How would sound like successful society without need and poverty
with prospering corporations and business, where one could get rich
also by normal work? I thought about ideal society, and realized
where it could be done first: In Saudi-Arabia. Basics is oil, (In
Saudi-Arabia about 80% of worlds oil reserves), so that system can
be made running. Saudi-Arabia was able to offer each of its
citizens "citizens salary" even at 1990´s, that was back then
around 330 euro per citizen. Now oil prices have gone five or six
times higher from that, so why not pursue for more?
What if government would pay for corporations and business-makers
all products and services bought by citizens (in certain limits of
reason perhaps in the beginning, maybe favoring domestic
companies)? So every citizen would get basic living standards
(basic commodities like food, clothes, medicine, education health
care, etc..) completely free of charge, and car and apartment with
certain limits from which more expensive part they should pay with
money coming from their own work/business/investments/savings (for
example apartments 1/citizen, car each 10 years, and if you want to
buy more or more expensive going beyond limits agreed, then you
need to make your own money for it or sell old ones in
exchange).
This kind of explosive increase in spending (when nobody would need
to think in shops what they can afford, just what they want and
need) would get companies, employment and economics to prosper, and
so on as people would not need to use even their smallest incomes
into basic living, they would have change to invest by them selves
(into foreign countries/domestically) or to found (even small
bazaar) business that they could larger with even more investments
and risks, as there would not be risk from total collapse of living
standards even in case of bankruptcy (that would be unlikely due to
higher domestic spending). There would neither be any "traps"
preventing from taking jobs with lower salary, as all one could
earn would be only plus (when staying only on social security could
achieve only certain level of living without hope for better, but
almost all people are so greed that they always want more). This
way working would come REAL way to wealth and even for getting rich
if salary is invested right. Founding business would be easy as
government would pay expenses in the beginning.
Of course this system could be risked by some efforts to take use
of this system, like that (foreign) companies would try to sell too
expensively with rip-off prices increasing inflation (to regulate
prices government could found own government businesses into all
areas of economics, with 50% of shares distributed evenly to all
citizens, and took government payment-guarantee from companies
trying to exploit system, then ordinary people should favor
state-companies getting some money back instead of government
losing it, and they too through government/government-companies
shares loosing, and favor other their favorite companies so that
those selling with too high prices would be forced to lower their
prices and not to lose governments payment-guarantee, when
customers would have to pay from their favorite
commodities/services from their own money, salary), until this
system would expand even further to other countries (first to other
oil-countries like Iraq and Libya). From these countries wealth and
investments would spread by through totally welcomed workers from
other countries (with their families), who would be given from (at
least for quite regular) working same benefits, when they again
could invest their money further (into own countries for example),
increasing wealth there too.
Soon situation could be that state and people would have got so
rich even only from their investments in shares and owning in
foreign companies/lands, that state would make so much profit they
would not have to stop system even when oil runs out, and so
positive circle of investments and increased spending would go on.
This system would work in political multiparty-system, where people
would monitor state actions in putting recommended reasonable
prices and policies in running people-owned business (if state
would try to make prices too low, income from shares for people
would suffer, and their other own/favorite privately owned
businesses might end).