriarchy, will elevate women to equality and dignity.
To achieve gender equality, women must reject the patriarchal paradigm Adam constructed and others continued with the help of religious, cultural, social, political, and educational institutions that men created. Without a total rejection of patriarchy, gender equality cannot be attained. Continued obedience to patriarchal directives will keep women secondary and inferior, enabling men to control and coerce women into surrendering their equality, identity, and dignity. As long as women continue to allow themselves to be brainwashed by the patriarchal paradigm, they cannot be truly independent, equal, and liberated.
Men’s predatory sexual transgressions are conditioned by the patriarchcal psychology that women were created to serve men, as Eve was created to serve Adam. Rejection of patriarchy is the lone way for women to convince men that gender transgressions are unacceptable, uncivilized, and abominable. That sexual trespasses are criminal, wicked, primitive, and scandalous. Men reign. Women serve. Wearing suits, not wearing bras, wearing crop tops, and going “commando” do not mark liberation. Only outright rejection of patriarchy, which enforces inequality, domination, and inferiority, will offer true liberation.
The United States of America was created by the Founding Fathers. No woman was included as a Founding Mother. Until 1920, the political status of Caucasian women and slave women was similar. Neither Thomas Jefferson’s legal wife nor his slave mistress had voting rights. Though changes have been happening, economically, politically, and socially, American women have always been inferior. However, with their given independence, affluence, and opportunities, American women do have the power to change the prevailing gender inequality overnight should they decide to liberate themselves. American women are exceedingly freer than Chinese, Indian, Saudi, or Israeli women. They have much more economic independence, social status, and political power. History has long since unequivocally registered that women have comparable professional ability, competence, and leadership to men. Having the power and using the power to effect changes are different. So far American women have failed to change the tradition that consigns them to inferiority. Electing a woman to the presidency or receiving equal pay will not elevate American women to equal status. Excelling in combat is not liberation. Becoming the commander-in-chief is not liberation. Outright rejection of inequality and inferiority is liberation.
When businesses are given prompt and expedited relief from bureaucratic delays, they are able to increase efficiency and productivity, decelerating inflationary pressure, and increasing profit margins.
Hiring huge numbers of workers by Asiar as soon as they are laid off would prevent isolated layoffs from becoming a national contagion.
A government dedicated to good governance must start a formal partnership with businesses to set up an agency to end recession and inflation.
Recessions and inflations can be avoided if the human tendency to splurge and indulge can be disciplined and restrained.
Managed capitalism is neither guilty nor corrupt. It is a mechanism. It is a robot. It is process. It is devoid of moral imperatives.
"In order to maximize production, the market should be allowed to function as free as possible with little headwind imposed by unnecessary bureaucratic regulations and distributive requirements. Social progress should be accelerated with the tailwind furnished by flawless democracy, enabling ongoing increases in spending on social progress. Ongoing increases in spending for social progress is achieved by diverting a portion of the economic growth achieved. It is done through tax increases, which, when it happens, if it ever happens, will evidence politicians’ interest in improving people’s standard of living and quality of life."
"Managed capitalism ensures economic growth. Flawless democracy ensures social progress. Together managed capitalism and flawless democracy help accelerate economic development."
Managed capitalism is a paradigm outlining how to maximize economic growth. It is nothing more than a neutral guideline. It is nothing less than a neutral guideline. It is nothing but a neutral guideline. It says if the market is allowed to function freely, it would maximize production and profits. It is concerned solely with economic growth. It is not concerned about how the benefits of economic growth are distributed. It is not concerned with what portion of economic growth should be given as wages to raise people’s standard of living. It is not concerned with what portion of economic growth should be earmarked as funds for social progress to improve people’s quality of life. It is not concerned with what portion of economic growth should be given as profits to enrich business owners and managers.
To ensure economic fairness, an appreciable portion of the gains of economic growth should be devoted to social progress, which alone will improve people’s quality of life.
The unemployment rate in April, 2019, was the lowest since the late 1960s. Despite its auspiciousness, there was no improvement in the 90-plus percent patriotic Americans’ standard of living and quality of life. The past 30 years have witnessed either forlorn stagnation or mournful decline in those patriotic Americans’ standard of living and quality of life. Almost the entire productivity increase was taken by capital owners and corporate executives. In the meantime, America’s never-ending violence, corruption, and prejudice have caused huge wealth destruction, wealth abuse, and wealth waste. A huge amount of America’s wealth was siphoned away by endemic incorrigible corruption.
The Economics of Civilized Citizenship will detail how violence, corruption, and prejudice reduce economic growth and social progress.
Reduction in economic growth reduces resources for social progress. Decreases in social progress caused by cuts in economic growth would exacerbate poverty as it reduces the standard of living and quality of life.
People’s inclination for uncivilized citizenship, catalyzed by their nature, temperament, and environment, could only be moderated with the help of imaginative teaching on the cost of uncivilized citizenship.
It is very critical to teach kids how uncivilized citizenship causes a continuum of consequences causing an increase in poverty, human suffering, and human indignity.
Education is the key to help people become nonviolent, altruistic, and tolerant in order to end wealth destruction, wealth abuse, and wealth waste. Ending wealth destruction, wealth abuse, and wealth waste is essential to accelerate prosperity.
Education will teach how violence, corruption, and prejudice lower the standard of living and quality of life. It will teach how nonviolence, altruism, and tolerance improve the standard of living and quality of life.
America is very wealthy. It excels beyond other advanced economies in generating ongoing economic growth. However, its lack of concern for adequate welfare for all its people unconscionably amounts to neglect.
Economic growth’s major purpose is to help create economic development. Economic development is realized as economic growth helps facilitate social progress.
Only sustained economic development will generate the required economic growth and social progress necessary to generate ongoing improvement in people’s standard of living and quality of life.
A democracy is flawed when some citizens are deprived of equal economic, political, social, and legal rights, opportunities, and privileges. It is flawed when one group is offered more rights, opportunities, and privileges than other groups.
Ideology, despotism, and flawed democracy exacerbate violence, corruption, and prejudice. As violence, corruption, and prejudice are exacerbated, economic growth and social progress are further curtailed, worsening poverty.
Every country has poverty. Their poverty is caused by the inordinate economic costs of widespread and ongoing violence, corruption, and prejudice.
The lone solution to human misfortune is embracing nonviolence, altruism, and tolerance to end wealth destruction, wealth abuse, and wealth waste, ending poverty forever.
Civilized Citizenship is entirely an economic proposition. Only a civilized country will be able to create an environment that helps every one of its people shun barbarity to escape poverty.
Humanity cannot eliminate poverty without abstaining from violence, corruption, and prejudice. Violence, corruption, and prejudice are the sole cause of humanity’s never-ending poverty.