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17 May 2012 @ 12:59, by Shreepal Singh
All humans on Earth as living beings form a crowd of a kind among many; they are a group – a species – that is distinct from the other groups, like animals, trees, insects etc. and is defined by certain specific properties that keep them together as a class apart from others. But this crowd is not homogeneous in all aspects of those common properties. They greatly differ from one another in many respects. This crowd is akin to a caravan on the march: some are in the front of this crowd leading the caravan; some are in the mid-position moving onward on the track carved out for them by those who are in the front; and, then there are those who are positioned at the rear; legging behind and ready to fall off the marching crowd; they find them forced to keep-up by the moving caravan and to somehow move on. All humans are born equal because they all are equal part of this crowd; because they all are equal part of this marching caravan.
But they all are not equal in station in the crowd despite being equal part of this crowd; they all are not equal in place occupied in the marching caravan despite being equal part of the same. Human beings are the product of life’s evolution on Earth and they are as they are – with all their similarities and with all their differences; it is all natural and we humans need not be apologetic about this state of affairs. Despite there being colossal similarities of genes – the biological building blocks of life – among all humans, there are difference there in many respects, which produce many differences among them in many important respects. Then, there are dissimilarities among humans in the matter of state of development of their conscience, mental, emotional and physical formations. By making arrangement to supply all those inputs that are necessary to sustain life – here we mean human life - and further develop it, it is possible for us to help those who are lagging behind to catch-up with those who are middle-positioned in the human-caravan; help those who are middle-positioned to inch forward towards those who are leading in the forefront; and by this arrangement augment the number and the strength of the front rankers of our race.
Every human mind is a processing machine, much like a computer that receives an input data, processes it and produces an output result; human mind – when optimized to its capacity by providing it all that it takes to make it accomplished – observes nature, receives data – scientific information – as an input, processes this data in an ingenious way and provides an output in the shape of scientific discoveries.
A society that makes arrangement for the provision of necessities of life to everybody and guarantees to everyone an incentive to work to his or her optimum capacity produces the maximum number of front rankers who pave the path and direction of humanity’s caravan. Such a society has an effective extra edge in our intra-race competitive environment; such a society is much superior to the rest of competitive segments of human organization; such a society is the fittest in the intra-groups struggle for survival and the most efficient for the marching caravan of humanity as an species in the matter of input-output ratio. However, in what manner these two elements – two requirements – can be put in place for crafting this efficient society, are the bitterest bone of contention and the chief source of conflict among rival sections of humanity in modern times; this conflict may give way to a war that may be fought even with mass-destroying weapons annihilating our race.
We humans have come a long way in our evolutionary journey; we are rational beings and can think in an unbiased manner. Though we know, we humans – like all other kinds of life on Earth – are evolving on an evolutionary ladder; and it takes us long – a very long – time to advance ourselves a little notch upwards on this evolutionary scale to bring any perceptible change in our thinking. Still, we are developed enough to realize that human society can be crafted artificially – by sheer understanding and planning – in a way that brings in these two elements – the elements of human welfare and human freedom - to make them part of the structure. Humans are what they are: always motivated by their instincts; instincts of preservation; dominance; procreation. All those things that give humans the means to preserve, dominate and procreate always attract and motivate them.
Humans are humans and not animals because they produce commodities that satisfy their wants; and animals are animals and not humans because they do not produce commodities. Commodities are artificial articles produced by the human-work when it is applied to the material things offered by Nature as free gift. A commodity is commodity only because it en-capsules within the body of some material thing freely offered by Nature a historical succession of human-work. This succession of human work commencing in pre-historic times and culminating in our modern times remains ever present within commodity in the form of scientific knowledge, technology, machinery, work-force management and required societal production-enabling factors. A piece of commodity apart from having the capacity to meet human wants and thus being of value to humans, is also an anthropological record of the scientific progress made by those humans who produced that commodity.
Commodity is wealth for humans because in their struggle for survival it is a means for them to accomplish their objectives of preservation, dominance and procreation. Commodity, and today services also, is wealth and the accumulation of commodities is the accumulation of wealth; but it is the simplest form of wealth and its accumulation. When commodities – or wealth - are accumulated by someone not for the purpose of consuming them to fulfill his wants but to use them as a means to produce some more commodities – or wealth – with a motive not to consume the production, this simplest form of wealth assumes a complex character. Still, the basics of its character remain the same; commodity retains its character of its capacity to fulfill human wants; it remains the wealth for humans; these commodities – wealth - can be exchanged – or bartered; this wealth can be used either for the consumption of the producer or for producing by him more wealth; wealth can be exchanged through a medium of currency or even by a highly artificial medium of points, drawing rights, credits etc. (so long as these artificial things are backed by hard-reality commodities and precisely accounted for).
A commodity bears within it a very precise quantity of human-work (though in many forms) and of material element taken from Nature; and, if the human work ingrained in it in various forms is accounted for and paid for accordingly, a commodity – or its accumulation as wealth – can never yield any profit whether this commodity is used for consumption or for production of more commodities. It is the human-work in a commodity, which is not accounted for and paid for accordingly, that generates profit; it is variously termed as surplus value, profit, wealth generation etc.; and, the profit comes at the cost of economic exploitation by not accounting for the human-work involved in the production of commodities and by not paying for this work accordingly.
As all humans in our race are not equal in their capabilities, the front rankers of the race – who are less in numbers – find them possessed with the required vision, capacity and initiative to produce commodities for the sole purpose of using this wealth to produce more commodities; the mid-positioned good numbers of humanity of our race find them the willing collaborators in this profiteering venture; and, at the rear – the tail – of this human caravan, a really a vast majority, find them compelled to either work in this profiteering production on dismal conditions or to go unemployed and starve. The rear of the crowd is compelled because it has no vision and capacity to take initiative.
The two elements in our society – the elements of economic welfare and the freedom – do not co-exist together; they are antagonistic; you are given freedom; freedom to think; to have vision; to take initiative; to produce commodities. And, you employ those who are behind you in capacity; to take work from them and do not account for their work and pay accordingly to earn profit; you exploit them economically. Conversely, you produce commodities, account for the human work involved, pay for accordingly and you kill the motive to have vision, take initiative and produce commodities. If there is no profit, there is no wealth; if there is no wealth, there are no advantages associated with it in accomplishing the objectives of preservation, dominance and procreation.
What is the alternative way to offer to the front rankers of our race the effective and equally powerful motive – different from wealth generated by profit – to have vision, to take initiative and to produce commodities? This is the profound question the humanity is faced with today; it is necessary to solve this question in a mathematically precise manner to avert humanity’s social conflict and awaiting catastrophe.
Accumulating wealth by not accounting for the human-work involved in the production process and by earning profit by not paying accordingly is not the only way for wealth-accumulation that can be available to the front rankers humanity; there may be many other ways, which can be crafted by intelligent sections of our race to meet the demands of our times. It is possible to craft our society in a way where all means of cultivating human-capabilities – like economic security, health, education, scientific facilities – are made community owned and made freely available to all sections of society, be it front rankers, mid-positioned or rear portion. But only the front rankers alone – like scientists who make discoveries, accomplished academicians who produce original thoughts, the dare-devils who make records, athletes who win contests etc. - are given the privileges of leading the society in all conceivable fields and by providing that those privileges carry the hefty amount of wealth.
This provision will effectively work as a motive for all to move ahead, to think original, have vision, to take initiative in planning and carrying out production of commodities – albeit without any scope or need to exploit human-work to make profit or wealth. In the democratic self governance of people in all the conceivable fields – legislature, judiciary, executive – only the excellence alone will make a person entitled to be elected or lead; and, all the means to cultivate this excellence will be only community owned and equally open to all without any let or hindrance whatsoever; such social engineering would guarantee that the individual move to excel in any branch of human field is not only given a motive in the form of coveted privileges but also the needed material means to cultivate that excellence.
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