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72:5.1 The [[industrial]] situation among this people is far from their [[ideals]]; [[capital]] and labor still have their troubles, but both are becoming [[adjusted]] to the [[plan]] of [[sincere]] [[co-operation]]. On this [[unique]] [[continent]] the workers are increasingly becoming shareholders in all [[industrial]] concerns; every [[intelligent]] laborer is slowly becoming a small [[capitalist]].
72:5.2 [[Social]] [[antagonisms]] are lessening, and good will is growing apace. No grave [[economic]] [[problems]] have arisen out of the [[abolition]] of [[slavery]] (over one hundred years ago) since this [[adjustment]] was effected [[gradually]] by the [[liberation]] of two per cent each year. Those slaves who satisfactorily passed [[mental]], [[moral]], and [[physical]] tests were granted [[citizenship]]; many of these superior slaves were [[war]] captives or [[children]] of such captives. Some fifty years ago they deported the last of their inferior slaves, and still more recently they are addressing themselves to the task of reducing the [[numbers]] of their [[degenerate]] and vicious classes.
72:5.3 These people have recently [[developed]] new [[techniques]] for the [[adjustment]] of [[industrial]] misunderstandings and for the correction of [[economic]] [[abuses]] which are marked improvements over their older [[methods]] of settling such [[problems]]. [[Violence]] has been outlawed as a [[procedure]] in adjusting either [[personal]] or [[industrial]] [[differences]]. Wages, profits, and other [[economic]] [[problems]] are not rigidly [[regulated]], but they are in general controlled by the [[industrial]] [[legislatures]], while all disputes arising out of [[industry]] are passed upon by the industrial [[courts]].
72:5.4 The [[industrial]] [[courts]] are only thirty years old but are [[functioning]] very satisfactorily. The most recent [[development]] provides that hereafter the industrial courts shall [[recognize]] legal [[compensation]] as falling in three divisions:
*1. Legal rates of interest on invested [[capital]].
*2. Reasonable salary for [[skill]] employed in industrial operations.
*3. [[Fair]] and equitable wages for labor.
72:5.5 These shall first be met in [[accordance]] with contract, or in the face of decreased earnings they shall share [[proportionally]] in transient reduction. And thereafter all earnings in excess of these fixed charges shall be regarded as dividends and shall be prorated to all three divisions: [[capital]], [[skill]], and labor.
72:5.6 Every ten years the regional [[executives]] [[adjust]] and [[decree]] the lawful hours of daily gainful toil. [[Industry]] now operates on a five-day week, working four and playing one. These people labor six hours each working day and, like [[students]], nine months in the year of ten. [[Vacation]] is usually spent in [[travel]], and new [[methods]] of [[transportation]] having been so recently [[developed]], the whole nation is travel bent. The [[climate]] favors [[travel]] about eight months in the year, and they are making the most of their [[opportunities]].
72:5.7 Two hundred years ago the [[profit]] [[motive]] was wholly [[dominant]] in [[industry]], but today it is being rapidly displaced by other and higher driving [[forces]]. [[Competition]] is keen on this [[continent]], but much of it has been [[transferred]] from [[industry]] to [[play]], [[skill]], [[scientific]] achievement, and [[intellectual]] [[attainment]]. It is most [[active]] in [[social]] [[service]] and [[governmental]] [[loyalty]]. Among this [[people]] [[public]] [[service]] is rapidly becoming the chief goal of [[ambition]]. The richest man on the [[continent]] works six hours a day in the office of his machine shop and then hastens over to the local branch of the school of [[statesmanship]], where he seeks to [[qualify]] for [[public]] [[service]].
72:5.8 [[Labor]] is becoming more [[honorable]] on this [[continent]], and all able-bodied [[citizens]] over eighteen work either at [[home]] and on farms, at some recognized [[industry]], on the [[public]] works where the temporarily unemployed are [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorb absorbed], or else in the corps of [[compulsory]] laborers in the mines.
72:5.9 These [[people]] are also beginning to foster a new [[form]] of [[social]] [[disgust]]—disgust for both idleness and unearned [[wealth]]. Slowly but certainly they are conquering their [[machines]]. Once they, too, struggled for [[political]] [[liberty]] and subsequently for [[economic]] [[freedom]]. Now are they entering upon the [[enjoyment]] of both while in addition they are beginning to [[appreciate]] their well-earned [[leisure]], which can be [[devoted]] to increased [[self-realization]].
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[[Category:Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet]]
72:5.1 The [[industrial]] situation among this people is far from their [[ideals]]; [[capital]] and labor still have their troubles, but both are becoming [[adjusted]] to the [[plan]] of [[sincere]] [[co-operation]]. On this [[unique]] [[continent]] the workers are increasingly becoming shareholders in all [[industrial]] concerns; every [[intelligent]] laborer is slowly becoming a small [[capitalist]].
72:5.2 [[Social]] [[antagonisms]] are lessening, and good will is growing apace. No grave [[economic]] [[problems]] have arisen out of the [[abolition]] of [[slavery]] (over one hundred years ago) since this [[adjustment]] was effected [[gradually]] by the [[liberation]] of two per cent each year. Those slaves who satisfactorily passed [[mental]], [[moral]], and [[physical]] tests were granted [[citizenship]]; many of these superior slaves were [[war]] captives or [[children]] of such captives. Some fifty years ago they deported the last of their inferior slaves, and still more recently they are addressing themselves to the task of reducing the [[numbers]] of their [[degenerate]] and vicious classes.
72:5.3 These people have recently [[developed]] new [[techniques]] for the [[adjustment]] of [[industrial]] misunderstandings and for the correction of [[economic]] [[abuses]] which are marked improvements over their older [[methods]] of settling such [[problems]]. [[Violence]] has been outlawed as a [[procedure]] in adjusting either [[personal]] or [[industrial]] [[differences]]. Wages, profits, and other [[economic]] [[problems]] are not rigidly [[regulated]], but they are in general controlled by the [[industrial]] [[legislatures]], while all disputes arising out of [[industry]] are passed upon by the industrial [[courts]].
72:5.4 The [[industrial]] [[courts]] are only thirty years old but are [[functioning]] very satisfactorily. The most recent [[development]] provides that hereafter the industrial courts shall [[recognize]] legal [[compensation]] as falling in three divisions:
*1. Legal rates of interest on invested [[capital]].
*2. Reasonable salary for [[skill]] employed in industrial operations.
*3. [[Fair]] and equitable wages for labor.
72:5.5 These shall first be met in [[accordance]] with contract, or in the face of decreased earnings they shall share [[proportionally]] in transient reduction. And thereafter all earnings in excess of these fixed charges shall be regarded as dividends and shall be prorated to all three divisions: [[capital]], [[skill]], and labor.
72:5.6 Every ten years the regional [[executives]] [[adjust]] and [[decree]] the lawful hours of daily gainful toil. [[Industry]] now operates on a five-day week, working four and playing one. These people labor six hours each working day and, like [[students]], nine months in the year of ten. [[Vacation]] is usually spent in [[travel]], and new [[methods]] of [[transportation]] having been so recently [[developed]], the whole nation is travel bent. The [[climate]] favors [[travel]] about eight months in the year, and they are making the most of their [[opportunities]].
72:5.7 Two hundred years ago the [[profit]] [[motive]] was wholly [[dominant]] in [[industry]], but today it is being rapidly displaced by other and higher driving [[forces]]. [[Competition]] is keen on this [[continent]], but much of it has been [[transferred]] from [[industry]] to [[play]], [[skill]], [[scientific]] achievement, and [[intellectual]] [[attainment]]. It is most [[active]] in [[social]] [[service]] and [[governmental]] [[loyalty]]. Among this [[people]] [[public]] [[service]] is rapidly becoming the chief goal of [[ambition]]. The richest man on the [[continent]] works six hours a day in the office of his machine shop and then hastens over to the local branch of the school of [[statesmanship]], where he seeks to [[qualify]] for [[public]] [[service]].
72:5.8 [[Labor]] is becoming more [[honorable]] on this [[continent]], and all able-bodied [[citizens]] over eighteen work either at [[home]] and on farms, at some recognized [[industry]], on the [[public]] works where the temporarily unemployed are [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorb absorbed], or else in the corps of [[compulsory]] laborers in the mines.
72:5.9 These [[people]] are also beginning to foster a new [[form]] of [[social]] [[disgust]]—disgust for both idleness and unearned [[wealth]]. Slowly but certainly they are conquering their [[machines]]. Once they, too, struggled for [[political]] [[liberty]] and subsequently for [[economic]] [[freedom]]. Now are they entering upon the [[enjoyment]] of both while in addition they are beginning to [[appreciate]] their well-earned [[leisure]], which can be [[devoted]] to increased [[self-realization]].
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Paper_72 Go to Paper 72]</center>
<center>[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_Urantia_Text_-_Contents Go to Table of Contents]</center>
[[Category:Paper 72 - Government on a Neighboring Planet]]
