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Imagine Education
Imagine the possibilities of education!
Just how good could education be? Imagine the education system that might be possible in the 30th century! What would be the focus? How advanced would it be? How flexible? How close to everyone’s fullest potential would we be?
Imagine if money were removed from the equation. Imagine if great teachers were some of the most honored and compensated people in society, perhaps a couple of steps above where A-list actors and actresses are now.
Imagine 4 year olds reading at current 6th grade levels and 6th grade reading at beyond current college levels. Imagine 7th graders being the inventors or the beginning of the invention mill. The kids would learn from the beginning the value of questioning everything and seeking creative solutions rather than memorizing.
Imagine an education system better than what Spock got at the Vulcan Science Academy. Imagine where a student was able to excel at their own pace by subject, meaning that he or she could go as far and as fast as they were capable and wanted to go in individual subjects even if they were not quite as good in other subjects.
Imagine a true performance based education with abundant feedback loops where testing was geared to helping students excel and solidify subjects. In our current system, testing permanently punishes students for not mastering a subject the first time around. There’s no chance, once a test is failed, in most cases, to go back, relearn a subject, and try the test again.
We currently have an employee mill, that churns out employees, rather than a system that develops awesome thinkers!
We need a system where students get customized training with a mix of one-on-one, group, hands-on, and computer training where they get true mastery of a subject using all possible learning styles – tactile, visual, audial, and others. No more memorizing things that should be up for questioning.
The US education system should be a network of local systems where each school works to be the best, but shares what it learns with other schools. Perhaps there could be a reward system where schools discovering new approaches that work are greatly rewarded and then rewarded much more when they effectively help other schools adopt what was learned.
Education systems should be in a constant improvement loop where feedback is vital.
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A Moneyless Model
Have you ever been a Marriott Rewards member? If not have you ever been a member of any rewards club? If neither of these, perhaps there’s a way you can explore those concepts, but I’m going to explain here an economic system I have long envisioned that is based on this kind of concept of a rewards club.
I’m not saying it’s perfect or that everyone will like it, but I would suggest that this kind of model be tested at least on a small scale.
What exactly is the Marriott Rewards program? Well, basically it’s a point system. Every time a member stays in a Marriott hotel for example, the member gets points. The more that’s spent, the more points are earned.
Well, the points accumulate and at some point the point level reaches a “rewards” level such as silver or gold or platinum. These levels entitle the member to certain privileges both monetary and “honor” based. Monetary could be discounts, or free visits to one of their resorts. Honor rewards are things such as exclusive rooms or even exclusive floors in the hotel reserved for members at that level.
Translating that to a full economic model isn’t really that much of a stretch of the imagination for those who are truly interested in imagining it.
I envision it as being a multi-level rewards system with points earned, just as in the Marriott program, but not based on having spent money. Instead the points would be based on participation. Rules would be suggested, voted on and implemented that would determine what actions or participation items constitute points and how many points. The points will accumulate of course and will earn the participant graduated levels of “rewards” or “privileges”.
At the base level, which everyone participating would qualify for, all basic necessities are provided free. Points are earned by people providing goods and services just for providing them. They don’t have to be worried about how many items are provided or how much of the service is provided. Everyone will be able to have the base level “privileges” and/or products as predetermined.
I wouldn’t be able to specify the rewards or privileges acquired at the higher levels as those would have to be determined by those participating, but at some level would be special restaurants or clubs, or perhaps the ability to partake in special resorts. I don’t know. I’m just offering possibilities.
Possible point-earners would be:
Doing nice things for others.
Inventing something.
Uplifting someone.
Going above the norm in offering services or goods.
Reaching special levels of knowledge and research through education and lab work.
Fill in your own items…
Money is not the only possible means of trade, nor is a “trade” system where an “exchange” of anything is required. That is what was done in the past and it has been propagated as if it’s the only way of doing things. To mature as humanity, we need to consider our current ways under a microscope and with a good portion of curiosity regarding what could be changed to make it all better.
Money is, arguably, better than barter. It has served as a go-between, effectively creating an “indirect” barter system which has worked seemingly well. But everyone knows this system has limits and biases that have worked against many who work very hard at providing very much needed services and products.
Poverty has been around since the beginning of recorded history, I believe, and people write it of and have written it off as a given in human society. But poverty is man-made. It is the result of a system that was not designed to work in favor of humanity or her future. It has been, more and more, molded to benefit those who have gained control of the medium of exchange (money) at the expense of those who do the work.
Understand that where there are limitations, those limitations should be evaluated to find a way of overcoming them. We know that there is a finite amount of money in circulation at any given point and if there are some who have extreme quantities of it, there will be those who have extremely little of it. This shows the problems when money can be held and used against others rather than simply be traded.
A mature economic system would not require “exchanges”. Exchanges are required currently because there are people who can’t trust that others will do their part for society like they will themselves. So they require proof and that proof is in the exchange mechanism. If someone is unable to exchange something then they are seen as unworthy.
A system like the one I suggest cannot be implemented with immature minds. People have to be willing to trust that in the end everyone will have participated as needed to move their society forward in a good way. That “all things will work together for good”. There will be some who don’t produce, but they should be the ones getting educated or the ones who have retired or the ones who are busy taking care of children (which would be a recognized “occupation” in this kind of system).
You may be able to come up with a better system than this one. The base assumption is that your system answers the question “what economic system would help EVERYONE be there best individually and collectively and leave no one out because of their starting point”.
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Imagine
Imagine what the world could be like… what America could be like… what DETROIT could be like…
Did you know that a four hour work day is possible?
Did you know that education could be 100% free from birth ’till death with no taxes and be 5 times better than it is now or even better than that?
Did you know that poverty could be wiped out in less than a couple of years? Possibly much less? Locally, much, much less!
The national debt could be eliminated in 6-12 months. Unemployment could be a thing of the past. Wars could be 100% prevented. Health could be much better as could just about every aspect of human life.
All we have to do to start the ball rolling is start asking the right questions.
Instead of assuming what can’t be done, ask how the seemingly impossible CAN be done. Great people have put forth great potential futures for humanity but most people have labeled those visions as science fiction. Star Trek for instance, is considered science fiction rather than science possibilities. Instead of a call to action to create the world that begets a real life Star Trek adventure, we continue along the path of mediocrity and say it can’t happen.
Disney’s “Tomorrowland” came along recently and showed another possible world. Perhaps the chances of living in another dimension are a bit unlikely, but what about the concept of having the world’s best and brightest come together to change the world?
Why not a world without poverty? Some people already understand the root cause of poverty and it’s not a lack of work or a lack of food or a lack of resources. It’s simply an economic system that to most people is a poorly designed one.
There’s not a single ongoing problem that we can’t deal with and eliminate in short order. We ought to do so. That way we can move on and solve bigger and harder problems and advance as a species.
We’re too busy fighting each other and competing with each other for money to realize that there are accomplishments and goals far greater than money could ever be.
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Pause, Breath, Focus, and Solve
Everyone pause, take a deep breath, and focus. I remember Tony Robbins saying that if you don’t like the answers you’re getting, then ask a better question. Perhaps we need to start asking better questions about the issues we face as the human race.
We’re too busy with the tree in front of us to notice the forest it’s in. We’ve got what seems to us like craziness happening every day, constantly actually, and sometimes we don’t seem to be able to figure out what to do. But the answer isn’t coming to us because we’re not looking at the big picture of it. We’re only looking at the immediate crisis and assuming that we can only work with the tools we’ve always used.
In the words of Susan Powter, “stop the insanity”! We don’t have to continue down any particular path if it makes no sense to do so. We don’t need to keep the status quo parameters. There’s always an alternative approach to any situation. We just have to think, we have to realize we haven’t thought of all the answers, we haven’t tried all of the possible solutions, and the best ideas are yet to be revealed.
All of us have intelligence and the ability to use it even if many have turned off the “thinking” switch. I’ve actually heard more than once someone say that they didn’t WANT to know the truth because they wanted their beliefs to be true. But reality can be much better than anything we’ve ever believed it to be.
The intelligent thing to do regarding any problems is to decide on what we want the end result to be and then set about working to make it that way. Instead we live each day as it comes, try to make it through it without dying, and wait for the next one to come along so we can repeat the process.
We also have to be willing to admit when we’ve made a wrong turn and either turn around or find a route back to the right path. It’s hard to do that when we don’t know where we’re going though.
That’s why we must pause, take a deep breath, and focus. We must know the outcome we desire, and if we don’t know what that is or have lost sight of it then we shouldn’t take another step until we regain that sight or establish what outcome we want. Panicking helps no one. Fighting helps no one. Flailing helps no one. We simply need to stop and come up with a destination and a plan to get there and calmly implement that plan. If it doesn’t seem to be working, stop, re-evaluate, re-plan, and implement the changes.
Simple.
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Think Worgl, think economic answers.
The emphasis on “jobs” has been all wrong for many decades. It’s been about chasing the dollar bill, “earning” a paycheck to pay bills for things that could and should be free anyway. Creating jobs is not a Federal thing unless there’s a federal goal to achieve, such as reaching out into space or mobilizing to recover from a national disaster.
If we would shift our focus and our paradigm to what needs to be accomplished rather than spinning wheels to generate a profit, and if we take basic needs off of the table of things that people need to work to fulfill, then we’d find that suddenly we have more than enough work to do and the human suffering will drop down to near zero.
Take the example of Worgl as a lesson learned, an example of what can be done if the economic model is done right.
Worgl is a town in Austria that beat the odds during the Great Depression. While much of the world was in a tailspin, Worgl thrived. It thrived until the national bank put an end to it that is. The local government did what IT was supposed to do with money, and the people did what THEY were supposed to do, and voila. Miracle (or really what should have been expected). Money, properly designed this time, instead of being a limit, acted as a catalyst.
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We don’t need or want big government programs and we don’t need or want “big business” to come pretend it’s going to save the day. We only need to shift the paradigm and start doing what’s necessary.
If the government gets it’s job right with the economic model, the rest will be easy.
We have road systems & transportation systems to build or overhaul or design from scratch.
We have an education system that needs to be overhauled and redesigned. We have a space travel, exploration, colonization program to expand upon, redesign, and implement.
We have a new system of energy production that needs to be designed and implemented.
We have scientific research that needs to be done. We have diseases and other health problems that need to be resolved. We have houses, apartment buildings, hospitals, recreation centers, learning centers, and more that need to be built.
We have electric and solar cars that need to be designed and built, along with a grid to keep them fueled. We have clothing that needs to be made.
We have pollution of many kinds that needs to be cleaned up.
We have food that needs to be grown and distributed.
The list goes on and nowhere on this list is “profit”.For many the thought of money still comes up, but there are numerous ways to get around this false limitation and even I have a few ideas.
So, how can we get America “working” again? Simple:
1. Think local. Many options exist locally that could solve unemployment in a month or two.2. Think purpose. Let’s create work, not jobs. Let’s have purpose to everything we do, not chase money.3. Think freedom. A TRULY free market, where non-profits and alternative model businesses such as purposeful local co-ops can compete with the money chasers head-to-head and win.4. Think future. An extension of think purpose, let’s work to rise to our fullest potential rather than just exist.
I’m very much against a big Federal government imposing itself on States or cities or towns. And I am for eliminating all Federal taxes, except for, perhaps, the purpose of regulating the currency, along with returning to sovereign money. We don’t need to spend another Federal dollar on any of the above as it can all be done locally ,through the people, with innovation, creativity and focus.
If we take this new focus or perspective, then suddenly automation becomes humanity’s friend rather than foe. We won’t be worried about a machine taking someone’s “job” because this would free the person whose “job” was taken to move on to more fulfilling work without worrying about bills to pay.
People’s debts can be handled quickly and easily on the local level if it’s agreed upon to use a new approach to doing so.
I believe the answers to our work issues rest mainly in local possibilities. Of course, we have to get our monetary sovereignty back, but our unemployment situation can be resolved long before this occurs. Every person living in America, every one of them, could be working within 6 months from now, not having to wait for some miracle to happen following some election.
Our housing situation, as well, can be handled this way, including our local travel expenses as well. Many of our issues can be resolved very quickly, through cooperation and innovation on a local level.
We should pull together all mayors, city councils, governors, and community activists collectively for a high level overview, and then State by State, city by city, community by community, present a number of existing options and together brainstorm a customized method for each community to get people working, get them fed, get them in to homes, get them health care and education, and cover any other needs they may have.
Once we’ve begun the process outlined above, we can 1) start making a shift from worldwide military involvement as our largest source of employment and Federal spending, to being our best here at home through innovative education, health care, and scientific efforts, among others ideas, and at the same time, 2) we can be initiating a national movement to establish a sovereign national money supply and break the dependence our system currently has on foreign banks via the Federal Reserve. The Constitution calls for us to print our own money, not borrow it. We don’t have to wait even a moment to start making the switch back to the Constitutional mandate, and once we do, we’ll quickly see many issues automatically getting solved.
If the American people follow this plan and get involved in its implementation and even in its betterment, then we’ll find we will get almost immediate positive results, mostly by the natural creation of new jobs, businesses, and projects as we focus on our own country’s problems.
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Pause, Breath, Focus, and Solve
Everyone pause, take a deep breath, and focus. I remember Tony Robbins saying that if you don’t like the answers you’re getting, then ask a better question. Perhaps we need to start asking better questions about the issues we face as the human race.
We’re too busy with the tree in front of us to notice the forest it’s in. We’ve got what seems to us like craziness happening every day, constantly actually, and sometimes we don’t seem to be able to figure out what to do. But the answer isn’t coming to us because we’re not looking at the big picture of it. We’re only looking at the immediate crisis and assuming that we can only work with the tools we’ve always used.
In the words of Susan Powter, “stop the insanity”! We don’t have to continue down any particular path if it makes no sense to do so. We don’t need to keep the status quo parameters. There’s always an alternative approach to any situation. We just have to think, we have to realize we haven’t thought of all the answers, we haven’t tried all of the possible solutions, and the best ideas are yet to be revealed.
All of us have intelligence and the ability to use it even if many have turned off the “thinking” switch. I’ve actually heard more than once someone say that they didn’t WANT to know the truth because they wanted their beliefs to be true. But reality can be much better than anything we’ve ever believed it to be.
The intelligent thing to do regarding any problems is to decide on what we want the end result to be and then set about working to make it that way. Instead we live each day as it comes, try to make it through it without dying, and wait for the next one to come along so we can repeat the process.
We also have to be willing to admit when we’ve made a wrong turn and either turn around or find a route back to the right path. It’s hard to do that when we don’t know where we’re going though.
That’s why we must pause, take a deep breath, and focus. We must know the outcome we desire, and if we don’t know what that is or have lost sight of it then we shouldn’t take another step until we regain that sight or establish what outcome we want. Panicking helps no one. Fighting helps no one. Flailing helps no one. We simply need to stop and come up with a destination and a plan to get there and calmly implement that plan. If it doesn’t seem to be working, stop, re-evaluate, re-plan, and implement the changes.
Simple.
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Think Worgl, think economic answers.
The emphasis on “jobs” has been all wrong for many decades. It’s been about chasing the dollar bill, “earning” a paycheck to pay bills for things that could and should be free anyway. Creating jobs is not a Federal thing unless there’s a federal goal to achieve, such as reaching out into space or mobilizing to recover from a national disaster.
If we would shift our focus and our paradigm to what needs to be accomplished rather than spinning wheels to generate a profit, and if we take basic needs off of the table of things that people need to work to fulfill, then we’d find that suddenly we have more than enough work to do and the human suffering will drop down to near zero.
Take the example of Worgl as a lesson learned, an example of what can be done if the economic model is done right.
Worgl is a town in Austria that beat the odds during the Great Depression. While much of the world was in a tailspin, Worgl thrived. It thrived until the national bank put an end to it that is. The local government did what IT was supposed to do with money, and the people did what THEY were supposed to do, and voila. Miracle (or really what should have been expected). Money, properly designed this time, instead of being a limit, acted as a catalyst.
http://ift.tt/uLsATo
We don’t need or want big government programs and we don’t need or want “big business” to come pretend it’s going to save the day. We only need to shift the paradigm and start doing what’s necessary.
If the government gets it’s job right with the economic model, the rest will be easy.
We have road systems & transportation systems to build or overhaul or design from scratch.
We have an education system that needs to be overhauled and redesigned. We have a space travel, exploration, colonization program to expand upon, redesign, and implement.
We have a new system of energy production that needs to be designed and implemented.
We have scientific research that needs to be done. We have diseases and other health problems that need to be resolved. We have houses, apartment buildings, hospitals, recreation centers, learning centers, and more that need to be built.
We have electric and solar cars that need to be designed and built, along with a grid to keep them fueled. We have clothing that needs to be made.
We have pollution of many kinds that needs to be cleaned up.
We have food that needs to be grown and distributed.
The list goes on and nowhere on this list is “profit”.For many the thought of money still comes up, but there are numerous ways to get around this false limitation and even I have a few ideas.
So, how can we get America “working” again? Simple:
1. Think local. Many options exist locally that could solve unemployment in a month or two.2. Think purpose. Let’s create work, not jobs. Let’s have purpose to everything we do, not chase money.3. Think freedom. A TRULY free market, where non-profits and alternative model businesses such as purposeful local co-ops can compete with the money chasers head-to-head and win.4. Think future. An extension of think purpose, let’s work to rise to our fullest potential rather than just exist.
I’m very much against a big Federal government imposing itself on States or cities or towns. And I am for eliminating all Federal taxes, except for, perhaps, the purpose of regulating the currency, along with returning to sovereign money. We don’t need to spend another Federal dollar on any of the above as it can all be done locally ,through the people, with innovation, creativity and focus.
If we take this new focus or perspective, then suddenly automation becomes humanity’s friend rather than foe. We won’t be worried about a machine taking someone’s “job” because this would free the person whose “job” was taken to move on to more fulfilling work without worrying about bills to pay.
People’s debts can be handled quickly and easily on the local level if it’s agreed upon to use a new approach to doing so.
I believe the answers to our work issues rest mainly in local possibilities. Of course, we have to get our monetary sovereignty back, but our unemployment situation can be resolved long before this occurs. Every person living in America, every one of them, could be working within 6 months from now, not having to wait for some miracle to happen following some election.
Our housing situation, as well, can be handled this way, including our local travel expenses as well. Many of our issues can be resolved very quickly, through cooperation and innovation on a local level.
We should pull together all mayors, city councils, governors, and community activists collectively for a high level overview, and then State by State, city by city, community by community, present a number of existing options and together brainstorm a customized method for each community to get people working, get them fed, get them in to homes, get them health care and education, and cover any other needs they may have.
Once we’ve begun the process outlined above, we can 1) start making a shift from worldwide military involvement as our largest source of employment and Federal spending, to being our best here at home through innovative education, health care, and scientific efforts, among others ideas, and at the same time, 2) we can be initiating a national movement to establish a sovereign national money supply and break the dependence our system currently has on foreign banks via the Federal Reserve. The Constitution calls for us to print our own money, not borrow it. We don’t have to wait even a moment to start making the switch back to the Constitutional mandate, and once we do, we’ll quickly see many issues automatically getting solved.
If the American people follow this plan and get involved in its implementation and even in its betterment, then we’ll find we will get almost immediate positive results, mostly by the natural creation of new jobs, businesses, and projects as we focus on our own country’s problems.
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Why Aren’t Americans Financially Free
Once you add up mortgages, credit card balances and student loans, the average american household holds an average $203,163 debt.
Again, The average American household carries a debt of $203,163, according to a NerdWallet. What’s even more terrifying is that this can further weight you down. Although the reality is that American consumers carry over $11 trillion in debt, you can also get ride of this amount layer by layer at a personal level. Realizing the reasons why you are personally on debt is the first step. By doing so, you can free yourself of financial anxiety.
5 Reasons Why You’re Not Financially Free
Getting rid of this debt in a short time span of probably isn’t reasonable for everyone, here are a few reasons why you may not be financially independent.
1. Student Loan Debt
A prestigious school is always a top priority for perspective college student. While attending an elite university is an admirable goal. the expense may not be worthwhile later on
The Project on Student Debt, reported that that the average senior whom graduating from an undergrad class left with a student loan debt of $29,400.
What to do: Its a little to late to start you college career cheaper if you already graduated. if attending graduate school, make sure you’re reducing your principal loan balance faster by writing to your lender. This also applies to perspective undergraduate freshman.
How do I get ride of the problem faster? Firstly, if your paying more than the minimum balance on any payment, you’re off to the right start! The problem is although your intensions are goos, this may not be benefitting you in the way you expect.. Lenders often apply overpayments to the interest you’ve accrued, instead of using these excess payments to pay down your principal balance.
2. Credit Card Debt
Credit Cards might be the easiest way to improve your credit history. Credit cards can be used as a helpful tool for cardholders. But sometimes consumers who swear to pay off their balance monthly seem to often forget how much they’ve accrued on the account over their entire bill cycle.
3. “Keeping Up With the Joneses”
The American Dream: White Picket Fence , obtaining the latest gadget or newest-model car, funding your materialistic desires. Although its trap that seems harmless, there are deeper behavioral concerns that come into play when you’re over spending in a year just to keep up with “Mr. Jones”.
What you may forget is that the average $203,163 American household debt also include the Joneses themselves. They’re likely not any more well off than you, and the need to one-up each other is deepening the financial burden you both face behind closed doors.
4. Auto Loan Debt
The average auto loan amount buyers borrowed was more than $27,000, according to Experian Automotive. What’s terrifying about this number is that auto loan terms are getting longer and longer, with some ranging from six to eight years.
What to do: Utilize your free time to find out whether an auto loan refinance can help you save money over the life of your loan. The goal is to refinance at a lower interest rate, while shortening the length of your auto loan.
5. Neglecting Your Credit Report
As contradictory as it seems, in order to have good credit, you have to go into debt. When utilizing the credit scoring model, it’s beneficial to have varying types of accounts to prove you’re responsible with using credit.
What to do: Credit Diversity! New accounts and age of your credit accounts comprise a large portion of your credit score, with factors such as a history of on-time payments and credit utilization also filling out the rest of the report.
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