Value Adding Work Policy

The only way we have wealth
is if we create something that is of value

Value and Waste.

What is of value to human beings?

We believe there is almost universal agreement on what things are of value to humans, and they can be divided into two categories, experiences or states of being, and material possessions. Some examples of the two categories may make things clear:

Experiences or states of being that are of value to humans:

Happiness, fulfilment, and wellbeing.
Peace, law and order, safety.
Loving relationships, family, friends, and community.
Romance and sex.
Travel and new experiences.
Purpose, and enjoyable work.
Intellectual stimulation, entertainment, arts, creativity.
Exercise, adventure, the outdoors.
Hobbies.
Public services.

Material possessions that are of value to humans:

Comfortable and beautiful homes.
Cars.
Tools and equipment.
Commercial buildings and factories.
Machines.
Computers.
Phones.
Land, plants, and animals.
The infrastructure of utilities and public services.

We believe nearly everyone would agree these things are of value to us, along with many other things, there is huge agreement on what is of value to humans.

Lean manufacturing - the analysis of value and waste.

There is an analysis of manufacturing efficiency called lean manufacturing that traces it's origins back to Henry Ford, and the Japanese car manufacturer Toyota. This analysis has as it's core metric, the concept of value adding and waste. It looks at manufacturing processes and asks 'when are you doing something that adds value to a product, as far as the end customer is concerned?' Any process that is value adding, is called a value adding process, any process that does not add value is called waste. These definitions are extremely stringent, and only processes that directly add value, are considered value adding. A common example of waste is transport, moving a product around does not increase it's value, yet it requires effort and resources. Waste can be divided into two categories, avoidable waste and non avoidable waste. Transport is non avoidable, we have to transport goods, but it does not add value. Errors in manufacture is an avoidable waste, you can in certain circumstances eliminate them, for example with a machine that cannot make errors. The aim of the analysis is to eliminate avoidable waste and minimise non avoidable waste, so that efficiency of manufacture is maximised.

Lean manufacturing applied to the world economy.

I was introduced to this analysis by the government Manufacturing Advisory Service who visited my furniture making business in the early noughties. It set me thinking, could I apply this analysis to all the work and professions humanity carries out, in order to maximise the efficiency of human work and effort? I started to realise that as stated in the lists above, there was profound agreement on what humans consider to be of value, and that certain types of work directly created things of value to humans, and others did not.

This is a crucial understanding if we are to optimise our economy and requires careful explanation as follows. We are psychologically driven to assume that the ways things have been done are the necessary and correct ways of doing things. This leads us to make a very common assumption that is actually incorrect in many cases. We assume that all the different types of work that people do are necessary, in order to create the things that are of value to us. For example we assume that if we want peace, we have to have the military and the police, we assume that if we want to go abroad we have to have banks which carry out foreign exchange. We assume that if we want to collect tax, then we must have bookkeepers, accountants, and tax collectors, we assume if we want to buy and sell products then we must have advertising in magazines, and the media; we assume all these things because we are brought up to believe in this as the norm and the way things have to be done.

These assumptions are all false, we don't have to do any of them to create all the things of value we want, (and we have specific policies that demonstrate this). I realised there are entire industries and professions that strictly speaking do not directly create value for humans, and so with the analysis of lean manufacturing, I called these waste. I wish to be absolutely clear that the term waste here is not meant to have a moral or derogatory meaning towards these professions, it is a technical term that simply means 'does not directly create value for the consumer'. I wish also to be clear that we respect and thank all the people that work in these professions, and we are not criticising them in any way.

Just as with the analysis of value and waste in lean manufacturing, all professions and jobs can be divided into three categories, value adding, non avoidable waste, and avoidable waste. Value adding professions are only those that strictly and directly create things that are of value to us, so a builder, a factory worker, an artist, a teacher, a commercial pilot, and a farmer, are all examples of value adding professions. We want to maximise the efficiency and productivity of these professions so that we have a plentiful supply of the things we want in life. If we now consider professions that are absolutely essential to support each of these value adding professions, we get examples as follows: A builder needs delivery of materials, a factory worker requires tools to be made for them, an artist needs brush cleaner, a teacher needs pens, a commercial pilot needs air traffic controllers, a farmer needs tractors. The professions that deliver these things are all unavoidable waste professions, as we have to have them in order to support and carry out the professions that are value adding, and that we therefore want. We cannot stop doing these professions, but is entirely in our interest to try and minimise them, so that we can instead focus our efforts on maximising the value adding professions. It can be difficult telling these two categories apart, but it helps to think of what we want as the consumer, in order to clarify the difference. We want a house, not delivery of materials, manufactured products, not the tools that are used to make them, paintings, not brush cleaner, knowledge and skills, not pens, transport abroad, not air traffic controllers, food, not tractors. Another way of illustrating the difference is to see that doctors and nurses, although carrying out a spectacular job, are all actually waste. This is because we want health, no one wants to be unhealthy, and have to visit the hospital as a result, this is not something we value and want. The third category is the professions that are avoidable waste, this means we do not have to carry out these professions at all, as they are not strictly necessary to facilitate the value adding professions that create the things we want. Examples of professions that are avoidable waste are the police, judges, advertising, and foreign exchange. Our common belief is that we have to have all professions as this is what has always happened, however the truth is that it is possible to entirely eliminate avoidable waste professions, and drastically reduce the amount of non avoidable waste professions.

The most extremely wasteful profession of all is the military. This is because the military is the only wasteful profession which actually has the primary purpose of destroying things that are of great value to humans, i.e. property (military and civilian property) and life. For this reason I call it super waste, and paramilitaries, and terrorists also fall into this category, especially as they quite often have the goal of destroying peace also, something of great value to humans.

The military is an entirely avoidable waste; as difficult and unlikely as it may seem, it is a straightforward fact that if we create peace and harmony between, and within, all countries of the world, we will no longer need any military, of any form, in any country. Given this, not only the military, but all the industries that support the military, such as arms manufacture, military research and consultancy, and military infrastructure, are all entirely avoidable professions. In 2023 global military expenditure reached a record high of $2.4 trillion. Add to this all the damage to human value that the military has caused in that year, and the cost is far higher. Militaries are not required in a peaceful world, we don't have to have military and all it's supporting industries, and therefore the entirety of this spending and destruction is avoidable waste, we can save these trillions of dollars in the world economy.

The scope for entirely eliminating avoidable waste professions, and reducing the amount of non avoidable waste professions, is vast in the British and world economy, and therefore there is the possibility to liberate vast sums of money and resources. This is because when we analyse every profession carefully, we will see that most of them are not directly value adding. It is important to understand that just because someone earns money from their job, it does not mean that they are creating things of value. For example, consider stock traders and all other speculative traders in the financial markets. Many of these people earn considerable sums of money, but for all this renumeration, they create nothing of value to anyone other than remuneration for themselves. We believe if someone earns money, it must be because they have done something of value; because they have created something that is of value to someone else other than them. If you pay a brick layer to lay bricks, you do not expect to pay them if they lay no bricks, you pay them when they do something that is of value to you, yet we pay many professions that do not create value for us. Again we are not criticising or blaming these professions, we are simply doing our job of offering the British people solutions to the problems we have.

Analysis suggests that these are some of the industries that are avoidable waste and can therefore be completely avoided:

The military, and all it's supporting professions.
The police and and all it's supporting professions.
The criminal justice system and all it's...
The prison service and...
The security and encryption business...
Social workers...
Marketing profession...
Accountancy profession...
Tax collection...
All forms of speculative trading on the money, derivative, and commodities markets....
Foreign exchange...
Certain parts of the legal profession such as divorce lawyers and civil dispute lawyers...
And many others along with all the professions that support them.

My analysis also concludes that there are many other industries that are non avoidable waste, but can be greatly reduced and/or made much more efficient, some of which are as follows:

Much of the civil service and all it's supporting professions.
Solicitors, barristers, Judges, and...
Banking...
Book keeping...
Transport...
NHS and all therapeutic industries...
And many others along with all the professions that support them.

How do you reduce non avoidable waste professions and eliminate avoidable waste professions?

Let's consider the list of avoidable waste professions first, how do we eliminate these. All of the first 6 entries are entirely avoided if we create a fully peaceful and law abiding world culture. For example, the military professions are eliminated by achieving world peace, the police profession is eliminated by achieving a law abiding society, and social workers are eliminated by having fully functional families and society. People may say this is very naive and unlikely, but it is a simple fact that there is a huge difference in the level of peace and functionality in different countries, and therefore how much they need to spend on these 6 professions. To put this in some perspective, Singapore had 0.12 murders per 100,000 people in 2022, whereas the United States had 6.38, that is 53 times more! Both these countries are democracies and very wealthy compared to the world average, yet they are doing very different things in terms of how they reduce murder and crime in their countries. The united states will be spending more money on policing murder and crime and placing people in prison, yet it has higher crime rates? So why is it that the country that spends more on fighting crime has a higher crime rate, and the country that spends less, has a lower crime rate? The answer is that Singapore is better at maximising value, and reducing waste, through a better understanding of how to create a peaceful society, and one obvious difference is that Singapore has much stricter gun laws. We hope this goes some way to demonstrating the great opportunity of value and waste.

Looking at some of the other avoidable waste professions on the list, we note that marketing can be eliminated by a single online market place for all products and services, see our Marketing Policy. The foreign exchange profession is eliminated by having one world currency see our Financial Markets Policy, and the accountancy and tax professions are eliminated by having automated accounting and tax collection, see our Automatic Accounting & Taxation Policy. The profession of divorce solicitors can largely or ultimately be completely avoided by having education on how to have an amicable divorce, and changing the law. The law can be constructed with simple rules which avoid doubt about who owns what, what maintenance is paid, and who looks after the children, such that all of this is clearly established before divorcing and before getting married and or having children.

Let's now consider the list of non avoidable waste professions, how do we reduce these and make them more efficient. Consider the legal profession, and how much of it is involved with writing legal contracts. An example of this is a lease contract between a landlord and tenant, possibly tens or hundreds of thousands of these are written by solicitors every year in Britain. These contracts are wate for the simple reason that people do not want leases, they want homes to live in and commercial premisses to work from. Instead of writing many thousands of leases costing many millions in legal fees every year, the government could place a simple lease algorithms online which asks the relevant questions that landlords and tenants can answer, and then the AI creates a lease specific to their needs. This would reduce the cost of leases to almost zero, and reduce time and stress on the part of the landlord and tenant, thus maximising value. This approach can be used with most contracts that are formed, and for a more general application of this efficiency increasing process, see our Standardisation & Simplification Policy. A single online banking system for all private and business banking, that integrates with bookkeeping processes in businesses, would greatly increase the efficiency of these professions and save huge sums of money for everyone that uses them, see our Transparent Banking Policy. Health can be significantly improved through education and healthier lifestyles, thus minimising the need for the NHS and all therapeutic industries. In general any non avoidable profession can be minimised and made more efficient.

How much money do you save when you maximise the efficiency of the value adding professions, reduce non avoidable waste professions, and eliminate avoidable waste professions?

The sums of money saved are vast! I am not aware of anyone else carrying out this type of analysis of the world economy, I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has. Most of the British and World economy is one of the two types of waste, and so it can either be minimised or eliminated, and there is huge room for improvement in all the value adding professions. The entirety of this process is brought together in our Economic & Business Policy. which is made up of over 20 individual policies. Very roughly we estimate that fully implementing this policy will double GDP creating an extra £2.5 trillion in the British economy each year. Achieving this would mean we would have no lack of resources in any area, and we would have a great improvement in wellbeing also. In the case of the world economy the ratio is higher as many nations are not so near to industrialisation as we are, so the increase could be a three fold increase in world GDP or an extra $200 trillion each year.

What happens to all the people who lose their jobs, and all the money that is saved.

It is important to understand that when a job becomes obsolete and is no longer needed, a new job is always created. This is because the reason the job has become obsolete is that the economy has become more efficient in some way, and this increased efficiency means greater productivity, which means more money to spend, which in turn means more employment to meet the increased demand for goods and services. History has proved this conclusively over and over again, and we note for example that prior to the industrial revolution about 90% of the worlds population, and 70% of the British population worked in agriculture, now these figures are around 28% and less than 1%. This means more than 69% of the British population have lost their job and found a new one in a new profession since the industrial revolution, they are not out of work.

The loss of wasteful jobs therefore is deeply beneficial to humanity as it means people migrate into value creating professions, resulting in humanity getting more of what it wants, such as more homes, cars, clean water, and holidays, and less of the things it does not want such as war, conflict, legal costs, accountancy costs, and medical bills. We understand that people working in these professions may find this difficult, however we have a policy to carry this out in a step by step manner that is sensitive to everyone's needs, and avoids pain in the process of restructuring the labour economy, see our Restructuring labour Policy.

What happens to all the money that is saved and created? The answer to this question is essentially the same as the previous answer, the money goes towards paying the people who have migrated to value adding professions, and supplying them with the resources they need to create more value for everyone. This means that if we reach the ultimate goal of creating an extra £2.5 trillion in the British economy each year, our standard of living will increase to a level of abundance for everyone, public services will fully satisfy all demand, and we will have all the resources we need to solve every problem we we have such as environmental issues. In addition to all these benefits, we would also greatly increase human wellbeing, something that is of core value to humans, as life will be happier and more harmonious, and the repurposed workforce will derive more satisfaction from doing work that creates direct value for others.

It is the policy of Everyone is God to carryout full education of value waste analysis throughout all education, at all ages, so that people fully understand how to create the things that are of value to us, and how not to waste resources investing in professions that are not of value to us. This then paves the way for our policy of completely eliminating all wasteful work in our economy, and maximising value for everyone.

Summary of our Policy.

Education so that everyone has a full understanding of value and waste, and the need to implement it.
A steady measured process of reducing wasteful professions and work, and restructuring of labour.

Supporting policies.

Restructuring labour Policy

Standardisation & Simplification Policy

Marketing Policy

Financial Markets Policy

Law & its Practice Policy

Transparent Banking Policy

Automatic Accounting & Taxation Policy

Supreme Law Policy

Education Policy

Economic & Business Policy