Monday, March 30, 2009

Global Products and Services Pool (GPSP)

The Global Products and Services Pool (GPSP) would consist of cooperative farm and home grown food items, cottage produced sustainable material non-consumable goods (such as clothing, books, paper products, housing, furniture, etc), and collectively distributed human services (such as medical care, emergency care, psychological care, etc) contributed by a global network of volunteers and distributed at no cost to the world’s population. Such as system would be the first step in creating a sustainable, non-capitalist method of resource distribution and consumption without necessitating a revolution or other similar mechanism to seize corporate assets. Through the GPSP, the corporate stranglehold on supply could at the very least be loosened and at the very best practically eliminated. The problem with this system would be the contribution of labor, especially the highly skilled professions such as medicine, which typically expect high compensation. The less educationally intensive labor categories would be easier to recruit as their labor and contributions could be volunteered on a part time basis allowing these workers to sustain themselves in their old positions until such a time when such employment is no longer necessary. Perhaps a vanguard of workers of higher educational qualification could volunteer their services and inspire future professionals towards contributing. Additionally, an educational system could be put in place by appropriate volunteers to the GPSP to educate student professionals and inspire a motivation towards service instead of profit.

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