From the book “How To Save The World And Have More Fun”:

Preface:

A lot of different topics are covered,

so if one doesn’t interest you feel free to skip it

and move to the next.

Chapter 1:

Summary

Private companies use a concept known as competition

which results in superior service to the customers.

Governments use a concept known as bureaucracy

which doesn't.

This article presents a plan to give the benefits

of competition to everybody on earth,

including employees.

The plan is similar to a union, but on a global scale.

It would improve life for everybody.

It gets rather involved, so if you don't read the whole thing

you might be left with an incomplete impression of it,

you would feel that it won't succeed.

It will succeed if you give it an honest chance.

Competition has been well proven to provide the best service

to the people. Governments use a one size

fits all policy, which is ok for the plurality

but usually leaves the majority wanting something better.

The following changes should start immediately,

but only in a few limited areas,

then expand gradually,

so they don't cause any disruption to existing society.

Regions:

The end goal is to split the world into about a

thousand regions. Every human on earth would be

a citizen of earth, and can pick whatever region

they want to live in, except as mentioned later.

Each regions size would be determined by how many

people choose to live there.

This way popular regions get more land and thus

are not overcrowded.

This is competition, and will result in regions giving

much better service to people compared to many of the

corrupt governments around the world today.

Regions would have to compete with each other to

offer the best possible service to the people,

else people will move to a better region, and

the unpopular region will shrink and eventually

go out of business. Can you imagine how much the

quality of life will go up for everybody because of this?

Many regions will be run by private companies,

some will still be run by governments.

Government run regions will have to compete so

you will see their level of service rise too,

though it is expected that the private regions

will be the most desirable.

Regions would be required to use binding arbitration or

other peaceful methods to resolve disputes.

Wars will no longer happen.

They must agree to the use of peaceful methods or they

will not be allowed to become a region.

All of earth will be regions, including regions that

are run by governments. More about this later.

You will see all kinds of benefits arise from this,

benefits you may not even be able to imagine now.

Labor:

One benefit would be labor improvements.

In the old days, people used to work 12 or more

hours a day. In fact some people still do, in third world

countries where they are being exploited for cheap

labor by big corporations.

Much of the world has come down and reached a plateau of

a 40 hour work week. We don't seem to be able to improve

to perhaps a 10 hour workweek.

Some regions will use more machine labor and other

improvements such as eliminating redundant or

unnecessary jobs, which will result in a pay

increase and a reduced 10 hour workweek in those regions.

Everybody who wants a job will have one,

nobody gets left out and unemployed. This is possible because

with shorter hours there can be more people working.

You will be looking at a pay increase due to the greater

efficiency of the regions as compared to the bureaucracy

of the present system,

regarding high taxes and all that.

It is common knowledge that much of the tax money

is wasted by the bureaucrats today, which is yet

another reason for change.

The purpose of all this is to have a higher standard of living.

All those efficiency improvements resulting from

regional competition will result in a surplus of

goods on the market, which means enough food to

feed everybody so no more starving children.

Don't believe it? Read the whole book before

jumping to any conclusions.

United States Vice President Cheney has publicly stated that

there are more people working as tax preparers than there are

soldiers in the army.

Can you imagine how much better off we would be if all those people

were put to work doing something useful, and the tax code was simplified?

Or do you still think the government will ever improve without any competition?

For those who are unfamiliar with the U.S. tax code, it has a

virtual encyclopedia set of regulations, loopholes, and other

useless garbage that makes it a total nightmare to calculate

taxes. Many people have to hire a tax preparer to try to figure it out.

If all those people were working on something useful instead,

they could accomplish great things for humanity.

Alliance:

One of the ways we will succeed is by forming an

alliance with all good groups on earth. This will be necessary

to have enough people to make it work.

This teamwork will enable us to accomplish our goals that we are

presently too small to accomplish.

There are a lot of things you can do to help.

In fact, we can't do this without you.

We need you to tell people about this because

some of them will join the effort and we need

everybody we can get.

The whole world is seeing freedom erode away.

Competition among regions will result in a major

increase in freedom since few people would want

to live in an unfree region.

Of course people won't actually have to move to

acquire the benefits. Due to competition,

all regions will want to improve so they don't

lose their people to other regions.

Injustice:

As long as much of the world is stuck in countries

that don't allow people to leave, then people

won't have the benefits of competition, and many

people will suffer injustices.

These injustices take the form of labor and environmental

problems, and also the crime problem.

We have already seen a huge number of people released from

prison after 20 years, when DNA evidence proved

they could not have possibly done the crime.

Other cases were a result of simple incompetence

on behalf of the government system,

botched evidence analysis, etc.

This could affect you next, or somebody you care about.

This means the real criminal is still out there posing a

danger to your family, while an innocent person is in

prison for decades.

You yourself could be the next innocent person to

be imprisoned and suffer terribly, for nothing.

All this can be avoided by the efficiency upgrade

resulting from competition.

The lives of you and your children would be immeasurably

improved if we make these improvements

to society.

You cannot wait for other people to do this for you.

It will not happen by itself, and santa is not going

to give it to you.

You need to get involved.

Otherwise you condemn all future generations

to bureaucracy, waste, decline of freedoms,

and countless other needless suffering

which will only get worse as the opportunity

for change slips away.

Future:

The future of the world can be a good one,

or we can continue with the current situation of suffering,

poverty, and injustice forever.

Remember the majority of people on earth presently

live in poverty, and this trend will continue

to expand if you allow it by failing to get involved in the

alliance. It may even start affecting your area,

stranger things have happened.

Don't take it for granted that your area is nice now, because

time passes quickly, and changes happen. Problems spread.

It may reach a point where it becomes impossible to stop the problems.

We must start discussing solutions to the problems now while we still can.

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