Dear Sir or Madam,
I would like the following texts for you to highlight,
in the hope to find a solution to the impasse in which we live.
The questions are clearly marked with a question mark,
the opinions or observations end with a period.
Please take all the time you need to read the following texts
and give a possible answer, I do not expect a quick response.
" Responsible behavior "
In a free world you are allowed to make mistakes, but it's not appreciated or accounted for.
Respect human and animal rights, stop the repression, accept each other's differences, give everyone the freedom to
choose what he or she wants. Learn to forgive. Let not another fall victim of your own actions. Look closely at each other's
neighbors, don't close your eyes to injustice.
Changing the world, I can not do alone. How can you determine a fair value for a product or service? Where is it
based on? And how is it fair? Who says what a loaf of bread cost? Or how much someone gets paid per hour of work?
What is the investment? What is the result? What is the advantage? Not only for the seller but also for consumers.
Responsibility is of common interest, and consumers must choose and think, and the seller must itself be fair and
reasonable.
(In other words, things are not too expensive and not too cheap, it must be good and / or healthy, at an
appropriate hourly wage manufactured or finished and it must not be at the expense of the quality of the
environment.)
Altogether, the presence or development of an atomic bomb, biological weapon and chemical weapon, in addition to
the existing firearms, within the reasoning of this text -, actually is appointed as irresponsible (towards the
community).
(What eventually, probably after much fuss? leads to the insight that the increasing violence particularly within
the Middle East will, like a smoldering fire, take on to parts of Europe, Asia, Africa and therefore America, both
North and South, and that we never should have started this whole war.)
The threat of terror alongside those of a nuclear war are so extreme that I as a simple earthling would like the
politics of fear (particularly Israel, Iran, North Korea and America) immediately to stop and that we start thinking
about possible solutions to the crisis.
(Instead from blaming each other for the misery. To begin we could just say sorry, I did not know you were afraid
and had so much grief. Let's help each other, support and stop fighting over bread, power, money, religion or a
job.)
After all, we all are equal. A cause for celebration.
"Non-profit system"
A historian at Pauw and Witteman said last night: " My thesis is an ode to capitalism, but I think that we must get
rid off our profit system " W: " It's welfare, not wealth " " Yes, that is the old idea, but we must now look how
we can better ourselves, more sustainable, more efficient without growth "
The funny thing is that I also am thinking about a nonprofit ideal (cost price + 0), where someone is making
money, but not only enriched him- or herself, you could consider research cost and development cost also all just
part of the total cost price.
The result is that on the other side of the coin (the customer, consumer, world) the one which is dependent on
your service or product will get exactly the price which it will cost you. In other words, by stopping the
enriching, the impoverment stops on the other side, to keep the possibility of growth still maintained we would need
to go to a non-profit system, I think, where everyone works at cost price.
What exactly that total cost is, is again depending on the basic cost of living of the staff plus the costs
incurred by the store, the company or the institution itself to actually supply the requested products or services
safe and sustainable.
The total cost divided by the number of hours worked results than in a fair hourly wage for both the worker and
the client.
This means therefore that the leadership, responsible for the safety and durability, also only should work at cost
price, and thus that may mean that if the risk factor and the environmental stressors are low in the total cost of
the product or service that the manager in this case deserves as much as his or her employees.
>> Then the question: what are basic costs?
Fly trips to six million? luck with your company, Mr. Marx!
> This I wrote 5 September 2012 on the site
www.partyflock.nl :
Discussion Topic: Global Economy in 2011 Forum:
Society & community September 5, 2012 1:29
"The FARC is coming to Oslo: I do not want to command "
We die here in prosperity, they live in poverty. For the law, everyone is equal, but for the government everyone is
not. If you think logically you know that the burden should be distributed equally as possible and thereby there
should be a challenge to a better future. This means that if someone is going to earn more, he or she must bear
more load off, but obviously not as much as what happens in Cuba by corruption (I guess?) in exploiting its own
people at the expense of individual freedom. Therefore I seek a middle ground where capitalism and communism come
together into a new democratic international system based on social-liberal ideology. It is a simplification of the
existing system which very much is already good about it.
It will mean that all basic needs are freely accessible at 1 new VAT rate on products and services of 50%, other
taxes such as excise taxes, charges and fees are abolished, because everyone pays an equal share to the maintenance
of society, where life is life and not survive.
For clarity, no childcare costs, no school fees, no sports fees, no health coverage (no contribution, no
deductible, no insurance), no public transportation cost, no legal fees, no energy cost, no housing cost, no municipal
contribution, no water monopoly, no security subsidy, no border fees, no clean up (environment) allowance, no
cultural attachment. Everything that humans and animals need to survive is freely available for the exchange of
paying 50% tax on goods and services at the responsibility of the state.
>> This prints of yours, may provide useful guidance for poetry: just write so tight and 'simple', combine them
together and create a beautiful book. 'Cause, you're very busy to profile yourself, but you must if you're in the
picture is something to show that the critical investigation. It's not really easy! At this time your prose is
better than your poetry.
Try not to go too fast, pull quiet ten years out, Jan Eijkelboom debuted at 50th, Jan Gerard Toonder when he was
back in the 70s. Der mouw na zijn dood.
Go well!
good luck!
> Thank you. I have my second book 'keihard bidden' with my own illustrations available by post. I also think of "the
poetry newspaper" where other internet poets and writers have the opportunity to be read in the streets with a free
(non-profit) newspaper that first locally at the bookshop, library and cinema will be available (for the promotion
of free speech), while I still think a third '?' book and a fourth "everything is an opinion 'philosophical
statement about what I'm used to doing in recent years, thinking of a better and fairer world, where life is life
and not survive.
"work hard, feel better"
profit inhibits growth
quality costs money
count your cost, count your hours
if you sell a lot or work a lot
you earn more
(or less if you sell less or work less)
if you make expensive things or deliver expensive services
you also earn more
(than if you make cheap things or deliver cheap services)
in other words,
I'm not after your income,
who is doing a good job is getting well paid -
but your profit,
the mere enrichment
that I want to stop
to also stop the impoverment
on the other side
"Most reliable competitive edge"
And I might even have not made it clear enough that the non-profit situation (cost price + 0) is the best
competitive position there is, because on the one hand, there will be no lawsuits for exploitation (probably in the
form of profit tax) and on the other hand, no lawsuits for environmental pollution (probably in the form of quality
tax), in other words, fair trade and a good product or service is purely social in the broadest support, and
because the rules are not exceeded and the customer or employee share a fair price with the seller or the employer.
So, nonprofit: Not too expensive and quality. The result is an honest product or a fair service, so safe and
durable. Resulting in reliability for both the customer or the vendor and employee or employer. On both sides of
the coin a polite smile is grateful for what he or she deserves and receives.
"Troika charged with exploitation Cypriots"
What I would like is that if a store, company or institution that is in the common interest (such as a nationalized
bank, university, insurance, pension, hospital or care home) makes a profit, that this profit comes back into the purse
(of the customer, student, insured, retired, patient or cared for).
In other words, I think it's fine if the IMF, the ECB, and the nationalized banks charge interest, solely to cover
the costs, but to me they can not make a profit, because they act out of the common interest, thus enriching
themselves, would make the community poorer. In practice, a Cypriot sort of speak works two hours extra to have
the same amount of money left, and the money that one earned goes to the Troika, which keeps us Dutch (Westerners)
stupid by not changing too much to our allowance, or our retirement, our insurance, our school cost, and medical
care costs, meanwhile, the entrepreneur in Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland or Italy is crooked, more work for the
same money, and the profit goes to the rich, it has to stop, so I would like for the public sector to proclaim an
overall forbid on profit in the social interest of the community.
I hope that citizens' initiatives at the European court of human rights will contribute to this, that we as a
society no longer take it that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
"How to charge profit tax and how to charge quality tax, next to the new VAT rate of 50% ?"
- Tax profit part of income of the free sector with a sliding scale (so not the total income of the free sector)
- Price of the product per kilogram clean water needed to safely produce the product.
Is signed,
Hasta la Pasta 07/04/2013
