Subject: More About The Iagarans.  Part 6.                 June 13, 2007.

  And thus we go back to the Iargan people.  We look a litte like apes.
They look, to me, a little like a horse, but then of course I love
horses.

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  On Iarga, there are two worldwide consumer organizations, which are
responsible for all market research. They examine the usage value of all
the goods and services and inform the public in the most objective manner
about the available assortment. They stimulate the trusts to produce the
goods that are needed. The trusts are not permitted to advertise or exert
any influence on the consumer, as this could never be objective. Thus the
choice is not made by inexpert or unprice-conscious persons but by experts
with test facilities at their disposal. When, for example, they see that
it is necessary that the public have a choice of five different types of
television sets, then they insure that these are produced.
  I didn't believe a word of it! From what I had seen on Iarga, there was
no choice at all. Everything seemed the same, cars, houses, trains, and so
on. They were afraid that I had failed to understand anything of what they
had told me. "The p-esidents of the two trusts are a part of the central
planning group of the world g-vernment. This group attempts to lead the
ra-e to the goal of a culture. To begin with, they must, by means of
production adjustment, dispense with the law of supply and demand, and
thereafter create a situation of unbridled prosperity, so that no one is
troubled any more by material things. As a result this group also
stimulates the mental development of the rac-. Take, for example, the cars
and houses. There comes a time when the cultural level has reached a point
where these no longer function as status symbols. What then influences the
choice of the public? Two things, mainly: comfort and price. Maximum
comfort and low production cost can only be achieved with robot
automation. And what happens then? Everyone chooses the most efficient car
and the most efficient house and so the development proceeds. "Another
thing that has a great influence on consumption is the general interest in
the conservation of natural resources. A r-ce that lives for the future is
concerned with the utmost efficient use of natural resources, because the
longer the planet is inhabited, the scarcer these become. The pr-sidents
of the consumer trusts have a great influence in these things, because
they have public opinion behind them."
  "All right, I understand the relationship between the trusts and the
public, but, now, how much does such a pre-ident earn as compared to the
lowest paid worker?"
  "The question is not easily answered. The goal of the universal
economic system is naturally the leveling of income, but that is not
possible in the early stages of social stability. A material reward must
be offered to stimulate a greater personal effort. A similar reward must
also be offered to stimulate young people to complete the long studies
necessary to reach high technological development, or to induce people to
work harder or to accept more responsibility. "You must begin by
determining a social minimum that everyone always receives and you must
attempt to establish security for everyone, young and old. Women also have
a right to their own income; the social minimum must be free of any
discrimination. You must also determine that the maximum and the combined
income for a man and wife can never exceed four times the determined
minimum."
  "Do you think that you could find pre-idents here who would be willing
to accept such a modest income?"
  "Of course, as long as the minimum is high enough. A pres-ident and wife
earn, for example, eight uras and the minimum is then two uras."
  "How do you cope with general costs, the kind that we pay for with
taxes?"





 "They are calculated in the price of consumer goods and services."
  "Doesn't this make the price rather high?"
"Now you are thinking in terms of money and payment, while on Iarga,
money does not exist and nothing is paid for. What <STRONG>we conveniently
call "price" is in fact purely a method of expressing the production time
demanded by a certain article, and is </STRONG>only used to determine the
distribution of prosperity. When you ask if the prices are high, you
really mean to ask if there is a lot available to us, if we are rich or
poor. In fact you are asking about the production level per head of the
population, and compared to Earth's standards, this is very high.
The answer is, we are all rich. The universal economic system that
exists by a great many intelligent races, does not concern itself with
money, possession, or payment. The aim of this system is to free the
people from material influences and motivation; and in contrast to the
Earth's economy</STRONG>, this system is very simple, it can be explained
in a couple of minutes. "The explanation is indeed simple, but it must be
accompanied by one or two marginal notes. It appears to be a socialist
heaven, and as such is rather misleading. Earthly Marxism makes the fault
of thinking that all people are good, and that only their social and
economic situation makes them "bad"; change their situation and the
problem is solved. If only this were true. Every intelligent race is
dualistic, and as absolute necessity, contains an extremely evil
consciousness component that now and again comes to the surface in the
form of lies, deceit, sadism, homicide, etc. etc. One of the reasons for
the terrible murder of millions of women and children in gas chambers.
"A detailed explanation will come later, so let it suffice here to say
that beings on Iarga that possess this mentality are denied reincarnation.
This selection is the cause of the continuing improvement in mentality,
generation after generation, which enables a race to become unselfish. "On
Earth, this selection was blocked some twenty centuries ago by
extra-terrestial intervention whereby we cannot improve our average
mentality. This system is therefore unsuitable and undesirable for us
because it would stimulate the egoism. The lazy and the profiteers would
disrupt the system. The universal economic system is just an utopian dream
for us. "The beginning of this system is their worldorder. The unity of
such a race comes from the fact that they obey a set of Godly laws and
therefore have a uniform legal system. Add this to their love of travel,
which results in the mixing of the races, and the result is the
disappearance of nationalism, which happened long ago. The total
production of all goods and services is controlled by globally operating
trusts or cooperatives, the presidents of which form the world-government.
These are not so much economic as political formations that perform most
of the tasks that fall here under governments and ministries.</P>
"The consumers cooperations comment on the performance of the trusts
and so stimulate the assortment and availability. Once this situation has
been reached, there is not much left to be written in a book on economics.
 The only thing that could be entered is any idea to improve the systems
product efficiency<EM> which will reduce the amount of servile labor.</EM>
They regard this kind of work as a waste of time. "Appropriately, they use
the term: welfare efficiency of the working population. The theoretical
maximum of 100% could be reached when the total working population should
take part in the direct production process of goods and services, with the
highest attainable level of automation and the highest possible quality
and durability. This maximum is obviously never reached, and the welfare
efficiency is always below 100%. The higher the figure the larger the
availability of goods and services, and the greater the prosperity. The
three determining factors are: </P>
"1. The occupation factor shows the percentage of the working
population that takes part in the direct production process of goods and
services in the public sector. Here it may be useful to list the
professions that do not exist on Iarga or that fall outside the direct
production process: banks, insurance companies, stock exchange, lawyers,
sales organizations, public relations....(cont.under)</P>
href="iarga1_files/bilde5.jpg"><IMG height=175
Text for picture of housing complexes:<EM> The ring-shaped housing
complexes, looking much like huge glass silos, are about 900 feet in
diameter by 300 feet high, and they accommodate about 10,000 Iargans each.
The central core structure is built up complete as a single unit and the
apartments are installed on the outside which results in the glass-like
finish. These circular housing units are arranged in rectangular cities
about 10 kilometers by 6 kilometers wide encompassing up to 36 such units.
The resulting population density is as high as 6000 persons per square
kilometer. </EM></P>
View of an automatic farming machine which is controlled from a
central post. The unit works a piece of land 250 wide and 10 Km long.
Fertilizers and sprays are introduced via the central rail and
administered by means of a rolling tank. At the end of the rails, the
whole unit turns through 18o degrees and returns over the parallel strip
of ground. No poisonous sprays or artificial fertilizers are used on
Iarga, the ground is sterilized with a deadly ray before the seeds are
planted, (keep out of the way when it is working). The contrast with our
primitive farming methods and these "super efficient" methods on Iarga is
bizarre.