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THREEFOLD SOCIETY Rudolf Steiner's vision for a healthy society is based on the recognition of three equally important, self administered spheres or sectors of social life - cultural, political/legal, and economic - with the following main features: Cultural Respect and tolerance for belief and expression of all world views with the exclusion for hate-based perspectives. Freedom of opinion and choice regarding medical, educational, nutritional, and spiritual matters. Political/Legal Democratic equality and respect for all people. Majority rule rather than powerful interest groups. Transparency in all government operations. Truthfulness by all political representatives. Right to health care coverage for all people. Right to a living wage for all who work. Honors unalienable cultural freedoms. Economic Viewed as a living dynamic organism. Requires a rich diversity of local, regional, national, and international commerce and trade. Legitimate consumer needs, not production or investor needs, is the starting point for a healthy economy. Efficient and socially responsible production through combining private management with community based assets. Inclusive and participatory commerce through conscious, collaborative associations of producers, distributors, and consumers. Takes democratically determined laws as a given. Recommended Books: Threefold Commonwealth Social Issues: Meditative Thinking and the Threefold Social Order International Aspect of the Threefold Commonwealth Threefold State: The True Aspect of the Social Question The Foundations of Human Experience (Foundations of Waldorf Education, 1) In order to understand how incentives can arise that go beyond the profit motive or other forms of self-interest that are the driving forces of capitalism, we need to consider more fully the roles of cultural life and the rights life in a properly articulated threefold society.

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