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Eight Days A Week Author: Geert Callens

10 Schematic synopsis

10.1 Current geo-political and socioeconomic paradigm, based on wrong premises.

• Consider things in a rational way, no moral considerations are needed. After all, amoral is not the same
as immoral.
• Thomas Malthus:
o Resources increase at an arithmetic rate, population at a geometrical rate. So resources per
capita decrease.
o Get control of resources of other countries.
o Reduce population.
o Wars, pogroms and genocides (women and children first) meet both objectives perfectly:
ƒ Children have more years to live than adults, so they need more resources. The
younger they die, the more resources are left for others.
ƒ Women can bear children. Men cannot do this, they need women to procreate.
ƒ Men can be used as slaves, cheap labor or cannon fodder.
ƒ No problem if people are killed on both sides: more resources per capita are left.
• Social Darwinists:
o Survival of the fittest.
• Profit is not possible according to economists:
o Evolution of profit ratio: declining in times of peace due to free competition and accumulation
of capital goods.
o Actions to increase profit ratio:
ƒ Consumer society: induce demand for non-essential products and services.
ƒ Disinvestment goods (armament industry):
• When not used:
o To stimulate growth (they contribute to the GNP, just as
consumption goods and investment goods, or a broken window).
• Once used:
o To reduce the level of invested capital (lower denominator of the
profit ratio).
o To increase the demand for goods during and after the massive
destruction (higher numerator of the profit ratio).
o To reduce the level of population.
• Joseph Schumpeter: creative destruction (Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 1942).
o In his mind: creative innovation destroys old techniques and businesses (CD replaces LP and
audio tape, MP3 and iPod make CD obsolete).
o According to others: destroy in order to recreate and rebuild (Halliburton and The Carlyle
Group).
• “All men are equal, but some are more equal than others”, so there are always winners and losers, it is
“us or them”.
• Rationally and amorally spoken, war meets all requirements perfectly! So this cannot be immoral. It is
for the good of “us” against “them”!
• So let us start first, a preemptive strike is better than no strike, even if there is no real reason for it. One
could always provoke a reason.
• Furthermore, financing a war by fiat money is very lucrative for some people, while the silent majority
does not realize that inflation and higher taxes erodes their incomes, accumulated savings and pensions.
• Multinationals pay very few taxes due to system of transfer pricing.

Î Just study the past, look at the newspapers and the news on TV, makes you wanna cry.
Whish your heart was made of stone.

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Eight Days A Week Author: Geert Callens

10.2 New Gaia-political and socioeconomic paradigm, based on correct premises.

• Consider things in a rational way and moral way. Rationality combined with amorality and pure self-
interest leads to immorality.
• Thomas Malthus was right for only a short time-span. Over a longer period of time Pierre Francois
Verhulst is right, with his well known S-curve (the logistic population growth model, 1838).

o In poor societies with high death rate for children and no social security or pension system, a
family needs lots of children and grandchildren in order to guarantee a comfortable old age.
o In rich societies, with low death rate for children and a social security and pension system,
there is no longer need for a lot of children, so the birth rate declines, the population levels out,
and in some rich countries even declines.
• Modern evolution theory: species are dependent on each other for their survival.
o Foxes eat chickens, but do not raise chickens. More foxes lead to fewer chickens.
o People eat chickens and raise chickens. The more people, the more chickens!
• Profit for companies is part of the ‘profit for society’, which is the result of economic growth.
o Distribution of the ‘profit for society’ over the socioeconomic participants determines future
growth:
ƒ Socioeconomic participants whose needs are amply fulfilled will not necessarily
consume more and will not necessarily induce future growth and future profit.
ƒ Socioeconomic participants with still needs to fulfill will consume and induce future
growth and thus future profit.
• Sustainable growth in a compassionate society for all instead of consumer society for the happy few.
• “All men are equal”. And it is “us and them together”.
o 4 + 4 = 8 days a week:
ƒ 4 days work for half of the population.
ƒ 4 days leisure time for the other half of the population.
ƒ Alternating, so infrastructure is used completely 8 days a week. No need for
investments in order to boost the profit ratio.
ƒ No unemployment, less crime.
• Peaceful world society.
• Inflation free world society.
• Fair tax collection when all companies all over the world use same fiscal year in their accounting
system (in Greenwich time, not local time), so transfer pricing and tax-evasion are no longer possible.

Î Heaven is here on Earth, if you want it.

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