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*scribblings from my mental scratchpad*
societal evolution
by: Marx Vergel Melencio
*The Worsening Global Economic Situation and its Connection with the Increasing Poverty in the Philippines and most less-developed countries*
Global trade has worsened the economic stability and stunted the should-be economic growth (should-be in terms of certain technological advancements), in
most nations rather than improving it. Only the international capitalists and imperialist countries are reaping the benefits of such global trade agreements
and the seemingly free global market.
My case in point is supported by these citations I have made as seen in what is currently happening within less-developed nations: on-going retrenchments
of the labor-intensive workforce; local industries closing and disappearing at such a rate that would bring forth the inevitable extinction of the local business sector along with the nation's destruction if further progression to this direction continues; the exportation of scarce resources by such nations (which are much needed by its constituents and/or which they are lacking from); the increasing gaps between the different social classes and capital-oriented and labor-intensive nations; and the increasing imbalance of the distribution of wealth and resources.
With this, I have come to think of an evolutionary system of change which I call 'the self-sufficient society'. In this society, the ideologies and basic principles of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations' and Karl Marx's 'Communist Manifesto' are fused and revised into a single system that would be applicable
to present global situations. A similar experiment was done by a social scientist named Richard Owens, but his experiment crumbled after running only for less than 5 years. His experiment failed because, probably, his system included the use of monetary units within the local trading system of his experimental society.
I think that the use of monetary units for and within the society's internal trading and economic system should be abolished and replaced by the use of every member of the society's work output in terms of hours dependent on the levels of productivity, without giving more importance to white-collar jobs than blue-collar and/or labor-intensive ones, but rather an equal level of importance should be given to every job and service needed for the society's continued development and existence.
With this system, the ownership of land and capital-oriented businesses would be abolished and passed to the management and distribution of the nation's republic for the purpose of providing the needs and meeting demands of each and every member of the nation.
And, with this system, a specific percentage of the nation's entire population would be divided and assigned for the purpose of overall management of: its agricultural resources; the energy distrubution and production it needs for itself; its water resources, its internal and external security; housing for
all its constituents; education; medical expertise and service; technological and scientific research; communications and information distribution technologies both internal and external; literature and art development; transportation; and its natural resources, to name a few of a nation's necessities - taking
into consideration only the amount of productivity and output it needs to sustain itself and all its constituents.
And, if a nation lacks a certain resource that is necessary for its own sustainability, the nation would then plan ahead, exerting additional work input in order to produce more of a certain resource
it is abundant of for the sole purpose of trade with a nation which is abundant of the resources it lacks and lacks the resources the self-sufficient nation
is offering to trade. In the first few years of this system, such trade-offs would utilize monetary units, which is acceptable as long as its utilization would remain external and for the purpose of trade.
Therefore, with this system, even as the population of the nation's constituents increases with time, each member would continue to have jobs waiting and assigned for them, for the purpose of assigning their specific jobs are for their own sustainability, and such levels of sustainability increases with
each member added to the nation's population, so a job assignment would always be waiting in order to meet the demands of additional work input for production outputs to meet the demands of increasing sustainability due to inevitable population growth.
And, no resource that the nation is abundant of would be allowed to enter the local market in order to preserve/maintain the balance of its internal economic sector. But, a member of the nation would always be allowed to migrate to other countries or leave for other nations, either permanently or for a short time, because if one leaves the nation, the lessened overall work input would always equal the needed overall production output, therefore economic equilibrium would always be present. Thus, for example, a father of three to four dependents decides to migrate elsewhere, it would be probable to assume that he would be sending something that he earns within the nation he migrated to - this would more or less be money, and other stuff abroad - these would all be managed by the nation's republic, either converting it to monetary units which would be added to the nation's trading treasure (the monetary units used
for importing resources it lacks), and the resources the nation is exporting as trade for the import resources would be lessened and the produce subtracted would then go to the man's three dependents, or the stuff he is sending could also be converted to resources his three dependents need, such as food, energy, water, education, etc., therefore again maintaining the nation's economic and social equilibrium. But, then again, if the man becomes destitute and abandons his three dependents, the extra work input needed to sustain the three dependents would be distributed evenly - giving an additional estimated three to five minutes
of work input by each working member of the nation, which would be negligible for the nation's workforce members. Plus, of course, the man's own needs and demands for resources to sustain himself and survive would be subtracted from the nation's former total production/resource outputs needed to sustain
all its constituents and itself - therefore maintaining stability and equilibrium of the nation's economic and social system because the man's former work and production inputs (while being within the nation/nation's system) would always be equal to his resource needs and demands.
And, to top it all off, groups that are presently causing, to some critical extent, destabilization, would soon disappear because the change took place in an evolutionary fashion, and not in a revolutionary one, for always there would be contradicting forces opposing a system forced upon them.
- this system should start first in a small-scale level (say a community of 100,000 families) and left to take its natural course. Neighboring communities would positively take in the changes they are seeing in the community, and the system would spread further and further until a nation with this self-sufficient system is
born, and its progression would only stop until it encompasses all the nations in the global reality, creating a global community behind a system of self-sufficiency.
If human evolution took more than 10,000 years for us to be in our present state, the time it would take for the communal/societal evolution in order to attain this system, would no more be a tenth (in relation to human evolution) be as long. Although we may think that societal evolution would take far longer than individual human evolution before attaining this system, let us not forget that individual human evolution was more of a biological one than
an intelluctual one, and the individual intellectual evolution took less than 500 years from the 'Rennaisance' period to the Industrial Age, therefore it would be probable to assume that the societal evolution towards this system would even take a shorter time because of certain technological advancements in the field of communications and information dissemination
- and technological developments promise an even larger scenario of change -
...the abolition of manual labor as being seemingly forced work inputs, to manual labor being recreational...
by: Marx Vergel Melencio
*for completion in due 'imaginary time'*
- Marx Vergel Melencio
*'this paper or document was written for the sole purpose of discussing, which the author deems as having highly probable content, personal concepts regarding the subject matter, and not, in any sense, of having the purpose of discussing a concept of, or with, substantial finality, nor any other purpose for that matter... I, like all rational human beings on this planet, have brains that have its own unique way of processing information, specifically its information-filtration process, and I, just like every rational human being with the same unique properties of each's brains, am restricted, or limited, by such processes of information-filtration, which contains me to my own judgement to deem what is acceptable, or even considerable - at least to my own standards -, and dismiss, or reject, anything I deem, based on my own, much like every rational human being's own, unique process of information-filtration, unacceptable or flawed... though, as I am, again, along with every rational human being on this planet, armed with my own unique information-filtration process, I am always ready to revise, or even completely change, the information stored inside this head of mine whenever information I, again, deem as acceptable comes along... - marx*
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