Indian Chief 'Two Eagles' was asked by a white government official; "You have observed the white man for 90 years. You've seen his wars and his technological advances. You've seen his progress, and the damage he's done."
The Chief nodded in agreement.
The official continued; "Considering all these events, in your opinion, where did the white man go wrong?"
The Chief stared at the government official for over a minute and then calmly replied.. "When white man find land, Indians running it, no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine Man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex."
Then the chief leaned back and smiled; "Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that."
It could take years before white Republican man improves on the “women did all the work” part. Among his other “improvements”, man destroyed his natural way of life. Our ancestors have been around for about six million years. Modern humans 200,000 years. Civilization is about 6,000 years old. Industrialization started in the 1800s.
It was money that gave us unnatural lives. It gave a tiny few the ability to hoard without limit and fostered their delusion that they are better than the 99%.
After much revolutionizing and suffering, we have managed to get a few crumbs in the form of “progressive taxes”. But bought politicians, direct any revenues right back into bottomless oligarchy pockets. The money-power President Lincoln warned us about today stole our country and the world.
Taxation does not work well, if at all. A tiny bunch of parasites make the rules and own the government. To fix it, we need to work from outside.
Technology is the key. Safe, secure, encrypted, online referendums let anyone create laws or vote down a law by touching the keys on a smartphone or computer for a secure, encrypted vote, without politicians.
One law that would work to prevent oligarchy re-institutes natural limits on personal wealth:
This is the Wealth Cap. A law established by yearly referendum that places a cap on personal wealth. By limiting wealth, we limit corrupting concentration of power and democratize the economy.
Wealth Cap excesses in electronic money can be easily and equally distributed among all citizens. No taxation needed, so politicians don’t get our tax revenues to pass along to their Wall Street cronies. With one law, we fix this shit.
