Appendix I: A Practical Approach for Developing Poor Nations and Regions

Lets us design an emerging nation development plan utilizing cheap broadly-available resources. Europe has cheap, fireproof, rammed-earth homes over 300 years old. Most regions have massive numbers of unemployed labor and can, working as a modern commons, build high-quality, rammed-earth homes with fired (ceramic) interiors cheaply. (Some regions will use other building materials [stone, straw bale, wood, et al. (run a Google/Nexus-Lexus Internet search).

A university would bring in experts to train the first homebuilders. These newly-trained experts would train others on the job. The experts would be paid but the worker's pay would be their training as master homebuilders. Assuming five workers to a crew, every three houses built would train five more experts, expanding the homebuilding project exponentially. Industries would be built to produce the doors, windows, plumbing, carpets, roofs, ceilings, and furniture and those industries would expand exponentially along with the home building.

Though these homes will be built cheaply they have full use-value. As the project matured labor building some of those homes would be paid. In other homes the master builder would be paid to train more volunteer workers. These newly-trained volunteers can build more homes utilizing more volunteers. They would build homes for themselves, family, and friends. Thus they are paid indirectly but are well-paid.

As real value is being produced, money can be created by that nation or region up to the value of those homes, businesses and inventory. This provides the money to build the industries, regional businesses, and inventory necessary to service that developing community.

Simultaneous with building homes a country or region must develop a prosperous agriculture. Farms, equipment, and the food produced have value and, as it is locally produced, money can be created for that development. All resources should be processed into high value-added products both for regional consumption and export. As economic activity increases and community values rise, buying power increases to purchase that production.

So long as countries or regions are utilizing local resources, money can be created to build industries and infrastructure. This would include building their own TV and computer industries and providing a free education via satellite. A development region can be expanded to include an oil-producing region.

But soon that country or region will need technology and industries that are firmly under the control of the imperial centers. It is at this point that regions must ally together to negotiate equally with the imperial centers to trade access to resources for access to technology. To not ally together would be to see the wealth created transferred to those imperial centers via unequal pay for equally-productive labor, resources purchased below full value, and the resulting inevitable debt traps.