I acknowledge that mutual respect can be arrived at from different perspectives. My point was that individualism is used in this country to justify a self-centered approach to life in which taking others into account is not the primary concern. As for being "socially progressive," I have found a way to apply mutual respect to the existing economy.

I can understand why people on the political left resist it: there is no 'punishment' of businesses or 'the rich' in it. I consider it repugnant to make taking money/wealth from some more important than eliminating poverty, but that position is in its perverse way consistent with their perspective.

Given the unequivocal outcomes it would engender, without taking anything from anybody while providing the means to eliminate taxes and public debt in the bargain, why people on the political right resist the paradigm I have developed for applying mutual respect to the existing economy is beyond me to understand. No one has notified me of a systemic flaw in the paradigm. I defy anyone to find one.