However there is another way of looking at-Great Britain Limited, and that is one of total capitulation to wealth creation, the inability to see beyond money and what it can do.
We can take the view that the government because of a totally free market is unable to bring to bear any management qualities upon the way that the country is headed; it is all very well to maybe adjust money supply or interest rates, impose taxes and even sanctions, but the government can never adjust the thrust for wealth toward the future.
In essence the economy-which is the main vehicle for a notion of Great Britain is like a very unsophisticated car, a car with no gearbox, i.e. in order to make it go faster you simply pour in more resources, and out of the other end comes profit and revenue for the government to spend.
Because of the level of foreign investment/export potential/import requirements, the British economy is subject to having its monetary unit, i.e. the pound, subject to international pressure, therefore economic movements within the UK create or relieve pressure on the pound as an international currency, which means that we cannot isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. When we consider the economy we in fact have become a subsidiary of a holding company - totally unable to isolate our affairs; therefore the concept of Great Britain plc is a nonsense. We have become a puppet on a string of which Germany, US and Japan are major string pullers.
To think of the country as a limited company brings with it the idea that if it is a company, what is it made up of? It becomes easy to point the finger at the government and say "You must be the Board of Directors and preside over the company ability to make wealth and determine how that wealth should be appropriated" - whether on expenditure or capital. As indicated above, Great Britain's economy is not totally free and an international puppet, consequently the Board's actual effect on wealth making is negligible; it is simply going for the best deal it can get - on a wing and a prayer.
If we are to consider Great Britain Limited as a sensible view of ourselves, we have to consider what are the assets and the only assets are people as current assets and land and property as fixed assets.
However the reality in Great Britain Limited is that people are considered a source of expenditure and revenue, i.e. they are simply a business energy and all the relevant assets are held in business in order to generate wealth; i.e. there is no way that our Board of Directors is generating revenue in order to reappreciate the assets of people/land/ property.
As I said at the start of this book, human values are essentially intangible whilst company values are all tangible. Consequently, Great Britain Limited which is for the people who are the shareholders, in order to be a viable proposition has to find a way of converting the ‘wealth of tangibility into human intangible value.
If the only way of expressing value for the assets of Great Britain Limited is in tangible terms, then this must be done. Consequently what the government reaps from economic activity must all be turned into assets and asset appreciation for the benefit of the shareholders in Great Britain Limited.
What becomes clear is that the government should put more into the infrastructure of public capital wealth as dividend and profit for the country.
Earlier in the book I mentioned that there is need for a watershed of wealth back to source and the only way that this can be done is in putting wealth into capital that takes the pressure off the need to create wealth, and if Great Britain Limited were working properly this is what should be being done.
Instead of this, in Great Britain Limited we have large chunks of national capital wealth being stolen from the shareholders of Great Britain Limited, only to be sold back to them. Putting national wealth into the free economy makes it subject to market forces in order to create and sustain wealth, and drains the nation of wealth, ie the principles involved in selling national assets are the reverse principles of this book.
If the country does not have a capital based infrastructure not subject to market forces, the country has nothing.
What is missing in the developed world's economies which include Great Britain Limited, is the notion of returning wealth to source. This is because the economy is viewed as a straight line proposition and there is no consideration of a need for cycle.
If Great Britain Limited is going to be a proposition for its shareholders then it needs a gearbox built into the motorcar economy; what has to happen is the creation of a varied level of output according to input with more resultant wealth finding its way back to national benefits for people in terms of capital appreciating investment.
This country is the source of industrialisation, the locomotive, the petrol motorcar, etc., etc. What was and has been developed in Great Britain Limited personifies all that is wealth creation. But what have we got to show for it? Things that have been committed to the scrapheap long ago and some scattered wealth.
We should all have been millionaires, but we have long been committed to economics that required committing things to the scrapheap and simply recycling wealth within public companies in order to retain wealth within public companies.
As far as the current assets of Great Britain Limited are concerned, wealth within companies has not changed the social structure of the UK. There is still the homeless, the working class, the middle class and the higher class. However in business terms these are now depicted as income growers on a socio-economic scale, a posh phrase for class system.
This all begs the question what are we really doing? If we cannot rid ourselves of hopelessness, what kind of society are we? If we rely heavily on charity to support ventures of social worth - what kind of society are we? If workers, the backbone of commerce and industry, still have to struggle to make ends meet - what kind of society are we?
The truth is that the apparent wealth of Great Britain Limited has never found its way into the pocket of the vast majority of people. Therefore it never really gets used for social benefit.
All the above just points to the view that Great Britain Limited is just capitulation to an economic vehicle that is out of control, and such is the degree of its run-away nature that no government can or maybe even wants or knows how to control it.
The main notion has got to be that economy exists for the benefit of society rather than society existing simply to maintain an economy.
