Profit In Problems

Stephen L. Doll

1992

Published in:

The Northwest Technocrat, 4th quarter 1992, No. 329, Vol. 54

Problems, problems -- the economy, crime, pollution, health care. Are there solutions within our present system?

Positively not! Our failure to come up with lasting solutions stems from the mechanics of a system that thrives on problems. Who wants to solve problems when creating them and then Band- Aid-ing them is so lucrative? Why promote a healthy society or eliminate crime when treating symptoms and building prisons are multibillion-dollar industries? Who is going to kill the golden goose of poverty when the welfare industry employs so many highly paid bureaucrats? How can we establish peace in the Mideast when every arms peddler in the world is stirring the pot, creating markets for their wares?

Furthermore, where would our politicians be without a handy bag of woes to lay at the doorstep of the opposition?

That most revered of pulse-taking instruments, the gross national product, does not measure our well-being or the health of our babies, having clean air or being able to walk the streets safely at night. It measures instead the dollars generated.

There is a solution available for those intelligent and patriotic enough to want to see a better life for all North Americans. It is a program for social and economic reconstruction that would eliminate problems by addressing them on a technical basis, rather than prolonging them for profit. Technocracy first was introduced in the 1930s, but the New Dealers said no deal, opting to feed the problem-hungry status quo by relying on war profits and such travesties as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, whereby people went hungry and wore rags while pigs were slaughtered and cotton plowed under to protect farm profits.

New Deal? New World Order? Same old rehash of outmoded methodologies. Technocracy is the only new approach to come along since the Industrial Revolution, and the only one compatible with its potential for abundance.

So which is it North America? More problems for more dollars or a solution?