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tends to do something about having
the purchasing power of these mil
lions increased. How little or how
much is never stated. Never expect
any political statement to be guam
titatively accurate in its definition!
Technocracy asks the question: Is
it possible for any political admin
istration of the Price System on the
North American continent to pro-
duce and distribute abundance to its
citizens? The answer is only too
obvious, when one realizes that for
each initiation of the national credit
more chronological equipment will
be installed and, in turn, more ener-
gy converted nationally from coal,
oil, gas, and hydro-electric power;
which means in simple terms that
each time technology takes a step
forward, toll takes a step back
ward, with the result that human
beings in the United States will
work less and less to produce more
and more. How can the values of
this Price System and its structure
of debt be maintained when the
overwhelming percentage of nation
al purchasing power, namely the
purchasing power of wages and sal
aries, faces a declining future of less
and less man hours for more and
more production?
The political governments of
North America are preaching the
morality of work of the oxcart era
in the midst of this Power Age of
today. The morality of work. is
evident in every WPA program and
in every governmental stimulation
of business. In their preachments
of this morality of work the politi-
cal governments of this continent
acknowledge their incompetence and
inability to deal with the technology
cal problem of the American Age
of Power. Their doctrine is but a
thinly disguised national charity and
a temporary insurance against So
cial revolution.
The morality of work in the pow
er age of America is but the persua-
sive palliative of the chislers' sucker
bait to the 40 million underprivi-
legged Americans. It is at the same
time a national soothing syrup to
the American business man. But
the morality of work is not working
out so well, for each time that the
political administrations in Wash
ington and Ottawa save business
with a fresh initiation of national
credits and more government debts,
the larger corporations avail them
selves of greater funds Of cheaper
money for the installation of more
productive chronological equipment
of lower operating costs.
The morality of work is there
fore in the year 1887 of our Lord
in these United States a national
hypocrisy, for it is contained in
every preachment of our govern
ment, our press, our radio, and our
screen, that the citizens of the
United States should make their
livelihood by honorable toll when
our government on a national scale
is financing and assisting the corpor-
atoms to finance the elimination of
toll.
Which policy of our political gov
eminent are the people of the United
States to believe?
The policy Of honorable toll and
Of a job for every American citizen,
as preached by the public? Or the
opposite policy, the elimination of
toll and jobs for our citizens by the
further installation of chronological
equipment for the production of
more goods and services with less
wage cost per unit produced, as
practiced by our federal government
and our larger corporations?
The chronological application of
physical science to the means where
by people live has set the date for
this continents rendezvous with
destiny. This country and this con-
tinent cannot avoid this rendezvous
with destiny. This country and this
continent will meet this rendezvous
within the next five years.
1t is imperative that on our ma
tional and continental way to this
rendezvous the people of this coun-
try and this continent recognize
quite clearly that the social conflict
of this continental area is the con-
flict between the seven thousand
year-old method of producing physi-
cal wealth with a maximum of hui
man effort and the recent techno-
logical production of physical wealth
with a minimum of human effort.
Any national economy depending
chiefly on human effort for the pro-
duction of its physical wealth dooms
the majority of its people to starva-
ton and the arduous toll of scarcity.
Any national economy producing the
major portion Of its physical wealth
by human effort is compelled to
justify its social futility by preach
ing the morality of work. Scarcity
and human toll are the twin social
resultants of any civilization depend
ing upon human effort for the pro-
duction of its physical wealth.
The low-energy civilizations Of the
rest of the world are therefore COM
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