Andrew Casey of the Pirate Party attended the New Economics Party hui and explains why you need to encrypt your emails.https://vimeo.com/130394230?utm_source=email&utm_medium=clip-transcode_complete-finished-20120100&utm_campaign=7701&email_id=Y2xpcF90cmFuc2NvZGVkfGEzOWU3YjIyNGRjODAwMDY2NjM3NjUwNWRiMTFiOTA1NjE3fDE1MzU0Njg5fDE0MzQwMDIyOTJ8NzcwMQ%3D%3D
At the recent New Economics Party Unconference in Otaki the participants decided to make their own agenda. This is the group that talked about complementary currencies. Nicole Foss, Kai Hackemesser and Andrew Casey.
Do we solve the big political problems one by one or as a whole system? We say as a whole system.You can’t do it one by one.
In a system where everything affects everything else, if you change one element it has an effect on at least one other element and sets off a chain of responses.
We have assumed there is a need to change the tax system, the money system, the welfare system and the governance system. What happens if we don’t tackle it as a whole system?
Let’s just change the tax system. The result of taking off the deadweight taxes like income tax, GST and company tax and changing to charging a rent on the monopoly use of natural resources only, we still get an increased systemic pressure from the money system for growth. The result is continuing growth of private debt at interest. The banks become more powerful than ever.
If we change the money system but don’t tackle the tax and welfare system we get huge land and resource inflation resulting in inequality and booms and busts.
If we change two of them e.g. the tax and welfare system the result is more equality but still the growth of interest bearing debt.
Change all of these but not the governance system and the result is an equal but increasingly dissatisfied population. They are disenfranchised and don’t trust the government. Democracy deteriorates.
Everything in the political economic system affects everything else.
So we to change them all together by obeying Buckminster Fuller’s warning that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
The new model that makes the existing model obsolete is this: Money is created at the smallest possible level of government by spending it into existence, not lending it into existence with interest. The rules governing the trade in that currency are made locally to turn the tax system on its head. The rules of rent are decided at local level to share the values of location of land and of monopoly resource use. A small Citizens Dividend growing to a full Basic Income is distributed. Power, function and revenue flow from the periphery to other centres to create a new system – a complex, dynamic and self regulating political economy.