Chapter 7: The Trade Game and the Money Game

   In life, there are needs.  Not everyone has what they need.  So we play a game to acquire what we need in a fair manner.  One game, the trade game, says that goods and services can be traded for an equal amount of goods and services.
   There are a couple problems with the trade game, however, that can be cured by the money game.  The money game is partly the trade game where goods and services are exchanged for money, an amount of universally-accepted worth, and partly extends to provide incentive to accomplish the public needs people have.  In the money game, you can obtain any good or service you desire (and from any person) as long as you have enough money to match the worth of the goods and/or services provided.
   Money, as it would be agreed upon within the Money Game Covenant, should be made and regulated by the government to ensure the people in the game can meet its objective.

Formal Derivation:

7.0 - Society needs to run.  People need to be able to obtain their needs whether public or personal.  We also need people to offer their services to provide these needs.  In the big picture, if each person offers services they specialize in to others, all of a persons necessary tasks would be performed with greater efficiency.  So there must be a way to ensure that if people offer their services, they can attain all that they need.  So, we have the wonderful creation of money.

7.1 - The Trade Game:  It would be just for the goods and services of one person to be exchanged for an equal proportion of goods and services of another person, assuming both parties agree with the transaction.
   7.1.1.  Suppose a person has a need for a personal or public good or service.
      7.1.1.1.  This is the objective

   7.1.2.  Attached to a person or a business are the items they possess and services they provide.
      7.1.2.1.  This is the obstacle in the way of accomplishing our objective.

7.1.3.  By Karma (the principle of fairness), to receive, one would have to give in equal proportion.

7.1.4.  If you wish to receive goods or services from another person, you can justly do so by offering an equal amount of goods and services of their own - presuming, obviously, that the other person is in agreement with relinquishing their goods or services for yours.
      7.1.4.1.  This is the procedure defined by the trade game.

7.2 - Problems with the Trade Game:  a) It's possible that the person possessing the good or able to provide the service you desire wants no good or service you possess or can do, b) the value of the goods or services one wishes to trade with another may not be worth the same as what the other wishes to trade, and c) there is no incentive for workers to supply free public services.

7.3 - Definition of Money:  a universally accepted measurable amount of worth.  Money offers the assurance that if you have enough to match the worth of something or some service, you can have that thing or service.  It also provides a motive to do work.
   7.3.1.  Money is universally accepted for whatever is for sale.
   7.3.2.  You can attain whatever you want (as long as it's for sale) by exchanging the accepted amount of money.
   7.3.3.  Since money is the tool used to supply for one's needs, a person would be willing to contribute to society for a sufficient amount of it.

7.4 - The Money Game has the same objective as the the trade game - to attain public and personal needs.

7.5 - Money is to be appropriated to persons a) when they offer their specialties b) so that they can be assured, in return, that their needs are met.

7.5.1.  Since there is a person behind every need provided, we need the people to work.

7.5.2.  Since people need money to live and we need people to work, we give people money for the work they do so they can provide for themselves.
   7.5.3.  People can offer the goods and services in which they specialize (not needing to worry about providing anything else) in exchange for enough money to supply their needs.

7.6 - The minimum amount a person can earn for the amount of work needed by society should be based on a budget that accounts for needs and a reasonable amount of desires.

   7.6.1.  A person has needs.  And each person should be able to have extra - for things they desire (if possible).

   7.6.2.  Everything has a price.

   7.6.3.  A person should make enough to cover the price of what they want and need.

   7.6.4.  A budget based upon what people need and desire should be used to determine minimum wage.

   7.6.5.  Higher paid jobs should be adjusted according to minimum wage by using a multiplier or by adding value, which ever makes more sense.

7.7 - Since we make a covenant to use money, it must be made and regulated by the government so as to assure the objective of the game is met.  And since the government makes the money, they must also use money to provide public needs (unless there is an amount considered more than enough, possessed by another person or business - as this would go against the objective of the game).
   7.7.1.  Not only do personal needs need to be provided, there are public needs.
   7.7.2.  If a calculated amount of money is determined to provide only for a person's personal needs, it does not factor in the public needs of society.
   7.7.3.  Unless a person is making "more than enough," they should not have to provide for public needs.  The government should provide those needs.