Tuesday, September 06, 2005

A New World Order - At Last - Free Loading

By jove, I think this is it. A new world order. Only if all measly 193 nations (I am putting in those two who are not members of the United Nation for various political or taxonomic reasons) of the world can and will collaborate.

It will mean the end of all the insufferable miseries we have put ourselves through all these years, terminating in a ghastly and untimely death. We could for instance die of a bloated stomach from hunching over the computer continually. Or an enlarged or elongated penis because we were sitting down most of our lives and that pee-wee was all the time squeezed in between our thighs and our testicles were crouched low below so that all three crown jewels were hyperventilating . The result is telling. Baldness, followed by tufts of pubic hairs dropping off with intermittent infertility and culminating in a slow, excruciating spasmodic death.

First, nationally. Mr Chap-Chai-Ben charges you $3.00 for a plate of dish rice. Sometimes that woman , M/s Chap-Chai-Ben, with the sinister look charges you $3.30, because she was menstruating or she was just bitchy that morning as she had not slept with her husband for a long while.

Mr Chap-Chai-Ben needs your $3.00 because he needs to pay for his monthly stall rental, his mortgage on his HDB flat, his PUB utilities, his StarHub telecommunication and his Honda Civic car. Incidentally after toting up our monthly bill, we would invariably discover that three-quarters of it accrue to national state boards or privatised national state boards (sorry if this sounds oxy-moronic). The Honda Civic however falls in private hands unless Honda Civic goes bust one day and decides to call in a national state board to sit in with it to co-partake or re-partake the pecuniary constitution. The food he needs he can always lap up the spoils after all the customers have had their fill.

$3.00 may be a small amount but going by a day count of hungry customers, this easily snowballs into 120 plates of dish rice translating in 360 dollar terms. Multiply that by 28, 29, 30 or 31 days and you come close to between $10 080 and $11 160 in a month.

Now if we follow this New World Order and we do not have to pay for our food or all the encumberances of rental, mortgages, utilities, telecommunication and car, then wouldn't we be freed of work and the wage that was meant to pay for these and our groceries, funeral rites and
sarcophagi in the first place?

I am not advocating a barter-trade system though this may be a viable option should this free-loading system not work in some cases, especially at the international level.

Nationally, all the private operators would function like one huge, colossal hypermart of fun-fair traders, dispensing free goodies and freebies. They do not have to pay wages as the proletariat works for free because he, in return, lives for free, eats for free, shits for free and dies for free. Isn't this a free-loading good system?

Internationally, the system works the same. Raw materials could be obtained for free from resource-rich neighbors who needs that foreign capital, imprimis, because it had to use this foreign exchange to fuel its domestic economy. It could instead barter in exchange for its needs or better still, obtain free goods it needs from its other neighbors.

This New World free-loading order will call for some contrivance and collusion on the part of member states. If it does, it will be Sir Thomas More's Utopian dreams come true. It can only mean people, who are at the heart of all civilisations, will live longer, happier, healthier and more civilly.

What a happenstance state of affairs! I think I am going off for work at the United Nations to advocate this new world system.

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