The Counting Class can take
the future from young Americans. They hoard extreme money that is impossible to match. Old Counts break the promise of the American Dream for young Americans.
And this violates
fundamental
American values.
America is home to young dreams, young hope, and young ambition. We expect to leave young Americans with a stronger country and equal opportunities to pursue the American Dream.
Extreme money can turn any regular problem in America into an extreme threat. Elite, entitled Counts endanger America by wielding extreme E8, E9, E10, E11 Money Counts to:
- Keep extreme money power for the old. Counts use their lifespans to increase their power. The older they get, the more times they can double their Money Counts. Young Americans are powerless to catch up.
- Leave young Americans shut out of Free Income. The children of Counts can start collecting Free Income as soon as they are born. So $10 million at birth can turn automatically to $100 million by age 25. Unlike Counts, young Americans in the Contributing Classes work to save any money, and start out with debt and bills to pay.
- Make “getting rich” a bad joke. Counts lecture young Americans about how to “get rich”: work hard, cut spending, invest savings. But this lecture is just a bad joke. An E11-rank Count knows he takes $1 million in Free Income every hour—24/365—for no work at all.
- Take away the ladders of equal opportunity. When Counts collect America’s Public Gains, they throttle Public Investment at the American standard of equal opportunity. Young Americans can’t count on affordable homes, schools, child care, or even jobs safe from AI.
- Leave America in debt. Old Counts take advantage of America’s national debt to collect even larger Money Counts for themselves. But they refuse to pay back their debts to American society, leaving young Americans to repay tens of trillions of dollars of national debt.
- Leave America damaged. Old Counts have withdrawn from America, protected from the consequences of what they’ve done. They have abused America’s land, water, and air, leaving young Americans to pay for the damage. Young Americans have to clean up after old Counts.
On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Big Woods Declaration (BWD) renews the call for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, free from the corruption of extreme money.
The BWD is a First Amendment petition to the American people and our government. It is not limited to any political party or group.
The BWD is a total of 60 pages: the Core Declaration (4 pages), the 13 Notes, the 27 Dangers to America, and the 16 Solutions for America.
The BWD may be shared and reused under the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. View a copy of this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
The BWD was created without the use of any AI, opinion polling, or focus groups. The BWD draws on many core American ideas as well as the work of Thorstein Veblen, America’s visionary from the Big Woods of Minnesota.
All photos in the BWD were taken in the Big Woods. The BWD was framed by Erik Christopher Sahlin with Alyssa Beth Wulf.
