"Wealth-Creation" Demands Continuing "Worker/Capital" Cooperation For Competitive Success.
(EUGENE, Ore.) - Here we make no pretense to more than natural understandings of the dismal science of economics. There are, however, some few natural facts from which common-sense can deduce the most-damaging situations also highly visible to many others that can be verified through multitudinous Internet resources.
Start with this single inevitable, inescapable natural fact: "Private property depends on the rule of law."
Without that rule of law, nobody can achieve the excess-beyond-natural/need from which cometh "the capital for cooperative application" (read "investment") --from which all wealth doth necessarily flow, in this 21st Century.
The "single hunter-gatherer" role is clearly now desperately out-moded, even with working-wife assistance!
Wealth therefore must depend not only primarily, but also essentially, unavoidably, on cooperative activity. That mandates cooperation among all-involved, especially where competition with other nations is now de rigeur-unavoidable, forced via free trade impacts.
With rapid change as the only universal 21st Century expectation, ignorance OR malign intentional distortion or perversion of this inescapable reality will have "heavy, complex ascending-costs and unforeseen consequences" as universal and unavoidable sure-outcome.The Right/Far Right heavily promoted "myth of perennial government failures" always overlooks the fantastic, far-ranging, still-continuing stunning long term achievements”, including the New Deal and others; totally undermining that Reagan-era trenchant but still-erroneous line: "Government IS the problem".
When effective conditions are achieved, cooperation from capitalists and universally required work-force is absolutely essential. Those workers --the true second-foundation for any wealth-creation--must find reward-and-satisfaction also, as far too many small-business and large corporations have learned to their continuing sorrow; often carelessly -- OR carefully !-- forgotten.
Only thus can continuing competitive impact be assured; otherwise destructs the work-force. It doth no discoverer any good to find a gold mine when no shovel, ore cart, rail-run, crush --and all else demanded for cooperative exploitation-- are also demanded before one can dig and develop for profit.
Effective operation requires others to man (or, today, woman !) more-than-that one lone shovel can ever do. All the essentials for any business depend primarily and inevitably on governance to guarantee and aid in supplying: Arrival at site for serious exploration; Worker access, training, safety, compensation; Management under laws protecting public commonweal; Transport via road or river or air, for both product(s) and people; and so on, and on ...and ON!
Those services no business can do-without come primarily from government.
That’s WHY we pay taxes: To provide our equitable share of costs inevitably consequential for what government DOES that no other societal institution can do for us.
That’s why we VOTE: To put into place representative government to organize, provide, allot and guarantee what no other societal institution can do for us.
IF we don’t like how governance is operated, we can still change it (read "them"!) for better; or discard what we have and replace it --as we choose.
(From here we wrap up with some further examples and points, with kicker yet-to-come)
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