The Natural Rights Clothes Shop | The Natural Law Clothes Shop |
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| Written by Abdun Nur | |
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The idea of manufacturing vast amounts of poor quality, poorly fitting clothes, stocked at a variety of prices in almost every shop, removing the true choice of diversity that should be a foundation of dress, made by people for pennies while the corporations steal vast amounts of perceived profits from the labour of those workers, this is a destructive model.
It is not that the workers are physical slaves, they are voluntarily contracted through economic pressures into debt slavery, a worker can quit his job at any point, but to do so would generally impose the exigency of their debt repayment failure, these pressures are so intrinsic to existing within society, that to not have been granted personal debt generates greater debt, for example to rent a property is a greater financial burden than the repayments of a loan to buy a property. The best analogy to this system would be free range chickens, they are free to roam around the farm, but if they want to be housed and feed they had better produce eggs every day.
Now we must sustain ourselves, but not as debt slaves within a pathocracy; at present we have little choice but to labour endlessly to service debts, taxations and numerous other corporate scams such as fuel, electricity, gas, and services, perceived as necessary through corporate indoctrinations of media and state education structures, to maintain their extortionary monopolies they block technological advances, corrupt physics and other scientific disciplines, manufacture goods with engineered redundancies built in, poison the water and food we eat, maintain disease instead of curing it, the problems go on and on.
A Natural (Common) Law structure can be applied to the clothes shop model, through its structure infinite diversity, high quality, low prices and full earnings are realised for the people creating the goods.
A shop stocked with examples of the style of clothes available, with samples of cloths, colours, accessories, the customer selects the style, cloth and details they would like, they are carefully measured and the order is given to the factory.
The shop outlets can be linked to many factory collectives, as the share of money earned is based upon time and skill invested, just as explained within 'Islamic supermarket' essay. The idea of copyright is a fraud of the corporate model, it has no value to a true model, as all are free to copy if they wish, the gauge is quality, value and service, within a clothes shop many disciplines would be required, designers, seam-stressing, tailoring, pattern cutting, all the trades and skills of the garment business.
The factory receives the order from the shops and manufactures the clothes according to the specifications of the customer. The shops and the factory work as a single undertaking, the workers function within a collective structure.
Each person holds shares, dependent upon the level of competency, responsibility and knowledge within the group, as within natural law each man/woman is equal, but not all labour is equal. The share is additionally gauged to the hours of labour completed, so as an example:
The collective has generated 10,000 ounces of silver in a month after the overheads have been paid, and there are 50 people holding 75 shares in total.
In total 8000 hours have been completed by the collective.
10,000 / 11000 = 0.909 ounces per hour per share (10,000 (ounces earned) / 11,000 (5000 hours completed by single share holders – 3000 hours completed by double share holders = 6000 hours)
You are worth 2 shares and worked 160 hours = 290.88 ounces of silver (160 (hours) x 0.909 (ounces) x 2 (shares)
An apprentice may only earn a half share or a quarter share increasing as they gained skills and experience, the exact structure of shares is up to the collective.
As I have explained in the essay 'Islamic Supermarket', a share is paid, I will go over it again, an example:
If the clothes collective is worth 100,000 oz of silver in equipment, stock and property and there are 75 shares, each share is worth 1333 oz of silver.
So to join the collective a member would have to pay in 1333 oz (at the moment an oz of silver is worth £18 so in fiat money that would be £24,000)
If a skilled member wished to join being worth 2 shares they would have to pay 2666 oz, if a person was even more valuable to the collect the cost would be proportionate to the shares allocated.
Now if the collective wanted a person to join them who had no money to invest, the collective could allow the person to work off the cost of infrastructure as a small percentage taken from their earned share, paying off a little each week. Or the person could take a loan upon their labour from the community repository (see 'Islamic Repository').
The share paid by the new member would be given as a division of shares to the existing members in a return of their infrastructure investment.
1333 oz / 75 existing members = 17.77 oz of silver per share held
This means if a person wishes to leave the collective for whatever reason, death, relocation, retirement, ill health, whatever, the shares they hold would have to be paid out by the remaining members to repay the invested infrastructure, as they contributed to its establishment and maintenance; so if a replacement member was needed that new members infrastructure investment would be given to the member leaving the collective.
If the collective members wished to improve their infrastructure with new equipment, premises whatever they wished, they would pay more into the collective from their savings or through an advance upon their labour from the repository, this money would not be lost as they would increase the value of the infrastructure share they held.
The key to this, as always, is to value and price all goods in silver, as fiat money is a fraud, and to function always within natural law, so refuse to pay any form of taxation, or comply to any form of legislation. But always being bound to natural law, the most important aspect of natural law is the true worth and power of the individual, if that is the focus of the organisation of the collective, the environment will be safe, clean and well ordered, without the need of legislation; unsafe and poisonous environments are the result of the master slave mentality, as the master thinks themselves above the slave, so do not value the suffering they inflict upon them.
The other aspect of natural law that must always be established is you can only contract with another man/woman, you have no power to contract to a legal fiction, being the creation of legislation and not valid, so within any business all contracts are held between men/women and it is they who are accountable for that contract, not the collective they are contracting for, the collective can stand surety for the contract of course. |
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