A few Entries in Section Seven of The Work-Standard (3rd Ed.) retained a notable topic originally introduced in the First Edition and kept in the Second Edition. I am of course referring to the concept of “Financial Warfare,” the idea that the Work-Standard could be deployed for wartime purposes. Two years ago, I grew convinced that the Work-Standard is capable of having military-industrial capabilities that would enable it to be used against any nation not relying on Sociable Currencies. Nations would become drawn to the newfound sources of wealth and prosperity attained by a nation’s Sociable Currency, encouraging them to restructure their political-economic and socio-cultural structures as part of implementing their own Sociable Currency.

To account for the possibility of an entire world order where hundreds of nations issue Sociable Currencies, I had to explore what the Work-Standard is capable of inflicting on opposing nations in a wartime scenario. I concluded that the Attrition/Inaction Rate as well as the Mechanization Rate would become two notable weaknesses that could be exploited by a hostile nation. Since Military Arbeit and Military Geld cannot be easily accounted for in wartime, I later deduced that they cannot be made applicable to the Attrition/Inaction Rate or the Mechanization Rate.

It was also during those months of late 2021 that I began touting the possibility of a proposed Treatise that would explore the concept of Financial Warfare further. That Treatise never got written last year or earlier this year. The Third Place, Work-Standard Accounting Practices and The Digital Realm were instead written, all three delving into other topics that were less theoretical and more concrete enough to be articulated.

After having completed the Third Edition of The Work-Standard, one might be inclined to assume that I might have plans to write a proposed Treatise on Financial Warfare. The Treatise would revolve around Military Arbeit and Military Geld, elaborating further on how the Military-Industrial Complex contributes to the Life-Energy Reserve. Unfortunately, I cannot see myself writing such a Treatise in the foreseeable future. Financial Warfare as a concept remains too theoretical for Military Science to seriously consider, a problem exacerbated by the following:

• There is no reliable alternative to the US Dollar. None of the other leading Fiat Currencies and Cryptocurrencies have any hopes of overcoming the US Dollar in a manner comparable to how the US Dollar usurped the hegemony of the British Pound Sterling during the first half of World War II.
• The response to the US Dollar’s hegemony so far has been to work with other state and non-state actors to devise alternatives to the US Dollar. But these efforts are too small to be make any significant difference.
• Existing Military Science literature on Financial Warfare tends to overlap with Cyberwarfare, a concept that I did in fact explore across certain Entries in The Digital Realm. In that Treatise, I argued that the current formation of the Digital Realm, the WWW, is too open and vast that no one nation could claim to defend it, which makes it very easy to launch cyberattacks against another nation without the retaliation escalating into a formal declaration of war.

I might reconsider the possibility if enough time has passed and there is enough literature for me to revisit the concept. Until then, those three Entries in Section Seven of The Work-Standard is all I have for Financial Warfare.

Categories: Financial Warfare

Tags: Economics, Finance, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Socialist Finance, Third Place, Work-Standard