As I write this, my bathroom in my small, one-person apartment is filled with cigarette odor. I can hear the bathroom fan turned on next door and a crying baby. Unfortunately, the ventilation ducts don't completely separate the two apartments, so smoke odor comes into mine. My new neighbor is smoking a cigarette. He is young (maybe 28) and from out of state. A divorced Caucasian man of average intelligence. A female landlord of one of the other units told me she smelled marijuana coming from his apartment.

I have lived in this general-purpose apartment building for 20 years. Neighbors come and go every few months or a couple of years. This is a capitalist country, so the purpose of these apartments is profit. This is also a free country, so people have a right to be of average intelligence. They also have the right to have as many babies as they wish. Population density here is already high: 1 to 3 people are sharing 500 sq. ft. of apartments.

I once heard someone say, "The United States is not a melting pot; it's a salad bowl." Meaning: People naturally favor their own kind; they bunch together for protection, resources, and appealing romantic partners. I have seen this to be true. What I've also noticed is that people are nicer, happier, and more trusting around people of their own kind.

What also seems to be true is that the faster the population grows, rent and housing prices rise, and so do gas and food prices. This means poor people, not the rich, must work harder to earn enough money to pay for the cost of living. The rich are often the owners of the apartment units we are renting or of the businesses we buy from. Since they benefit from population growth, they are not as likely to mind a country with open borders and unregulated population growth. In addition, the rich have the means to live in more expensive towns or secluded communities, where they insulate themselves from living too close to the migrant ethnic groups that are their customers and sometimes their employees.

What open-borders and unregulated population growth do is create conditions that trap more and more people into a state of inescapable wage slavery. That is to say, a growing percentage of the population finds it increasingly difficult to escape poverty because almost the entirety of their income goes to pay rent, a cost we have no control over.

One might argue that a growing population means a growing economy, which equates to more jobs and higher wages. The problem with this argument is that many jobs and wages are largely controlled by the business owners and their personal preferences, rather than just a neat, clean supply-and-demand job market.

In my experience and observation, many people get jobs by knowing someone. I have seen people, both male and female, with less qualifications than others, get advanced into more desirable positions because of family or social connections, looks, or sexual assets. I've also noticed people must play politics to keep their jobs, and wages don’t keep up with the cost of living. Plus, rents never go down, not even during the great 4-year recession. I don't call this fair market competition because it involves deception. Therefore, it's cheating.

The free market system reminds me a little of that 1979 Atari game, Maze Craze. This game is all about exploring a series of mazes. However, if you play it with another person, it turns into a competition. As each player races through a confusing maze, they have the option to confuse the other player by creating a fake wall. In this game, unlike society, we each have the same power to deceive our opponents, and you don't have to play if you don’t want to.

Playing competitively was no fun for me because someone had to lose. I don’t feel I gained anything if someone else lost. I don’t need that kind of social status.

As the most expensive resources become scarce (housing and desirable mates), people compete with each other in ways that involve deception. In other words, when resources are scarce, people become fake, just like that fake wall in Maze Craze. They do whatever they can get away with, and that mindset eventually becomes the culture.

One of the purposes of the [New State] system is to solve this problem of scarce resources. I am referring to the most expensive or difficult-to-achieve necessities: housing, healthcare, and a suitable partner. The idea is to manage people directly in such a way as to never have scarcity.

For example, if housing is expensive because it's in high demand, instead of earning more money to compete for the scarce supply, actively manage the demand by regulating immigration and population growth to prevent scarcity in the first place.

A suitable mate is no different. From my observation, the mating game is a war of ugly, sometimes violent competition or financial expense for a scarce supply of needed fulfillment. This results in a small percentage of the population controlling a monopoly of power over the rest of us.

By taking small steps each generation, making an effort to breed into existence healthier, more desirable people, we can reduce inequality and reduce our need to earn money or compete for something that is now plentiful.

Live by [New State] values: plan your romantic life and future family in accordance with the needs of society at large, and you will receive better, more affordable housing, healthcare, and a better mate.

What I am saying here is that a capitalist free market system, with democracy and constitutional rights, does not necessarily equal good health, happiness, and a secure future. These are just ideological frameworks to guide us. IDEA and LOGICAL are two words. If it’s no longer logical, maybe it's no longer a good idea!













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