Objectives of the Alberta Democratic Movement

The fundamental objectives of the movement are,

1. No human should live in misery, without help.
2. All humans should have the opportunity to enjoy the highest degree of mental and physical health.
3. Science and Technology should progress and the benefits should reach all people.
4. Keep the earth as the earth, or put it back as it was.
5. Humans and all life need another planet to survive and thrive.

## Assumptions

1. Human misery, satisfaction, happiness, pain-pleasure could all be boiled down to three things,
	1. Money
	2. Physical Health
	3. Mental Health
2. Humans work or do business mainly to earn money. There is no meaning to work. Work does not define who we are. How we do any work defines us who we are. If not for the money most people would not work.
3. Work is not fun, it could be made fun. However, a surgeon operating a heart or a pilot operating a passenger plane better not have fun. Watching a movie is fun. Playing video games is fun. Work is not fun, that is people are paid to do it, to motivate them to do it.
4. Money is not required to maintain physical health. Balanced nutrition, clean water, and surroundings, good habits, and facilities to maintain and treat one's health in a timely manner are all that is needed.
5. Physical health and physical fitness are two different things. Fitness is relative to the task at hand. For e.g. fitness level required by a librarian and a police officer.
6. Mental health is a complex issue, but still, there is a lot of things we can do. There are six emotional needs grouped into two categories, that we have to focus on. They are the needs of personality and the needs of spirits. See main article for more details.
7. For the past 100 years, Science and Technology is the savior of mankind.
8. We are no fans of Greta Thunberg or take the words of Cathy Mckenna seriously, but the earth's timeline is not forever. Maybe hundreds of years, or maybe another billion years. or maybe the earth is forever.
9. Unlike the doom agents, we do believe that we have sufficient time to find a way out and find an alternate place for humans and all life.
10. if not for God, Artificial intelligence can be the final blow to humans. If Iranians can accidentally shoot a plane with hundreds of passengers, If a driver can sleep through a stop sign and kill tens of young buys in a bus going to a hockey game, our reliance on AI is only going to increase in the name of avoiding human errors. AI is going to be trusted with more and more work and decisions to be made. And AI is going perform exceedingly well which will increase more trust and push of humans to go for AI. Finally, it will all be too complicated and cumbersome to find through the layers and layers of programming to locate a bug or a virus or a bad iteration. An error or an omission caused by a human.

## Facilitate work mobility

Main article: Facilitate work mobility

At any point in time, a human should be able to quickly change their skill set to match a different line of work and live through the change until either they are successful in their change or they revert to their previous line of work.

A human should be able to do this change three times during their lifetime, with at least a gap of two years in between. They will bear the cost of the change, which will be available in the form of a loan. However, they have to work through the change to support themselves, they will earn themselves an income through the "work guarantee" program. And education will be sandwiched with work (3 days' work, 2 days' education). To this effect, the education will be provided by the community. See the Main article for rationale, working details and proposals.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.fastcompany.com/90329998/why-finding-meaningful-work-is-overrated
2. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2016/12/20/its-not-supposed-to-be-fun-thats-why-they-call-it-work/#377f9aab10d0
3. ↑ https://www.habitsforwellbeing.com/6-core-human-needs-by-anthony-robbins/
4. ↑ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41698375
5. ↑ https://futurism.com/a-look-at-how-much-humanity-has-advanced-over-the-last-100-years
6. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/07/14/11-scientific-advances-of-the-past-100-years-gave-us-our-entire-universe/
7. ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/second-frb-located-1.5429450
8. ↑ https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1204119/Elon-Musk-AI-warning-Artificial-Intelligence-danger-Neuralink-Elon-Musk-latest
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential\_risk\_from\_artificial\_general\_intelligence
10. ↑ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/2/12/18202466/ai-artificial-intelligence-humanity-threat