Our Fiduciary Responsibility

250 years ago, our great explosion of growth and innovation began, with dramatic increases in human knowledge, leisure, and longevity. Extraordinary!  And yet, you would think that by now, after more than two centuries of development, at the top of every hierarchy of power and filtering all the way down, we would find the very best of humanity, our wisdom and compassion.

But instead, most of us would be hard-pressed to name even a single such hierarchy permeated by the best of humanity. It’s time we did, by a simple legislative tweak to the organization of every institution, whether corporate, governmental, or non-profit, requiring them all to place first in their responsibility a fiduciary obligation to all we hold dear, so that their first impulse is always to act humanely, and so our first and everlasting experience of them is one of trust.

We must make certain that every institution, every hierarchy of power in civilization is dedicated to human flourishing and freedom. With a simple piece of legislation (and a good deal of hard work) we can end war, corruption, autocracy, distrust, prejudice, gross inequality, famine, racism, propaganda and false news, and Earth dangers fostered by humanity.

Supporting humanity in this way must be a requirement for any institution to exist, the ticket to becoming a corporation, a government or a non-profit and to maintaining that status.