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A limit of 200,000 euro in one year, earning or spending?

To eradicate damaging greed,
To prevent future financial and economic crises,
To give 10,000,000 kids dying each year before they are five years old the chance to have a decent life,
To unite the safe and prosperous world of the Happy Few with the often harsh world of the masses,
I PROPOSE that 200,000 euro in one year should be the limit for anyone!

But … how can The People prevent that the Happy Few earn more than 200,000 euro in one year?
They could not prevent it in the past, they neither can do that in the present and they will also not be able to do that in the future.
The People do not pay these ridiculous salaries. Those decisions are taken by people who also earn (too) much.
The People have hardly influence on the process of ever rising incomes for the top, they can hardly prevent that a Few get a lot  and the rest may fight over the crumbles that fall from the well-supplied table of the affluent top of the world.

 To achieve an income cap is nearly impossible.Then you are dependent on CEO’s, politicians and other people who to a very great height cannot be trusted. Autonomous humans should not be dependent on what other far-away people could regulate.

 What do rich people do with so much money? How and where are they spending more than 200,000 euro in one year? There The People can become autonomously active. They must attack the Achilles Heel of the Greedy, Money and Extravagance.

When it becomes more difficult to spend more than 200,000 euro in one year, the necessity to earn 200,000 euro starts to wither away and the world becomes friendlier and less dominated by money.

When anyone wants a Mercedes of one million euro The People can think of ways to stop the use and the production of this exaggerated spending.
The People possess sufficient fantasy, creativity and freedom to prevent that a Few can use extravagances that are only reserved for a tiny minority of all humans. 

200,000 euro to spend in one year should be the LIMIT!

-- May 17 2010 --

The crisis and 200,000 euro is the LIMIT! 

Making it impossible to manipulate. 

Suddenly the Greek government had to pay 14 percent interest instead of 7 percent the previous day.
Suddenly the Dow Jones index plummeted in one hour by a thousand points.
Is the world changing so fast? Of course not, in one hour or even in one day no new facts can account for such jumps.
In the Greek case the European Union was hesitating to give huge loans but the debt situation of Greece was not worse than the day before.
In the case of the Dow Jones it was suggested that one single trader made a mistake to order the sale of too much shares of Procter & Gamble. He accidently should have added some zero’s. The result was that computer programs started to sell stocks. Are we being governed, guided and controlled by computers?  

No, in both cases some unidentified people wanted to earn huge amounts of money by shady transactions. They have no objections to speculate, manipulate, cheat or bribe to please their greed. They do not care that more than ten million kids die each year before they are five years old. 

The burden of their greed is carried by the shoulders of common citizens. In the USA 10 percent of the workers  are officially unemployed, but the real employment is twice as much. In Spain the unemployment is already 20 percent according to the government and nobody sees any improvement in the coming years.  

The greed, that causes much of the misery of common citizens, has to be stopped.
Governments can be asked to prohibit hedge funds, trading in futures, selling of unclear and often unsafe packets of loans to other banks or other speculative trade. Maybe she could restrict venture capitalists who only want to make money by selling parts of a concern to the highest bidder without even thinking about what happens to the workers or about the impact on the economy of a country. The government can even close the stock exchange, the place where money can be made without caring about social consequences.  

I despise top-down. In the past governments have shown that they want in the first place to please money-makers. They never showed they care in the first place for the People.
People have to be autonomous, free to regulate their own life. We will not live happily ever after when some people up there take the decisions. That happens in fairy-tales, not in real life.  

Why are people greedy?
To spend money on extravagant items that never can be acquired by common people. They distinguish themselves from common citizens by surrounding themselves with special things and living in an environment that is out of bounds for the great majority.
We can care for it that greedy people do not remain greedy by preventing that they limitless can spend their surplus money. Then we will enter another world, a humane society that is not ruled by the quest for money.
Yes, we can, 200.000 euro to spend in one year should be the LIMIT!

A maximum of 200,000 euro gives more freedom 

The idea “200,000 euro a year is the LIMIT!” does not strive to improve our present world a little bit, does not want that only five million kids die each year before they are five years old in stead of the present ten million, does not concentrate on getting a few cents more each month, less racism or slight improvements of basic human rights. It is neither left nor right, it is autonomous, it promotes the freedom to do what you want to do without hurting other humans. 

200,000 euro is the LIMIT! wants a humane world by attacking the fundamental motivation of nearly all activity. Our society is restricted by the paradigm that everything has to be expressed in terms of money. This money paradigm must be replaced by a driving force that puts the well-being of humans first. Only then all ten million under-five kids that die each year get a chance on a decent life. 

This change cannot be reached by elections. You may vote but don’t expect much from newly elected leaders. Their first goal is the preservation of a society based on money and not based on the well-being of humans. 

200,000 euro is the LIMIT! aims to prevent the use of surplus money. In this process the creativity, initiative and activity of common citizens is activated. They free themselves from restrictions imposed by (very well-to-do) leaders who appreciate money more than a decent life for all people. Only when society is guided by the idea that the life of all humans is important the way will open to a society with more freedom.  

200,000 euro is the LIMIT! has nothing to do with old politics based on the pursuit of money. The basic idea is that the People prevent the Happy Few amassing too much money for the own group at the cost of the life of the vast majority.
A Van Gogh belongs in a museum and not in a private house where only a few will get the pleasure to see this unique piece of our World Heritage. Anyone should have the freedom to see all Van Goghs.

More consequences of 200,000 euro is the limit! 

Humans must survive so there must be enough food.
A simple truth but the leaders of our society are not impressed by this demand because everything is expressed in money – in the first place money that vanishes in the pockets of the own already privileged group.
Leaders do not concentrate on the production of human basic necessities but are guided by money. How much the production of the necessary food cost is more important than the fact that each year ten million kids die before they are five years old. These kids do not have the money to buy food and are excluded from our economy – except for a few coins that are thrown in their direction from the balconies of the mansions that are habituated by the very well-to-do Happy Few.  

Other basic necessities are a drainage system, a decent living place and enough trains and roads to transport people and goods.
In Western countries these basic goods are more or less available for everybody but in the rest of the world they are often scarce.
Therefore the Chinese economy is not growing by ten percent a year. Most of this growth is generated by making basic products that are needed to survive. And surviving cannot be expressed in money.  

A same story can be told about clean drinking water, electricity and medical care.
These basic commodities are more and more produced by private enterprises lead by people who are not guided by the necessity to produce basic goods but by the idea to get as much money as possible.
When they can not spend their surplus money anymore, the reason to produce drinking water, food, drainage systems, trains, roads or cars will change. Then leaders will become dominated by the idea that they have to produce products that are necessary for the People to survive. Money they cannot spend anymore will become a secondary factor.

200,000 euro a year is the LIMIT!

-- April 4 2010 --

The “200,000 euro is the LIMIT!” Club 

Ideas that are beneficial to humanity that have no chance to be realised remain utopian, a far-off place that never can be reached. Attractive ideas must be accompanied by a vague plan how to move across the road to the New Humane World.
How can relatively weak citizens change the leading paradigm that all is measured in terms of money.
How to get a New Humane World that is determined by the new paradigm that everything must benefit humanity.
How can we implement “200,000 euro a year is the LIMIT!” to prevent that a tiny minority uses too much money at the cost of the life of the vast majority.

The simple fact that each year ten million kids die before they are five years old because they cannot buy the necessary food and medical care is enough proof that the life of common citizens does not dominate ideas of leading people.  

A sledge hammer can only be used by some people but any human is strong enough to prick with a pin. And a multitude of pinpricks has more effect than a single blow with a big hammer. It will avoid that “200,000 plus people” use their surplus money for objects and in places that are out of reach of “200,000 euro minus people”.  

To increase the number of pinpricks people can ask trusted friends to join an independent and temporary “200,000 euro is the LIMIT! Club”. These clubs have leaders nor restricting rules. They stand open for people who adhere to the idea that a limit to the spending power of a few very rich people opens the way to a more humane world.  

Everyone can find exclusive objects and places that are reserved for the top of the world. Many pricks will make the use of exclusive objects impossible. When the top of the world cannot spend its surplus of money, the leading paradigm that determines the world will change from money to humanity.

And do not expect anything from politicians or governments that are all under the spell of the money paradigm.
200,000 euro a year is the LIMIT!

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