The Living Balance
Economy in service of human, animal & nature

Whoever leads a pack of dogs and rewards the animals when they break the furniture and also let them fight for every piece of meat, should not be surprised if his home soon resembles a battlefield and that the animals can’t be controlled or they destroy the furniture. Every average dog trainer knows that such a training method leads to chaos and also every pedagogue knows that this is not the best education method either.
But when you look closely, our economic system works in exactly the same way. The incentives are sitting in the completely wrong places and it is aligned that they have a competition against each other. And that is exactly what we see everywhere in the world. Smaller repairs in one place or another will not alter the fact that this 'training program' has a fundamental destructive effect.
And as if that isn’t enough, we have also breathed life into this artificial construct.
It has to be fed in order to grow and thrive. We feed it with people, animals and nature; no one rules over this being, we are all in his service. If it is failing somewhere, half the world is in turmoil. We treat the program as a living being, workplaces have personality status and dominate the destinies of people. The entire system has taken on a life of its own and operates with a self-serving background. Nevertheless, we defend it as a religion, serve it as an omnipotent deity, and are convinced that all of this is real. But in reality it's just a bad training program. But we can do better.
We don’t have to condemn the greed when people are permanently crammed with invented needs that we wouldn’t have without this constant stream of everything. Also money is not bad, it has only the fatal feature that you cannot get too much of it. There are, of course, exceptions, but tests with nasturtiums, chimpanzees and orangutans have shown that they react similarly. Once they are trained to be rewarded with colorful blocks, which they can exchange at any time for food, they begin to hoard what they can get.
Humans are alright and his feelings are all right. Only the training program is corrupt. It puts false incentives and the rewards are addicting. What we need is an economy that is oriented towards reality and rewards the desired behavior, while misbehavior can bring expected disadvantages. Clear rules, not too many and not too few, just the right ones. Then community also works with us humans and then we can use our nature instead of having to dominate and suppress them.


The basic functions

In order not only to stop the current destructive direction of human influence, but to convert it into a life-affirming one, it is only necessary to exchange the standards for the calculation of wage & salary and for the pricing and to change the payment process. It sounds totally crazy, but noting more is needed.
1.) Standard Time for calculation of wage and salary
This alteration roots in a change of perspective.
If it´s really about justice and a change of awareness than we have to consider the possibility it’s not about what humans can accomplish but rather about what humans deploy: The most important thing for every human is - his lifetime. It’s equally important for someone how is paid poorly than for someone how get paid very well. And that is the point.
At present, the wages of a person are measured according to what he works / renders. This maybe alright at first but on a second thought, it can be seen that this form of remuneration automatically disadvantaged all people who for some reason cannot perform so well. And how can you bring it into the subconscious of the people, that all humans are equal (have the same value) when assistants, disabled people, etc. officially only a fraction of what A-League football players, bankers and managers, beauty surgeons, Film and music stars and other high-earners get? That some accepts a lot cannot be blamed, the cause is that the income IS so extremely different.
The regulation is wrong – not the people.
The income of a person is closely connected with his reputation. One can well 'know' that a poor man is no less worth than a rich man. One can be completely convinced of it. And yet it feels different. It is not enough to persuade yourself about something. It is better to create the right conditions.
If the remuneration is balanced, the reputation will also approximate. And then you don’t have to 'regulate' the equality of men, then people are the same (have the same value).
In addition, it’s time for a fixed size and thus a truly global currency. There are no conversions in other currencies, because an hour is an hour, regardless if you are in Timbuktu, Ecuador, Chicago, Berlin, Moscow or the Maldives.

Remuneration without causing costs

All this works, of course, because there are no more labour costs (The people are no ‘cost factors’).
In “The Living Balance” the compensation for the expenditure of time exposure is transferred to the beneficiary's account in the form of a 'credit advice'. This is similar to the issue of a debenture, no money flows, the client does not have to pay the wage, he only have to post the sum to the account of the receiver. Once it is booked into an account, it has full purchasing power. But there is no money transferred.
If there are no more personnel costs for companies or communities, voluntary helpers cannot be paid for their services in Europe only, even in the poorest regions the residents can be cared for. And then it would also be easy to provide help for self-help. The people develops from a cost factor (which is saved) to a voluntary helper who is welcome everywhere where help is needed.

If, for example, the hiring of nursing staff doesn’t bred any costs, nursing homes will become better places. When hiring teachers doesn’t cost anything, schools can become places for learning and joy. If doctors and nurses no longer need to be economized, they are well rested and have more time for the patients. It affects all areas in which, for economic reasons, a performance as high as possible must be provided by as few people as possible. Companies no longer need to save money or pare down personnel.
No longer be afraid of getting fired because of rationalize jobs, no more stopwatches, no pressure of achieve. It is like the deceleration of a tornado before he wastes everything until the energy goes out and he collapses. This can not only revolutionize the job market but also social interaction. Because even communities can hire as many helpers as they need, for the needs of humans, animals and nature.

In addition, as many check-ups as necessary can be done in order to ensure the smoothest possible implementation.

Activities to be remunerated

Activities for the general well-being include anything that is helpful in any way for humans, animals and / or nature. It doesn’t matter whether it concerns productive, social, cultural, scientific, political, medical or other areas. Everyone who brings in his life time to do something for the common good is entitled to a 'compensation' for his time. Even if he 'only' visits an old people, makes purchases, or reads something to a patient. All this also belongs to the tasks of the general welfare.

This also includes:
Education (apprenticeship, study, advanced training)
Of course, education in the last resort also serves the common good, and also for this a person sacrifices a part of his life. This also eliminates the argument that people with long education periods later claim a higher wage because they have renounced it for so long.
Volunteer work, which today are not or hardly paid, but are enormously important in our society. If a community has to reward those forces 'only' by means of a credit advice, all helpers can be hired without difficulty and receive their compensatory time.
Mother-, / Parenthood the most important duty
This may be surprising, but mothers contribute enormously to our future and should be able to relax and devote themselves to their children without any financial worries. If it benefits them, they can, of course, pursue another profession. Then there is support (KiTas, household aids, babysitters, etc.), but if they prefer to look after their children, they are just as rewarded for their motherhood. As far as time is concerned, mothers and farmers are among those who deserve the most. And this is perfectly true. The world would be nothing without mothers and farmers. Without artists, scientists and politicians we would be badly off, but without mothers and farmers we might be done for.

Authorization for transfer of remuneration
It is provided that remuneration for services provided (time exposure) will only be made by the next higher authorities. For the highest possible instance, remuneration are made by the next lower instance. The following applies to all instances: Careful accounting is an obligation and can be viewed and checked at any time without warning.

Exemptions for higher wages
There is the possibility of granting a per cent special remuneration, e.g. for:
• particularly urgent activities (emergency and disaster relief, etc.)
• particularly dangerous activities (Bombshell, window cleaner, fire brigade, etc.)
• particularly responsible disclosure activities (Doctors, pilots, dangerous goods transporters, etc.)
• Activities requiring special skills (Master craftsman, scientist, heart, brain eye surgery, etc.)
• Night, Sunday and holiday services
These should be mostly in the context of today's allowances for overtime etc. The decision is the responsibility of the respective clients (communities, companies, district governments, proved environmental organizations, etc.). Only these are entitled to make pay bookings and the people on site knows best what is necessary and what is possible.
All transactions must be carefully documented. This information must be accessible at all times. This is the best protection against possible misuse of this scheme.

2.) Scale Energy for the calculation of the value of goods

The following shall be taken into account when calculating the value of goods based on energy consumption. A commodity value is also definite for energy, just like with all other products. Therefore the kind of energy production has a great influence on the price structure, which consists of these parts:
1. Energy consumption for a product (from the first to the last step).
For each production step (production, transport, storage, trade) the entire energy consumption is determined. This also includes indirect energy consumption for the production of tools and machines and other materials. The sum determined is booked on the product bill. Each production step a further number is added, but no money is transferred.

To determine the sales price of a commodity everything is added.
The total sum forms the first part of the final price of the goods.
The second part is calculated as follows:

2. Energy consumption for compensation of nature.
The term nature, in this aspect, includes everything that we use: animal, nature and habitat earth.
This is the task area of ecologists. This combines economy and ecology into a unity.

a.) It is necessary to identify the obvious, hidden and sequelae of nature, resulted by destruction, promoting, producing, transporting, etc.
b.) Damages which cannot be regulated by nature must be compensated (as far as possible). As humans with a sense of responsibility, we are not allowed to 'strip bare' the habitat of our descendants. What have been broken, have to be patch up again, what you have consumed, you have to stock up and what you have polluted, you have to clean. This is an essential part of the concept.
Of course, this is often not possible - we cannot easily eliminate the damage to nature in Chernobyl and Fukushima. We cannot easily eliminate the damage caused by oil/sand extraction. We can’t even filter the CO2 emissions of power plants and traffic and stash away somewhere. We cannot make a lot of things easy. But we can start with that.
And we can calculate how long it will take until the damage is eliminated. And we can calculate how much energy we have used, till then, by storage, detoxification, precaution, etc. And this can be transferred to the prices. Then the interest in such products will drop rapidly in a relatively short time.

At the same time, the elimination of wage costs means that everything that has been lasting generated can be received super cheap. All products for which nature has suffered little or no damage, which nature can’t re-regulated by itself, then only costs the energy content for the production.
These two points result in a reversal of the price structure.
No longer people causes the high costs, but damages to nature come at a high price.

Point 3 is the icing on the cake.
3.) Payment process (balance between humans and nature)
The exception of the payment process (when purchasing goods) is that no money is transferred. Why should be, until that time, no one has paid for anything. Everything is done, people have their wages (their basic needs and the restitution to nature is running), and therefore the purchase price and credit balance are neutralized. All done.
And at the same time, every self-interest motivation of companies ends in smoke. They become workplaces where people work to meet the needs of the community. Then no company can 'break', but they also have no more power over humans, animal and nature. They no longer work in their own service, but in our service. There is no longer any reason for the 'wood industry' to deforest whole forests, there is no longer any reason to exploit life and to harm nature in excess. Companies simply do not care anymore because they cannot earn anything with it - and also they don’t have to. They are not a part of the trade between human and nature and they simply have nothing to do with the balance between giving and taking. They give and take nothing, humans and nature give and take.
And that is why there is no longer any interest in bypassing nature, in order to push prices and sell more. What for? Companies earn nothing more from it. They cannot lose anything. Whether you are now more or less implement than other companies simply no longer plays a role - just as the pricing has no influence on workplaces.
Imagine a world without the self-interest of corporations .... - a really beautiful thought.
They simply have nothing to do with the balance between human and nature.

It takes you a while to adjust your imagination, but the more familiar you become with the functions, the easier it is for you - and the easier it seems to you.
And because the famous icing on the cake can’t be missed, the concept also includes securing the basic needs of the people on the earth, indifferently, where they live.

Securing the basic requirement
When anyone has internalized the mode of action of this 'ecological economy', a basic security of the population is self-evident. When money no longer plays a role, it´s in the interests of every village / region to meet the basic needs of the population.
Those who can organize water and food, who can build schools and hospitals, who can provide services in remote regions, who can reward people for their services, can defeat poverty and will do so. Gratitude and respect for the population are certain to him.
What is most needed is different from region to region.

The minimum is:
1.) Water and basic food
The differences in the basic needs of the population are enormous. For Europeans, water and basic food are not a big deal, but e.g. in Central Africa it is. In many places, access to clean water and sanitation facilities and a sufficient quantity of grain means the difference between life and death.


2.) A decent home
Completely different depending on the region, as a basis - protected living space, which cannot be taken from the inhabitants. Prisoners must also be taken into consideration here. In order to protect potential victims, violators must accept a move into a 'secure zone', this is perfectly clear.
The number of crimes against property will go down significantly - because in banks and petrol stations no money is stored. Frauds also dropped out, because if credit is deleted when leaving the account, the incentive does not apply. Why should anyone foist an old person to buy an overpriced subscription if you cannot earn anything from it? Then you better get your garbage out, because you can be paid for this.
The legislation of the states is completely different and it´s best to stay out as far as possible.
But every human being has a claim on 'reasonable' living space. It´s up to the Heads of State to define the term 'appropriate' for themselves.

3.) The best medical care possible
Whoever needs which treatments, is entitled to the existing possibilities, without having to pay for it. It does not matter anyway, because paid credit is extinguished when leaving the account, so you can introduce medical care as a kind of basic right.

4.) Best possible education (for everyone)
Everyone can, may and should learn what they want to learn. Teachers and learners are rewarded. There is no longer any reason to take children out of school and send them to work, there is no reason to cancel apprenticeship to earn an income with a job - teachers, instructors as well as students and trainees receive a decent wage for their work.

Additional
It may sound quite surprising, but that can be just as true for animals as for humans. Points 3 and 4 can be summarized as "species-appropriate husbandry", this is just as feasible as providing care for people. The possibilities for this are really available and can also be used in the Living Balance, without incurring expenses. The incentive is in any case at all that is as sustainable as possible, so it is to be foreseen that everything will develop in the desired direction.
If something is out of control anywhere, a higher authority always can be interfere.

To decision-making
Given that the concept is designed to achieve the highest level of acceptance on a global scale, this point is a bit delicate. Therefore I limit myself to a somewhat rough presentation:
The best possible (and natural) hierarchy works in such a way that site-related decisions are taken on site and the next higher instances are given control over the lower entities. A superordinate global instance is targeted, which is based on two requirements:
The dignity of human (of life) is inviolable!
Whoever respects the dignity of life does not fight death, for that is an elementary part of life. Rather, the dignity of life requires respect for the living and is closely connected with point 2:


Protecting and preserving of the habitant Earth must have top priority for all peoples, nations and people around the world
It´s unquestionable in the human mind to prepare for the most unfavourable scenario with all available means, while hoping for the most favourable. This is feasible with this concept. Necessary restrictions or measures will no longer fail due to 'economic interests' because the economy is then oriented towards the interests of humans, animals and nature.
A global grouping of ecologists, economists, climatologists, etc., is recommended, whose task is to investigate possible measures and, if necessary, to take action. This will not fail because of the costs because no costs are incurred. They should also have the power to intervene in cases of serious environmental damage and, if necessary, to penalize them.
I would like to remind you that the service of these responsible persons is paid as part of their time. This applies to experts, scientists, directives, as well as to the cleaning staff and the auxiliary staff. Whoever wants to start a service only because he hopes for a higher pay will be disappointed. Who, on the other hand, takes on a task, because he wants to help and achieve the best for all, is exactly in the right place. No matter where he fulfils which task.
In this way, there should be no obstacles to a real change in the duty of human, animal or nature.
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Prospective effects
Decentralization
This regulation is expected to bring about a significant decentralization.
Since communities can hire all the helpers who are needed on site, the craftsman are likely to return to rural areas. Installers, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, hairdressers - whatever is needed in a village (town, town, and district) can be commissioned and remunerated. Then, e.g. a handmade pair of shoes made from sustainably produced leather can be significantly cheaper than a pair of shoes, which is tanned and dyed by people with toxic substances somewhere in Asia and then transported all over the globe.
Country doctors will also experience a renaissance. Wherever doctors, therapists and nurses are employed, they can be awarded a higher salary, depending on the urgency. Also, doctors' associations, which share night and weekend services, are then realizable - surgeries can be commissioned by the communities and made available to the doctors. How this will develop in detail will differ from place to place, but it is foreseeable that it will tend to bring about a tremendous improvement in the quality of life of humans, animals and nature.
The same goes for teachers, kindergarten teachers, veterinarians and much more. Everyone receives the same salary regardless of where and what activity he performs. Everyone can and may move to large canters, but no one has to do it anymore to live better and be able to afford more.

Further Examples
The Living Balance unfolds its effect into the smallest corners of our lives. It would fill encyclopaedias, but I should go into some examples.

Example Agriculture
Thus, a farmer is rewarded for the time spent on the service of the Community. His products will be more demanded the more sustainable he produces. Products that are associated with unnecessary damage to animals, plants or soils will then become more expensive and will be no longer in demand. And then the demand regulates the market in a sustainable way. In addition, farmers are likely to be among those who deserve the most - simply because their craft is extremely time-consuming. This will take a lot of pressure from them and they can devote themselves again to the joys of dealing with nature.
Compensation for nature for the keeping of farm animals will depend on how species-appropriate the animals are kept and on the quality of the herds. It is no longer a matter of mass, but of class. Of course, animals are still being killed for consumption, it´s NOT about being AGAINST death, but being FOR life - in the sense of evolution. In addition, of course, the amount of methane emitted by a herd of cattle or the damage caused by the disposal of manure, etc., is also taken into account.
We can make good use of what we can get without animal cruelty and poisoning. Moreover, the respective products will become more expensive.

Example wood industry
Sustainable forestry is already operating in most European regions. For this reason, this point focuses on nations with primordial forests. Compensation for the deforestation of a forest giants or sequoias must be made, e.g. how much oxygen it forms and how much CO2 it can bind. An equivalent substitute must then be provided. The energy required for this is added to the products which are connected with the fall of the tree. It is indifferent whether it is palm oil and other products of monocultures or beef of herds, for whose pastures the jungle giants must fall.
This is not just about oxygen and CO2, but also the habitats for endangered animal species. It might be almost impossible to compensate for the destruction of destroyed regions of the rainforest and thus, as in other cases, the necessary energy expenditure can only be estimated. This will raise the costs for imported beef, palm oil and much more products very much.
Example petroleum
This is a delicate issue, because the damage to nature for the production / extraction as well as for the disposal of plastic waste, engine oil and much more, will rise in immeasurable manner. The use of this raw material will then be limited to the (life-) necessary products whose production cannot (yet) be replaced by other materials. For private consumption, the use of plastic is only rarely desirable, since already a plastic packaging for bread can then exceed the price of the actual product.
On the other hand, research for substitutes (which is simply still too expensive today) will be fuelled, aside from that, available substitutes will be cheaper in the shortest time possible, than products made from petroleum, (or other non-renewable raw materials).
It is, as I said, a delicate subject, but it is necessary, on the one hand, to achieve a reversal, and on the other hand, I trust the resourceful minds of people to come quickly to acceptable solutions. When the oil is exhausted, we have to face this need anyway. Then it´s better, we do it now and can save something for future generations this way. Who knows what this raw material is needed for in the future?
The fact that this regulation is an immediate “put to stop” for the oil-sand extraction should not surprise anyone. The compensation of nature for such environmental wastes is almost beyond any budget. The method of fracking won´t be hit so hard, but hard enough to make such won oil not really more favourable.
It will also have a significant impact on transport costs.
While today still northern sea crabs are shipped to Morocco, where they are being pelted by women for breadline wage, only to be transported back again to end up on the shelves more cheaply, this will change fundamentally. By the elimination of the personnel costs and the more expensive transport possibilities, it will be best to catch and handle cabs, directly on the spot and ship them on the shortest way to the shelves.

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Acceptance
As far as the acceptance of the population is concerned, there is only limited reason for great resistance. It does not change much for the people. They perform their duties, receive their fair wages on their account and pay with a card. Whether the credit is deducted and forwarded or deleted, does not change anything for the consumers themselves.
Pricing will reverse completely, but people will learn quickly how to deal with it. They will have to relinquish some things, because it will simply be too expensive, but instead of that they can afford a lot more what was previously too expensive for them.
The fact that they will have free access to the best possible education and medical care should not disturb them further. And that they are no longer afraid of aging (many are afraid of an end in a nursing home) or have to worry about their home, it will make it easier.
It is difficult for those who would have something to lose - Large-income earners, people with a lot of possessions, people who identify with the power of a company. And these are, as you know, exactly those people who are the most powerful. It is therefore advised to ensure the economic status of those people for a foreseeable transitional period as usual. It does not incur any costs, so it is easily possible to let accustomed grants continue without removing something from another.
Of course, it would be fairer when everyone starting at point 0, but the disadvantages of the expected resistance are much too great to operate principle-renewing. The greatest possible acceptance is important. Furthermore it will disappear in time. On the one hand, because the system sharpens the awareness of responsible behaviour on its own, and on the other hand, because assets are extinguished when leaving a private account. Due to the change of generations and the spread of consciousness for the real and the essential, the whole system will automatically adjust itself sooner or later. But, of course, there is the possibility to speed it up by actively slowing down the donations. Although I would prefer to direct the enthusiasm to something else. To find something that makes these people feel important and needed. Especially people with high property often define their personal value over it. And if it were possible to link the sense of self-worth with something else, this would be more of a 'good' effect than the slow strangulation of the cash cow. It’s better to pick up people where they are, the more effectively you can encounter resistances.

Implementation
The implementation of the concept requires enormous preparations, but technically and mathematically the challenges are quite solvable. The concept does not include anything that is not already provided. Working time and energy consumption are nothing unknown and credit deleting instead of transferring them, should not represent an insurmountable obstacle.
I assume that with these guidelines an average game programmer could create a game without major problems.
A lot of things will disappear, which are believed to be essential, but in reality everything necessary is included for what is needed for a regulated giving and taking. It is basically like a sculptor who creates a wonderful sculpture from a coarse boulder, “simply” by removing all what doesn’t belong there.

Task that still needs to be solved

A general improvement of the standard of living is targeted.
The aim for people is a more carefree life for an average time exposure than before.
Therefor it may be necessary to create a conversion key for time. But first you have to calculate the expected prices and compare them with the time balances. This is a logistical challenge that clearly exceeds my / our capabilities and resources. For this, we are dependent on the help of ecologists, logistics and, of course, economists as well, but this point will be of the checklist shortly with the right instruments.