My vision of an ideal world is one in which every person is self-fulfilled, self-confident, self-responsible, and self-determined, acting and harvesting from their higher will, shaping their lives freely, consciously, empowered, and independently.
Especially in the professional world, where we spend most of our daily lives. Work that we have to do transforms into work that we want to do, eliminating the need for constant regeneration from one's profession or retirement.
Competition and rivalry serve the sacred purpose of showing you where you can further recognize your uniqueness and originality, enlivening this world and adding momentum.
Marketing transforms into a pure networking and information service since there is no longer a need to sell something that others do not need. Instead, you are simply yourself, and there is no more lack of external identity to exploit for one-sided gain.
Entrepreneurs take on the sacred task of creating an external framework for the self-realization of others as part of their own self-fulfillment, rather than for profit maximization.
Fluctuations in the value of currencies, real estate, or labor no longer exist because the value of a product or service is no longer determined by supply and demand but solely by its quality, uniqueness, and effort involved.
Any form of economic activity based on value fluctuations, such as the interest system, is eliminated. Lending money could be institutionalized by the state, removing the profession of "investor" whose aim is to have others work for them. Investments remain essential but are based on self-fulfillment rather than profit maximization.
Employees, employers/entrepreneurs, self-employed individuals, and investors are all on equal footing. There are no hierarchies since everyone has their unique role and equally important function.
This ideal, free-spirited world of togetherness includes an appropriate and fair energy exchange. This can take the form of money, appreciation, or an increase in inner wealth (insight, wisdom, fulfillment, growth, further development).
Everything should always be a win-win situation so that one person's abundance is not based on another's lack. This way, the zero line in a world of polarities and dualities is continuously raised, and human society "ascends." The extreme gap between extreme wealth and extreme poverty transforms into the next higher stage of development.
Concrete Implementation Approach
The ideas of the aforementioned inspirations can be very well combined. Here is an initial "draft":
→ In the humane market economy, surpluses ("free capital" according to Rudolf Steiner) flow into a solidary monetary value storage (something like a "central bank for everyone and everything") (Peter Haisenko).
→ Money is secured in circulation (Silvio Gesell; Rudolf Steiner: "Aging Money"), meaning it can no longer be hoarded. This eliminates power concentration and the wealth gap.
→ Interest/compound interest (fiat debt money system) with its consequences of perpetual growth pressure and theft of time through private money creation is abolished (Michael Ende). The money supply remains stable and is linked to the real economy (Peter Haisenko and Rudolf Steiner).
→ The distribution of free capital flows back into the threefold social organism (Rudolf Steiner; spirit, law, economy) in the form of loan money (credits to promote a fraternal economy) and gift money (to pay intellectually productive workers, such as in education, culture, social services, etc.).
→ An institution from the cultural sector distributes the funds, remaining independent from the economy and the legal sector (politics). The function of the unitary state is essentially limited to legislation and security (Rudolf Steiner).
→ There are no employees and employers. There are only work providers and work coordinators on equal footing. The revenue from manufactured products is shared fairly, and income is decoupled from performance (Rudolf Steiner).
→ Retirement provision is managed independently through contributions to the monetary value storage, which is stable in value due to the lack of inflation, making future planning reliable. Prices for goods and services remain stable and decrease as they are freed from interest costs (Peter Haisenko).
→ Basic social security (secured basic income and basic medical care) is funded by a percentage deduction from final product sales, while social hardship cases are financed through credit fees (loan money) (Peter Haisenko, partly Götz Werner).
→ Trade deficits and surpluses with other countries are always balanced. The goal is a globally aligned income level and decentralized (regional) economies (Peter Haisenko).
→ Land reform (Silvio Gesell) is no longer necessary since unearned income (rent, lease) is taxed while maintaining maximum price regulations. This helps finance the remaining (streamlined) state (Peter Haisenko).
→ No taxes on labor (Peter Haisenko). The state focuses on the legal system and internal and external security (Rudolf Steiner).
→ The foundations are laid for a purely appreciation-based economy (Bernd Hückstädt).
→ The transition to the new system will be driven both by the inevitable collapse of the current system and by consciousness, but most importantly, it will be non-violent (Mahatma Gandhi). To avoid repeating past mistakes, educational efforts are necessary, and these are already underway in many places.
→ The ultimate goal is a solidary (fraternal) economy with free education and culture that is not dependent on law and economy, as well as a legal system that is independent from economic influence. Capitalism transitions into humanism.
Does this heartfelt wish of mine reach you? I cannot transform the current system alone, so I warmly invite you to step into my world and co-create it or take up the idea and develop it further.
