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   PROUT Gems   
      
   There is a dire need for sound principles on wealth distribution,   
   allocation and accumulation.  The capitalist model is falling apart with   
   poor countries tied up in useless debt to rich countries, wealthy   
   individual accumulators hoarding excess wealth while indigenous   
   communities have not even got the minimum necessities.  And many other   
   examples.  It is time to realise that all these represent gross   
   inefficiencies in the capitalist system.  It is by no means an efficient   
   or equitable or fair system.  Rather it is a complete abuse.  Still many   
   corporations also benefit from handouts by way of the corporate dole.   
   Again a sign of being unable to establish anything viable without   
   government assistance and the falsity of free enterprise.   
      
   Sound principles are urgently needed on which to build proper policy   
   objecives.   
      
   1. Everyone must be guaranteed the minimum requirements of life.   
   2. As the income of people increases, their minimum requirements   
   should also increase.   
   3. To bridge the gap between the more affluent people and the   
   common people, it is necessary to increase the minimum requirements of   
   all.   
   4. Special amenities should be provided so that the diversity in   
   skill and intelligence is fully utilized, and talent is encouraged to   
   contribute its best towards human development.   
   5. Maximum amenities should be provided to especially qualified or   
   gifted persons to enable them to render greater service to society   
   according to the social value of their production.   
   6. The provision of these maximum amenities should not go against   
   the common interest.   
   7. It is also necesary increase the maximum amenities available to   
   the common people over and above their minimum necessities.   
   8. There will still be a gap between the maximum amenities of the   
   common people and the maximum amenities of the especially qualified   
   persons, but there should be constant efforts to reduce this gap.   
   9. If the maximum amenities for talented people becomes too high,   
   then the minimum requirements of the common people should be immediately   
   increased.   
   10. What constitutes both the minimum requirements and the maximum   
   amenities should be ever increasing.   
      
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   Minimum Essentialities of Life   
      
   The availability of the minimum essentialities of life plays a vital   
   part not only in achieving world fraternity, but also in the development   
   of human personality. This should be tackled on a world footing, and   
   should be based on certain fundamental presumptions. Every human being   
   has certain minimum requirements which he or she must be guaranteed.   
   Guaranteed availability of foodstuff, clothing, medical assistance and   
   housing accommodation should be arranged so that human beings may be   
   able to utilize their surplus energy (energy up till now engaged in   
   procuring the essentialities of life) in subtler pursuits. Side by side,   
   there should be sufficient scope for providing other amenities of the   
   progressive age. To fulfil the above responsibilities, enough purchasing   
   capacity should be created.   
      
   If the supply of requirements be guaranteed without any conditions of   
   personal skill and labour, the individual may develop the psychology of   
   idleness. The minimum requirements of every person are the same, but   
   diversity is also the nature of creation. Special amenities should,   
   therefore, be provided so that the diversity in skill and intelligence   
   is fully utilized, and talent is encouraged to contribute its best   
   towards human development. It will, therefore, be necessary to make   
   provision for special emoluments which can cater for special amenities   
   of life according to the age and time. But at the same time, there   
   should be a constant effort to reduce the gap between the amount of   
   special emoluments and the bare minimum requirements of the average   
   individual. The guaranteed supply of minimum requirements must be   
   liberalized by increasing the provision of special amenities pertaining   
   to the age and also, simultaneously, by bringing about a decrease in the   
   provision of special emoluments given to the few. This never-ending   
   effort of proper economic adjustment must ceaselessly continue at all   
   times with a view to assisting the spiritual, mental and physical   
   evolution of human beings, and to let humanity develop a Cosmic   
   sentiment for a Cosmic ideal and world fraternity.   
      
   In this socio-economic set-up people are at full liberty in the   
   spiritual and mental spheres. This is possible because the spiritual and   
   psychic potentialities for which people can aspire are themselves   
   unlimited, and the extent of possession in this sphere does not hamper   
   the progress of others in their quests. But the supply in the physical   
   sphere is limited, and hence any effort for disproportionate or   
   unrestricted acquisition of physical objects has every possibility of   
   creating a vast majority of have-not's, and thus hampering the   
   spiritual, mental and physical growth of the larger majority. So, while   
   dealing with the problem of individual liberty, it must be kept in view   
   that individual liberty in the physical sphere must not be allowed to   
   cross a limit whereat it is instrumental in hampering the development of   
   the complete personality of human beings; and, at the same time, must   
   not be so drastically curtailed that the spiritual, mental and physical   
   growths of human beings are hampered.   
      
   Thus, the correct social philosophy advocates the development of the   
   integrated personality of the individual, and also the establishment of   
   world fraternity, inculcating in human psychology a Cosmic sentiment.   
   The path advocates progressive utilization of mundane and supramundane   
   factors of the Cosmos. The society needs a stir for life, vigour and   
   progress, and for this it is essential to advocate the Progressive   
   Utilization Theory (Prout), meaning thereby progressive utilization of   
   all factors. Those who support this principle may be termed "Proutists".   
      
      
   - P R Sarkar   
   5 June 1959   
      
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   Minimum Requirements and Maximum Amenities   
      
   There are many attractions in society, and it is the nature of human   
   beings to run after these attractions.  Communism exploited this human   
   tendency by promising to give equal wealth to all. But the mundane   
   resources in the world are limited, so is it possible to provide equal   
   wealth to all?  No, and the attempt to do so is nothing but a dazzling   
   ostentation. Now communism has met its end. Communism was nothing but a   
   bogus "ism" - a mere ostentation of verbose language and nothing else.   
      
   Rather than trying to give equal wealth to all, the proper approach is   
   to ensure that everyone is guaranteed the minimum requirements of life.   
   As the income of some people increases, the radius of their minimum   
      
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