Ending Personal Debt
Two words that would have (almost) the whole planet celebrating, if we could pull it off. Debt has been a very useful tool for growing the economy and society, and has been a fundamental aspect… Read More »Ending Personal Debt
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Choose Your Own Lotto
As a way of stimulating conversation around how much is enough… …how about a Lotto where you choose the size of the first division prize. This already exists in Australia, where at the Lotto outlets… Read More »Choose Your Own Lotto
Super-Unions and Customer Collectives
Some business-types lend themselves to a new model for the customer-management-workers matrix. For example, security companies, the sort who hire out bouncers to nightclubs. The business model is simplistic, it is labor-intensive, and the customers… Read More »Super-Unions and Customer Collectives
Negative Gearing: Tax Cut for the Rich
In Australia, property owners receive two distinct tax advantages: Negative Gearing: If your rental property runs at a loss, that loss can be used as a tax deduction against other income. Effectively that means that… Read More »Negative Gearing: Tax Cut for the Rich
Work/Life Balance
I figure most of us would consider that Benjamin Franklin was no fool… …for example, arose each morning to pose himself the question, “What good shall I do this day,” but then, according to the… Read More »Work/Life Balance
It is time for humans to retire
Every civilisation so far, except for our own, has been absorbed or collapsed. And unless aliens turn up, our global civilisation isn’t going to be absorbed. Consider our society in terms of the working life… Read More »It is time for humans to retire
5 Global Trends & The End Of Capitalism
People prefer not to discuss their own mortality, and the same goes with capitalism. We can’t imagine life without it (in capitalist nations), and so we simply presume it will always exist. Those few who… Read More »5 Global Trends & The End Of Capitalism
Welcome!
Welcome, my name is Rob Skelton and I am trying to recalibrate capitalism, back to where it works for everyone, instead of the rich getting richer. Why Unism? Well, the predominant forms of economy are… Read More »Welcome!
Funism
So we are 3 minutes old and I have an idea. If unism is the next step up from socialism, communism and capitalism… that is very droll. So we need funism to balance it. Terrible… Read More »Funism