There is a free lunch! Author Jeff Graubart has spent a lifetime of activism and study to discover an economic system celebrating the "conservative" belief that each of us owns the product of our labor and celebrating the "liberal" belief that everyone is entitled to a level playing field.
An AFFEERCE economy ends hunger and homelessness as it provides quality healthcare and unlimited free education for all.
An AFFEERCE economy ends taxation, most regulation, minimum wage and antitrust laws.
Impossible you say!
The author maintains that these two claims are not contradictory. They are complimentary!
Or try this out! You can download any movie, book, song, article, or app for free. And yet, the writer, the musician, or other creator is paid even better than they are today. And those expensive pharmaceuticals under patent? They will be CHEAPER than the generics!
Every individual is sovereign and free. But how about this? You and perhaps 100 other kindred souls band together to form a sovereign anarchist collective, or a communist city/state or a community based on biblical law, or a militia, or even a society whose rules are based on fantasy with knights and sorcerers. Any of these and get paid to do it!
So how do we create this utopia?
Violent revolution? NO WAY!
Voting for a politician who promises this world? NO WAY!
Convincing half the population that ours is the way, the truth and the light? NO WAY!
We do it with a business plan! You read that correctly. There is a business plan to take us from where we are now to this magical future. Nor will the skeptical majority oppose us. They will likely cheer us on, and as we succeed, more will hitch their wagon to ours and personally profit from the greatest experiment in political economy of all time.
What is this free lunch that can make all these impossible things happen?
Some recently invented magic dust? (In all fairness, yes, as some of the technology needed to bring the pieces together is quite new.) But no! The free lunch was well-known to American revolutionary Thomas Paine, American economist Henry George, Father of China Sun Yat-Sen, Russian author Leo Tolstoy, and English statesman Winston Churchill. The free lunch is that gift from God or Nature that we all rely on, yet take for granted - the ground beneath our feet!
"Land!" you laugh. "That might have had some relevance to economics back in the day we were all farmers. But now, who cares?" The landlord collecting $1000/square foot in the hottest downtown shopping district might care, but he's not going to let on.
Will we steal the land or tax the land? NO WAY!
We will do something called "purchasing the land into the commons" and people will be imploring us, bribing us, begging on their knees, for us to buy their land into the commons. We do this with a new currency, minted exclusively for that very purpose.
Whether you are planning to join up with the libertarians, the socialists, the anarchists, the democrats, the republicans, or even some militia, you need to read/study Jeff Graubart's AFFEERCE Specification V 5.0. It is the toolkit needed to build a new world where all things shall peacefully come to pass.
