Force of Demand: Minimum Needs

The previous sections explained that the 1st law of Supereconomics uses relationality to replace:

• selfish-interest with fellow-feeling
• materialistic utlity with a flexible hierarchy of needs

This flexible hierarchy of needs is:

• based on the 5 Elements, and
• flexible, allowing the higher needs to be larger than the lower ones

This hierarchy is implemented as the Minimum Needs.

• This is opposite of Economics which implements utility as marginal utility

This is based on the idea that a society is a metaphysical soul-organism made up of individual souls.

This means that each soul is important or has a purpose in the society because of the First Law of Value.

It is then society’s duty to provide for each member soul through fellow feeling and not through domination.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy if the majority were poor and miserable. It is but equity that those who feed, clothe and lodge the the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.

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Adam Smith Book 1, Chapter 8

This is consistent with the Consumption Motive which treats the society as one family.

This means that the government should take a leading role, as the father of the society.

Miniumum Needs can be impelemented either by the government or by non-government organizations, associations, and institutions.

Such institutions are distributors of goods and services and not producers. This will reduce its capital costs.

Instead, it will need a fund to sustain its operational costs.

This fund is derived from wage contributions (sale of labor) or sales taxes (sale of goods).

Supereconomic taxation allows tax payments in kind. And so the set up cost of this system is not as high as imagined. The actual administration of the minimum needs model will be done by the 3rd Law of Value as part of the Resources Branch of Government.

Classifying Human Needs

Minimum human needs can be simplified into the following, in terms of temporal importance:

We call the desire to have these needs met as the Force of Demand which complements the Force of Capital of the 2nd Law of Value.

This force comes from fellow-feeling from the Positive Force, which is the opposite of selfishness from the Negative force.