tailieunhanh - salvation through inflation the economics of social credit phần 7

sẽ phát hành đồng tiền pháp định dựa trên giá trị tiền tệ tài sản của quốc gia. Điều này sẽ thay thế hệ thống hiện tại của cổ tức của công ty cho các nhà đầu tư. Nói cách khác, Douglas đã thông qua cùng một từ, cổ tức, để mô tả hai hoàn toàn kháchệ thống: bắt buộc và một trong những khác tự nguyện | Dividends Under Capitalism 169 would issue fiat money based on the monetary value of the nation s assets. This would replace the present system of corporate dividends to investors. In other words Douglas adopted the same word dividend to describe two radically different systems one compulsory and the other voluntary one government-mandated and the other a matter of private making. One system is based on a person s decision to turn his money over to a corporation in the hope of future income and capital gains while the other is based on the government s issuing of fiat money in terms of a statistic the estimated money value of all the assets inside the nation s borders. Machines and Productivity Major Douglas argued that the increased utilisation of mechanical power and machinery. . . tends to contract the area of the distribution of Why should this be true Some people are released from a particular type of service by the substitution of a machine but humans are remarkably versatile. They are not highly specific capital goods. In short men are not machines. The fact that a man loses one job to a machine does not mean that he cannot get another job such as building more machines or repairing machines or selling the products of machines. If machines replaced men in general rather than specific men working on specific tasks hardly anyone would be employed today. Machines in Douglas view are like slaves prior to the mid-nineteenth century low-paid servants. But don t machines replace men Yes specific men in specific jobs. But machines also make men more productive. For example a bulldozer can be used to build a road and the road opens up new markets. If we argue that bulldozers lead to unemployment shouldn t we conclude that the government ought to make the use of bulldozers illegal in order to further the hiring of lots of men using shovels Taking this even far- 9. Credit-Power and Democracy p. 43. 1 70 SALVATION THROUGH INFLATION ther shouldn t the government make .