Advantage 52 – Economic equalisation

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life« 

»Poverty is the greatest destroyer of the environment.«

– Indira Gandhi,,

former Indian Prime Minister

There is no justification for poverty, either on ethical and moral grounds or for reasons of scientific and economic logic. On the contrary, all people in this world have a right to a life in human dignity. Differences are in order and enhance diversity. But when they go to the limits of existence or even survival, it is a damning indictment of the whole of humanity.

It is an inherent quality of the Natural Economy of Life that it creates worldwide prosperity and peace in harmony with nature. This quite clearly means equalisation between poor and rich countries and classes of society. Since there is enough for everyone, we do not have to take anything away from anyone and give it to someone else. Equalisation between poor and rich countries and classes of society thus means that those who have hitherto been poor become wealthy, while the people who already live in prosperity can keep their wealth.

I don’t know how it is with you, dear reader, but I personally can only really feel good when I see that the people around me also feel good. As long as my fellow humans are poor, I cannot really enjoy my prosperity. When the people who have hitherto been poor become wealthy, not only their quality of life is enhanced but also the quality of life of the others, who were already prosperous before.

Besides that, life will also become more peaceful. Already today the children of rich parents have to be taken to school by a guard in some cities as it would be much too dangerous for them to walk to school alone. Such a »golden cage« does not exactly contribute to quality of life for wealthy people either. Equalisation between poor and rich countries and classes of society therefore harms nobody and benefits everybody.

Advantage 56 – Immigration problem solved

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life«

»It is completely unrealistic to assume that any country in Europe is not a country of immigration.«

– Heinz Eggert

German theologian and politician, CDU [Christian Democratic Union]

People who are faring well in their homeland do not need to emigrate or even to flee. They may like to travel sometimes to see the world but they will normally return home again.

At the present time, when humanity is supposed to have reached the summit of its evolution, life circumstances are distributed very differently over the world. Many people scarcely see any other chance but to leave their homes and seek their luck abroad. Some of them put up with great ordeals and mortal dangers. They paddle out on to the open sea in small boats in the hope of reaching the life-saving shore on the other side. If they survive, they are rarely welcome there. They are put in refugee camps and face an uncertain future. The countries which are supposed to accept the refugees also have great problems. They lack money, jobs and housing and the integration of foreign ethnic groups proves to be very difficult.

As long as the Natural Economy of Life is introduced in all countries at the same time, this problem resolves itself automatically. You can live well in any country since all countries are provided with the same financial resources per capita. Challenging tasks await you everywhere and good pay is guaranteed.

Former refugees will be glad to go back home. Many of them will bring back know-how they have learnt abroad. Others will establish good business relations due to their contacts so that the equalisation between poor and rich can be accomplished agreeably and briskly. 

Advantage 61 – The previously poor gain prosperity

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life« 

»If a free society cannot help the many who are poor,

it cannot save the few who are rich.«

– John F. Kennedy

35th President of the USA

The Natural Economy of Life creates prosperity for everyone. However, our earth cannot support a prosperity such as the industrialised countries are currently living out. But this does not mean that we have to »tighten our belts«. We merely have to bring our prosperity into harmony with nature.

We will cease giving GM feed to factory-farmed animals so as to subsequently bring  their meat contaminated with antibiotics to the tables of a few privileged nations. Instead of bombarding the citizens of rich nations with lifestyle diseases while the people in other countries have to starve, we learn to grow healthy organic vegetable food regionally. People will enjoy a wide culinary diversity of regional specialities.

The new prosperity of previously poor people will be accompanied by eco-friendly production, whether of foodstuffs or other goods. Eco-friendly, untreated products are, at the same time, good for the people who use them and their use contributes to health and hence enhanced quality of life. Do you notice the positive chain reaction?

Advantage 63 – Peace

Excerpt from the book »Gradido – Natural Economy of Life«

» And I dreamed I saw the bomber jet planes riding shotgun in the sky,

turning into butterflies above our nation.«

– from the song »Woodstock«

by Joni Mitchell

Peace, what a lovely word! Don’t we all want peace? But what normally stands in the way of peace? Conflicts of interest! The old monetary and economic systems are programmed for conflict. Cut-throat competition, industrial disputes, hostile takeovers, asset strippers, debts, destruction of the environment…, all this sounds very charged with conflict. We are still living in a system hostile to life, whose most lucrative economic branch is the war industry. There cannot be peace in such a system. 

The advantages already listed show that the Natural Economy of Life manages to steer the most different of interests in the same direction so that conflicts of interest scarcely arise or can be easily solved. In a monetary and economic model inspired from nature, from which even such different groups as a flat-sharing community and an international conglomerate benefit and in which an equalisation between poor and rich countries is created for the good of all – in a system so friendly to life the potential exists to live together in peace.

This peace will be permanent as it is founded on the threefold good – the good of the individual, the good of the community and the good of the big scheme of things. A thousand-year-old human dream has a realistic chance of coming true.