- People have to take care of themselves. Capitalism is the current method to entice work out of people in exchange for their survival, through purchasing the things they want and the things they need. The National Public Bank helps keep government’s promise to secure our unalienable rights – our human needs – by making them affordable within Capitalism’s minimum wage cap. In this way, Capitalism can continue to operate at a profit, by paying people as little as possible, while making sure people can afford to live off this minimum wage without government either over-taxing them or having to go into debt, or both.
- Bottom line: the arc of people’s lives, from birth to death, requires specific and essential services that Capitalism is not obligated to provide. These things have fallen to government, who has so far resorted to traditional methods of taxation that have proven ineffective, inefficient, and financially unaffordable (see current National Debt). The National Public Bank is the least invasive way to secure all these specific and essential human survival needs without altering the overall system we have in place. It is empowering because it decisively announces to people that A) they must take care of themselves, and B) government is going to provide them with the means to do so.
