Non-Profit
From 2020worldpeace
Non-profit is a way of working which promotes voluntary work.
Let every individual in society be given sufficient funds to provide the bare necessities of life: food, clothing, housing, a little entertainment. Once this minimal living threshold is met, the individual is free to volunteer his or her services to any enterprise.
This system merely relies on the unilateral efforts of individuals. Because the minimal living threshold does not provide for high rate of material consumerism, affluent lifestyles need to be altered. Companies may provide volunteers with tax-free incentives, company cars, medical insurance, tuition fees, bursaries, and so on to honour the individual’s contribution to the company’s success.
A practical widespread solution would be brought a step closer if a voluntary group is set up which would lobby for changes politically, legally, and increase the profile of such a system, and conduct the necessary administration to ensure individuals receive the minimum living threshold. Given such an organisation, companies may seek volunteers, thereby drastically cutting wages. Similarly organised groups may provide non-profit housing, cars, as well as other commodities or goods. Incentives given to volunteers may take the form of commission or credit-trust in lump sums, constituting a return for the time invested thus enabling the individual buying-power in the capital-high living conditions of modern society.
The system becomes more efficient by minimising the cost of bureaucracy, reducing the aggregates of capital, cutting out future-profits such as mortgages, pensions or insurance, in order to ensure the maximum through-flow of money. Ideally, the through-flow of money should balance the working practice, and should avoid the peristalsis which defines capitalism. Tax is replaced with the notion that working contributes to commerce which generates the commodities, goods, services, and experiences useful for society, while at the same time funding the minimum living threshold of other individuals, such as children or elders or the sick. In time, such a system, suitably efficient, should reduce workloads to minimal limits giving rise to altered work patterns such as the complete separation of entertainment from the commercial cycle, leaving a maximum industrial service of two days a week, a quarter a year, or ten years of one’s life (Institutional Deconstruction); personal service may account for another day.
Such a working system erodes the notion of ownership, replacing it with shareware which is conducive to a sustainable, eco-friendly, relationship between humans, animals and the entire global ecology (cf Veridian Clarity). Such a system can only take root with individuals who are willing to risk themselves without the support of an intermediary, well-established voluntary organisation (cf Virtual Nowhere). Volunteering while unemployed with the pretext of training and developing skills and experience, interspersed with seasonal work should enable a college- or university-leaver to survive five to ten years, given a necessary cut in the material standard of living. This may be impractical unless the subjectivity sources non-ownership deeply.
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