[GJM] Draft #827, Max Weber, Francis Fukuyama, Francis Boyle, Richard Moore, And Arthur Silber On The Optimum Policy (TOP)

[wesburt at juno.com]

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Dear Sixth Graders,
Your fathers, grand fathers, and great 
grandfathers have been deaf, dumb, and 
blind on the subject of the  optimum policy 
(TOP) for developing communities, but 
experts on the optimum policy (TOP) when 
developing their corporations.  This was 
not always so, but it has been true since 
"The Great Transformation" of the US from 
an agrarian to an industrial society, as 
illustrated by Figures 10c and 10e on the 
web site in the signature below.  You may 
recall that some American communities 
were corporations before they became 
colonies, and the common feature of both 
is the necessity of developing new members 
to replace those who have completed their 
life cycle, as illustrated in the attached 
Figure 7-9l.  

My question for you is: why have your fathers, 
grand fathers, and great grandfathers been 
content with 50% of the optimum policy (TOP) 
for human development while applying 100% 
of TOP to capital development.  Since people 
always work in tandem with their capital plant 
(farm, household, or place of employment) it 
is certainly counter productive to deliberately 
leave either class of productive asset 
underdeveloped.  Why have they done this?  
Is it something in the water they drank, in the 
education they received, or in the religion they 
learned to profess?

In his March 13, 2005 essay to the NYT, "The 
Calvinist Manifesto," FRANCIS FUKUYAMA 
provided some insight on this question when 
he wrote, in part:
        "This year is the 100th anniversary of the 
        most famous sociological tract ever written, 
        ''The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of 
        Capitalism,'' by Max Weber.  It was a book 
        that stood Karl Marx on his head.  Religion, 
        according to Weber, was not an ideology 
        produced by economic interests (the 
        ''opiate of the masses,'' as Marx had put it); 
        rather, it was what had made the modern 
        capitalist world possible."
I am much obliged to Richard Moore and 
Francis Boyle for reminding me of Weber's 
conclusion that the essentials of our 
religions are the foundations of our best 
managed, wealthy, and powerful corporations.  
So why are these 'essentials of our religions' 
so completely excluded from US public 
policy debates?

Could it be because the Whole Divine Law, 
which adds the three tithes to complete 
the ten commandments (four religious and 
six moral) has not been taught in our 
schools since public education was adopted 
early in the nineteenth century.  As stated 
in the Pentateuch, this Law requires only 
a 20% tax and leaves the third tithe for 
community building, at the discretion of 
each family.  A 20% tax rate might be 
sufficient if the first tithe were fully invested 
in human development and could thereby 
restore to each parenting household the 
same purchasing power enjoyed by 
households without children.  On the other 
hand, each of the ten corporations I worked 
for between 1947 and 1985 all priced their 
manufactured products with a 30% of sales 
markup on manufactured cost.  They also 
isolated the development budget from the 
operating budget of general management 
to assure that development was fully funded.  
In other words the conflict of interest shown 
in Figures eight and nine, of the attached file, 
would not be allowed in any well managed 
diversified corporation.
Now, sixth graders, if you wait until high 
school to begin thinking about this whole 
divine law, it may be too late, and you could 
end up like the prominent authors in the 
subject line, without a clew of how to correct 
what ails us.  In a 14 July message, "It's Up 
to Us Now," which you may read at:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/silber/silber-arch.html,  
Arthur Silber chides Paul Craig Roberts for 
proposing direct democracy, the public 
referendum, as a way forward.  Democracy 
without the Law, is like the principle of 
subsidiarity (decentralization) applied to 
the development process without first 
separating the engineering budget from 
the operating budget of a corporation.
Kind regards,
Wes Burt

  TOP and TWP are cognoscible by sixth graders from
        Fig. 7-9.gif on Dr. W. Curtiss Priest's web site:
         <http://www.epie.org/cyber-soc/default.htm>
 TOP = 100% Capitalism --- TWP = 0 to  50% Capitalism
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