110. All private assets will gradually become the property of the World State as development progresses, so finally there will only remain
on Earth but one single property owner or capitalist, namely, united terrestrial humanity.
Originally humanity was presented with the world as a gift in order to
"bring it into subjection".
But when people first received this
"gift" they were at the animal kingdom stage, and consequently they received the world - as is obvious from the above - like
"animals".
That is to say, the strongest and most cunning individuals took possession not only of their rightful share of the "gift" but also a large portion of
those parts which rightfully belonged to other individuals - individuals who were inferior in strength and in greed.
So terrestrial humanity appropriated the world in the same way as beasts of prey seize a chunk of meat.
The strongest animals will take all of it, utterly indifferent as to whether their less powerful fellows thereby starve to death.
Since terrestrial humanity has not come to an end of receiving the gift of the world in this manner - existing in our day as
the struggle for valuable goods, which again results in
private property, capital and wealth for some people, and poverty, need and misery for others - then we have here a proof that terrestrial humanity is still within the territory of the animal kingdom and has not yet succeeded in bringing the world into subjection.
It has not mastered the skill of sharing; it has not yet been able to guarantee or organize that every single individual receives his rightful inherited share of the divine gift.
Therefore, when all private possessions or valuable goods in the world change over to become World State property, it will simply mean that this sharing has now become part of the culture.
As the world, then, is
a "gift" for the whole of mankind, naturally this does not mean that some private individual persons have been presented exclusively with the coal mines, others with the oil wells and others again with the gold and diamond mines or other mineral deposits as their "private property" and therefore can have the right to make themselves
"business kings" or "magnates" in these fields and so monopolize them, thus hindering the rest of mankind's access to the necessities of life in question.
However, as the latter are nevertheless still being appropriated by such
"stock exchange magnates" who are only interested in keeping a rate of exchange or price quotation continually rising and falling exactly in accordance with the very highest price the community can be compelled to pay, then here we see once more that
"might" is not united with "right".
"Might" and not "right" decides the price of the necessities of life.
That there were people who had the initiative to set up mining industries and manufacturing concerns is actually a divine fact and
disharmony only appears when the people in question at the same time stage "masked robbery", or begin to lay their hands on "profit" in the form of valuable goods for which they do not contribute anything in return.
As the world's mineral deposits have come into existence without the cost of a single penny, or a single drop of sweat from terrestrial humanity, it has been given these commodities in the same way as it has been given the air it breathes.
Therefore no terrestrial persons will have the smallest cosmic right to take payments for minerals or other materials, for if they did so, they would be receiving valuable goods for which they had not given anything in exchange.
Only when they have processed the material in such a way that it has become an asset to terrestrial humanity can payment be due to them.
Such payment cannot be a payment for the material itself, but on the contrary, only payment for the work necessary for rendering that material useful.
Thus, this work will obviously become the only real value with which terrestrial mankind should pay for the necessities of life.
But, as mentioned above, because no terrestrial person has done any work for the existence of material substances on Earth,
and those material substances are really the property of all terrestrial people, then they cannot be used as justifiable payment for any work done.
Work can only be paid with work.
The only genuine method of payment in the world, therefore, is solely a person's useful work or creative product.
Thus every normal terrestrial person who comes into the world has a natural, innate faculty for payment.
In the World State, this inborn faculty for payment will come into its own properly and will be protected by law, and as explained later any possibility of misuse or exploitation will be entirely ruled out.
In the World State, an individual's own personal and useful work effort will then be the sole existing method of payment.
Indeed, as the World State gains possession of the valuable goods, money will gradually disappear from the face of the Earth.