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Can Mutual Care Replace Today’s
Exploitation?
For decades, our economy has run on extraction. Profit for the few. The scraps for everyone else.
Mutual Care is a different design, built on shared responsibility and shared wellbeing.
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Exploitation is a System. Someone Always Pays.
32.5 %
Of U.S. wealth held by the richest 1%
$15 B
Estimated lost wages yearly from minimum-wage violations in the U.S.
37%
Of U.S. adults couldn't cover a $400 emergency
Understand the Pattern
The Three Actors Run Every Exploitative System
Exploitation wears different faces. The pattern is always the same.
BULLIES steal openly by force and intimidation, using raw power or coercive laws to take because they can.
PARASITES steal secretly by stealth and deceit, hiding their extractions behind respectable titles and complex rules.
SLAVES are the exploited creators whose labor, health, hopes, and futures are siphoned upward to subsidize both predators.
Have You Felt at Least One of These Seven Needs Go Unmet?
Food, clothing, shelter, health, education, liberty and safety. These are not luxuries — they are the seven needs that mutual care exists to protect, and exploitation is what happens when they are denied.
There is another way to live.
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What is Mutual Ruin? &
What Can We Do About it?
Mutual ruin is what we do to each other, every day, when we tolerate a social structure that exploits many of us to benefit a few who take extra. Test any law or system with one question: does it protect people, or does it benefit and protect bullies and parasites?
Reject what fails that test.
What Is The Golden Rule?
The Golden Rule: nearly every culture that set out to be wise arrived at the rule on its own.
Jesus: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Muhammad: None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself. The Jewish rabbis: What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.
The Buddha, the Hindu sages, Confucius and Humanists all landed in the same place, in different centuries, on different continents, in languages and people groups that never met. Mutual care is what that rule looks like once it grows up into the social structure.
This is the Golden Rule with arms and legs: a budget, a clinic, a roof, a full plate, a secure home. Sentiment that feeds no one is not love. Love is the food on the table and the door that keeps out the cold. THAT is mutual care.
To Free Yourself You Must be Able To First Recognize Who & What You Are Up Against.
The Hidden Operator
Twelve Ways The Theft Stays Invisible.
I found twelve techniques parasites commonly use to take from you without your knowing it. Once you can name them and SEE them, you cannot unsee them.
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What Readers Say
"Read this book if you are tired of being part of the problem, and now want to be part of the solution."
Deacon Nate Bacon, InnerChange
"Original, unique, timely, exceptionally well written, thoroughly 'reader friendly' in organization and presentation."
Midwest Book Review, James A. Cox
"Readers can pinpoint the many ways their efforts toward self-sufficiency have been hamstrung."
US Review of Books, Michael Radon
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "mutual care" actually mean?
Mutual care is a system where people support one another directly, replacing the exploitation of bullies and parasites with cooperation, shared responsibility, and dignity for everyone involved.
Who are the Bullies, Parasites, and Slaves?
These are the three roles that keep exploitative systems running: Bullies take by force, Parasites take by manipulation, and Slaves are the people whose labor and needs are extracted from. Our books explain how to recognize and break these patterns.
How do I get the free books?
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What are the eight roles in the Mutual Care Initiative?
Farmer, Maker, Builder, Healer, Teacher, Advocate, Protector, and Organizer: eight practical roles anyone can step into to help build a mutual care economy in their own community.
Is this a religious or political movement?
No. Mutual Care Now is about practical, everyday cooperation between people. It welcomes anyone regardless of belief or political affiliation who wants to replace exploitation with mutual support.
THE AUTHOR
Janitor to Senior VP at Oracle, and a friendly, feisty pastor of 31 years. Once wrongfully arrested by the FBI for exposing government lies. Known to tackle bullies.
George Byron Koch (coke)
He has seen how power works from the bottom, the top, and the wrong end of the State’s power. Mutual Care is the framework he built to name that machine and replace it.
Read His StoryTHE AUTHOR
Highly honored and successful independent editor and author.
George August Koch
He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Benedictine University. He is a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society and a Print Media Excellence Award recipient. A freelance editor for nearly 25 years, he has edited over 50 books and thousands of religious, scholarly, and creative works, and written dozens more. This is his first book.
Read His StoryThere is another way to live.
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