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HAPPIOCRACY

"DEMOCRACY WITHOUT THE UNHAPPIERNESS"

"The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors."

~Thomas Jefferson

The problem with democracy, socialism, plutocracy and many other types of government, is that they are a means, not an end.  Lawmakers legislate programs to give a variety of freebies to Some Not Others. Those who get are "happies".

Those who don't are "unhappies".

In bygone days, information - and everything else – was slower than it is today. 

So the unhappies were not numerous enough to worry about; in any case, they would get their turn next time.

But nowadays, information - and everything else - travels at the speed of light.

So lawmakers legislate even more varieties of freebies to Some Not Others.

The cumulative happiness of the Some, is slowly being eclipsed by the cumulative unhappiERness of the Others.

As time passes, the number of unhappies grows and society becomes less stable.

The problem with today's democracy is that it is not democracy. It is representative democracy. It is not government of, by and for the people. It is government of, by and for our representatives.

If our representatives really represented their constituents - that's us - there would be no problem. But they don't.  They represent themselves first and their constituents - that's us - second.

More than half of America's representatives are now millionaires. Yet half of their constituents - that's us - are not millionaires.  Why such inequality?  Surely our representatives should first be figuring out how to make their constituents rich.

One of the commonest ways for representatives to get rich is knowing in advance – before we-the-people – what new legislation is in the pipeline. If such legislation is likely to benefit certain corporations and send their share prices higher, our good representatives, or rather Greedie Representatives - simply buy their shares before the legislation becomes public knowledge - when the share prices are still low.

Naturally, they make such purchases through undetectable third parties.

When the legislation becomes public knowledge, the share prices goes up and our representatives can cash in. Or they can sit on their shareholding and wait for the price to go still higher.  Either way, they are benefiting for no reason other than the fact that they have advance knowledge of legislation.

This is not fair. It leads to inequality and unhappierness. It leads to unearned riches for our representatives but not for us.  Which is why half of them are millionaires and we are not. This is a simple example of the growth of inequality.

Alternatively, when our representatives have advance knowledge of legislation that might cause certain share prices to drop, they do their damnedest to cancel, amend or delay such legislation, thereby earning the everlasting goodwill of the companies whose shares are involved - often those in the banking or finance industries.  The money involved is huge.  Hence the banking and finance industry being so generous with the campaign financing that they dollop out to representatives/lawmakers who enable them to keep profiting at our expense.

This is just one example of the elite - in this case Greedie Representatives - getting richer quicker than the rest of us.

"HAPPI"OCRACY = "HAPPI"MONEY FOR ALL

A "Happi"ocracy is a utopia of utopias bound together by a sovereign money supply that is increased by a fixed amount each month.

Its purpose is to make everyone rich enough to work because they want to, not because they have to.


Each monthly increase in the money supply is called "happi"Money because it is distributed equally to all "hereditors" - that's us.

Hereditors are upgraded citizens who participate in government and get paid for doing so.

As citizen-representatives, they use the jury system to make law, dispense justice, settle disputes. They also do for themselves tasks that taxation used to pay the bureaucracy to do.


All welfare and transfer payments cease to exist. Instead, the total amounts involved, plus the overhead saved, become a dividend pool that is distributed equally among hereditors. This payment is called "happi"Cash - as in the phrase "cash, not kind".

Central Government's responsibilities are limited to "undevolvables" - oversight, security and other global affairs.  All else is delegated to utopias and their resident hereditors.

Just to be clear. Happimoney as in "the money supply" is a monthly increase in the money supply fully or partially backed by the nation's widget wealth. If the nation's widget wealth is growing at say 3% per year and the happimoney money supply is also growing at 3% per year, it will not cause inflation.


Happimoney is brand new money created out of thin air at virtually no cost. The process of creating it out of thin air is similar to that of Quantitative Easing (QE). But the distribution is entirely different.

QE is "unhappi"money because its distribution is decided by The Elite and usually ends up benefiting the financial sector. 

Happimoney is "happi" because we-the-hereditors own it and it is distributed equally to us all.


Happicash, as in the phrase "cash, not kind" is a different kettle of fish.

Happicash is "old" money that has been circulating in the economy for who knows how long. 

As a potential dividend for hereditors, it is a residual.   

It is central government's total revenues minus the limited expenses it incurs performing its "undevolvable" responsibilities on behalf of all utopias. 

HappiCash is not new money. It is existing money - the product of taxation less expenses.


All legislation is judged by juries of anonymous jurors randomly selected from residents of the jurisdiction involved - an individual utopia or the whole happiocracy.  

As happicash is a residual that is distributed to all hereditors, hereditors in their capacity as happilaw jurors, are careful to minimize legislation that would increase central government's expenses. 

A happiOcracy's philosophy is happierism - the notion that government's greatest good is to minimize "UNhappiERness" - government-induced unhappiness as opposed to our own private mix of happiness and unhappiness. 

Happierism includes the notion of super subsidiarity - decisions and actions being taken at the lowest level possible and not higher than the highest level necessary.  

The lowest level is the MOO - the Minority-Of-One.  MOOism holds that the MOO is the common denominator of all Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Take care of the MOO and all else takes care of itself.


Its mission is Emancipation of the MOO from unhappierness - usually governments spending money unwisely.

The first step to becoming a happiOcracy is to legislate HappiMoney For All. 

Sitting lawmakers and bankers will never legislate happiMoney into existence of their own accord.

This is why it is necessary for we-the-people to accumulate millions of Facebook LIKES.

We must demonstrate to incumbents that we will not vote for them unless they promise to vote for HappiMoney For All.

Once we-the-people have happiMoney in our pockets every month, we shall be better able to judge which representatives will think long-term for the good of future generations.

We shall be a part of happiOracy's vision of happier MOOs in happier nations in a happier world, for only then will there be peace on earth.

For 2011 archive description of this topic, 
see 2011 Happiocracy: Emancipation of the MOO

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