In 1991, after over 30 years of study and primary thoughts, I published my ideas of the future democratic society in "Technological Democracy: A Humanistic religious doctrine of the future Society", and presented its more refined buildings in my later publications cited below. Because of the global economic crises forcing habitancy to look for a new societal ideas to replace the old corporate dominated one, I decided to issue a simplified and short version of my theory, in a manifesto form of only 64 pages for normal communal as a guide for taking performance toward changing the system. I firmly believe this is the ideas of the future world which will materialize within this century. It will save many lives and opportunities if we understand it now and take performance to materialize it before it gets too late to stop wide-spread violence and bloodshed.
The economic opinion presented here is a part from a new scientific ideas of technological democratic society which is thought, sooner or later but ultimately, to replace the gift two centuries old chaotic and outdated ideas of, so called, representative democracy. habitancy in nearly all industrialized and some developing countries are earnestly looking for a modern but just and fair ideas to replace it. The total and information buildings of this new societal system, which is presented in three books (over 1000 pages), obviously cannot be properly presented here. The reader needs to have this in mind when some questions arise. However, insight it with a little use of logic and mental is quite simple, since the scientific base of the ideas rests on the application of a particular principle of equality of opportunity.
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Our Constitution assuredly covers the principle of equality of opening but suppose, to explain it, we pass an amendment to our constitution recognizing equality of opening as an individual right in every aspect of daily life. This immediately expands democracy to cover the whole ideas of the societal life: economic, political, as well as social. Let's see what happens to the cheaper of the country and along with it to individual liberties, political process, communal order, employment rights, and equality regardless of race, gender, culture, and religion. Here is a very brief catalogue of it..
The New Economic Theory
The manner by which property is produced, owned, and used, determines the economic buildings of a society and, to a huge degree, its communal and political characteristics. A important health for economic democracy is the equitable distribution of capital among the habitancy and dispersed operate over its use.
The Principle of Unjust Enrichment
The principle of equality of opening prescribes that every person has full authority of operate and administration of anything he or she owns while his lifetime, but no one in a technological democratic society is allowed to gain opening over others through accumulation of wealth by profits achieved by exploitation and subjugation of others, or free transfer of assets. This principle is known as "prohibition of unjust enrichment." Such accumulation is allowed only through individual's own labor. Thus, no one can be enriched through heritage or receiving property or assets without a comparable compensation. The think is that such enrichment will disturb equality of opening by increasing one's opportunity, without his personal efforts, over those of others. heritage is allowed only to the extent that it does not affect equality of opportunity. Profit is other form of unjust enrichment since the capitalist receives it through exploitation of workers as well as consumers. It unjustly enhances the opening of the capitalist against workers and others. However, a nationally specified number of return from the use of capital is justified.
Capital and Capital Accumulation
While capital is still one of the main military of production, its characteristics is quite different with that under capitalism or socialism. Also the capital accumulated through savings from a worker's own earnings, in order to attain equality of opportunity, each worker has also other source of capital accumulation. It is a thought about number of shares of his employer's firm he receives every month along with and as a part from his salary. This process gently and peacefully transfers capital from the capitalist to the worker allowing him or her increasing voice in the execution of the firm. A unique and remarkable supervene is attained by this process of transition; the divergence in the middle of the capitalist and working class disappears and both join together into one. It is important to note that the working class under this ideas embodies anything working in any output process from its top managers to its least great one.
The accumulated capital by the workers under this program stock-holding is non-transferable, but it remains under the possession and operate of the worker. It replaces the gift communal security system, providing him or her with income adequate for a modest but comfortable living standards after retirement. Like communal Security, after the death of the owner, this non-transferable capital reverts to a communal society known as the communal Consumption Fund responsible for providing free health care and free study for all. However, in order to diversify his or her non-transferable holdings, the worker may transfer part of his or her firm's non-transferable stocks with non-transferable stocks of other fellowships in the stock market. In reality, these stocks are a part from the communal capital in circulation providing a collection of useful functions, all under individual and secret control. In addition, of course, the worker has capital accumulation by savings from the salary, income from capital investments in output firms, income from nontransferable stocks, and inheritance. The worker has full operate over all these assets while his or her lifetime.
The Working Class, Shared opening and Employment Right
The application of equality of opening creates a new mode of output eliminating exploitation and gently making the worker a full participant in output and distribution process. At the workplace, it creates different opening levels based on each individual's study and experience.
Under equality of opportunity, employment is an individual right because there is no such equality gift in the middle of those employed with those unemployed within the same level of competence. Each practice must contribute employment for any applicant corresponding to his or her level of competency through the use of the principle of "shared opportunity" derived from the equality of opening principle. It requires that each employed person within the firm at the same level of competency as those unemployed applicants, to give up a small quantum of his employment opening (e.g. 1-4 hours out of 40 hours per week) to contribute the same employment opening for the applicants. The opinion of contribute and examine at each level of opening stabilizes the employment store for this and any other level of work nationwide. Shared opening causes full employment and lifetime job security for anything desiring to work.
Work, Education, and Pay System
The normal level of recompense is thought about by a normal position classification at the national level calculated and established by the National Economic and output Council (Nepc) by the aid of the Technodem, which is a national independent, self controlled electronic ideas and important instrument in proper application of equality of opportunity, also known as the people's best and trusted friend. The Technodem by having passage to prices of all goods and services and the cost of living, calculates and reports to Nepc the number of minimum wage required for a minimum living standard. The Nepc designs a model position classification and pay ideas accordingly. This is fed to the Technodem adequate to supervise its application in every practice hiring workers. Each output firm then, following the national model, establishes its own position classification and pay ideas and feeds it into the Technodem which at once compares it with the national model, and reports back discrepancies, if any, to be corrected. The position classification within each firm does not have to be exactly the same as the national model but it has to fit into the range specified by that model.
Education
In technological democracy, after twelve years of normal education, the work ideas and study merge together. Everyone is required to complete the normal study program. It consists of four years of preschool study starting at age three up to seven; four years of elementary and four years of secondary education. It contains a condensed curricula from grade one through twelve. After completing this educational program, the person who is about fifteen years old, begins to work part-time while starting his higher study full-time. His study program is equally divided in the middle of general-humanistic and professional-technical parts. The first part, develops him as a democratic person, deeply devoted and committed to the principle of equality of opportunity. However, the core part of his humanistic study is achieved through his or her 12-year of normal education. By the age of 22, he or she achieves the knowledge level of an Ma degree under our gift system, and starts to work full-time and continues his studies part time for the rest of his working years. Every worker at the time of retirement, which arrives at his early 50s after 30 years of work, accumulates knowledge, far beyond the Ph.D. Level, the highest degree in higher study offered today. This higher level of knowledge is required and important in a highly scientific and technological and ever-changing life environment at work as well as at home. This part-time study is a part from the worker's required working hours; for a 40 hour-per-week work program, he works 32 hours and studies 8 hours. Everyone starts the life from scratch and gently moves to a high position and high income by the time of official retirement. There remains still two or more decades of active life left for each individual after seclusion to enjoy life without worry spending it in leisure, art, music, tour or other creative and desired ventures.
The Government
The technological democratic society is based on the opinion of the least government being the best. Accordingly, the national government has no domestic line functions. All national departments except for defense and State, all regulatory agencies and welfare programs are discarded. The state governments are down-sized by about 40 percent; while the size and responsibilities of local governments are increased by about 20 percent. The Technodem, output firms and local communal organizations carry out most of the needed communal functions. Under this ideas there is an improbable expansion of individual possession and freedoms, free education, fee health care, employment rights, and old age benefits all under full individual and secret control.
The Transition Process
The transition has to be through a peaceful process, thus, it needs to be gradual stretching from two to four decades. The following is the process proposed here field to transfer or modification if great ways are found.
The first and immediate step is to legalize the principle of equality of opening through a constitutional amendment, if it fails, then through a national constitutional convention. Immediately after its passage, build a temporary National Economic and output Council(Nepc) ( See We the People, cited below, Fig. 5, p.49). Its first task is to create a temporary national position classification and pay ideas based on a minimum wage calculated by the Technodem. For example, at .00 per hour minimum wage and 5 percent every year increase, the minimum every year pay will start from 640 at the age 15 rising to about 0,000 at the age of seclusion at 53. This is the highest executive pay any worker may receive at the time of retirement. It must be noted that under the new ideas there is no individual income tax, or other taxes such as communal security and Medicare. Thus, these incomes are equivalent to the real income at the gift after all deductions for taxes.
All employers are required to classify their employment and pay ideas agreeing to the national model established, and feed it into the National Economic and output Council's computer. This is the introductory creation of the Technodem which plays important role in supervising and sustaining the democratic system. As the output firms prepare their own position classification and pay system, following the national model and feed them into the Neoc computer, the Technodem progresses in its facts warehouse and ability in taking over the administration of the application of the principle of equality of opening at the workplace and ultimately its application in political and communal aspects of daily life.
The period of transition will not be an easy one. There will be a need for good and sharp thinkers to flat out the process. If Congress refuses to recommend the equal opening amendment to the Constitution or obstacles are created by the national and state governments in calling for a National Constitutional Convention, the habitancy will have no selection but resort to a normal strike, as defined by the French philosopher George Sorel, until it succeeds. The nation may need a temporary commission composed of highly great individuals to put into supervene the new system, supervise its progress, make important adjustments for its proper operation, and eliminate the old departments and agencies when they become irrelevant, together with the Congress and presidency when it becomes standard to setup the new National Legislative and Coordination Assembly and the National executive Council. This must be the people's commission and its members chosen by the habitancy or their chosen representatives.
In a technological democracy, the communal goal and tasteless purpose, for which society is to be organized, concern itself in providing equality of opening for everyone. In such an fulfilled, society:
1. Everyone starts life from the scratch. There are neither rich nor poor under the gift meaning of the terms.
2. Everyone receives 12 years of free normal study up to the age 15. Not only it is totally free but no obstacle can be created to hinder it.
3. Everyone starts to work part-time at age 15, starts full-time at the age 22, and works until retirement, never facing unemployment.
4. Everyone continues his/her study full-time after the age of 15, while working part-time, and continues part-time after the age of 22, as a part from his/her work program, until retirement. Such study consists of a balanced combination of technical-professional, liberal arts, and humanities subjects. It is reduced to two courses on each field per year after the age 22, when the worker assumes full-time position.
5. Everyone receives free health and preventive care for life.
6. Everyone, starting from zero, gently becomes a part owner of output of goods and services. These possession shares, which replaces the gift communal security ideas but fully privatized, are destined for the support of the owner after his/her retirement, and thus are not transferable.
7. Everyone works full-time for at least 30 years or equivalent of it.
8. Equivalent to one-fifth of the working hours are allocated to
education. Accordingly, for a 40 hours per week work, the person works for 32 hours and studies for 8 hours.
9. Promotion is based on the level of study and years of experience, liberal art study having the same significance as the technical or professional.
10. The age of seclusion depends on the contribute of the young labor force for the purpose of allowing them equal opening for employment. However, to certify a comfortable seclusion life, no capable person works for less than 25 years full-time before retirement. The normal seclusion occurs after 30 years of full-time work.
11. After retirement, which more likely occurs when an individual is in his early 50s, he or she has adequate non-transferable assets accumulated to bring him or her returns adequate for a uncomplicated but comfortable living standards. In addition, through his or her personal savings, he or she has other transferable assets under his or her full control.
12. All optional communal positions:
a. Require very high qualifications relating to study and experience.
b. Are temporary and no one is elected for the same office for more than one term. Also other benefits, this also allows opportunities to a greater number of well great retired citizens to hold communal office and serve the people.
c. These two requirements would allow a great opening of being elected to retired individuals since they are great educated and well experienced and are not looking for a permanent position. They are still young, but matured and capable of fruitful participation in the communal policy-making process and communal service.
13. As a supervene of democratic norms and technological developments, family life is transformed from its primary form into a democratic unit; parents being responsible, though in a different manner, for upbringing of the children up to the age of 15, after which the child, who is thought about an adult, enters the labor store and is thought about independent.
14 By the time of retirement, the family, more likely because of voluntary birth and habitancy control, has no children to take care of; and free from this responsibility, the couple, if they desire to remain together, has many years of economically secure, very fruitful, still productive, dynamic, and enjoyable life.
15. After death, a huge part of an individual's wealth, agreeing to the principle of equality of opportunity, is returned to society, through the communal Consumption Fund, to support free services such as health care and
education for the new generation which is also to start from the scratch.
16. Though some individuals accumulate more wealth than others, the divergence is not so great to cause class distinction. Furthermore, such
difference is only for the life of the person and disappears upon his death. In reality, this is a classless society with minor variations in material ownership.
17. An individual's obligatory relationship is within his family and his workplace. Outside these areas, he remains free to enjoy life with a great many things and means accessible to him in an infinite collection of combinations.
18. In its narrow application, equality of opening does not allow individual competition where the intention is to take opening from person against whom the individual is competing. However, equality of opening not only allows but encourages each individual to compete against himself or herself to become great than what he or she already is. This is quite different from competitive against a designated person even it may give the same result. Open competition is the backbone of the democratic store operation, but, it is free of fraudulence, propaganda, and false commercials. Self competition should be the motto of output here as well. It causes the output of great goods or services resulting in marketing success The exact specifications of the products are stated and left to the consumer to make the choice. Unlike the gift situation where commercials are forced on the habitancy by being inserted into television or radio programs, no one is forced, through any means, to watch or listen to commercials.
19. The wealth of a society is the sum total of individual wealth plus all natural and other resources which belong to the society as a whole. However, the important part of the wealth of a society is not economic and material, but technological in the form of knowledge, experience, and means which is the way of doing things.
20. More important than the output of wealth is its equitable distribution among the working class, field only to the level of knowledge, and experience. Every worker receives nearly the same number of income in the full period of his or her work as the others. There will be some differentiation but it will not be so great to upset equality of opportunity. Each worker starts with the minimum wage and gets more as he or she climbs the ladder to higher positions or become great educated and more experienced. By the time of retirement, each worker is a high ranking official in his or her firm regardless of type of work he or she is assigned to perform.
21. In a democratic system, there is no class buildings or class distinction. Differentiation is only at the work place, based on the level of knowledge, experience, and expertise. Working class refers to all working individuals together with members of the board of directors, chief executives down to the least experienced.
22. The proper function of government is to establish, profess and periodically revise the standards required by the principle of equality of opportunity, particularly relating to group of labor and compensation. The national government has no domestic line functions except some supervisory authority in the areas relating to the national consumption fund such as education, healthcare, and corresponding standards. Government is reduced to its minimum functional size.
23. secret wealth totally belongs to the individual for life. It is a wealth initiated, created, and accumulated through his/her own labor, use of his/her assets and not through profits by exploiting others.
24. communal wealth mainly constitutes of the society's natural resources. They belong to the society as a whole, and therefore, net proceeds created belong to the people. Equality of opening does not allow any secret possession of natural resources such as oil, gas, minerals, and forests. Such resources may be leased to specific firms to operate. anything is left after paying for all expenses together with depreciation of tool, machineries and other properties used for output purpose, goes to communal Consumption Fund and used for communal benefit.
25. The electoral ideas is managed by the Technodem, The only thing a candidate needs to do is to enter his or her name for the office he or she seeks to be elected, into the Technodem's list for that office. No additional facts is needed, because the Technodem knows all about each individual in the society. It will gift each individual's qualifications in three categories: personal, educational, and experience, and rank each candidate in each category. However, each candidate may have his or her own electoral website and may place in it additional facts he may think useful for his campaign. No voter is obliged to vote for Technodem's first choice, Each voter selects his or her candidate from this list and votes for him or her, through the Technodem's electoral website, on the determination day.
26. Political parties as we know of them today are eliminated since there is no need or justification for their existence or other organizations for electoral purposes. The electoral process is electronic, simple, and abuse free; while the determination day, each great individual inserts his or her electronic Id card into the computer, it is checked against his or her background. If great he or she votes from anyplace in the world for the candidate of his or her selection for the national, state or local office.
27. There is a total secret possession of the means of output of
goods and services. This possession is highly dispersed with no concentration in the hands of a few.
28. Giant corporations are automatically disintegrated into some smaller institutions once the workers take over the management. Huge overhead expenditures are saved.
29. A new free store cheaper is established with fair and open competition based on equality of opportunity.
30. No individual taxes, no property taxes, and no communal security taxes.
31. There is security of environment, preservation of natural resources, and meaningful use of them for communal benefit and keeping them in proper shape for the future generations as the equality of opening requires.
32. A great outcome of this ideas is the disappearance of all economic, political and communal interest groups. There won't be any need or requirement for their existence. People, for the first time become free of all pressures, demands, and restriction of thousands of such organizations that exist today together with all charitable organizations. What a remarkable freedom this would bring.
Morality Under Technological Democracy
The moral boundaries of technological democracy are very broad based on the principle of equality of opportunity. No conceivable tasteless ethical code can be overall adequate to cover nearly boundless domain of these moral possibilities relating to such values as honesty, integrity, humility and freedom. It is impossible for any mind to comprehend the infinite collection of individual freedoms and good deeds ensuing from this foundation of morality. Whether one's interests town around his or her own well-being, or the welfare of others, regardless how broad and extensive these interests may be, the end that the individual may be involved with, is always only an infinitesimal fraction of what could be inherent under this democratic system. It is within these nearly limitless confines that the individual strives for his life liberty and race of happiness.
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References:
The following books and articles explain in information a quite complex ideas of a humanistic future society. Some 30 years of the author's time has been spent in its development. The readers are requested to be inpatient and deeply aware in its insight and interpretation. After Karl Marx's ideas of communism which ended up to be utopian and not assuredly applicable, this is the second scientific societal ideas based on think and logic; it is also pragmatic and practical. For the author's brief biography and books cited below and some relevant articles see his website and http://www.ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dr._Reza_Rezazadeh
Technological Democracy: A Humanistic religious doctrine of the future Society, 1990, pp.365.
Technodemocratic Economic Theory: From Capitalism and Socialism to Democracy, 1991. Pp.359.
Passage to a Just Society: Secrets of Democratic Life, freedom and Happiness. 2003. Pp. 374.
We the People: Democracy as a System, a Humanistic religious doctrine of the future Society, 2010. Frederick, Maryland.: issue America, pp. 64.
This book is a very brief and uncomplicated presentation of the ideas to the normal communal and a guide for a national movement and performance together with the normal strike. For those curious in forming a flourishing movement or action, reading the author's article about the normal assault and some writings from the French philosopher George Sorel concerning his ideas of normal assault are recommended.
It must be noted that when the first two books were published in early 1990s, Vice President Al Gore had not yet invented the Internet.
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