Knowing what we know now we can no longer sit back and watch the world be destroyed in the name of greed and power, without ALL nature we have nothing as people or as a society. The destruction of forests and oceans has to be stopped to preserve all life as we know it and more protection put in place for the wildlife of this planet.
Mother nature needs humanity to stand together to help, to save and to heal. When we stand together we are strong and changes for the better can be made.
This system that is in place everywhere, businesses to government is a wasteful redundancy. Think of it like a pyramid system, people at the top telling those below what to do. The only way to advance is for someone to die or advance so you can fill that spot. There is another option though, to become a boss you get a nice big bonus to your salary or whatever. The only way to do this is to make busy work and hire others that you can have do it, becoming a boss. It is a pyramid system that gets bigger by digging down into the muck rather than rising into the sky.
The solution?
If someone can get rid of their own job by shuffling the work off to someone else or getting rid of the need for it completely (most bureaucratic work was made for the sake of it) than you get a percentage of what you made for life and the option to be hired again to get rid of another job. This instantly saves the left over percentage of that wage and that useless work is gone forever. I'd wager the governments and other such institutions could run just as well on half the man power.
The point of this?
Freeing up money in the government for stuff that matters as well as people for useful work, yes this is eliminating jobs, but voluntarily.
We all know our governments are corrupt and when voting time comes around we have the same corrupt politicians to choose from. This is ridiculous, once caught in a lie, stealing, or any other form of corruption, a politician should be instantly stripped of his title and banned from politics indefinitely.
I doubt that humanity would survive (let alone progress) if religion is still infecting society as a universal whole. Here's what I'm NOT saying. I'm not saying to eliminate a person's or a group's belief. A person is free to believe in anything that gives him/her a sense of awe, whether if it's supernatural or simply poetic.
However, here's what I AM saying. If each individual can feel a sense of spiritual connections "personally", then why should any individual be dictated by a clergyman or any authority figure telling him/her that he/she is not spiritual unless they become servile to such authority?
People can have a sense of belief without authority. Why should a person be dictated in order to believe in something?
Every religion claims to be the center of all moral resources when at the same time, it has caused war, terror, misogyny, homophobia, racism, genocide and the degeneration of medical progress.
My biggest concern is that religion is tax exempt, collecting more money than government officials could possibly imagine. The Mormon religion alone has spend over $20,000,000 to ban gay marriage in California through donations from members and tax free tithing.
We are now seeing people in government with ideas to unite church and state, which is flat out unconstitutional.
I say this is something at least worth talking about.
Education is a human right. The Scots were the first civilisation to reach universal literacy. The subsequent contribution to humanity will never be surpassed. Many parts of the world have now caught up to Scotlands achievement but many still have a way to go. Africa, South America, The Middle East and Afghanistan are cases in point. In first world coutries there is a move towards user pays which is alarming. Japan holds its teachers up high with the greatest respect - this needs to be copied around the world.
Education is not indoctrination - do not deal in lies. Just ask Rudyard Kipling.
Business is terribly wasteful of the resources of the planet - fancy having different operating systems - Apple/Microsoft, Beta/VHS, Pal//NTSC/Secam, Public/Private. Pharmacuetical companies researching the same thing just ot be first. Telecommunications carriers running cables ovr the top of each other instead of sharing hte same one. It has to be like this but it is terribly wasteful.
Tax rates for businesses around the world vary from 0% to 50%. This imbalance creates too many opportunities for business to avoid paying its fair share to the running of society. In some respects maybe its time to treart business tax as a global issue. Problem is many countries want to attract business to create jobs for its citizens so lower tax is part of the carrot.
Maintaining the pillars of society.
Every country on the planet taxes its citizens in order to maintain the pillars of society. Every society(country) on the planet has defence of the land as the foremost pillar of its people. The pillar of defence is followed by health and education of the people (or at least it should be). The maintenance of law and order within the country is the next pillar (the Rule of Law). This is then followed by the provision of infrastructure, shelter, clothing and food for the people. The final pillar is freedom of opportunity within the rule of law.
If you look around the world at any country you will find an imbalance in the pillars. This is the problem - finding balance.
Taxation - tax rates around the world vary from 0% to 65%. Japan at 25%, Australia at 26% and USA at 27% are amongst the lowest in the world. If you do not raise enough taxes then you cannot fund the pillars. Appropriate tax levels are of deep concern. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are raising this issue.
Defence - The USA spend $600 billion a year, then Europe $200 billion. This is out of hand. Australia spends more on defence than education and health combined. Who exactly are we defending from and how could they invade? We need to spend less on the pillar of defence.
Health - Australia has one of the best health systems in the world and whilst there are problems they dwarf the problems globally. Third wolrd countries are crying out for basic health services. Infant mortality, AIDs, starvation are still all too prevalent. The aging of the polulation will bankrupt the global health system in the next 30 years unless resources are reallocated or we take a different approach to dying.
Education - Perhaps the single most important pillar of any society. The Scots were the first people inthe world to reach universal literacy. the legacy of their contribution to mankind will never be surpassed. Education should be free and comulsory. It should ot be indoctrination. Countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and South America as well as Afghanistan desperately need education services. In Japan, teachers are placed highly within society - this needs to be replicated around the world - not babysitting, educating.
Law and Order - the rule of law needs to be established in every country. Coutries rife with corruption such as India, Pakistan, most of South America, Italy, Turkey and Africa need help to stamp out corruption. People need to have faith in law and order.
Infrastructure, Shelter, Food and Clothing - In many countries, such as Austeralia, we take these things for granted. In many counties food is an issue - look at areas of Africa now. Yet on the other side of the world Amercia throws out hundreds of millions of dollars of food every day. The provision of shelter is an issue on a country as wealthy as America where 18 million houses lie empty yet people live n cars and under bridges on the side of the road. The faevelas of Brazil, the shanties of Africa and the slums of America - poverty is the same the world over - a work in progress.
Freedom of Opportunity - if you feel safe, are educated, healthy, have food, clothes and shelter and have an established rule of law. Only then can you pursue opportunity. This is the ultimate form of existence for mankind. to pursue individual and collective opportunity. Art, finance, business, science, research or idleness. Look around the world where yuth unemployment is over 20% - riots and civil unrest and the growing darkness of right wing ideology. Four years unemplyed and we are in trouble. Governments in Europe, Africa and America need to do more.
Finally, we only have one planert and collectively we need to look after it.
The current system of voting in GD POW, only put our proposals to compete with each other, the result will be that those who support a good idea will removed another good proposed idea, as if one was more important than the other, when in fact they all are important, and they all can complement one idea of the same nature.
To avoid people feel hopeless, about we know, we can influence the world, with our ideas.
Vote to change the voting system in the proposal i will post in the category of government, the proposal is called "Human integration on POW changing the voting system"
According to the GD POW promotional video, we're the ones in charge.
if shows anonymous, I am member number 1200
My Name: Javier
There is very extreme problems with media all over the world. They are presenting all of their news from a biased point of few forcing people to cross reference and spend their time looking at other reports to fully understand things.
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