The Human Salary
Being in your Society.
A flat salary for all humans has been proposed by Musk, among others who have speculated on the fairest way to distribute the wealth that all of us create together.
In the USA, we could repurpose Social Security payments to that purpose, as well as those for Medicare and Medicaid. We would need a different pile of money for these purposes, but that money is there in the profits all of us create together through our labor and our cognitive inputs.
So, there is an amount in today’s lucre that provides a reasonable relationship between the total amount of wealth we all generate and the costs of needs attendant upon raising an individual from conception to grave. Google, ‘Currency types of Earth’. Recall, we do live by mathematical definitions over time and location by person.
Most humans are workers and will require the input needed to keep them alive and kicking. The peer-reviewed medical literature details the objects and services needed to keep each of us alive and you guessed it, kicking: contributing to the making of profit by and for us all over an entire human lifetime.
What is a human worker? Accept for a moment that many cultures define each type of person present in their society differently, and these numbers can be quite low: female, male; or larger, e.g., Hindu…
