Although the importance of man-made wealth is often overvalued, wealth is a significant aspect of life. You cannot use wealth every day and dismiss the importance, unless you are among the ungrateful. Even those who are largely happy with the little we have, I and many in my category will gladly welcome a million dollars if the source is not intolerably dubious. The very reason God wants us to give to the poor is partly due to the importance of wealth, but also because wealth is often tainted, hence the term zakat (charity) in Arabic actually means purification. Today’s wealth is arguably much more impure and needs much more purification. OK Jarga! Are you going to be religious-leaning, or will the title lead the discussion for the secular minds? Fair enough, what is the wealth gap at your national level versus global level? Is one or both tolerable? An intolerable wealth gap leads to a rise in crime, the risk of civil wars, and even international wars. This is not to justify crime or wars; I fully understand that greed and arrogance contribute to such ills more than resisting victims. The real question I want us to answer: Is taxation the solution or regulation? I think taxation may solve 5 to 25% of our problems, but regulation can solve 50 to 95% of our present and future issues. The sad reality is the world is badly entangled with the u.s, which runs one of the worst types of capitalism, and where the discussion sadly revolves around Taxation, instead of regulation. Both internal and international regulations are needed to ensure reasonable access.
Population rise and globalisation are two major problems that demand better than what traditional cultures or religions offer, or even all governments so far. Meaning we need a system I call Lovism, an amazing philosophy that is fundamentally different from capitalism, socialism, communism, etc. Lovism is about access to opportunities at a mass scale, whereas many systems offer restrictive access at varying levels of selectivity, often with indifference. Well, if Lovism is about access, then how can it be leaning on regulations? Is regulation not about restricting access? Not really, all systems will regulate somehow; you can regulate to widen access or regulate to restrict access, especially against the poor. Capitalism tends to regulate against the poor. They also tend to regulate individuals more than big companies, but people want to discuss how the government spares the rich on taxes and overtaxes the working poor. Again, I am not saying unjust tax systems do not exist, but you cannot solve our problems solely through taxing the rich, or even both. So when celebrated minds like Bernie Sanders and others are calling for higher taxes on the rich, that may solve 5 to 25% at most, but even new problems can arise without good regulations. Imagine a patient with 2 to 10 problems, and a doctor rightly sees one of the diseases or solutions, the time to debate your agreements and disagreements will demand at least listening. Although I like Bernie Sanders above many u.s politicians, he can be very delusional and shortsighted, like our Gambian Halifa Sallah. Bernie is yet to unveil a world economic solution; he tends to cite socialist Finland or less Capitalist Canada to the gullible suffering Americans. My point is Bernie may temporarily uplift about five percent of poor Americans even if it means taking jobs from Mexico, like Trump… The problem many fail to understand is that the so-called successful countries are not necessarily successful through merit, but their position with guilty u.s or global capitalism. Some ‘failed’ states are also partly due to u.s impositions of deadly sanctions. Mass resistance is growing in some countries, but will they have the guts? Like an abused child can grow to resist or subdue in fear, abused countries have the option to smartly resist, but you will need smart planning and boldly resist where needed.
To properly contrast Taxation versus Regulation, we must choose examples or issues and honestly attack even the guilty poor. Yes! I think some of the poor may taste dual hell, and those who truly love them must understand that truth is supreme, and religious rhetoric comes as average, so do not misinterpret being poor as a blessing or right to heaven.
When I use the term regulation, I primarily mean government regulation of businesses, but it also extends to self-regulation in personal matters. Governments have the responsibility to at least advise on so-called personal matters. We cannot honestly discuss the wealth gap without discussing family regulations or issues. Because politicians need votes and some hypocritical journalists can exploit voter sensitivity, very few politicians dare to raise certain issues.
Life is about opportunities. There are aspects of learning opportunities that humans can share or restrict. Similarly are working opportunities. What kinds of Taxation can you make to uplift the education of the poor Gambian, Nigerian, or u.s citizens, as examples? Very little if you worship taxes, and I won’t be opposing you on that, but will you regulate to guarantee access? Mandatory education up to age 18 or 20 is a form of regulation based on children’s rights, but since children cannot fight for their own rights, then responsible governments or special independent institutions must ensure it, like child support. In the Gambia, our constitution implicitly demands it, but no president is caring or brave enough to challenge even the five percent of our negligent parents at the moment. The opposition leaders, including the socialist party and PDOIS, did nothing and said nothing to solve this problem. So we rely on Cuban doctors who had Mandatory education decades ago, and we beg around the world for the elite to enjoy at the tail. No Gambian child should be neglected on education, but the low-loving or indifferent Gambian capitalist may beg to differ. Nigeria is a slightly different type of Capitalism. Despite their vast natural resources compared to the Gambia, educated Nigerians are indifferently gambling millions of Nigerians on even formal education. The wealth gap in Nigeria is by far more disproportionate than in the Gambia, and this also sadly contributes to their higher crime rates, which they are exporting to the Gambia and beyond. Again, pointing to how global plan matters, or at least global advice. In the u.s, they tried things like ‘Affirmative action’ for mainly the rich blacks or some modern house negros to rise, but neglecting millions of black+ kids on unnecessary school dropouts. Even the activists in capitalism tend to ignore the poorest and weakest in basic needs.
If you study Capitalism, or U.S. capitalism in particular, deeply, you will see implicit cruelty, false freedom, and indifference in many respects. Again, since Capitalism is like a mindset, the mindset can be at the individual or national level. Some poor African farmers may have the capitalist mindset of having many children to work in the farm, but the neighbour or government cannot educate or regulate to end such child abuse? That is an example of implicit cruelty. The government may claim it as freedom, but that is false freedom, because freedom without knowledge is dangerous. Neither the parent nor the child should be allowed to rush to only work or dangerous fun. Meaning, mandatory education means a minimum set of hours must be dedicated to education, then you may work a few hours as a teenager if need be. Otherwise, we are sending you to hard labor camps to prevent you from committing crimes and going to prison. Resisting parents should go to prison like those who refuse child support. A neighbor or government that can be indifferent to a child’s access to learning opportunities may very well be indifferent to access to work opportunities at the national or international level. Lovism is about love, and love is about timely actions, not indifference. Taxing billionaires may help build schools, but without regulations, we can still fail millions of children, and repeat blame while pointing to exceptions. Mass uplifting by opening gates is very different from occasional opening of windows or tiny doors through connections and other less transparent expectations.
Since basic formal education is just one aspect of learning in the Showlove Trinity philosophy, we applaud things like the internet, a product of learning than capitalism… Even the internet should be regulated for mass access, including unlimited access for the poorest person, based on the daily wages of ordinary laborers in each country.
Researchers Access Store (RAS) is in some way not a regulation but a product of Showlove Trinity and one of the ways to uplift the poor, bridge the wealth gap. You can search for the article for details, but the fact that the capitalist countries are yet to accept such vivid blessings for the poor is revealing how indifferent these world leaders are towards access for the poor. You cannot tax the rich to invest in Museums or Stadiums to help the poor, which largely means service world, but RAS will open doors for both products and services, including head-to-tail earnings and independence.
Although the above can be an example of employment opportunities, no form of government taxation can open up mass employment opportunities for the poor. Even if you tax one trillion dollars, government projects are often contracts that go to the rich who can bargain against poor workers. If you divide that trillion dollars, will you give it as work or business opportunities, or as a free smile? Government money is not necessarily public or poor folks’ money, as many think. Governments will often ‘regulate’ that money to different departments in questionable trickle-down theories. There is no department of the poor, even though countries like the Gambia have invented a ministry of women affairs for corruption, votes, and funds soliciting from the matriarchal west. Speaking of gender, capitalism is extremely brutal against men, or study how they indoctrinate and abuse poor men beyond wars.
I have briefly shown you taxation cannot give many working opportunities, but can regulations do? Yes! Like, if RAS is new, you can have new regulations that lead to enough factories in every country to prove people are ready to work. In Lovism, we have minimum expectations for minimum guarantees, then the rest is strictly merit-based, striving for wants. Lovism does not encourage ‘free man-made things’, but ‘free’ opportunities, and our worldwide culture of cameras means no play or abuse, beyond work. We will have impeccable records of your choices and smart, reasonable pressures.
It is almost irrelevant to discuss this deeply based on yesterday’s or today’s realities, but rather on our near-future realities. Elon Musk said: ‘work will be optional’ through AI. He is right on the possibility if we have caring and loving leaders to regulate it, but he is wrong if our capitalist leaders retain their faulty mindsets and keep blaming their guilty victims; guilty by voting them in and refusing to ask questions or try Lovism. About one to two thousand robots with AI can build a million homes or electric flying vehicles for tiny Gambia in one year, but who will give such to the Gambia, or do you think Barrow+ dare challenge even the land issues of Capitalism without u.s approval? The greed and arrogance in international Capitalism is vivid, but the fear is implicit by the guards of hell or the tail…
Those of us who studied history can remember how they promised us ‘less work’ due to technology. That was before I was born, but I overworked in the u.s to get into a terrible tax mess that contributed to my first major crime of avenging in the U.S. None of us wants to be over-taxed , rich or poor. Countless women+ are doing two to three jobs to earn a fraction of the average porn stars and other ses (sexless sexuals) workers. My point is that good leadership matters, from the home to the state level. Access to products and access to services are different. Some people rejoice in seeing suffering people, so they need a system that must create suffering people until God and the Godly demands change. Do you think China is much better? Perhaps internally, but China is really about elite mating through questionable infrastructure for mainly the elite in Africa+. Rich Saudi Arabia and others are all different types of Capitalism and yet to offer global care or solutions. Countries like Canada may be slightly better than the u.s in some aspects, but they are deeply flawed in regards to access or mass access to opportunities for the poor, let alone globally.
Among the differences Lovism offers is we do not believe in blaming victims without evidence or numbers. Meaning, we see opportunities as rights, and whoever is ready to learn and work deserves certain minimums in life. Governments should ascertain certain parts, but the richest person can be humbled by God or nature. We cannot control nature in some respects, but nature is largely kind to humans compared to how we treat each other and animals. If they claim some workers are useless, ask the percentage and offer them a challenge. How many workers do they lay off, get sick, get in accidents, etc? The consumer is the most needed and often the most abused fool in capitalism. Hope and implicit lies can keep the explicit or implicit slave having babies for a questionable master in fear or greed.
Can taxation solve the land issues at the national or global level? No! You can only solve such through daring regulations. After completing our mandatory education+, our regulation may guarantee you a minimum land size through points. You can further work to upgrade on many aspects beyond land. Again, there is a huge difference between allowing greed on land as freedom or ownership versus mass guaranteeing of land+ ownership based on reasonable expectations on learning or working years… Once all are guaranteed certain minimums based on efforts, then those who want more can have more through other sets of merits.
The toughest or most controversial regulation requires re-education and hard tests. I called for ‘zero to three children’, you can search for it, which is very different from capitalist Elon Musk. Elon Musk wants you to have endless children as his customers (slaves), because he won’t give a family or country 1000 ordinary robots is less likely to give you AI powered robots if the world reaches 20 or 50 billion people. Search for that article for more, but every country must ask how much space animals deserve in billions per species, humans deserve in billions, AI deserves in billions or trillions if we over multiply, etc. Of course those who are indifferent like your guilty parents may gamble the children without effort or self control. Some religious folks may misinterpret ‘do not kill in fear of poverty’ as ‘do not plan conscientiously’. Our generation has mixed blessings. We used to multiply intentionally and unintentionally for mainly wealth, so those who killed ‘baby girls’ because they considered them less viable means for wealth should not mislead the world through misinterpretations. If you believe we are under a childless God or one without a Grandchild, or will be raised by similar, then you must bank on ch.103 in the spirit of conscience. On and beyond children, successful will be the conscientious as per ch.91 and ch. 103. If we cannot educate the parents, we must educate the children in manners that will shame certain parents towards change or suicide. Yes! Self regulation on children is preferred, but governments must set recommendations, preferably at the global level. I think a just system will also reduce the fear that contributes to some recklessly having children to help them. If they have more than the national recommended, we can tax on tolerable range, and have a different maximum for even billionaires. Most rich folks are not like Musk on wanting countless kids while ignoring the poor. Adopting orphans and helping the poor should be much more valuable to the conscientious Lord than having countless kids of your own. Beside humans, the worst of creatures like flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, etc tend to have countless babies. Time dedication per child and others mean zero to three is enough. If a planet or heaven is on no multiplication mandate, then who can deserve it without fear, greed, or arrogance? Even animals can have offspring and there is life in hell. So if God offers us knowledge and AI, we must act right or God may choose AI above us. Let us not overwork even AI.
Some special Illusions about raising taxes or wages: The government having more money does not mean you and I having more money, just like they can print money to bail out companies but not me and you. Similarly, raising the minimum wage can have short-term effects, but can be useless without regulations. As long as businesses of basic needs can raise their prices+, then a 5% raise in wages and 6% raise in rent+ in three months or one year time will send you to the loop of begging your under-thinking or under caring politicians, who are often millionaires and wanting more. Relativity can be argued in many ways, but use a global scale to understand income is relative to needs and reasonable wants of a given space.
Whereas some employers are guilty of under-paying, questionable opposition leaders and journalists+ should not be twisting sensational numbers to further mislead some guilty poor folks. If me or you own a private school or company of some sort, we will likely pay based on work done, not your ‘reality’ or illusions. Do not say or write: how can a teacher or xyz support a family of five with xyz thousands… one of the teacher or xyz may have no children, the other three, and someone with ten children; the employer or state may share the responsibility of advising, but paying the needy parent more is tantamount to stealing from others. So, humans helping each other must start with advice, then things like formal education, working opportunities, etc. Listen to the God of conscience and the Godly, not just talk to God or the hypocritical cultural and religious leaders who seemingly worship desires and fears.
We talk about how AI may help on health and wealth, but I wonder if AI can help us explain better on character? Help confront not just the liars and the cruel ones, but also the illusions we sometimes want to pass on from generation to generation. We are under God, so let AI be good to us. We must resist and confront our questionable leaders, even where we may have love or certain levels of appreciation. Next time you hear your leaders over debating on taxes, educate or forward them this article to understand regulations matter much more. Please do not count me as anti taxing the rich, but the one who says or sees much more is needed, and let access be guaranteed upto reasonable achievements. May God bless Showlove Trinity: let’s learn, let’s work, let’s have fun.
An Activist and Transformer
Author of Juts Quhr-aahn
