Birthright - How it might work.
The Birthright system dealt with the historical belief of the ownership of private property and its claim to use it according to the interests of the property owner. This included the huge amount of properties that had been owned by the wealthy class, which at times was reported that one percent of American citizens owned over 90 percent of the wealth of the nation. Much of that portion of wealth was industrial properties that were engaged in the production and distribution of the goods and services required by the American populace.
If the Birthright system was to function successfully, all of the properties would be needed to accomplish that function. The most significant element that could mobilize the rejection of the Birthright plan was the nationalization of private property. Other nations had nationalized private property.
Cuba had found a formula to nationalize vast sugar plantations and land holdings by basing their property values on the recorded value that owners had declared their properties to be worth, when they filed their property tax forms. In that instance, property owners had declared the values to be so low that they were then able to pay taxes at very small rates. When the lands and properties were nationalized, the Cuban Revolutionary government offered to pay owners the money value that was declared by the owners in their tax declarations. Property owners loudly objected that the true value was much more than had been declared. The objections did not avail the owners, because the value had been declared from their own mouths.
The Birthright plan had presented a unique rationale for its nationalization of properties. It explained that history of money societies showed that some entrepreneurs had, as the saying goes, “gone from sandal to sandal in three generations.” But those persons who had successfully developed vast wealth, many through using deprivation of workers and abuse of natural resources through stealth and crime, those few eventually sought to justify their crimes by constructing an image of themselves as philanthropists by which they could gain respect from the common people, many of whom had been victimized by the commercial manipulations and policies of those philanthropists.
Such behavior among the very wealthy was so prevalent and consistent, that it was reasoned that there might exist in each human, a social need for admirable recognition from their fellow humans, and the achievement of that desire could be offered to the owners of properties that the Birthright government needed to acquire. Property has a potential value to accomplish an array of uses. The value of a property’s uses can be compared to the use values of other properties and were listed not as money values but by the potential it held as a priority in human development.
All properties possessed priority values and were ranked according to their primary or secondary potential priority value.
When the owners were approached for the acquisition of their property, they were offered the opportunity to participate in the acquisition of the property as a foundation, dedicated in their name. The operation of the property might involve a much different process than what had been its purpose before the acquisition. It was considerately explained that a human’s lifetime of effort lasts a comparatively short time, and then the property purpose might be abandoned or changed. Many owners of properties had not been publicly honored as the entrepreneurs, who established or developed the enterprises of the properties.
Now, an owner could obtain public recognition by conveying the property as a foundation and participate in the it’s ongoing efforts.
This enhanced public image satisfied most property owners, who would never otherwise obtain such public admiration.
This property acquisition policy muted much of the initial inclination to resist the Birthright system. Much of the expected anxiety of working class people was relieved when they saw the government make the effort to provide the goods and services and appropriate standard of living to each, as their birthright to their economic and social well-being.
Within a few weeks after the immediate essentials of that standard of living were distributed to all the people, a virtual flood of volunteers applied for Privileges to participate in the production and distribution organizations that would provide the goods and services for the people’s new government of society.