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This document demonstrates beyond all doubt that full employment can be achieved
by the international community in a way that would enrich the lives of all people
throughout the world. Everyone would gain, not just financially, but in every
way. The proposal is very practical and has the power to allow humanity to transform
the whole world economy, thus dramatically improving social conditions world-wide.
If it were implemented it would strengthen the economic life of all people, companies
and governments around the world. Because of this, it is reasonable to assume
that it will be welcomed by the people of the world, and most especially by those
in business and politics. <br>
Our global community moves from crisis to crisis, and from one conflict to another.
It has many extremely urgent and pressing problems, and if they are to be resolved,
international co-operation is not only desirable, it is absolutely essential.
And this applies also to the resolution of the unemployment problem. World-wide
co-operation is now mankind's greatest need, and when it is achieved, it will
totally transform our global community and herald unimaginable improvements in
the social, economic and political life of the people of the world. Full employment
will be just one such improvement.
<p>We have become a global society, but as yet unfortunately, we do not have
sufficient international order or control over the activities of companies
or countries. We, the international community, need to establish and exercise
that control. And therein lies the solution, not just to the unemployment problem,
but also to the many other appalling difficulties facing humanity. </p>
<p>To talk of full employment may seem utopian. However, anyone with even a nodding
acquaintance of sociology knows that society is evolving into ever larger and
more harmonious groups. This will continue, therefore it is inevitable that
the countries of the world will, sooner or later, interact and co-operate with
one another as one interconnected unit. The ideas put forward in this presentation
are an expression of humanity's ongoing evolution. It is hoped that the following
pages will assist this process by helping to bring as many as possible to the
realisation that full employment and prosperity are now available to mankind. </p>
<p>The human race is evolving because each of us, deep down at the very core
of our existence, carries a deep-seated tendency to grow, to create, to climb
higher, to dig deeper, to go further, to do better, to develop systems, to
advance wherever possible, to improve ourselves individually and collectively,
to seek what is good, better and more just. We want to advance, to overcome
our difficulties. We are problem-solving beings, so if there are solutions
we will find them. Human history is the story of people uniting into ever larger
groups, and struggling for justice and advancement. Legions of people have
fought and millions have died in pursuit of justice and in an insatiable quest
to improve the human condition.</p>
<p>The road to what has been achieved thus far has been long, agonising and bloody,
but humanity, in spite of its difficulties, and not withstanding the injustices
that still exist, is advancing. The progress of the human race has been a relentless
chain of innumerable peaks and troughs, with a predisposition towards advancement.
Time and again humanity's fortunes have appeared to be waning, yet despite
appearances it has continued to grow, elevating itself, and moving generally
in an upward direction. Over and over, man-made structures or systems which
were deemed to be undesirable, were superseded by more appropriate ones. History
corroborates this fact. Brevity allows but a few examples: the elimination
of the feudal system, the abolition of slavery, and the ending of the apartheid
system. </p>
<p>All these systems were, in their day, viewed by the vast majority to be inevitable
and therefore lasting; believing as they did that these represented a permanent
mode of behaviour which simply manifested the human condition. At first only
a tiny minority of people recognised that these were not permanent but rather
temporary, yet inevitable developments along the slow evolutionary trail. The
eradication of these systems was both desirable and achievable and each in
turn was ousted due to man's desire to improve. Nothing ever remains the same,
everything is evolving. Now in our time we too view certain current conditions
as inescapable and lasting, like for example war, poverty and unemployment.
Is it not possible that these too, like the apartheid system and the others
mentioned, are transient and simply an unavoidable development in humanity's
struggle, as it moves towards maturity? </p>
<p>Surely it is possible to organise the affairs of mankind in such a way that
work would be available to all? Of course it is, just as sure as we have abolished
the apartheid system, so too we can be certain that unemployment will come
to an end. A day will come, not far from now, when no one will be denied one
of the most basic of all human rights: the right to work in order to support
oneself and one's family in dignity. This all-important right is enshrined
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. </p>
<p>This paper explains in detail how, through international co-operation, the
unemployment problem can be solved. No doubt there may be other ways, and certainly
there is no suggestion that this is the only way or indeed the best way, but
rather that the proposed solution is realistic, and can be implemented in a
way that will ensure that all mankind* will benefit. </p>
<p>The proposed solution does not represent the ideas of any group, it is not
being proposed by a political party, by a government, a religion or indeed
by any organisation, it is rather a cry from the heart, of just one ordinary
citizen of the planet who has experienced the pain of unemployment, to the
people of the world to co-operate in a joint venture to overcome unemployment.
It is a plea to every woman, man and child in the world, to every politician,
president and unemployed person, to come to the realisation that full employment
world-wide is now fully, one hundred per cent, within our reach. It is an appeal
to bear in mind that no one, other than ourselves, can prevent it from happening.<br>
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