The Gist of The Just Society

I could be writing endless more subtopics on the Just Society and its inner workings similarly to all my other previous posts on the subject. However, I feel that prolonging the description of this society model across a multitude of posts makes understanding its underlying ideas more difficult. Besides, it makes the blog content repetitive, as well as even more boring than it already is.

Therefore, I have decided to use this post to summarize all the ideas presented in my previous posts about the Just Society as a way to wrap things up. If any other important ideas come to my mind that were not yet mentioned, I will add them somewhere in one of the previous posts and then reference them back here.

Society Purpose

The Just Society model is designed with two main purposes in mind.

1. To deal with the natural human lazyness;
2. To be fair to all.

A set of thirteen tenets were devised so that this society can fulfill these two purposes. They are listed in the first Just Society post. Their core ideas are to provide the same amount of resources, including services and opportunities, to everyone that is part of the society in a fair (or just) way.

The Toolbox

Knowing about man's nature and the lazyman's rule, I have attempted to design this society model by dividing it into subsection and coming up with  tools that facilitate the enforcement of fair and respectful treatment, the management of resource distribution and the positive nurture and education of citizens. These tools are listed and illustrated below, along with their relationships to different sectors of society and links to the previous posts they were described in.

• Management and monitoring tools: these are the overarching tools whose use is in the core of this society. They help support other tools in the accomplishment of their goals.
• System for Accountability Management (SAM);
• Signature of Universal Effect (SUE).
• Politics and Services: the first one should help manage all social services not directly mentioned in previous posts with the help of SAM and SARA (listed next).
• Universal Public Service System (UPSS);
• Community-driven politics.
• Economics:
• Healthy and universal meal currency (HUM$);
• System for Allocation of Resources and Amenities (SARA);
• Five-Step salary ladder.
• Education:
• Decision-focused approach.
• Safety and Security:
• Defense-oriented security (DOS) system. 
• Transportation:
• The Expensive Utopian Sci-Fi solution.

These tools emphasize some of the services society provides (e.g., security, education), but not others (health, entertainment). It is important to notice, nonetheless, that the non-mentioned services are as relevant for the proper functioning of society as the ones favored in my posts.

The overall idea behind the implementation of other non-mentioned services is that they should be provided to citizens at affordable prices. Notice, they are not free. One could argue that health services, for example, should be provided for free. The truth of the matter is that nothing is free. Even public services have a cost. And since in a Just Society, the economy is not-for-profit (see more on the Economics of a Just Society), saying a service is managed by the government or a private company does not really matter in the Just Society. Either of them is going to provide similar services at potentially similar affordable prices because of the lack of profit-driven motivation, but also due the close monitoring of the business by the public with the help of the SAM tool.

The Just Society is a dream of my own. It is a compilation of the many ideas I have had of what I think a perfect world could be. Would I like to have them implemented in real-life? Yes, of course. Will they ever? Right... is that really a question? I mean, I am dreamer, but I am aware of who I am.

Still, I hope that by writing these ideas in here, at some point, someone will read them and feel inspired to turn this world into one with less suffering, and more joy and peace. In the meanwhile, like a hummingbird putting out forest fire, I will keep fighting  the best way I can to bring that world closer to reality. Hopefully, others will gradually join me (us, really) in this long and seemingly never-ending fight. Will you be one of them?