Volume 9, Issue 25
Stasis is the forged state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces.
Government has the power to implement a reset by laws and regulation. Culture has the power to influence the resets by peer pressure. The individual has little ability to command attention from government or culture except through the power of a democracy. When these three areas of society are in alignment, the individual is the most important component. When they are out of alignment, the government or the culture demands change for their own benefit or power without consideration for the ripple effect of their actions.
Today, the equilibrium held by the stasis is under pressure from the competing forces.
President Biden announced this week that 130 countries were backing his proposal for a global minimum corporate tax rate. These countries include the Group of 20 major economies, including China and India who previously had reservations about the proposed overhaul. This agreement will substantially change the world’s sovereign tax treaties and will necessitate international corporations readdressing everything from workforce development to supply chain management. The intentions are to raise funds to pay for government services and limit international corporations’ abilities to defer or avoid taxes. The ripple effect of this financial restructuring will impact wages, small business suppliers, and national tax receipts comprehensively. Families and individuals may or may not be able to make the decisions they desire and keep their jobs.
United Nations initiatives have called for agreements by world governments similar in coordination, application, and enforcement to President Biden’s compact. Proponents of such initiatives believe that anything the entirety of the world uses should be governed by a world body. The oceans, the environment, and the internet represent universal assets deemed common property. Paying for a world management system requires that global banking and financing are affordable for all countries. Global government costs generate a ripple effect impacting prices. Healthcare, then, can be beyond the affordability of developing countries.
Diversity in culture presents problems for standardization in government costs. Certain countries rely upon religious tradition and family structure in the dispensation of government services. Other countries such as China prevent any intermediaries between government and their citizens. The end result is that no two nations are exactly alike even though, under certain historical circumstances, they may be regionally similar. This difference in providing government services generates a ripple effect in the world economy because government costs cannot be standardized efficiently.
Individuals are now faced with the reset decision based upon a career plan, job security, savings, and investments. Citizens will decide between the opportunity to work from home to be more in control of flextime with family or change from a city living environment to a suburban/rural environment. Their choices will generate a ripple effect in everything from workplace management to the value of commercial properties.
A person’s individual conclusion will be pressed by corporations adjusting to the cost of international tax reform, the national culture's definition of family values, and the ripple effect of the interaction of the particular resets establishing the new stasis. These forces framing the new equilibrium will push and pull against each other creating a tenuous societal economic ecosystem.
The reality of stasis is that activities that were unrestricted become more limited as the forces reach equilibrium. Entrepreneurs struggle with employee management when government regulation of labor is expanded. A recent journalist for the New York Times opined that the reason Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO of Amazon was because the stasis of Amazon's business development had been curtailed and restricted to the point that he could not see himself functioning through the efficiency of his core competency. He feared the stasis of the future.
Economic analysts are still trying to determine how the United States performed economically so well in the weeks and months following the preliminary COVID reset. Yes, there was a substantial rescue package. And yes, there is a moratorium on foreclosures and evictions. The end of the story may not yet have been told. Current economic data today is showing mixed results in reference to unemployment numbers. The normal indicators are not tracking consistently from month to month. Economists are now relying on a three-month average to make economic decisions. The answer may be as simple as; Americans are free to start a business, change a career, and make personal decisions as necessary for their own economic viability. The U.S. government does not exist to maintain its own power. It exists to support the Constitution and the right of the people to be self-governing.
There is discussion of a comprehensive world reset by various international forums calling for climate controls and global healthcare standards dictated by global treaties. In an effort to aid developing countries to pay for new regulations, a proposal for the reallocation of world capital has been submitted. The ripple effect of reallocating money for the express purpose of supporting a government agenda is the essence of socialism. The ripple effect of totalitarianism in society is human suffering and bondage. When competing forces pressure the status of the stasis, the true conflict is between statism and individual freedom.
Freedom can never be standardized. Individuals are singularly unique in talent. Therefore, their pursuit of happiness is equally unique. Any system that demands conformity in support of the state will always produce stagnation. Creativity constantly changing the system is the proven formula for prosperity. Each individual should be free to declare his or her own personal and family values. Culture, whether religious, ethnic, or national, is as important as an ingredient to society’s definition of character.
In this summer of stasis reset, the individual is the foundational building block for the structure of society. Culture reflects the individual. Government exists to support the freedom necessary for the individual to define his or her own existence.
It is the uncompromised diversity of the human spirit in the pursuit of happiness that produces prosperity and fulfillment in life.
Government and cultural forces must never limit human passion, purpose, or pursuit of a personal moral destiny.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?