|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Social Capitalism with the variable Schmid-Tax
Economic System of the Next Generation
By: Mark Schmid
Version: 2009.12.29
|
My Asperger's syndrome was only discovered and diagnosed when I was 34, and before that, after completing school successfully, I have had the "pleasure" of frequently being unemployed and of changing jobs very often. Very often I experienced the social competition between employees for a job, especially during economic recessions. This forced me to think about the underlying problem; Why couldn't there just be good jobs for everyone? And this in turn lead me to think about communism, capitalism and their shortcomings, as well as economic systems in general.
Because I am an experienced computer programmer, I like to make analogies between computer programs and a computer's underlying operating system, and legal systems of a country and their underlying economic system. Just like a computer's operating system such as Windows or Linux runs a computer and allows programs to run, an economic system such as capitalism or communism runs a country, a nation, a people or even the entire world and allows nations to run their different legal systems on it. And just like some computer programs and operating systems are written sloppily, buggy, which means full of mistakes, or are bloated, intransparent and contain too many lines of code which nobody really understands anymore, let alone can fix them if there is a problem, so are the legal systems of some nations and their underlying economic system.
There is one very important difference though between a computer program and its underlying operating system and a country's legal system and it's underlying economic system. If things go wrong or do not perform well or as desired in a computer program, the consequences are, depending on the program, usually just wrong results or excessive processing time. With economic systems and legal systems on the other hand, when they are not well written and thought of and do not perform well, people become unemployed, must suffer hunger, die and great social unrest and even wars are the consequence.
Considering this, legal systems and their underlying economic systems seem much more important for us humans, our lives and well-being, than computer programs. All the more surprising it is to me to see how many more really intelligent and smart people there are who do nothing else all day than write and try to create better computer programs and operating systems, than people creating and trying to write better economic and legal systems. It's as if we would care more about bits which computer programs and operating systems work with, than about humans which economic and legal systems work with.
Now let's look at the similarities. There is one very important similarity between computer programs and operating systems on the one hand and legal and economic systems on the other hand. Just as a computer with a bad, buggy or faulty underlying operating system will have trouble running even the best programs successfully, so will a country or the entire world have problems running even the best legal systems successfully, if the underlying economic system isn't very well-written, is buggy or faulty. That's why even the best efforts of many nations to solve their problems by adding more and more rules to their legal system, by applying one patch after the other to upcoming problems cannot solve some of the really big problems ensuing from a buggy or faulty economic system. Just like underlying operating systems are of the highest importance for the performance of a computer and its programs, so are underlying economic systems for the performance of nations, their legal systems and even the entire world and humanity. Considering this, let's try to use our intelligence and best efforts to come up with and write a better economic system. This is important, even if we do not get paid by Microsoft or another software- or operating system company.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
