Why Now?

For three reasons:

First – We need strong economies again. The mix of a mature nuclear era and unsustainable inequality levels worldwide, demands a smart correction and rebalancing because our last two inequality peaks in 1890 and 1930 created international revolutions, WWI & WWII. Investment houses that make low-impact or socially harmful investment decisions only make this situation worse – especially when high-impact, high-profit Private Equity and SEED Investments are also available.

Worthwhile Industries CAMPUSes build strong economies through self-reliance and export diversity while lowering the cost of living and renewing Good Lives and Freedoms

Second – Technology has advanced sufficiently to build the robotic assembly lines needed to ensure our basic needs of life cost-effectively. Government Policy that supports this change (see MEMS) is the second half of a strategic “Right Plan” needed to correct economies with these technologies now.

Third – We have a Right Plan Architect again. For the first time since Buckminster Fuller architected his World Plan in 1980, Worthwhile Industries offers a workable hi-tech engineering plan, the financial vehicle (Funds), and proven government policies that support our sustainably performance managing successful economies and Good Lives internationally

Impact Investing

Worthwhile Smart Cities are based on a “Right Plan of Worthwhile Projects that build a Good Life” (Aristotle, Politic 322 BC) – and they also meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and MENA’s Vision 2030 Oil-Free Economy needs; and sooner than 2030. as well.

Building a Great Future

Alan Turing’s 1943 Universal Machine began a 75-year era of digital automation that is as promising as it has been disruptive. Similar to labor disruptions created during past technology advances like the automated loom and Bessemer steel process automation, our Governments are uncertain again today regarding how to support citizens through a steady barrage of job losses. At the same time, the benefits of computer automation are undeniable.

Strategic Planning discussions often conclude that if we do not “shoot where the duck will fly”, and develop self-sustaining automation today, then we will find ourselves purchasing automated imports from China, Germany, and others within five years – and we see this already today.

No other country will spend more for our lower-quality exports – until the failure of our exports has a devastating, destabilizing economic impact similar to the USSR’s 1986 Economic Collapse. In a global monetary system, countries must be self-sufficient and they must also monetize their economy by creating export wealth. Failing both risks economic collapse.

To solve these critical problems, CSQ Research – our guiding Think-Tank, compared the production, debt, and trade stats of 180 countries and found that 72% are in a collapse-trending today (a “collapse-trending” indicates debt and trade deficits). Analyzing the policies and economies of the other 28% of “Advancing” nations is a study of sustainable, empirically proven-successful policy – scientifically speaking. Here is what we learned.

Countries with high ExCaps very rarely have economies in a collapse trending – and people live well. The Netherlands’ ExCap is $33,600, Canada’s is $13,300, and the US’s is $5,100. The US and Canada are Collapse-trending; Holland is Advancing. When corrected to Holland’s ExCap levels, Canadians would earn $630 billion in new exports annually – that’s a 250% increase in today’s exports. The U.S. side-steps $8 trillion annually by this calculation, and the U.K. loses $1.5 trillion. China’s Economy is Advancing with low ExCap, but their brilliant, Herculean 30-year plan to lift 1.3 billion people out of the stone-age, still showcases a standard of living for the average citizen that would be a steep step backward for G7 nations; low-ExCap, low-opportunity, plus high-inequity was the pervasive economy of a 1000-year medieval dark-age. (Find the stats that we used at http://csq1.org/forums/topic/middle-class-for-power-49-percent-for-prosperity/and http://csq1.org/forums/topic/the-business-case-for-guaranteed-incomes/).

The discussion casts into sharp relief the very high cost of inequality levels that prevent a highly productive population. For Canada, $630 billion in new country-wide export revenues makes a compelling Business Case for the 1/4^th lower-cost social supports, and automation that supports a Good Life, at a fraction of the cost, and new export wealth while we sleep.

With community automation in basic needs of food, housing, energy, and essential goods, Citizens are self-sufficient; they can live good lives that will be little disrupted by economic ups and downs. Automating communities reduces the need for Import spending, it creates exports that citizens can sell, and this approach also enables incomes to be sustained away from overcrowded cities and housing bubbles; this prevents inflation, which protects pension values while reducing inequity; and this strengthens democracy’s sustainably too.

Without these automations, and supporting policies, an Economy can not be self-sufficient, so it will need more Imports as it struggles to sell its exports in an increasingly higher-quality, lower-cost international marketplace. As Trade Deficits and Collapse-trendings accelerate, we have few options.

Industry – builds this export Economic Injector at the same time that it builds cost-of-living reductions & import reductions too. Our Exports, similar to Germany-owned VW, build robots (automated assembly lines) that build robots (autonomous cars, autonomous lumber farms, etc.) that create high-quality exports and new wealth (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-22/why-volkswagen-systematically-important-germany-and-europe).

Worthwhile’s automations adhere to:

1. #WPProjects’ list of the 250 technologies needed to create automated communities (see http://csq1.org/world-peace-transition-projects-faq/) and
2. Transition Economics’ TEMature Policy: (http://csq1.org/transition-economics-maturity-model/#TEMat) a list of the Economic Policies consistently employed by Advancing-Economy nations.

Together, these two halves make a Strategic Plan (Aristotle’s “Right Plan”) for reliably advancing economies, incomes, and spending power – while we sleep.

Worthwhile Industries’ CAMPUSes build self-sufficient communities profitably in a sustainable approach that mitigates risk by targeting revenue in large low-barrier-to-entry markets.

Hanna-Barbera imagined that our Jetson families would work two-day work weeks and three-hour workdays; Automation is neither about denying we humans an income nor denying anyone their dream job. Rather, a mix of social supports and automation are meant to work together to prevent entire lives from being spent twisting light bulbs into assembly-lined refrigerators. That’s a good thing.

With government policy that supports change, we can now see a return to important culinary art, teaching music, and dance, building productive exports, restoring poetry and great literature, pursuing life-sciences research, exploration, discovery, and restoring humanity and freedoms to our civilization.

Ask a 20-year office worker or truck-driver “Are you ready for a change?“, and eight times out of ten, you are going to hear “If I can afford to – yes of course”.

Strategic Investment in interconnected renewable automation is a shift in thinking as beneficial as Henry Ford’s assembly line. It’s a shift that supports worthwhile and profitable industries at the same time that it also harvests the trillions of dollars in economic prosperity left on the table when our technology investments haven’t supported a Good Life for everyone.

When Investment Markets prosper at the same time that national Debt, Deficits, Unemployment, Incomes, and Trade Deficits are corrected, only then can they be considered sustainable – and Worthwhile.