VALUE ADDING WORK POLICY
The only way any of us will ever have any wealth
is if we create something that is of value
Value and Waste.
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What is of value to human beings?
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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:
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Experiences or states of being that are of value to humans:
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Happiness, fulfilment, and wellbeing.
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Peace, law and order, safety.
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Loving relationships, family, friends, and community.
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Romance and Sex.
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Travel and new experiences.
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Purpose, and enjoyable work.
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Intellectual stimulation, entertainment, arts, creativity.
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Exercise, adventure, the outdoors.
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Hobbies.
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Public services.
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Material possessions that are of value to humans:
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Comfortable and beautiful homes.
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Cars.
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Tools and equipment.
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Commercial buildings and factories.
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Machines.
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Computers.
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Phones.
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Land, plants, and animals.
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The infrastructure of utilities and public services.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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. Some things we work at that are not of direct value to humans are:
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Legal contracts, the processes of law, and legal trials.
Accounts, bills, forms, financial records.
Adverts and marketing.
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With more thought I realised that there are entire industries and professions that strictly speaking do not directly create value for humans, and 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'. I wish 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. I also realised that just as with waste above, these professions could be divided into avoidable and non avoidable wastes. I realised that it is possible to eliminate avoidable waste professions, and drastically reduce the amount of non avoidable waste which occurs in other professions. The most extremely wasteful profession of all is the military, it is the only wasteful profession which actually has the primary purpose of destroying 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 core value to humans.
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I started to realise that reducing wasteful professions is completely possible, and liberates vast sums of money and resources into the world economy. This money can then be made available for paying the people who have lost their jobs to do things that are of value to humans, increasing the standard of living, improving public services, and solving the problems we have. It would also greatly increase human wellbeing, something that is of core value to humans, as life will be better all round, and the repurposed workforce will probably derive much more satisfaction from doing work that creates direct value for others, rather than waste.
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The most obvious and spectacular example of this is the professions associated with war i.e. the military, and all the industries that support the military such as arms manufacture, military research and consultancy, and military infrastructure. 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, and therefore the entirety of this spending and destruction is avoidable waste. We can liberate these $trillions, and use them to pay people to do something that is of value for humans, rather than something that is destructive or non value adding.
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There are many other examples of professions that do not create value, consider stock traders and all other speculative traders in the financial markets. Many of these people earn huge sums of money, but for all this renumeration, create absolutely nothing of value to anyone other than 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 brick, you do not expect to pay them if they lay no bricks, yet we pay many professions that do not do something of 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.
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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. My analysis has come to many conclusions, I believe there are many industries that need to go completely, and there are many others that need to be greatly reduced. I very roughly estimate that eliminating waste (along with the many other improvements stated in our Economic & Business Policy) will double GDP creating an extra £2.5 trillion in Britain. 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.
My analysis suggests that these are some of the industries that are wasteful and can be reduced or completely avoided, the sums of money saved are vast (we have written policies specifically for this in some cases, see at the end of this page):
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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......
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...
And many others.
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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:
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Much of the civil service all it's supporting professions.
Solicitors, barristers, Judges, all law practice professionals and...
Book keeping....
Transport...
NHS and all health industries...
And many others.
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How do you reduce wasteful professions?
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The full understanding of this is detailed, and beyond this summary of our policy. However what we will say is that for every profession there is a simple and obvious way of of eliminating or reducing it. Some examples of this are as follows: the military professions are eliminated by achieving world peace, the police profession is eliminated by achieving a law abiding society, the foreign exchange profession is eliminated by having one world currency, the marketing industry is almost completely eliminated by having a single regulated, online, free, product search facility, the accountancy and tax profession is eliminated by having automated accounting and tax collection, etc.
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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 creating things that are not of value to us. This then paves the way for our policy of completely eliminating all wasteful work in our economy. We understand that people working in these professions may find this very alarming, 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.
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Summary of our Policy.
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Education so that everyone has a full understanding of value and waste, and the need to implement it.
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A steady measured process of reducing wasteful professions and work, and restructuring of labour.
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Ultimate Policy.
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If you look above at the list of avoidable wasteful professions, a number of them would require universal international agreement to eliminate, world peace and the reduction of all military being a major one.
Supporting policies.
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Witten by Marcus white © 2024, updated 27-4-2024.
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