The following are the categories of policies of highly effective governments.
- Clean Water
- inexpensive or free
- economical and wise use of water
- Healthy Foods
- Access to sufficient calories, fruits and vegetables
- Move away meat diets
- Unbiased information on health and diets
- Food safety and testing regulations
- Affordable Shelter
- Subsidized housing
- Regulations, building codes and inspections
- Cooling
- Heating
- Mortgage support for increased ownership
- Rent controls
- Security and Safety
- Fire and police services
- Military under the control of elected officials
- Save infrastructure, including all private buildings
- Crime reduction, incl. organized crime
- Eliminate authoritarian regimes
- Reduce corruption in governments and businesses
- Workplace safety regulations
- Controls to ensure safety
- Road and pedestrian safety
- Nationalized Health Care
- medical (incl. physio, etc)
- drugs, with some caps?
- price controls
- care for the infirm (mental illness and psychology support, elderly, disabled, addiction, disfigured)
- dental
- eyes, hearing
- home medical equipment (dialysis, CPAP)
- child care
- Quality of Life
- Wealth distribution – equitable share of resources, water, minerals, forests, land, amenities (lakes, resorts, etc.), income equality
- .. wealth needs to be distributed unless one supports effective effective and large increases to wage labour to sufficient extent to decrease wealth inequality, businesses have no incentive to pay people a fair wage; they must be forced by a union, laws, or a lack of applicants. Business can impact the labour market to keep a surplus of people through immigration, moving employment to a more economically depressed area to put downward pressure on wages
- equitable access to information
- public records of wealth, ownership, income
- education
- public transport (free in some cases?) (and other public infrastructure)
- universal basic income? – does this makes sense? Or guaranteed access to work? Income supplement
- reduction of use of negative substances (drugs, tobacco, alcohol)
- cooperative approach to production (efficiency)
- a system of constant measurement
- limits on child labour or forced labour
- Wealth distribution – equitable share of resources, water, minerals, forests, land, amenities (lakes, resorts, etc.), income equality
- Equality
- Equal rights
- Equitable share of resources between countries, races, classes – not just to be fair but to effectively and affordably provide these benefits to all
- minimum wages
- taxes to redistribute income (or other effective methods, such as higher wages)
- Equality vs Freedom
- Equality of opportunity vs equality of outcome
- Institutes dedicated to reduce wealth inequality (so will also have to measure it)
- Institutes to measure world poverty…and other indices
- Laws against discrimination (e.g. not hiring solely based on race or gender)
- Sustainable Solutions
- Controlled use of all renewable resources (fish, wood, etc)
- Convincing others, political support
- dealing with climate change impacts on all of the above
- recycling
- plastics (consumer, industrial, fishing)
- wood/paper
- metals
- clean energy use (wind, solar, water)
- toxic wastes and portions of products
- no toxic wastes in food products, supplements or other products
- reduction of use
- safe disposal
- industrial wastes and pollutants in the environment (need to be reduced and eliminated)
- Maintain forests and biodiversity
- Enforcement and Monitoring
- Escalation and penalties, bother internal and internationally
- monitoring of food
- monitoring of additives and supplements (which we do not do now)
- monitoring of all chemicals environment
- monitoring for corruption
- monitoring for safety
- monitoring for quality and good practices (e.g. bldg. quality)
- Trade, Finance and Law
- A single a currency/credit system with records of all ownership of all property, balances, personal holdings
- will always need a credit system, as people will want choice of how to spend their credits…a computer, a trip, bigger housing, etc.
- perhaps in an ideal future, perhaps private property ownership can be eliminated, except for personal items, but this would be very hard
- or property has which is more collectively managed
- or laws on ownership to prevent control of citizens
- state vs. corporate vs. personal ownership
- local vs. federal management and control – what works best
- financial laws: investments, loans (incl. mortgages)
- criminal law
- taxes
- trade policies to balance change, and support new economies, like not overrunning and destroying emerging local industries
- elimination of monopolies or state controlled infrastructures/services
- monetary policy
- A single a currency/credit system with records of all ownership of all property, balances, personal holdings
- Democracy and Political Safeguards
- limits or elimination on high contributions
- elimination of legal corruption
- no bribery or conflicts of interest
- Foreign Relations and Support