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Introduction
The following article is adapted from the last third of a pamphlet that I self-published at age 26, Our New Planet: An Economic Vision for a United States of Earth (1999). [Since 2004, after serving as interim president of Citizens for Global Solutions (formerly, World Federalist Association), Washington, D.C. Chapter, my views on world federalism have become more constructively critical and I have continued to serve as an officer with a more nuanced precursor organization, Association to Unite the Democracies since 2014.] Other updates relevant to world events since 1999 are given in sentence form through footnotes along with regular sources. An autobiographical article from August 14, 20251 provides more social context from the 1980 time-frame and serves as an introduction to this three-part article, the first part of which was published on September 21, 20252 and the second part on October 31, 2025.3
Our common indigenous cultural heritages and the scientific method
Conventional Wisdom (CW): Since you think that money exchange is animalistic and uncivilized, what should we do with indigenous cultures, who by definition, are not “civilized,” nor want to be?4
Martin Schwab (MS): Tecumseh, a Native American leader from the Great Lakes Region of North America in the early 1800s wanted positive synergy between the European-American culture and his indigenous peoples, including rival tribes – at least at a personal level. Tecumseh proposed a life of commitment and partnership to nearby settler, Rebekah Galloway (1791-1876) within the Shawnee tribe after she read to him from the Christian Bible and Shakespeare in English which he spoke. While his proposal was denied from Rebekah and her father James, a veteran of the American Revolution against the British Empire, Tecumseh gained an appreciation of what the written word and the scientific method could bring to his people(s). He also held dear to his heart his own cultural heritage and fought to his death within a complicated alliance with the British Empire to unite his own peoples against the inherent aggression of the culture with which he wanted to synergize his own. His life endures as a model for what human civilization can become, minus the arrogance of cultural hierarchy.5
Our present world should be able to figure out a way to create human synergy as Tecumseh saw possible. We should be able to synergize approaches to life between exploration-based people and those who emphasize living in harmony with nature by living more simply. In fact, this may be a requirement for humans to advance into extremely harsh environments beyond Earth. There is no place for domination-based people in the human future.
Already, the Amish live in concert with modern folks across the United States and Canada.6 Another example of this synergy is Maasai villagers in Kenya, where as of 1987, they danced to music played on solar-powered tape recorders.7 There is much that “Western Civilization” has already learned the hard way from indigenous values. The “Dust Bowl” migration to California in the 1930s from across the plains states of the United States, resulting from over-exploitation of farmland is one example. This three-part contribution has its origins in the philosophies of Stoicism and Taoism, essentially to be one with nature as dictated by every individual’s conscience.
Eliminating class and status in favor of mass achievement
CW: Are you the same as Karl Marx in terms of wanting a classless society?
MS: Yes but without the conclusions reached by Marx. In short, I agree with his undeniable diagnosis and disagree with his insufficient prescription. There is much to admire about the structure of how he approached social problems. Marx understood that history as a continuum remains a dysfunctional/unjust class struggle yet he adds to our never-ending struggle among humans by saying that the working class as a monolithic protagonist need unite around the world and overthrow capitalists. So, in effect he said that everybody should be working class through his dictatorship of the proletariat.
His dictum was “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” Had Marx simply added two words to this dictum, or better yet substituted two words, he might have really changed our world for the better. The dictum for an exchange-free interchange economy is this: “From each according to his or her interest, to each according to his or her desire.” Again, instead of prioritizing equality from the left or liberty through opportunity from the right, we can prioritize true progressive forward movement of history/herstory/ourstory through mass human contributions to space exploration writ large by undertaking all conceivable missions in concert and at will. This means that like MacGyver, the non-profit think tank field agent in the television show MacGyver (1985-92),8 any mission can be turned down for any reason without question but a sense of duty rather than hierarchical pressure results in missions being accepted and undertaken with dispatch.
So-called capitalists may claim this is capitalism, but to me this is the true definition of free enterprise, which such quasi-capitalists claim to support but in reality suppress.
CW: I understand that you think free enterprise can flourish without capitalism, money or exchange, but you haven’t really addressed your views on the concept of private property. Do you believe in it?
The difference between private property and private possession
MS: Privacy is the essential part of “private property” worth preserving, just as free enterprise is the essence of capitalism worth preserving. To explain further, the term “ownership” differs from the term “possession.” “Ownership” implies exchange value. “Possession” implies a right to privacy. Individual possessions and privacy can still be driving factors of a new exchange-free, capital-free, free enterprise.
We need not yet be as radical as John Lennon’s song “Imagine,” in which he sings, “…imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can?”9 Again, I imagine a world where people can drive a car for a week, recycle it for a new design and drive off, not worrying about insurance. Free car, care free.
There can just be general respect for everyone’s time to privately enjoy whatever we enjoy. That can be especially true with respect to quiet enjoyment of residential living space. Again, it’s back to honor, the golden rule and following one’s conscience. It can be easier to do this if we were not tempted to “gain” things we already could have access to through energy abundance and automation. Unfortunately, the golden rule now means that those with gold or capital rule over others. We can change this disgusting structure.
CW: As social class is so ingrained into many of our various cultures, it seems that to get rid of money and exchange, which may be a good thing, will also get rid of culture. Is this just a necessary part of human progress, like ending the southern United States slave plantation culture?
MS: Much of culture, such as American blues music may not have been possible without economic hardship. Much of culture and humor comes from pain. As humans, we will always have enough to strive for and fail at to give us material for cultural evolution, including the inherently dangerous though intrinsically rewarding work of human space exploration, especially detecting and deflecting Earth-crossing orbits of asteroids and comets without error.
CW: What about the intangibles that may or may not have anything to do with exchanging this for that? Are you suggesting that your outline can end social status including through the unjust elevation of subjectively beautiful people by image promoters over all others across our human societies?
Beauty, marriage and female lineage
MS: At first, it appears that the concept of beauty is the one unmovable barrier to the idea of equal abundance for all. It is true that there is a scarcity of classical features that are recognized as universal standards of beauty. However, it is also universally understood that beauty is subjective and even customized. A related consideration is progress in the area of cosmetic surgery and whether core motivations for such are based in dignity or vanity. Such procedures challenge how we as individuals determine our sense of self. Are we confined to what we are born with physically? Is changing facial features from cleft lips to eyebrow shapes, eye color, tattoos etc. incidental or foundational to who we are? Is facial modification in a separate social category as body modification due to fundamentally changed recognition and memory of our individual visual identity by others? Again, best answers to this open question can be found through individual conscience as pertain to both health and aesthetic taste. In an interchange economy, individuals and doctors can do what they want, without insurance companies dictating to them what is and is not cosmetic surgery.
The juvenile question of “whadya get?” referring to grades is an early version of what I call the vulture question asked at cocktail parties: “So, what do you do?” This question really means: “How much money do you make and are you a threat to the possession of my spouse and/or the beautiful single person across the room?”
Women are typically threatened by another woman’s beauty, the ability to attract a man with money, which represents security while men are typically threatened by another man’s social status, the ability to attract beautiful women. People who identify other than men and women (non-binary humans) can theoretically hold different combinations of these social truths. The aim of this work is to catalyze growing out of such ugly worldviews by dissolving the old world structure of exchange through money use in our lives.
We can all help each other grow. However, just as we choose an occupation into which to focus our energies, we should do the same when we choose a life companion(s). Marriage, as it too often exists is not as it is claimed, an innocent public pledge of love for the purpose of raising children in a stable environment.
If this was the “true” rationale, civilization would be satisfied with monogamy, publicly recognized without the extra economic overtones that accompany the traditional marriage ceremony. These include the father of the bride “giving away” his female offspring, indicating that females are still at some level considered an economic possession of men. Marriage also includes the usual discussion about how well of a provider the groom promises to be to the bride as represented by how many karats are in the diamond that he bought for the bride.
CW: Since you believe in temporary job assignments, do you believe in temporary marriage?
MS: I do not discount it. That’s up to the individuals involved. As Dave Mason’s song says, “…let’s leave it alone. There ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy… we just disagree…”10 Then there is another song lyric to consider by Billy Gilman, “…if love never lasts forever then tell me what’s forever for?”11 We are finding out new ways to love people. A lot of times that means letting go, such as expressed by the song by Sting, “If You Love Somebody Set Them Free.”12
CW: Before you go any further, can you please address where tradition and culture end and the influences of money exchange begin? Are you suggesting that we do without marriage ceremonies because they have been symbols of sexual and economic exchange in the past?
MS: One complex school of thought understands that women themselves have always been media of exchange.13 My understanding is that men work for money primarily to impress women and women usually are seduced, at least initially. In general, men are not impressed by how much money a woman makes, even if they make more than a given man and women seldom advertise how much they make, if they make a lot.
The vow to “love, honor and obey” a man is still implicit in a lot of marriages. These notions alone speak volumes about the nature of money and what it does to us. They are reasons enough to create a new economic system.
In the past and across our world, we have degenerated ourselves through marriage payments from the male to the female’s family (bride prices) or from the female’s family to the male’s family (dowries).14 Today, it is still customary for men to spend one month’s salary for an engagement ring, then whatever they “want” to spend for the marriage ring, as if the more one spends, the more one loves. Still, many “progressive” thinkers today rationalize that spending of money just represents what we value and that money is merely a “flow of loving energy.”
Typically, only two individuals fall in love, so it would follow that even a marriage ceremony would naturally be a private ceremony. In my view, “monogamy without marriage”15 is a more personal confirmation between two individuals that their love stands solid and separate from the old-world societal influences of money exchange and its associated social status. These influences, like the influence of organized religion can often corrupt the best personal relationships with the divine and among ourselves. Ideals for which religion and marriage were created can exist in a truer form if we just believe in ourselves and our consciences which might be defined as the divine spirit within each of us.
CW: Do you then believe in the current trend to hyphenate two last names in your “monogamy without marriage” concept?
MS: Hyphens create confusion, especially when children are involved. Children are either put in the awkward position of having to choose a last name from between their parents or when they get married, to be consistent, they will adopt three last names or four last names if they marry someone with two last names. And the craziness will continue exponentially through time if not stopped now.
Instead, as social animals based on true equality, we could simply establish female lineages. Most women give up their paternal last name when they marry. Much is being discussed about preventing girls from losing their voice within academic development16 while nothing is being done to prevent women from losing their symbolic identity when they are expected to marry a man.
Some women like to say that taking a man’s last name gives them options if they do not like their male-imposed “given” last name for whatever reason such as paternal rape. However, the principle of taking someone else’s name is inherently a subordinating act for women, despite any of the rationalizations they might give. Women might consider tracing their female ancestry as far back as they can and take that name. If women see such an intervention as fundamentally taking a man’s last name from the distant past, they could make up a name they like and start their own female lineage. Under this arrangement, a newborn female might take her mother’s last name while a male would still take his father’s last name.
If this seems too convoluted for some, there could be another option: computer selected single, unique names, like “MacGyver” or “Sting,” recycled after a person dies, or perhaps never – going forward, an individual’s name is hers or his for eternity. Parents could browse an official human databases of singular names before they selected a name that they liked. If this option seems too computer-dominated, parents could still go with the male/female lineage concept. I have a last name that goes back centuries. It gives me a sense of historical connection to know the history of my male lineage, energy and DNA for good and bad. Perhaps, through advances in historical record compilation, this can be achieved for all.
CW: How do you feel about single-parent families? Don’t you think that a child is better off with two parents and that we should do all that we can in any type of civilization to promote marriage for that reason?
Parenthood as a profession
MS: Half of what you say is true. Yes, in our current civilization where most people can’t devote their whole selves to their children, two is better than one. However, in a new type of civilization as advocated here, one parent might be able to devote more attention in real hours than two parents today.
Patricia Richardson who plays the mother character, Jill Taylor on the television show, Home Improvement (1991-99) is in real-life, a single, divorced mother. When she was married, she felt her children did not get her full attention because her husband demanded too much energy from her.17 This must be a common dynamic and vice versa. If we reduce typical working hours to four or five hours per day or even fewer for those who have young children, one parent with daycare help can be sufficient. A social dynamic that needs to occur is one that will come naturally: public recognition that parenting is a full-time profession, combined with logistical support .
We should not leave it up to our public and private schools to raise our children in any kind of civilization. Whether a family has one parent, two co-parents or a parenting gang of twenty plus, parents can be enabled to engage in this most solemn task honorably and fully. We can have more intense parent training, planning, maintenance of skills, conferences – all things that accompany other professions.
Political applications – 14 issues18
CW: What can I do to help get things moving toward an interchange/free-enterprise human existence?
MS: The force of popular ideas has always caught those few in power by surprise. Those who agree with these ideas are encouraged to think, write and act together as well as doing what they do best in solitary endeavors.
There is a legitimate concern that there might be large-scale confusion and perhaps riots if humans were suddenly given unlimited demand and freedom. Ideally, transitions between anything need to be phased in over years. An education campaign can be undertaken to let people realize that they can get more goods and services through a new interchange process such as outlined here than by looting in a state of sudden euphoria.
As in war-time mobilization, industries can expect to hire, expand and make whatever logistical support plans deemed necessary. Most important is simple dialogue in the most common circumstances. Extraordinary conversations, given time can best create an optimal civilization.
CW: What about political gridlock?
MS: Restructuring election and party systems worldwide might be the first step before advocacy. We need to be able to elect heads of state and legislatures who can think creatively and independently from undue access and influence of financial contributors. Another technique might be to simply create direct online global democracy parallel to existing nation-state structures as they whither away their legitimacy due to allowing money to dominate politics.19 Then, we can more easily put into motion huge possibilities that can be achieved more quickly without money exchange corrupting our societies worldwide, namely:
1) Harvesting energy abundance, mass recycling and water desalination
2) Space exploration and development and asteroid and comet detection and deflection
3) Creating a United States of Earth or informal positive-synergistic cultural bioregions
CW: OK. You have persuaded me to no longer advertise my conformist conventionality and begin thinking and expressing myself as an individual. I am suddenly feeling the need to go home and burn all store-bought art hanging on my walls and make room for shelves of used books, not as decoration or intellectual trophies but for ongoing reference and reminders of ideas other than my own, whether I agree with them or not. As I do, here is my notebook for you to jot down anything else that you want me to know and refer to going forward. See you later.
MS: Sounds good. I will do so now. Have fun with burning your store-bought art in a 20 foot bonfire. I know the feeling.
Issue 1 of 14: Environmental protection, climate change and pollution
There is the occasional story about how new technologies to control pollution will create jobs. However, the problem with this novel approach is that these technologies cost money because those who invented the technology and those who produce it have to make money.
Companies in developing countries cannot afford pollution control technology, so they continue to pollute. These countries, mostly in the southern hemisphere, have fewer polluting restrictions because they are poor. Since they have fewer restrictions, the companies in the developed northern hemisphere argue that global agreements are unfair and convince their governments not to comply.20
If a polluter reads this pamphlet, he or she will realize that if we remove money calculations, such problems become simplified logistical calculations – how to get existing technology to our polluters. If expense was not a concern, production can continue and can become largely automated. More pollution-free factories can be built, even on other planets since money would not be an impediment. See how our options can increase exponentially?
Issue 2 of 14: Overpopulation and famine
These two issues are linked. People in historically famine-stricken countries have more children to offset the very good odds of any one child dying and not being available to farm whatever eroded land there is left to farm. Like many issues, this is a vicious cycle.
Buckminster Fuller wanted to create an abundance of cheap (practically free) electricity to famine-stricken regions via a global electric grid powered by renewable energy sources from around the planet. He demonstrated that when locales have electricity for the refrigeration of medicine and food, infant mortality rates goes down and population levels reach natural plateaus.21
The oil industry has been slow to transfer into this line of business because the industry can still make money selling oil. This is why this type of cheap electrification project has not come to fruition. However, you cannot rationally blame the oil industry. It is only operating within the paradigm that started with the agricultural revolution: Get as much as you can while you can as opposed to living in harmony with nature.
Issue 3 of 14: Agriculture
We should grow as much environmentally non-destructive food as the global carrying capacity can handle. The “veggie burger” and other such innovations are steps in the right direction. Animal nutrition pollutes our rivers with blood and clearing land for cattle in South America destroys our rain forests and potentially a lot of our medicines. Feeding cattle grain for beef is also an inefficient use of grain that could be feeding starving people.22 In our current economic structure, it actually makes sense to pay farmers not to farm when people are starving so that prices will stay low within the the paradigm of artificial scarcity. See how it works? See how it doesn’t work?
Issue 4 of 14: “Illegal”/dysfunctional immigration
While individual growth and/or renewal through freedom of movement across borders and continents adds dynamism to human civilization, the concept of “blooming where planted” is the basis for the cultural bioregion in this work as the base unit of analysis to replace the inherently war-based nation-state. All regions of the globe, however delineated can flourish in production, science, culture and the arts. This ideal can be more readily reached within a more optimal structure such as a United States of Earth or a Synergized Cultural Bioregions of the Solar System. Failure to think big owes to success in thinking small. In the context of this contribution, provincialism leading to “we/they” dynamics is the equivalent to a divided locker room on a sports team, that which coaches try to avoid at all costs.
Issue 5 of 14: Violence in society and the media
This issue is a classic conundrum perpetrated by the system of money and exchange. Concerned citizens like United States second lady (1993-2001), Tipper Gore (born 1948) say to popular artists that they should use their fame responsibly and not influence society by using violence and obscenity in their performing arts. The artists respond by saying they are just portraying society as it is and they have a right to make a living any way they can. Artist John Denver (1943-97) made the argument that official content labels are subjective and can be wrong.23
The dilemma in the news media is similar. News organizations would like to do more thought-provoking documentary type stories. However, the networks are always pressed for time because they are beholden to advertisers for money and have to report what the lowest common denominator of people want to see.24 Unfortunately, for ages, the formula for the popular press has been three-fold: blood, sex and celebrity.25 Spectacle of this sort is at its root even older, at least as old as violent death presented as entertainment in the Roman Coliseum to pacify the population from overthrowing the Roman hierarchy.
Imagine what television would be like if networks did not have to sell to advertisers? Producers would be unlimited in what they could research and provide to the public. We can have even more channels than we have on cable today. Yes, we still might have more blood, sex and celebrity (scandals) vying to control the new free market. However, blood, sex and celebrity would not be at the expense of quality programming. We can have more documentaries and more searching for truth, more quality programming. There can be more of everything for all interests. That can only be good for civilization.26
Issue 6 of 14: Abortion
The reason that most young women choose to have an abortion is the lack of money. Women can always work hard at two jobs to pay for childcare and pay bills but they are not selfish for sidestepping such a life in the prime of their lives. All people should be able to live a rich life doing that which invigorates them which for many includes the hard but intrinsically rewarding work of raising children.
If the money system is replaced by the options in this work, young mothers and fathers can engage full concentration, in this most natural human activity of life with full concentration – advancing and improving the quality of humankind. I have written a poem that relates the issues of abortion and overpopulation per issue 2 above:
We can do much more
We can do more and more together
There should be more time in a day for each other
What civilization dissuades creation due to the wealth of the creators?
Is it any civilization in which we should take pride?
Is not the advancement of our species worthy of reward?
Or, does the reward scheme that we keep hinder the advancement of our species?
Applause is the true reward and when it rings alone, all sectors of production will increase
Only those who enjoy rearing should rear; a noble task, not an accessory to the ego
Issue 7 of 14: Homelessness
Those who currently experience homelessness can find or create a home by engaging themselves in the interchange loop as described in this work. Within a paradigm of abundance-based synergistic interchange, anyone can match their interests and abilities with work that needs to be done in the true free enterprise system; distinct from artificial scarcity-based capitalism, socialism or any mixture of the two. For example, anyone can be trained by historic conservation groups to repair and rewire old or vacant buildings and then live in them.
Issue 8 of 14: Tobacco
Nicotine is present in all natural tobacco but is added to mass marketed tobacco products to addict smokers to buy a certain brand.27 Within an economic paradigm of abundance-based interchange, tobacco companies would have no reason to add nicotine. Smokers could then use tobacco moderately, as it should be used, if at all. Also, with less stress to maintain profit, smokers would have one less reason to smoke. European learned about tobacco from indigenous native Americans who used tobacco for ceremonial purposes, in part, “the peace pipe.” We all would do well to return to this proper philosophy for the use of tobacco.
Issue 9 of 14: Hard drug abuse
Some of us abuse hard drugs to escape the reality of not having enough money to fully participate in life. Is marijuana a drug? Yes. Is alcohol a drug? Yes. Do some people abuse alcohol? Yes. Do some people abuse marijuana? Yes. Should alcohol be illegal? No. Should marijuana be illegal? No. Can alcohol, tobacco (including marijuana) be used moderately, if at all? Yes.
Should cocaine and heroin and other hard drugs be illegal? Yes, because they are essentially high-grade poisons that can kill people the first time they take them. Remember, Len Bias, the University of Maryland basketball star who upon being selected to play for the Boston Celtics in 1986, took cocaine at a party and died instantly.28
Issue 10 of 14: Prostitution and marriage
If money did not exist, by definition, we would not have prostitution. We also would not have confused women who wonder whether they married for money, status or love. We also would not have wealthy men who wonder whether their wives married them for their money. Marriages, an institution of churches, if we still had them, would be true statements of love. We can have a society more conducive to true companionship between the sexes, whether married through religion or not.29
Issue 11 of 14: The Mafias
As with the oil industry, perhaps we should not blame the mafia. They are playing the game the best way they know how. They even think they are playing it more honorably than corporate America. They emphasize loyalty. However, a civilization without money and exchange would take away the reason for mafia to exist in the first place. The Sicilian mafia or Cosa Nostra perhaps rightly believe that “law is only for the rich.” So, they try to operate a system of justice outside law. This functions for a while, albeit illegitimately but when mafia families run into each other’s economic turf, fatal violence and injustice ensue, an unacceptable alternative to the rule of law.30
If we as a civilization take “rich” and “poor” out of our economic vocabulary, which we can do through synergistic interchange, we can have a civilization that mafias can join. A revived human civilization can welcome the codes of loyalty and honor of mafias without the violence that is perpetuated by our present artificial scarcity-based economic systems.
Issue 12 of 14: Ethnic disharmony and affirmative action
When there is never enough to go around, it becomes easy to be suspicious of others. When there is plenty to go around, it becomes easier to see what you have in common as human beings and to appreciate differences. However, since those from different ethnicities are all too often from different economic classes, sincere human interactions of this sort and real understanding are rare.
Why is affirmative action even an issue now in 1999? It is because we are wedded to the false idea that scarcity is real.31 If somebody always has to lose out, then suspicions arise that whole groups are being excluded on purpose. Regardless of whether this is true, the divisive debate is another reason why we need to create a human civilization where everybody is needed to help build space stations, environmentally sound transportation systems and water desalination systems etc.
Issue 13 of 14: Earthwide public education
Perhaps the actual central issue can become whether or not we should abandon the traditional idea of “school,” including universities altogether. Teachers and corporations could educate our youth in an apprenticeship/library setting, essentially an open access version of the medieval European guild system.32 Classes can become composed of students who wanted to be there, not who had to be there. The social connection in this type of academic setting would be genuine.
Some hold onto the status quo of education by making the argument that adolescents in particular don’t know what they are interested until you show them. The counterargument is that good librarians and mentors are capable of going out of their way to round out young peoples’ knowledge or at least awareness of different disciplines. Without quid pro quo economic structures, librarians and mentors can be in a better position to inspire and develop the minds of our youth. As for school sports, there is no reason we cannot hold onto the same team rivalries concerted into the form of local sports clubs as is practiced in Europe and Latin America anyway.
Issue 14 of 14: Healthcare
We all know how expensive hospitals and health insurance can be, not to mention the costs of birth, old age and even death. Why all the expense? This is another vicious circle issue. It starts with the cost of medical school. Medical doctors (MDs) have to spend about ten years in school and their residencies before they establish themselves as practicing doctors. They have a lot of expenses to become MDs and then a lot of expenses while they are doctors, the most notable being malpractice insurance.
MDs specialize so they can charge more. This is good and bad. MDs are usually experts in a given area of medicine and still know enough to talk to each other for the good of the patient. However, this passes an additional cost onto the patient and to the insurance companies, when most of the time the patient only needs a general practitioner of medicine. We don’t have enough of these generalist MDs. MDs should be able to practice the Hippocratic oath by not having to turn anyone away because he or she doesn’t carry the right amount of insurance.
MDs and the insurance companies also operate in a faulty economic superstructure of artificially imposed scarcity, often referred to as “The Game” the best way they know how, just like the oil industry and mafia. We cannot blame them intrinsically. Those few who defend the status quo are usually conflict avoidant conformists. We need to be committed to inventing a new, more satisfying framework for all of us to operate within, literally in the case of MDs.
The answer is not socialized medicine or socialized anything else. We all know this creates complacency. Why? Those in socialism are still working for money itself instead of working limited hours for the honor of the task they are performing. Those few who are able to create high quality healthcare or anything else in capitalism are not doing it for the money. Capitalism affords only the few the opportunity to discover, a natural process anyway. We can let that natural force loose for everyone.
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18. “14 issues” is an homage to United States President (1913-21) Woodrow Wilson’s (1856-1924) proposed Fourteen Points to end World War 1, the study of which the author owes much to his intellectual development as an undergraduate. The 14th issue, healthcare is an homage to the life pursuit of the author’s father, Louis Schwab, M.D. (1919-2007). See also, “Fourteen Points,” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Points. Retrieved May 22, 2026.
19. “Elections without parties or money,” Martin Schwab. Posted December 2, 2017 (4:17): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlnLqeW7-4Y&t=13s. Retrieved May 16, 2026.
20. This journal article best captures the progression of technological and policy interventions since 1999 while maintaining the basic framework of analysis of this section: J. Awewomom, F. Dzeble, Y.D. Takyi et al., “Addressing global environmental pollution using environmental control techniques: a focus on environmental policy and preventive environmental management,” Discover Environment 2, 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44274-024-00033-5 and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44274-024-00033-5. See also, United Nations Environment Program, website. https://www.unep.org/. Both retrieved May 18, 2026.
21. “Global Electric Energy Grid,” Buckminster Fuller Institute webpage. https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big-ideas/global-electric-energy-grid/. See also, “Population Growth,” Global Energy Network Institute, webpage. https://geni.org/globalenergy/issues/global/population/population-growth/index.shtml. Both retrieved May 18, 2026.
22. “Veggie Burgers,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), webpage. https://www.peta.org/recipes/veggie-burgers/. See also, “Meat and the Environment,” PETA webpage. https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-environment/. Both retrieved May 18, 2026.
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25. “Blood, sex and royalty” or celebrity in a non-British social context was recorded by the author as the enduring trifecta of saleable media content in Professor Chilton’s Fall 1993 course on British media given at Richmond College, now Richmond: The American International University in London.
26. Since 2006, Google’s YouTube, known for its “rabbit hole” effect comes as close to what the author imagined as possible in 1999 minus its equally known effect of an enduring threat of defacto censorship through “demonetization” of individual video uploads.
27. “Jeffrey Wigand: The big tobacco whistleblower” (1996), 60 Minutes. Posted December 16, 2018 (29:46): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_-Vu8LrUDk. See also, “The Insider (film),” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Insider_(film). Both retrieved May 20, 2026.
28. Dan Treacy, “Len Bias death, explained: Revisiting the tragic passing of Celtics draft pick,” The Sporting News, March 3, 2025. https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/boston-celtics/news/len-bias-death-explained-celtics-draft-pick/38b7a4ed0665d032ef8c8b13. See also, Jonathan Gelber, “How Len Bias’s death helped launch the US’s unjust war on drugs,” The Guardian, June 29, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jun/29/len-bias-death-basketball-war-on-drugs. Both retrieved May 20, 2026.
29. Martin Schwab, July 20, 2026. https://3x3globaldrills.com/2025/07/20/monogamy-without-marriage-can-accelerate-mass-achievement/. Retrieved May 21, 2026.
30. Sicilian Mafia or Cosa Nostra ideology presented in retired Agent [Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States] Heffernan’s Spring 1994 course on organized crime, given at the University of Dayton.
31. An economic intervention based on defacto natural abundance is made by financial economist, Armen Papazian though his motivation seems more focused on current economic system preservation through adaptation than systemic evolution or transformation as is mine. See, “‘A product that can save a system’ – Armen Papazian,” Chair for Ethics and Financial Norms (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), posted February 4, 2016 (1:51:02): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_vXWf2-kLQ. See also, Armen Papazian, Space Exploration and Money Mechanics: An Evolutionary Challenge (2012). http://www.isdhub.com/seammaec011112final.pdf. See also, Armen V. Papazian, The Space Value of Money: Rethinking Finance Beyond Risk & Time (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-59489-1. See also, Martin Schwab (Vimeo), “Abundance-based interchange economics for preventing human extinction,” recorded July 19, 2018 (4:50): https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/282428436. See also, Martin Schwab (YouTube), “Abundance-based Global Currency” 1-4, 3×3 Global Drills Worksheet Series, August-September 2017. https://www.youtube.com/user/martinschwab1/. All retrieved August 14, 2025.
32. “Abundance-based interchange economics, 2 of 8 | 3×3 Global Drills Worksheet Series,” Martin Schwab. Posted August 30, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbdp_TcEmVs&t=119s. See also, Thomas E. Woods, Jr., “Bring back the guild system?” Mises Daily, June 25, 2003. https://mises.org/mises-daily/bring-back-guild-system and “Guild,” Wikipedia, webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild. All retrieved May 21, 2026.
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