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8. Decent Work and Economic Growth

Copy, paste to each goal, and fill out. Make a new one for each country:

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Current Knowledge (& sources):

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Systems & Archetypes

Current numbers

Current buffers

Current stock-and-flow structures

Current delays

Current information flows

Current feedback loops

Current system traps

Current rules

Current goals

Current paradigms

Vocabulary (not already covered)

Concepts (not already covered)


Potential Organizations (These are people that could collaborate in the future after vetting)

Potential Source Outlets (Organizations that regularly make or show content on a specific issue)

Resources (things anyone can access, no requirements)


Potential Solutions Labels (add type of solution in front, ex. Educational campaign for)

Individual-Level

Project-Level

Government-Level (This category includes massive projects)

To-Do List item (This is something to add to the list in the future)


Solutions, in order of importance:

Transcending Paradigms

Paradigms

Goals

Self organization

Rules

Information Flows

Reinforcing feedback loops

Balancing feedback loops

Delays

Stock-and-flow structures

Buffers

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Resources:

How to get people on your side:


SOURCE OUTLETS:

??? Can anyone confirm this one?: https://www.americanmanufacturing.org/




POTENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS:


How can these goals be completed in a way that ensures human rights and the end of exploitation from capitalism?


UBI will help prevent exploitation. People who support UBI say that if there are jobs people don’t want to do, the simple solution is to raise the wage. This does not work for a few different reasons:

-Raising wages needs to be its own protection. As we have seen from the Great Resignation, companies and politicians responded to people leaving the workforce by stripping child labor laws and increasing forced labor from incarcerated individuals.

-There are not enough people who are motivated by money to support the jobs that society needs to get done. For example:

  • There are jobs that no amount of money will motivate a person to take. Our current economic system is set up for shift work (minimum 4 hours) scheduled at highly specific times. Anything else is considered a shitty part time job, no matter what the salary is. Shitty part time jobs can be solved with mutual aid, but volunteer labor reduces in educated, left-leaning areas where religion disappears. The main reason our society is in such a bad place is because no one wants shitty part time jobs required for direct action and community organizing.

  • To put it bluntly, white culture is entitled and lazy. Everytime migrant workers are deported or exiled because of racism and fears that “they are stealing jobs” the economy implodes because lazy white people don’t want to work. A high salary can not beat entitlement, in the same way people would rather starve than eat food that is stigmatized due to it’s association with poverty or a culture they believe is inferior.


Important jobs need to have a well-compensated salary, and people must participate in a similar way to jury duty, except with a lot more disability accommodations, a lot less options to skip, and to fairly distribute work people would not be called randomly. Any job that can be completed by a disabled person must be given to a disabled person; the remaining jobs that require able-bodied labor go to people who are able-bodied. Jobs can be split- as an example, as a disabled person I could tie rebar from the comfort of my own home, and this would reduce the amount of rebar that must be tied at a construction site. If a person who is disabled finds a jury duty job that is a good fit for them, they would be given the priority to do that job to reduce the difficulty of transitions.


Overall, when we think about economics and work in this document, here’s what we want to think about:

Work:

  • Jury duty jobs

  • People leading their own work and projects

  • People bartering labor; they work on someone else’s project in exchange for others to work on their project

Profit:

  • Co-ops. Employee owned companies are highly profitable compared to other businesses.

  • Unrestricted, passion-based work. Profits are high because the quality of work is high and people are not restricted by corporate culture or controlling bosses.

  • Inclusive services and products. Profits are high because white colonialism is not interfering with the quality of work and inclusivity is in high-demand.

  • The above three points would initiate a Renaissance; which in of itself would be highly profitable







8.1

Sustain per capita economic growth in accordance with national circumstances and, in particular, at least 7 per cent gross domestic product growth per annum in the least developed countries


Current knowledge:


8.2

Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors



8.3 Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services


(US)Potential Solutions:

Government-Level: Remove barriers to starting a business. (Paperwork, taxes, and fees.) Have an MVP easy-file for adults that wish to take on large projects and are starting with an MVP. (Should only be used for projects where the goal is to become a large, established business. No cracking down on lemonade stands.)

Government-level: Provide lawyers, accountants, tax specialists, and related high-skills workers at no cost to qualifying new businesses. Qualifications could include: services available for the first 5 years to first and second time business owners, first time in over 10 years business owners, and all disabled business owners.

8.4

Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production, with developed countries taking the lead


Information Resource:

https://nbs.net/see-our-full-resource-library/?_business_focus=making-operations-more-sustainable


8.5 By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value


(US)Potential Solutions:

Government-Level: Use the Sustainable Development Corps Program and free or free voucher-that-isn’t-a-voucher-because-it’s-an-accessible-method-of-payment co-working-work-from-not-home offices for people who experience domestic violence.

Evaluate all businesses and organizations for ADA compliance, prioritizing by largest size.

Create a program to cover the costs for small-businesses to become ADA compliant.

Government-Level: Transition people into jobs that promote healthy economic growth and assist with the sustainable development goals by analyzing fields, industries, and specific jobs that are damaging to the economy.


Disability-Specific Accommodations:

Optimal location and spacing of things and places

Designated seating or placement in optimal locations

Planned adjustments for temporary and permanent changes, maintenance, and things/spaces in repair

Automated door openers, as well as automating things that require physical force (optimal placing can help with this as well)

Ramps for stairs, thresholds, curbs, and other barriers

Railings

Braille signs, appropriately placed

Using natural products instead of chemical products

Neutral smell

Reducing noise

Reducing glare

Neutral temperature, appropriate use of heating and air conditioning

Having alternative screen options for dark mode, night mode, and electronic ink display.

Bathroom Specific, all the above and:

Grab bars

Raised toilet seat


Informational and communicative:

Recorded audio

Note taking/handouts

Live captioning, especially for group calls

Live caption topic summaries

Live reminders and notifications (to call attention to specific topics, or a name being called)

Telepresence robots with virtual reality for the viewer

Keeping lights on, especially during presentations

Availability for in person written conversations, yes/no questions, and numbered responses

Availability through email, text, and video calls

Interpreters


Remote work

Flexible hours

Modified work

Availability to change hours to part time or full time

Frequent breaks

Extended time to complete tasks


Have a rule that people with contagious illness are not allowed to go inside. Paid sick leave.

If this is not avoided, have a rule that people with contagious illness must wear a mask and use hand sanitizer

Have hand sanitizer available for those who wish to use it


8.5

By 2030, achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value

8.6

By 2020, substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education or training

Term: Opportunity Youth


8.7 Take immediate and effective measures to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour, including recruitment and use of child soldiers, and by 2025 end child labour in all its forms


(US) Potential Solutions:

Government-Level: Ban the sale of products that are not fair-trade and/or don’t have at least one environmentally friendly aspect

Government-Level: Use immigration reform to end trafficking of immigrants


8.8

Protect labor rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment


Automate union rights by automatic creation of a union after X amount of workers exist

Paid sick days, period days, medical leave, family leave.

Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act

Public Service Freedom to Negotiate Act


8.9 By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products


(US) Potential Solutions:

Preserve local culture by having positions that are paid but non-specific; cultural leaders/developers/preservers do whatever matters to them because payment is based on income needs and not work output

Promote job postings and opportunities for collaborative jobs on culture. (Ex. Documentaries and storytelling told by communities)

Support the development of new forms of culture such as intentional community homeless programs for artists, musicians, writers, and performers


8.10 Strengthen the capacity of domestic financial institutions to encourage and expand access to banking, insurance and financial services for all


-connect with someone about bank idea


8.a

Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-Related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

8.b

By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization




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