To save or not to save
How to live in harmony with nature and human nature.
by Wim de Bruyn
All the costs of living of the consumers of this planet,
nay the entire income from their labour, has to be spent, all the time,
only on goods and services that keep nature in perfect condition and human
nature sound.
People will be motivated to spend their money on such ecological products,
when they can deduct the purchase costs of ecological products from their
taxable income from labour. They will then be driven by self interest, reinforced
by financial interests, to look for and to buy ecological goods and services
and to live ecologically. The consumers will then be the scouts of society,
tracing a way of living in harmony with nature, with all the ecological
goods and services they buy. They will be the stewards or trustees of human
nature, because human nature can be kept sound only with goods and services
from nature. Only consumers can keep the integrity of human nature as the
life producing capital of the human race, for this and following generations,
by their way of living, nay, by their way of life.
To keep the integrity of human nature will then be the goal of development
in the free market economy. The goal of development is the goal with which
income from labour is spent. While pursuing this goal, the consumer will
draw an ethical line in all production processes, by yielding the economic
power of expense with his or her ethical force, out of self interest and
financial interest.
The tax deductibility of the price of ecological products makes them
cheaper to the consumers, by the amount of income taxes they did not have
to pay. Because of this price competition, the ecological quality of a product
will be a competitive argument, in this improved version of the free market
economy. Research and development to make 100% ecological products, will
therefore become gainful activities for producers who want to maximize their
profits.
The principle of efficiency of the free market economy is the reason
why the free market economy is the most efficient way to run an economy,
in principle. This principle is : the equilibrium between the two operating
accounts of the capital account, the accounts : Costs and Revenues, should
be maintained at the source of revenues. For the moment, this equilibrium
is maintained at the source of revenues from production. However, production
is not the first source of income. The first source of income is : labour.
By deducting the costs of living that keep nature sound, from their taxable
income from labour, the consumers increase the efficiency of the economy.
Economy is the science to share the limited resources of this planet in
order to satisfy unlimited desires in a most efficient way, continuously.
An increased efficiency in the economy means that more products are made
with the available resources of this planet. More well-being will be created
for more people, when the costs of living are managed to keep the integrity
of human nature, because the efficiency of the economy will be improved,
in an ethical way.
Wim A. de Bruyn
45 rue Alfred Giron
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Tel.: **32(2) 648 56 95
e-mail : deBruyn@igwe8.vub.ac.be
ZERO web site : http://freezone.exmachina.net/ZERO

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