If there are already five different Currencies pegged to the Work-Standard, certain accommodations may have to be made for Customs Unions, Political Unions, Economic and Monetary Unions. Anything short of literal annexation through economic means is acceptable and shall be left to the discretions of the involved States. States A, B, C, D and E could be scattered around the world or geographical neighbors situated on the same continent. Their Heads of State may even decide for themselves that their Totalities are best-served in a “Customs Union.”
The goal of a Customs Union is to enhance the Quality of Arbeit and the Quality of Geld for both exporters and importers, thereby achieving the Balances of Trades and Payments at the same time. For Quality of Arbeit, a Custom Union affects the Mechanization Rate and the Force Multipliers in the contributions of Arbeit by allowing preferential prices for automated machinery and computer software as well as easier ways for scientists, engineers, programmers, scholars and artists to work together. If they and countless other professions are working together, and provided their States are able to maintain the Balances of Trades and Payments, we can expect enhancements to the Quality of Geld’s Economic Socialization and Solidarity Rate. The effects of a Solidarity Preference can then be minimized, allowing for better coordination between different Enterprises and economic planners, accountants, inspectors, bureaucrats, administrators and civil servants.
A Customs Union has the potential for Prices of goods and services among its member-states to be favorable to exports and imports. They can also form the nucleus around a military alliance that can forge a Political Union. Here, the Heads of State from States A, B, C, D and E to lead the Political Union. They are the ones who will work together to coordinate the affairs of their Political Union while also respecting the national sovereignties of their States. The potential is there for a political-economic-military bloc going above and beyond whatever the CMEA/Warsaw Pact member-states were capable of achieving thanks to the Work-Standard.
If those Heads of State are ambitious enough, they can finally lay the groundwork for a world order without Liberal Capitalism. An Economic Union is formed if they are able to invite other Socialist nations to adopt a different form of Total Mobilization, introduce them to MTEP, State Commissariats, Kontore, the VCS Economy and its five different Enterprises, and the SSE. It would be best that the Economic Union is formed once there are anywhere between ten and thirty member-states. Once the Work-Standard has achieved at least thirty to sixty member-states, those same five States will be in the position to establish a Monetary Union. An entirely different world order in opposition to the Liberal Capitalists’ Liberal International Economic Order (LIEO) is now within reach, with Socialism on the rise outside of this world order.
The Monetary Union of States A through E will be where the Work-Standard, MTEP, VCS Economy and the SSE, the Kontore and State Commissariats, Reciprocal-Reserve Banking System, and so on will be present among a sizeable portion of the world. That is their chance to lay the groundwork for the proposed introduction of a different World Reserve Currency pegged to States A through E’s Currencies. By this point, States A through E are already economic powers and may even be among the ten largest economies on Earth. We will explore the details of this proposed World Reserve Currency in the next two SMP Compendium Entries.
On the Propagation of Information
Furthermore, advertising is like political propaganda when done incorrectly under the Work-Standard. The Liberal Capitalist way of creating an advertisement is to inform its observers about the existence of a product as a Commodity and persuade the observer on why they ought to buy it with Kapital. This sort of advertising is limited in Socialisms whose Currencies are unpegged to the Work-Standard, while the Socialisms with Currencies pegged to the Work-Standard having ‘banned’ such propaganda in favor of its own conception of advertising. The Liberal Capitalists question the latter decision by insisting on how people will learn about the existences of certain products if their propaganda does not exist. Where there is a Liberal Capitalist way to advertise propaganda for the Economic Calculation Problem, there is a Socialistic way to propagate advertisements for the Political Organization Problem.
When an American observes a McDonald’s advertisement, what are they expecting? They anticipate either a new food item for sale at a listed Price, a promotional deal for an existing one at a Comparative Advantage (Read: Dollar Menu), a limited-time event (Read: McDonald’s Monopoly) or a limited-time item as part of promoting media like a movie or a TV show (Read: a Szechuan sauce item for a Happy Meal in the late 1990s and again in the late 2010s to promote a TV show). When the advertisers miscommunicated the Intents of Arbeit by focusing on the Incentives of Kapital, McDonald’s had to give away millions of free Big Macs, French fries and Cokes as part of the 1984 Olympics.
Therein lies the key distinctions between Liberal Capitalist advertising and Socialist advertising: if our investors from one of the Kontore are deciding to open a McDonald’s franchise, a distinct methodology of advertising will become feasible with the Transvaluation of all Arbeit and the Equipmentality concept from Martin Heidegger’s philosophy in Being and Time. In essence, Repurpose the advertisement and franchise according to their Reference and Relevance to the Socialist Nation vis-à-vis the Work-Standard. There are several ways this can play out and each one has had an historical precedent in the international conduct of McDonald’s.
Reference: McDonald’s Corporation is an American fast food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers, a Prussian-American food derived from the Frikadelle of the German-speaking world. Their “Fillet O’Fish” is a work of art from a Prussian-like challenge to determine whether American Roman Catholics would prefer it over its competition, the “Hula Burger.” International operations by the McDonald’s Corporation have had a long history of allowing the franchises of different countries to develop localized variations of their food items as a “Solidarity Preference” (like how the McRib pork sandwich is never eaten among Muslims for religious reasons or how the food items with beef are never eaten among Hindus as it is illegal in India for religious reasons). Examples include the “Big N’ Tasty” among the branches of the EU/NATO member-states and the “Kiwiburger” among the branches of New Zealand. Additionally, there are certain countries where food delivery is the preferred method over drive-through.
Relevance: There may be contexts where people may not have enough time to prepare their own meals before heading to the workspace. Some of us do not have any patience to be waiting in line at the cafeteria and others may have to work late at night when most of the local restaurants could be closed. There are also countries where a McDonald’s restaurant may feature a drive-through or food delivery options. Also, there can be a special downloadable app on the smartphone where “Work-Plans” are placed ahead of time and arrangements made for pickups or deliveries.
Repurpose: A creatively Socialistic advertisement features somebody interested in a place to eat for breakfast, lunch or dinner. They are pressed for time, are confident enough to avoid being like Morgan Spurlock in Super Size Me and would like their meals to be prepared ahead of time. He invests his Geld into a Work-Plan on a specific date, paying for both the food and the Service Fee from his local Kontor’s Office II, and sends it to a location of his choosing. That McDonald’s branch receives its Work-Plan and somebody will be there to ensure he picks up the breakfast on the way to the workspace, during his lunchbreak, and when he returns home. Any McDonald’s advertisement shown in the Socialist Nation shall not be about any particular product or even the promotion of any form of media. Instead, focus more on the Quality of Arbeit itself and the Kontor floor traders and day traders at the restaurants themselves.
If the McDonald’s Corporation decides to establish a presence within the nation, ensure that they are coexisting in the State of Total Mobilization of Production for Dasein. If the Central Bank decides to raise the Mechanization Rate to offset any signs of Currency Depreciation, expect some or all local McDonald’s locations to begin employing aspects of automation technologies. The McDonald’s Corporation already has the technologies, expertise, experience, and logistics for local branches to facilitate it. What they are missing are the Work-Standard and its Mission-Type Economic Planning, the Intents of Command and Obedience, and a coordinated codetermination of economic, financial, political and legal powers in a Schwerpunkt (Focal Point) by the State, the VCS Economy, Kontore and State Commissariats. The Totality keeps the Arbeit–the most valuable in any Real Trade Agreement because Offices I, II, III and VII shall oversee its whole area of operations, Office IV ensuring that a portion of the Geld goes straight to the McDonald’s Corporation vis-à-vis one of our NSBs (National-Socialized Banks). The local branches are organized as POEs (Public-Owned Enterprises) under the direct command of an NSE (National-Socialized Enterprises) accepting Arbeit and Geld from potential investors at the Kontore.
Remember, the extent to which the McDonald’s Corporation has any presence in the Socialist Nation rests squarely on the State. The State itself will always be the final authority in deciding whether or not the McDonald’s Corporation is allowed to operate as part of a Real Trade Agreement with these United States. Meanwhile, the Totality must continue to remain faithful to who they are, always striving to uphold their higher sense of Authentic Dasein. It is important to be aware of this consideration because the number of McDonald’s locations throughout the Socialist Nation will not be as many as a United States under Hamiltonian Federalist Socialism with its US Dollar pegged to the Work-Standard. And when Hamiltonian Federalist Socialism is governing the US, all of the basic elements of Real Trade are still applicable in the emerging Socialist world order without Liberal Capitalism.
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