Paper 72 - Goverment on a Neighboring Planet - Part 4

This Saturday, we continue our exploration of a continental nation on a "not far-distant planet" in our local system of inhabited worlds. Last week, in Part 3 of our study, we again marveled at this extraordinary and unusual presentation in the Urantia Revelation, being eager to explore the nuances, similarities and differences between this sister sphere. We recapped their educational system and then dove into their Industrial Organization. This section is beyond amazing! For instance, consider these tidbits from Section 5, concerning how industry is managed on this cosmic neighbor of ours: 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. 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. 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 absorbed, or else in the corps of compulsory laborers in the mines. Well, needless to say, the discussion was bold and lively. Please join this week for Government on a Neighboring Planet.