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The TDG and Social Relief Valves
Peace, opportunity, and prosperity
My heritage is of an Eastern European peasant. My grandparents were destined to a life of hard work and destitution. Had not the world evolved, my natural destiny was to follow a similar path for the progeny of peasants did not rise higher than their parents. My occupation would have been a farm laborer or hard-rock miner. These occupations do not lead to gaining the experience, education, time, and energy to write a book about an alternative democracy. My life would have been focused on survival, not about writing books.
But the world did evolve. It started evolving 200 years ago, when we started developing a significant surplus in our economy. Some of that surplus went to the 85% of us who did the dirty work. We could afford the time and a little income to develop passions outside of our work, family, religion, and alcohol.
I’ve been working on my Tiered Democratic Governance (TDG) project for 28 years. It has not provided me with any kind of a living. So I’ve had to take on jobs to pay rent and buy food. We can say that Tiered Democratic Governance has been my hobby. People around me think too much of a hobby.
But had I been born a generation earlier, that hobby would not have been an option for me. I would have been too busy trying to make ends meet…
