A new social contract for the working class
3 min readMar 27, 2019
Having been given the responsibility of:
- Educating and training ourselves both formally and informally
- Competing in the labor market for employment opportunities
- Competing in the market for housing
- Working our guts out to look after and maintain the investments of people that don’t work
- Paying for the cost of running the financial system that benefits those that exploit us
- Learning skills in a wide variety of fields on our own dime and in some cases through life circumstances needing to gain more recent knowledge than incumbent experts in said field
- Cleaning up the social and environmental mess left by corporations that have pilfered our environments and communities for their own profit
- Raising the next generation of workers in our own time and on our own dime despite all investment going into the corporations that will exploit them
- Caring for previous generations that are now retired from the workforce
- Answering to judicial trial in every aspect of our lives and fending off constant accusations of irresponsibility despite persevering through inescapable and backbreaking liability
We now declare that we the working class will:
- take over full responsibility for the running of society
- fix the social and environmental problems using the skills and knowledge we have gained
- take full responsibility for restoring and maintaining the biodiversity of all living systems of our planet
- take responsibility for healing the scars, divisions and rebuilding from the destruction that senseless modern warfare has raged on our planet
- take responsibility for managing the health-care system and running it for human needs instead of profit
- take responsibility for destroying organised crime networks
- no longer be a slave to the market
- take responsibility for ensuring that the fruits of ambition are shared widely and generously
- refuse to participate in a debt-based money system
- create our own work rather than wait for someone to employ us
- take responsibility for recording, measuring and quantifying our own and each other's work
- become caretakers of homes rather than mortgage holders or tenants
- provide for those that are under-served
- build accountability in the management of all assets and resources through distributed digital ergatocratic networks to replace bureaucrats and CEO’s
- develop and implement open-source economic policy
- provide clean water, food, welfare, housing, healthcare, dental and education to all the children of our planet
- compassionately care for our aged and research the development of rejuvenation technology to repair the molecular damage caused by aging
- take up the responsibility of exploring new frontiers beyond Earth for the advancement of all human-kind
- ensure that all people of the world have free and lifelong access to beneficial recreational activities.
- use the sum of all human knowledge, science, technology, engineering and humanities to achieve the above
- bring about the understanding that all these things are only possible if we raise the levels of joy, enthusiasm and morale throughout the entire fabric of society starting with those most in need
