The goal of the Booj Party is to establish arrangements favorable to the largest and most stable middle-class. The ideal is universal middle class status for anyone who will work to attain it.
Why universal middle-class? Because this is the state of even distribution of power, and even distribution of power is the condition most favorable to freedom.
Freedom is not in having, but in doing. The test of freedom: How much of the time do you feel you are working for a life you want? Freedom and motivation and prosperity all go together.
The greatest threat to freedom is power concentrations.
Power concentrations come in many forms, including money, authority, equipment, expertise, privilege. A concentration of any kind of power can be exploited to serve the accumulation of all other kinds.
Big Government and Corporate Hegemony are only two manifestations of power concentration. To see danger in only one or the other is become an accomplice of power concentration and an unwitting opponent of freedom.
Rights have no existence beyond agreement that they exist. Rights are sustained only by equal distribution of power. We negotiate with entities who have leverage, who resist us or who make us resist. Those who cannot negotiate are summarily used.
The world owes us a living if we all believe it ought to. A dollar has value if we agree it does. The world owes us the right to accumulate unlimited wealth and power exponentially if we agree that is the way things should be.
The question is not what is right and wrong, but rather what kind of world do we want to inhabit and how we must live to create and sustain it. In other words: ethos and ethics.
A large middle class exists if we choose to make it exist. If we passively allow “nature” to unfold as it unfolds, power will concentrate as naturally as a car will naturally drive off the road if it is not steered.
Human being is naturally artificial. There is no given natural human order to discover. There is only a range of viable imperfect artificial arrangements with patterns of harmony and cacophony — which can only be known through irreversible experiments.
Avoidance of power concentrations is not the same thing as enforced equality. The goal is not sameness, but dynamic balance.