Economics
The OUR SYSTEM Institute advocates for an economic system that reinforces a primary incentive of fulfilment by making our best contribution. This requires an economic system that ensures freedom to contribute without harm, reducing controls and increasing individual independence, with a shared base income and free and fair competition.
This form of economic system focuses on giving us all the opportunity to make our best contributions, and share our ideas, in free and open markets. It is about free and open competition to contribute, not closed and unfair competition for advantage, and about focusing on fulfilment by contribution as the primary, intrinsic incentive, rather than on control for secure financial return. In this economic system, ideas are shared and non-exclusive, not co-opted by organisations; product is unlimited through unlimited ideas, not limited and exploited; fair prices reflect true costs, and real value is measured in fulfilment, not money. In regard to finance, the OUR SYSTEM Institute sees money as the means to facilitate transactions in trade, not as an end in itself. The OUR SYSTEM Institute advocates policies that align with this view, such as curtailing speculative markets, removing financial derivatives that give the 'right' to resources without possession, transforming shares to loans with dividends/interest and no market for trading, making property ownership by occupancy only, and reducing currency exchange to sale for use not for trading. |