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Suppose one day in the very near future we decide to wipe the slate clean, start from scratch, start from scratch, and create a brand new world. A new world for all 195 countries, and all 8 billion of us. A world in which abundance, equality, prosperity, enterprise, invention and innovation, freedom, individualism, and peace, exists for everyone in the world. For all 8 billion of us.

To change the world, first we must know the world that exists today. There are 195 countries. We are 8 billion people. The world is a complex dynamic of commerce, politics, and social activity. We are a diverse world, rich in culture, traditions, history, and ongoing future progress. We are a globalised world, interdependent on exchange of trade, resources, research, information, science, technology, travel, food, charity, and so much more.

But there is a world of difference between the richest and the poorest, and even those in between. (As of this writing) The richest country in the world is worth $18 trillion. The top ten have a combined worth of $51 trillion. The richest man in the world is worth $215 billion. The top ten combined are worth $1.2 trillion dollars. This is more than the annual economies of 178 out of the 195 countries. All whilst one third, 2.5 billion people, live on less than $10 a day. Our world is massively unbalanced.

Every human being on the planet has basic needs, requirements, and wants. Every human being deserves to have these met.  Every human being deserves to have a home to live in, food to eat, education, and health services, every human being deserves to live an enjoyable life. We all deserve a productive, fulfilling career, and to contribute to society. We all deserve to live a rich, abundant, prosperous life, lifestyle, and living conditions. All 8 billion of us. In all 195 countries.

We can achieve this. We can wipe the slate clean, and start again. We can create unlimited prosperity, unlimited abundance, unlimited invention and innovation, unlimited enterprise, unlimited research and scientific endeavour, we can achieve peace, we can fix the climate. The list can go on. We can create a brand new world. A Free World.

To bring about this new world we must first turn to commerce. Commerce is the ultimate tool which creates these ideal living conditions. Commerce has brought to the world prosperity, innovation, modernity. It has brought the world to the apex of all we see around us. On the flip side it has caused a massive divide between rich and poor. It has caused poverty, financial hardship, job insecurities, and had a massive harmful effect on climate and land, to name but a few negatives. At its most fundamental, commerce is an exchange of money for products and or services. And an exchange of labour for wages. Commerce at its core centres around money, Modern Commerce, has added layers and layers to the economic tapestry, in the pursuit of the endless obtainment of money, at all and any costs, bringing the volatility to the modern economic model of the world, and all the undesirable outcomes we all know and don’t love.

Long ago, humanity created money as an exchange for the obtainment of products and services. But what if this exchange medium was never created. What if money was not really, real? What alternative means could have been put in place to obtain our needs, wants, and desires?

This is where we wipe the slate clean. The Free World idea for commerce suggests an economic model without money as the means of exchange. The idea is to change the Money Economy into a literal Free Market Economy. In this model money we remove money as an exchange medium, and in fact have no exchange medium at all.  Instead we work in our chosen jobs to provide the products and services to the market, at no cost to the consumer, or employer.  In this commerce model, we work to provide our products or services to the world instead of working to obtain (varying levels of) money to then acquire the products and services we need and want in our lives. We don’t work to obtain money. We work to provide, and obtain, product and services. In essence we cut out the middle man.

This is what it looks like.

The doctor provides health services, the teacher provides education, the miner provides minerals, the butcher provides meat, the retail assistant provides store goods, the office worker provides clerical, the entrepreneurs provide whatever they can fathom, the inventor invents, the researcher researches, the scientist studies, the computer programmer codes software, the chef cooks and the waiter serves and he bartender provides a well-earned drink after a long day, the actor stars, and the musician serenades, and the artist captures the world, the plumber, the gardener, the factory worker, the priest and the cleric, you name the industry or job, no role is too big or too small, we all provide our labour, and our products, and our services, to the market. Nothing new in the scheme of how we currently exist in our daily lives, BUT, our products, our services, our labour, are provided to the market for free consumption and use. No exchange medium. And in turn, we freely consume any product or service we need or want or desire. You do your job. I do my job. They do their job. And we all enjoy the fruits of each other’s labour.

Essentially, we live in a similar type of consumerist economy as currently exists today, with the main difference in that money is not involved as a middleman. Thus, there is no money to restrict us in our needs, wants, or desires. Without money as a restraining effect, we have unlimited prosperity, we have access to all the products and services we want. Every single person on the planet.

Onto part 2 of the Free World Model.

Whilst commerce is the focus to changing the world, it is through political endeavour which will truly allow us to achieve this free new world. It is not a brand new world, let alone a Free World, without amending the current political spectrum. It would be an absolute pleasure to wipe the slate clean on the current crop of politics; this broken mess we find ourselves in. To create a better democracy and democratic process. 

Democracy is the most ideal of our political ideas. In today’s democracy, we vote for a leader of either a left, or a right, leaning party to govern the entire population of a country of left and right leaning citizens. In effect shutting out the ideologies of half a country for the many years of the governing period. Not to mention the ensuring turmoil of those years with left and right political actors, and citizenry, at loggerheads with each other, and the tumultuous activities that follow. A more democratic model can exist. One affording both ideologies an equal seat in government. The Free World idea for ideal democracy suggests two equal leaders in an elected government with each representing left or right leanings.

In this model, during elections, instead of voting for a single party to represent the entire population, the electorate instead votes for a leader from a left leaning pool, and a leader from a right leaning pool. The two voted leaders form  a dual government together and thus represent all the people, left, and right, with policies for all. This form of government, working in true partisanship, can create fairer, more just, inclusive, visionary, innovative policies for their respective nations.

And there you have it. A new idea for commerce, and a new idea for politics. It’s evolutionary. It’s a win for everyone, and a loss for no one.

So how do we achieve this epic advancement in humanity’s civilization? The path toward an effective political and economic Free World is in unifying this idea to become a global collective effort. In this pathway, we create Free World parties in all democratic countries and partake in elections until the Free World Party is elected into government. In unison, we create a global Free World Organisation, in order for Free World countries to interact, trade, and support each other, under a Free World constitution, and its ideology. Instead of an executive, this organisation can be created as a legislature, thus Free World countries remain sovereign, maintaining traditions, cultures, and beliefs, yet abide by the ideology of the Free World.

We stand at a crossroads. Our current world is a mess. We can wipe the slate clean. We can create a prosperous, peaceful, and free world for all humankind. It’s a big change, there’s no doubt. But substantial change has occurred since the dawn of time. We have accepted change every step of the way. One great attribute of humans is our adaptability in the face of change. Change, after all, is for the enhancement of life, living standards, and living conditions. Change is for the better. Change is evolution. Humankind’s evolution. Change toward a world of abundance, equality, peace, prosperity, enterprise, invention and innovation, and freedom, for all eight billion of us. 

So spread the word to all corners of the world. Start your Free World parties, or be an independent Free World candidate, in your countries of the world. Win your elections. Wipe the slate clean. Change the world. Free the world. And let’s live our lives as they were meant to be lived. Free, and peaceful, and prosperous. All eight billion of us.