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Back to the Forum Archives These are some of the things I will do when I become God Emperor. I will create a Fellowship of the Useless. The idea is to make firms more useful by subsidizing the early retirement of dead wood employees. Every year the employees, not the managers, of each firm would have an election to vote for the retirement of the people they had worked with or for. A 70% majority would get the person into the Fellowship of the Useless and out of the way. The government would pay 1/3 of the pension costs of the people in the fellowship. I only had one manager in my entire career who would not qualify for the fellowship on the first vote. She was not really a manager but a team leader. She worked. All the other managers I had obstructed work, often deliberately. I would offer Russia an economic and political merger with the United States with me as God Emperor. Russia has a strong people and a remarkable hoard of raw materials. American businessmen could rape it just like they did the American frontier. Once again they could claim to be great businessmen rather than gouging pigs. In a short time Russian economy would rise to normal western standards and the whole world would benefit. The whole world would also quickly become peaceful under the shadow of the massive combined power of Russia and the USA. This start could eventually produce a real world government with me as God Emperor, of course. Like the thousand years of England our combined influence would be the result of subtle hints of force not used (ibid). Ibid means I stole it from somewhere but I don't remember where. I would clear up the misunderstanding about the relationship between money and wealth. Too many managers and politicians mistake the symbol for the reality. Money is not wealth. It only represents wealth. There is a trend now toward a moneyless system. I will do what is necessary to accelerate this process. The cost of producing and managing paper and metal money is unnecessary and invites criminal behavior. The task is to make electronic systems safe and secure. Bankers will fight this because it will threaten their control and slick tricks as the system becomes standardized and unified. Other con men will hate it too. It will happen anyway, even if I never become God Emperor. There will be a set of government TV channels which will show the sessions of government bodies live. These channel would show all levels of government, federal, state and local. People will be exposed to the government's stupidity first hand. Of course I will provide free vomit bags to all homes. Energy research would receive top priority. Everything else is dependent upon cheap energy. Fission reactors are too dangerous regardless of the safety devices and procedures. All electromechanical devices ultimately fail. We need something better than that. Fossil fuels will run out and they stink. Also those resources could better be used to make engineering materials like plastic. Cheap energy is the basis of wealth. Other things which appear to be wealth would be worthless if we had no energy to use, control or invoke them. We need to find a new source of cheap energy. I will write and vigorously enforce a child custody law. No longer will the courts be able to treat children as property. The courts will be under orders to consider the rights, and the current and future physical and emotional health of the children involved and nothing else. In cases where the children can communicate the court will be required to hear them and to give heavy emphasis to their wishes. The philosophy here is that children are much less likely to be confused about love and malice from others. They are, in fact, much more sensitive to real feelings of others than any adult, including judges, can ever be. The government will stop subsidizing art in any form. The government is not qualified to judge what is art and what is not. Thus, it should not urinate away tax dollars on what amounts to personal prejudices. Great art will out on its own. Subsidy, if it comes at all, must come from those who appreciate the works not from victimized tax payers. There would be no possibility of revolution in my empire because a minimum standard of living would be available to everyone. It would not be much, but enough to make them not want to rock the boat for fear of making it worse. It would include food (probably dried beans), group shelters with some degree of privacy, and course rugged clothing. There would be no dress clothes, no confections or caviar, and no private homes. People who wanted to would be free to pursue their ambition and improve their position just as we can now. They could then buy anything the culture produced, including dress clothes, confections, caviar, private homes, automobiles, boats, and etcetera. I will assign a search team to find all of the nukes in the world and buy them regardless of the cost. Then, I will destroy them. I will have a law forbidding people to discuss the mind numbing TV show they saw last night and a law to forbid people from talking about last nights bowling. I will issue a law to make the cost of 4th class mail include the cost of the trash collection and disposal its distribution requires. I will remove social security from government control and put it under a regulated insurance company. I would make strong laws against telephone soliciting and enforce them. I would make strong laws against spam and enforce them. I will appoint a very bright ten year old to the office of adult education. All adults will be required to attend schools two hours per day, five days per week. They will stay in school until they have memorized the dates of birth of every president and his family and the names of all of their pets. They will be required to recite these facts on command. I would lift the Cuban embargo and ink a duty free trade agreement with Castro. Cuba would be allowed to export cigars, rum, and molasses to America, but no sugar. America would be allowed to export coke, blue jeans, and beer to Cuba, but no tobacco products. Vote for me for God Emperor. You will like the result.
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