The Lost Inheritance: Topics List

Chapter 11 (A Fairer Society)
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A Product can't be Valued in the Same Currency as its Means of Production: In capitalist economies, everything is valued in terms of the single currency of money. This causes things to be exchanged in trade whose values are fundamentally unequateable.
Inclusive Inheritance: The Key to a Just and Fair Society: This planet should be apportioned to each in a way which would ensure that the needs of life were provided in fair measure to all.
Collective Ownership Becomes in effect Ownership By Those in Control: The collective ownership of economic resources inevitably becomes ownership by a single head of state. This invariably proves worse than ownership by a favoured few.
Communications Infrastructure: Public Accessibility, Individual Obligation: Individuals should be able to interact both locally and at a distance in a way which allows each the free choice between socialisation and solitude.
On a Concrete Planet a Farmer's Wisdom and Toil Will Yield Him Nothing: Move man to a barren Planet and neither his millennia of accumulated knowledge nor any amount of desperate labour will earn him salvation from instant extinction.
Why Everyone Has a Fundamental Moral Right To an Adequate Income: In a capitalist state, most own no means of transforming their labour into their needs of life. They therefore have a right to an income in lieu.
Inheritance Law Lacks the Regulatory Element of Negative Feed-Back: The capitalist rules of inheritance are relentlessly polarising ownership of our planet into the hands of an ever-diminishing proportion of its inhabitants.
Education: Can Be Universally Provided Only Through Collective Means: Knowledge is a social resource - a collective inheritance enhanced and passed on by each generation. It is the one thing the individual alone cannot supply.
Flexible Living: Everybody Needs Both A City Base and A Country Seat: The relative isolation of a country life does not suit everybody all the time. A more gregarious life-style is must also be facilitated.
Where I Work: a Matter of Practicality or Corporate Bloody-mindedness?: Where the nature of one's work allows, there is no good reason why one should not work at home. But corporate employers won't have it.
The Declaration of Human Rights is Trapped in The Context of Capitalism: The United Nations Declaration of Human rights is laudable. But united nations are united governments. Each serves the dominant interest in the country it governs.
The Hythe: The Only Fair and Equitable Way of Measuring Land: Land is complex stuff. To measure it properly, and divide it fairly, one must go back to a more ancient and meaningful way of measuring it.
If Society Be a Complex Dynamical Fluid Shouldn't Government Be Also?: When confronted with a large and complex system like society, it helps to look to nature for an analogue which can be observed more easily.
Inheritance Bond: A Concept Which Gives All a Stake in The Economy: It divides a nation's wealth equitably among its citizens. It is the convergence of political extremes. It is the final fusion of Capitalism and Socialism.
Jubilee: Vital To Stemming Today's Accelerating Polarisation of Wealth: Though not conventionally religious, I admit that the only instance of this economic principle I have come across is the Biblical law of the Jubilee.
A Natural Complex Dynamical Analogue of Human Society: The role of a molecule within the atmosphere seems to bear a similarity to the role of an individual or family within the global socio-economy.
Birthright: I hereby claim One Six-billionth of Planet Earth as my Rightful Inheritance: As one of the 6 billion human inhabitants of this planet, I claim right of occupancy and economic exploitation of one six-billionth of its resources.
Balanced Government Needs Elements From Both Ideological Extremes: Modern society is essentially a small-world network. All networks have two kinds of component - nodes and links, which are best managed in different ways.
Bill of Rights: To Protect The Person From The Corporate and The State: The individual is forever open to being strangled by recession, pillaged by corporates and trampled by elephant-footed bureaucracies mindlessly adhering to idiot rules.
The Modern Employee is The Bonded Slave of The Corporate Collective: Most believe slavery to be a thing of the past, but within the capitalist free market, slavery is alive and well and oppressing us all.
Community: The Basic Human Need For Both Socialisation and Solitude: As well as a craving for self-sufficiency and solitude, there exists, within the human mind, a fundamental need to mix and interact with others.
Statistics: Why do we End up With so Little of What the Earth Provides?: Earth's biosphere is capable of providing the needs of humanity 6 times over. There should be plenty for everybody. There is no excuse for poverty.
Union Action Hurts The Innocent Individual More The Guilty Corporate: The nature of the only means by which unions can exert pressure often causes more harm to the innocent bystander than to their corporate masters.
The Lost Inheritance, Chapter 11: Structure
Quantum Society: The effect of the mass-media shaping of public opinion is to create a society with quantum-mechanical behaviour.
DRAFT MANIFESTO - Robert J Morton: A sincere attempt at a draft Manifesto for a community-based global society.
Working Age: Defined within the context of the Draft Manifesto proposed on the book 'The Lost Inheritance'.
Land Boundaries: Defined within the context of the Draft Manifesto proposed on the book 'The Lost Inheritance'.
The Connective Force: With the old forces of religious fear, political subjugation and corporate greed finally eradicated from the planet, what force will drive humanity to self-connect into an integrated society?