Lower Cost of Living - Our National Wealth to be Shared Fairly
An economy can function to:
Lower the cost of living
Increase well-being
Provide wealth and resources to fund social need, without relying on ever-increasing, too burdensome debt
Produce outcomes determined by empowered consumers buying from companies whose purposes they believe in
Unify society and build strong democratic values through common purpose meeting shared need
BE PART OF OUR OUR CAMPAIGN FOR A FAIRER ECONOMY
“I am open to persuasion.”
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Our Future Not Legacy
Society has evolved, we identify by values and community , yet our economy has not adapted, and is still founded on monopoly rights flowing from pre-existing wealth
Our economy can be one directly serving our personal and collective self-interest through Market Societism, not just one designed to serve personal self-interest through market capitalism
A SOCIETAL ECONOMY operates directly for the benefit of the general population, including those disempowered by gender, age, race, or social class
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion.”
Albert Einstein
A Fairer Future
Housing – using our existing housing stock, a national societal asset, to create affordable tenancies
Energy and other utilities – at cost plus for hard pressed households
Enterprise purposed to alleviate poverty including child food poverty
NHS to be supplied by societal companies at cost with profits from other commercial sales used to meet social need
Ethically purposed business, driven by virtue driven objectives affecting environment, stakeholders, consumers, and employees.
Water companies, the national rail networks and other public service companies societised, to protect society and our environment, purposed to charge lowest sustainable prices for customers
A sufficient and sustainable yet wealthy economy building a healthy society
BE PART OF OUR OUR CAMPAIGN FOR A FAIRER FUTURE
"The use of the existing housing stock is “exactly what is needed.”
Sir Vince Cable
“Get up, stand up for our rights”
There are universal political, human, and economic societal rights:
- personal and collective
- determinable not by our wealth or where we live but by virtue of our common humanity
These demand POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
Society supports national debt to finance social need, we should have commensurate rights to benefit directly from activity in the market economy
These are RIGHTS OF CHOICE CURRENTLY DENIED US
The UN Declaration of Human Rights imposes an obligation on “society and state” to protect “the family”, who should enjoy “a standard of living adequate for (their) health and well-being”; identifying that society exists independent of the state. It further, properly, protects the right to property ownership.
However, the economic well-being the declaration seeks, advocating the right to an adequate standard of living, is compromised by the power, control and reward which attaches to property ownership and nation states ambition to preserve that self-interest.
Societal rights are essential, to protect general populations, and marginalised groups within society including those discriminated by gender, race, age and social class. Societies require distinct rights to challenge governments who override the best interests of the populations they govern or of those whose governments they wish to challenge.
It is little wonder that societies who do not possess identifiable collective rights, distinct from that of the State which governs them, are vulnerable to those who choose to abuse their power over them. This is the root to oppression, war and human suffering which must be opposed through the recognition of societal rights.
These are RIGHTS OF SOCIETY
We CAMPAIGN that Rights of Society be recognised and Societies identified as a group to which human rights attach, including within the UNDHR framework
"The achievement of social and economic rights cannot be separated from the protection of civil and political rights and liberties"
Maria Alesi - social justice activist / author - the Fund for Global Human Rights
A New Landscape
Our past roots us in the economics of ownership power, statism, and pre-existing wealth
We can build it to serve societal best interest, a place where personal and collective self-interest converges. Society is a unique, identifiable, and distinct social, economic and political entity
Be part of our CAMPAIGN for political reform, that Government and Parliament expressly commits to a societal framework and societises the economy so that it works directly for the benefit of all of us
“I had given up hope, now l believe a societal framework offers a different way of doing things, giving a way forward.”
Sarah Ralphs
Societism - what and why?
