3.3                 Expectations of the New System   

The new system has ability to regulate all kinds of values in society by using the past labour points that will equally present income and voting power to each man. Among others things past labour points may regulate the world population. Granting a stimulating quantity of past labour points for childbirth may increase a low population. And vice versa, high population may be decreased by taking away a sufficient numbers of past labour points from the married couples who would like to have more children than society finds appropriate. The system will develop the same kind of responsibility for protecting the human environment. It will make the whole planet, Earth clean and healthy. By the help from the past labour points it will be possible making the humankind highly responsible towards its future. 

The new system will not need a large number of today’s work posts any more.  The reduction of work posts will start in administration, national defence, police, marketing, trading, insurance companies, etc. Administration will not be needed as it is needed today because the whole accountancy will be automatic. National defence will not be needed because no threat for any nation will exist any more. Police will not be needed because no threat for individuals will exist any more. Marketing will not be needed because no competition among companies will exist any more. Traders will not be needed because consumers will directly order the consumption from producers. Insurance will not be needed because the system will directly provide social and any other insurance to all of the people. It is hard right now to name precisely all the work posts that will not be needed in the future but we may say that would probably be work posts out of direct production and services for satisfaction of the natural needs of society.  We can talk here about approximately 50% of today’s work posts. If we take it into account that the system insures a full employment of the workers then such reduction will automatically reduce needed working hours to 4 hours per worker per day for the realization of the same productivity as today. Besides, the shorter work hours will reduce inconveniences that work may bring so that direct value of work will be greater. 

The work, while lasting, directly brings conveniences and inconveniences. The man aspires for the work that brings more benefits, and tries to avoid an inconvenient work. In the proposed system, each worker will have a great opportunity to chose the work that will, while lasting, bring him major conveniences under condition that he achieves a satisfactory productivity. It may be supposed that each worker will in the field of his own working interest invest more efforts, which will augment his working abilities, and will thus exercise the right to the work in his own interest.  

The workers not able to accomplish a satisfactory productivity in convenient work forms to them may be released from the work duty; however, they will realize smaller income than employed workers. Each worker who during his length of service and by inheritance gathers a larger quantity of past labour points can also be released from any form of work and to simultaneously acquire, on the basis of the past labour results, a satisfactory share in the income distribution.  

When work brings more conveniences to workers it will become a direct value. Such workers will, therefore, lower the current work price in order to achieve a higher competitive power for the desired work post. Some workers employed at work posts bringing them a great convenience will over the time accept income equal, as they do not work, or an even lower one. This means that to such workers the work will be the value higher than the value arising from using the operating results. They will achieve the right to the work in their own interest on account of a smaller share in income distribution. Even today, a great many persons would be willing to work on a gratis basis in today's attractive work posts, such as the post of state presidents or a main movie actor. The new system will demystify the value of work posts. When all work posts become equally accessible to the people, the work practice will remove their alienated mystic value. Also the system will make all work posts equally attractive what will equalize demand for all work posts.

The work forms that will be to a considerable extent inconvenient will be identified by a higher current work price. It may be assumed that these will be manual, physical, and non-creative work forms, such as the line production, the work in mining, building or agriculture. Such work forms will be helped or fully replaced by automation of the production. 

The technological progress in production today has already managed to get rid the man of markedly inconvenient forms of work, and this process will further develop. Further on, management in the economy can redistribute the inconvenient forms of work onto several work posts over a short work time, which will contribute to the balanced distribution of working burden. The development of the technology and new work distribution with application of work competition will bring much greater benefits to the workers. That means the workers will start to achieve higher conveniences in work than they are able to get them out of work. In such a system the work will become a direct value. 

Direct value of the work advocates working conveniences of being, arising from the work itself. Being conveniences have long and intensive periods up to the state of saturation. The new system can contribute to the understanding that a durable, intensive, and balanced form of convenience arises from being. The being understands all activities in forming of and satisfying the needs. In the first place it embraces a free decision-making and creative acting in production but also in politics, science, culture, sports and all others forms of activities. The proposed system allows a great opportunity of being in all fields, thus offering a possibility to each man to ensure the great conveniences of living. 

Indirect value of the work advocates the conveniences arising from the consumption of goods produced by work. In their process of defetishizetion and demystification the system promotes, the goods can quickly satisfy the natural needs of the man. The described system of work competition advocates a highly productive form of economy that will bring an abundance of consumer products. The new system of distribution of the means of consumption will enable their use by each and every man. When an abundance of the means of consumption will be accessible to each man, it will help the man to get rid of the alienated idea of power creation by goods possession. If the supply of commodities will exceed the consumption needs, the commodities will lose their alienated trade value. The characteristic of the natural use of commodities is an easy and fast saturation after which further consumption of goods can no longer bring conveniences to the man.

It should be said that due to the system of work competition the productivity would be much higher than it is today. The production rise in the developed world will by the time create general consumers saturation. The consumer mentality will get less pronounced and interest of the society in commodity consumption will stagnate or fall. Beside that we should take into account the process of disalienation of society that will decrease the society’s needs for consumption by finding of subsistence values so that such a large production we have today will not be needed any more. 

Stagnation in the development of economic productivity in the classical disassociated system of business activity leads to the crisis in labour distribution and in distribution of operating results and, consequently, to the socio-economic crisis. The new socio-economic system will overcome such crisis by a fast and painless labour reorganization and by additional shortening of the necessary work time. Most likely the future will not require more than 2 hours of work per worker per day for realisation of such a productivity that will satisfy the needs of society. By shortening the work time, the inconvenient form of work reduces even more, while on the other hand the work freedom can provide to workers great working benefits. Then the direct value of work will further grow. 

The reduction of working hours does not mean that the system will prevent somebody to work as much as he wants. Here is presented an average quantity of work that will be producing enough rich natural standard of living to all of the people. The workers will probably work one day per week and will have six days long weekends. 

Is it possible? Not only that is possible but also a necessity of the future production that capitalism may not achieve at all. Today companies spend more work hours in finding the products the market would demand then in the production. They also invest more work hours in marketing and trading in order to find customers then in the production of commodities. The producers often produce goods without utility values with a hope they will sell their products by the help of shallow propaganda and low prices. In the market economy they do not have other choice. They have to produce something in order to earn money for living. What a senseless waste of natural resources! What a senseless life! 

The future will require and the new system will implement a huge rationalisation of natural resources spending. It is possible through new inventions, better organisation of work, and by the change of human needs through the process of disalienation. In the new system, the workers will spend less time in work than workers of developed countries spend today in traveling to work places. They will also probably spend fewer natural resources at work then they spend today by traveling to work places.  

It may be expected that in a technologically more developed production most workers will experience more and more conveniences at work, and in order to increase their work competitiveness will reduce their current work price, and therefore the income.  When the overall working interest becomes greater than the production needs, the entire population will vote for increasing the minimal income of workers in order to diminish the income-based interest in employment. The more sizable competition-related reduction in the current work price will no longer be able to lower the income, and therefore the worker's coefficient of responsibility will form a stronger work competition power coupled with productivity.  

Increase of minimal income will proportionally lower down all other incomes because the amount of money for all the incomes of population is limited. Decrease of difference among the workers' incomes will have no impact on private holding of gross quantities of past labour income-based points. Total quantity of past labour income-based points of all workers in a commune will be identical to gross income of the commune. With the narrowing-down of the difference between incomes of the commune's inhabitants, the individual’s quantity of gross past labour income-based points will remain untouched in the ownership of each inhabitant, as a demonstration of individual productive power. 

The higher coefficient of responsibility will further largely increase the quantity of past labour income-based points of workers in the case of either individual or collective rise of productivity. In the case of a fall in workers' either individual or collective productivity, workers will be to a larger extent sanctioned by a reduction in the quantity of past labour income-based points. It is already presented that the system will direct each man to form his natural needs within the limits of his own possibility of realization, which ensures the realization of envisaged productivity and therefore the satisfaction of needs and accomplishment of conveniences. That is also the basis of constructive social orientation. 

The market economy adopted by this system will not be able to envisage enough successfully the social needs. The producing economy not finding on the market the demand for its products incurs losses. In the described system the issue of producers' responsibility will tighten, because the losses in the economy will be sanctioned by past labour income-based points. For this reason, the economy will have to gradually search for a more secure form of business activity and will find it in a production for the known consumer. Even today, for special and expensive forms of consumption the production is formed according to consumer orders.  

The new system envisages the collective social consumption as consumption according to consumer orders. In order to accomplish an even more stable business activity, the associated economy can gradually demand from the population to plan and order its special material needs. Production according to consumer orders would gradually create a democratic planned economy, which would no longer be able to make disinvestments and thus incur losses. Such an economy would bring stability and prosperity to the society.  

Assets intended for economic development will be determined at the level of the commune, state or at world level according to direct democratic principles. In this way, all communes of the world will be given an opportunity to exert influence on the formation of the funds intended for economic development and will exercise the right to their utilization by their competitive ability in performing the business activity.  

Economically developed parts of the world will sooner or later register a drop in consumer needs due to a general saturation, which will decrease the demand for cash assets intended for economic development. Decreased interest in economic development on the part of developed countries will make easier the access of developing countries to world’s collective cash assets intended for economic development. As the time will pass, developing countries will also develop to the state of consumer saturation. The world market saturated with the products of work will diminish the need for economic development and, accordingly, the demand for money intended for the development of the economy. The world population will then vote for smaller appropriations of money for this purpose. It may be expected that at a higher degree of economic development of the whole mankind the assets intended for the development of market economy, as a form of large-size consumption will tend to zero.  

However, the society will always have a need for developing its own production, which will require the work and money. The money needed for economic development can be later earmarked from the fund of collective consumption money. The economic development in a developed society will no longer depend on the market, but on the production plan.  

Once the assets intended for the development of market economy will tend to zero, the society will, to a larger extent, earmark the assets for consumption. It may be expected that the population saturated with individual consumption, and aware of the collective consumption rationality, will earmark a large portion of assets used for economic development for the collective consumption.  

The larger amount of money intended for collective consumption will enable a larger, better-quality, and generally better collective consumption. The purpose of money assets for the collective consumption will be determined directly by the population, by spilling over the assets into funds of their own interest. Certain funds that will receive a larger amount of money will develop more the specific forms of collective consumption.  

It may be expected that at some point of the society's development certain amounts of money will, due to general saturation, remain non-used in certain forms of consumption after the meeting of the specific purpose consumption needs. Such money can be gradually used on the territory of the commune for introduction of certain free-of-charge commodities that will be distributed for use by the population.  

As free-of-charge or subsidized health-care and education already exist in the world today, it will be also possible to introduce a free consumption of goods and new services. The distribution of free commodities is not an unknown event even to capitalism. For example in Toronto is every day distributed free of charge the daily newspapers “Metro”. The purpose probably lies in a distribution of capitalist propaganda. Why free of charge distribution of goods would not be possible in the new system? The free distribution should in the first place include the goods and services inevitable for each inhabitant, such as food and transport, and then other forms of consumption as well, with which the market is saturated and which can always satisfy the demand.  

The producers of free of charge goods will automatically become non-economic enterprises. Until that time the system will already have equalized the work and all the values arising from the work in non-economic and economic enterprises. Introduction of free-of-charge commodities does not mean a determined distribution of the means of consumption where each inhabitant would get a certain quantity of goods, as this is the most primitive form of consumption and represents violation of inhabitants' needs. It understands a free distribution of commodities where each inhabitant will freely use them according to his own needs.  

Introduction of free-of-charge consumption in no way means a fall in the quality of products, as the case is in the well-known socialist forms of collective consumption, because all work posts are subject to the work competition in the function of productivity expressed by the quantity and quality of products, and by responsibility in terms of income and part labour-based points. 

It may be assumed that implementation of the introduction of free-of-charge commodities will start on the territory of the most developed commune from the surpluses of the collective consumption fund in the commune. However, the process cannot progress significantly until a broader union of communities adopts it. The described distribution system requires a uniformity of people’s needs of a broader union of communes. Once such uniformity is expressed by the wish of the people, the leaders of associated communes can, on the basis of social needs, accept a joint financing of free-of-charge goods from the fund of collective commodity consumption belonging to the union of communes. The members of families do not charge each other for goods and services. It is about the whole world to become one big family and that is what this book is about. 

Collective commodity consumption and work competition will enable an expanded construction of all facilities necessary for the society, as well as their maintenance. The proposed system can ensure to each inhabitant the utilization of any housing premise if he is ready to pay the competitive rent. It may be assumed that over the time some individuals with lower incomes will be able to lease more valuable housing premises if they will deprive themselves of some other form of consumption. Such possibility will contribute to demystification of the real estate value, or it will enable each man to establish on the basis of his own practice the limits of natural needs in using the real estate. The use of large-size immovables requires loosing a lot of time for their maintenance against the opportunity of finding the power of being in the rich social relations the new system offers. Moreover, with the decreasing difference among the levels of income, the difference among possibilities of paying the rents will also decrease. Uniformity in the level of rents payable for immovables will require construction and adaptation of the real estate of uniformed optimal values so as to have a uniform demand established.

A surplus of the housing space can appear in such a system. The surplus of the housing space does not have a trade value. As all housing spaces will be characterized by uniform high quality standards, it may be expected that apartments will be losing their trade value. It may also be expected that in the developed world, the rent on account of using the real estate might tend to zero. In the exceptionally developed society where a surplus of housing space will exist, distribution of the real estate can be performed by mutual agreement among inhabitants. Past labour income-based points will ensure a responsible behaviour of users toward the real estate.  

Once the society will have overcome the need of presenting the alienated form of power by the possession of goods, then it can be expected to earmark increasingly large amounts of money for collective commodity consumption and decrease the amount of money intended for individual consumption. An understanding will be formed in the society that collective consumption is more rational both in terms of the degree of utilization of goods and consumption of natural resources. 

I repeat, the drop in inhabitants' income does not bring into question the quantity of gross past labour income-based points held by citizens. Gross quantity of past labour income-based points of all workers in the commune is equal to the level of the commune's gross income. As gross income consists of assets for individual and collective consumption so that with the decrease of individual income, social income will grow so that the gross quantity of past labour income-based points, presenting the man's power in the society, will remain unchanged.  

Larger appropriations of funds intended for collective commodity consumption would enable introduction of new free-of-charge commodities to the point when all collective needs of the society will become satisfied. The funds intended for collective consumption can then start covering the costs of specific material inhabitants' needs.  

The system will develop the awareness that consumption larger than natural would not be necessary for the man, and would thus not represent the value. However, the system needs to be strong enough to satisfy the inhabitants that would still have alienated material needs, irrespective of the fact that the possession as such would not be a value in the society. The system will perhaps develop such social awareness that will depict the possession as a negative trait of the man's character, and such orientation would be shameful and sanctioned by bad assessments of the remaining population. However, if the system fails to meet the alienated needs of individuals, it will have to bring to halt the distribution of free-of-charge commodities. 

However, the contribution of such a system lies in the elastic possibility of shifting from the completely autarchic form of production and distribution, where each work and commodity is directly charged for, to a completely free form of production where the work and commodities distribution is carried out according to the needs of the population. The system can stand any oscillation in the social needs, including the return to charging for all commodities and services without any crisis, by immediately following the needs of the society.  

When the society forms natural material needs, then even the present-day economy in the developed countries could easily meet them. In such a society, the distribution of material goods could no longer be the basis for conflicts in the society, as everyone would achieve in the distribution a share according to his own needs. The man would then lose the need for possessing the goods in favour of the values of being arising from the work and the rich relationship with the society and nature.  

When collective commodity consumption will manage to satisfy individual needs of inhabitants, then the income as a purchasing power of inhabitants would lose its significance. Naturally, the work will be necessary further in order to maintain or increase the social standard. The work will survive because it will become a value for itself. The work organization will all the time be strictly determined and will be, therefore, performed by management. Work obligations will all the time be assumed by workers competition in the function of productivity and responsibility by past labour income-based points, which will end up by the agreement of the most productive producers. The work competition may develop to the point where associated producers will assume responsibility for general satisfaction of all social needs.  

When income starts losing the importance, responsibility will be borne only by past labour income-based points. Responsibility will be established by mutual assessment of inhabitants. The system necessarily requires and enables to the population a ramified system of assessment of the production quality of goods and services. Each positive assessment of a worker, his enterprise or a commune received from any inhabitant, consumer association, assessment or arbitration courts will increase somewhat the total gross quantity of past labour income-based points of workers. In this way, the productive expression of power against another man will increase. And vice versa, a bad assessment would burden the inhabitants, enterprises, and communes according to the degree of responsibility established directly by the population, consumer association, arbitration or assessment courts. Sanctions will be carried out by taking away gross past labour income-based points in the function of the received assessments and coefficient of worker's responsibility.  

Such a system of valuation of the conveniences and inconveniences may form natural norms for the relations in the society, which will to the great extend replace the alienated normative decisions that govern the relationships of society by laws and regulations. Mutual assessment will form new unwritten rules of social relations, which will cover each pore of social behaviour, and the society will in this way achieve greater benefits and prosperity.  

When the net income of the population will be abolishing, past labour income-based points would become past labour voting points only, or just past labour points. These points would further remain as a form of the man's guarantee for the meeting of obligations, as a factor of the work competition, and measure of the man's existential power.  

When the demand for the work as a form of manifestation of the power of being will become larger than the supply, then individual income, or ownership as an alienated form of the man's power, would lose sense and the income function in the sense of presenting the productive power would be taken over by past labour points.  

Work competition could over time provide an opportunity for a general work freedom of workers. Or differently said, workers could at a certain degree of production development choose the work posts and working hours according to their wishes and possibilities in agreement with other workers. This is possible to achieve by automation of the production by way of the computer technology that would replace the forced and inconvenient work and form a suitable work based on individual, creative and constructive approach, as well as a relaxing work.  

If coordination of activities without force is established and the needs get satisfied in this way, income would fully lose its importance, while usable value of the work as a manifestation of workers' existential need would remain. Once the work stops conditioning the material remuneration, and starts basing its existence on the satisfaction of free manifestation of existential needs, then free work comes into being and becomes a really direct value. 

It may be supposed that in such a system the income as a form of individual purchasing power would by direct voting of the population be equal to zero. The system would then achieve a free-of-charge production of commodities.  

Monetary assets would then no longer have the function of establishing payment transactions, but would further serve as a means of direct voting of the society about individual and collective needs. The money would then be a coordinator of homogenous developments in the society rather than a symbol of alienation separating the community of people. Then the relation of the man toward another man would no longer be the relation of commodities, but the relation that suits the man's natural needs.  

In such a system, all cash assets would be intended for collective consumption. The collective consumption will by direct vote of inhabitants be established at the level of the commune, republic, and the world. According to what has been said so far, it may be assumed that at a certain degree of development of the society each consumer will be able to plan and order himself the specific means of consumption. However, it is not realistic to expect that each inhabitant will have a need to determine all forms of consumption that will be necessary for him, because such list may be too extensive in details. Each inhabitant can by the quantity of money intended for certain forms of collective consumption and on the basis of his own experience with the supply influence on the partial and global supply of the work products.  

The overall consumption in the society can be directed by the funds of collective commodity consumption. The amount of money would further correspond to the overall value of goods, and all products would preserve the price set by agreement. The total amount of money and the price of commodities will serve as an instrument for democratic orientation of the production. The limits of money distribution are determined by the consumption practice with the corrections made by the leadership of the commune, state and world. Within such limits, the population directly exerts impact on the distribution of money. The influence is performed by way of the spill over of money into the funds more necessary for the collective consumption of the population. The richer funds will indicate to the leadership the orientation in the consumption interests of the population. More work will then be oriented to the field of such specific interest in which way the social needs will be satisfied. Further, each inhabitant can participate as well in the partial form of distribution of any fund up to the level where he will find its interest. Such money will be necessary until the point where the society will discover a more perfect mode of coordination of its collective acting.  

The proposed system enables a permanent coordination of a free system of production and distribution. The system has an infinite number of variants that may influence on the social life and consciousness of the man so that each man in the society can achieve a broad prosperity. It is also worth mentioning that formation of a free-of-charge production and consumption is not the purpose of the proposed system, but seeking of natural relationship in the society that such a system enables. The system will overcome the antagonism among the people as the result of alienated needs, values, and actions. The highest value of the proposed socio-economic system lies in the possibility of creating natural and harmonious social relations that will form natural needs and values.  

In such a system the man will find new interests in the outer world and in his own spiritual development. The man will then have much free time to dedicate to himself, the society, nature, work, arts, science, culture, philosophy, sports, entertainment, relaxation. A new sort of ethics will be formed, where the man, perhaps, will need neither to be used for assessing another man nor be assessed by another man. Once the man stops creating the needs by comparing himself with another man, he will then come closer to his own nature, will form the kind of relations with nature and the society that suit his own nature. 

Past labour points may be the last alienated form of manifesting the man's power, which the man will overcome by finding the values in him himself and in his environment. Once the man will have come to know his own route, he will not have to go anywhere in searching for what he needs, because all he needs will be in his immediate environment, or even closer - in himself. The most important reach of the man's creation is he himself. He gets to know and develops himself, his ideas and feelings. The more he gets to know himself, the more able he is to build harmony with the environment, the closer he can come to another man, the more easiness of living he can find, as well as peace, serenity, joy, love, wisdom, the longer and good-quality life he will have.

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