The Manifesto

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Find out on this web page why only a ‘Financial Renaissance’ can solve humanity’s growing problems with the cost of living, wars and climate change and that a good future for everyone is much closer than we think!

1. First, ‘The Core Problem of Humanity’ is visualised in 17 seconds.
2. Professor Peter Ricchiuti then explains that our current financial laws are making our economies worse.
3. Professor Thomas Piketty then indicates that four improvements need to be made.
4. Professor Jan Tobochnik then proves that the disastrous consequences of the current concentration of wealth can only be stopped with a global wealth tax on the extremely rich.
5. Then you can download a book for free. This book is based on the insights of the above-mentioned professors and in this book, the founder of this manifesto Fonteijn describes the necessity for a Financial Renaissance. You can also watch two short videos in which Fonteijn explains this necessity for a Financial Renaissance.
6. It is then explained that we as humanity are becoming increasingly out of balance, that we are in a political impasse and that we as humanity are at a crucial crossroads. Also watch a video of this manifesto here with David Attenborough (AI) as voice-over.
7. And finally, you are asked to vote for this ‘Financial Renaissance’ anonymously and forward this website within your network. The greater the number of Votes, the greater the support for politics to implement this renaissance. Together we have the power to alter the world. Let’s not just be spectators, but be the catalysts for change.

1. The Core Problem of Humanity

Many of the serious problems in the world today are caused by one and the same core problem, namely the process of wealth concentration whereby an increasing share of all the world’s wealth is in the hands of an ever smaller group of people.

Watch the video below to get a good idea of the extreme concentration of wealth in our world today.

2. Failing economies

Below a video of a TED talk by Professor Peter Ricchiuti, in which he explains how the extreme concentration of wealth to the super-rich is worsening our economies. “Something really needs to change,” he says.

Summary of the video: Big corporations, mostly owned by the super rich, have huge amounts of money. These companies have billions of dollars in cash. That money is not going back into the economy. What do they do with it? They buy back their own shares. They are increasing the dividend at a record pace. They do mergers and acquisitions, companies buy each other. That is the opposite of a healthy economy. These big corporations have done a great job of what we call financial engineering. In other words, they’ve helped companies build their share prices. And they have done very well. But don’t forget that the top 1%, own more than 50% of all stocks. So the results were very well for the super-rich, but it has done nothing for the other side, the so-called real economy, because you don’t see these companies making much-needed capital expenditures. We’ve had an economy that has done very well in recent years, but it hasn’t really benefited everyone. It has brought wealth to the super-rich, but it has done very little for working people and therefore for the real economy. And that has to change.

3. Four improvements

Below a video by Professor Thomas Piketty, in which he proposes four improvements:

Summary of the video: To restore our economies and governments to health, four issues need to be addressed, namely (1) tax progressivity, (2) establish a global financial registry, (3) enable access to educations and well-paying jobs and (4) public debts need to be reduced to greatly improve public investments further in education, environmental protection, health and infrastructure.

4. Global Wealth Tax

Below a video of a TED talk by Professor Jan Tobochnik, in which he proves with a mathematical model that the disastrous effects of the current wealth concentration can only be stopped with a global wealth tax.

“This is not a crazy idea,” Tobochnik says.“ Thomas Piketty, a French economist, wrote the book ‘Capital in the 21st century’ in 2010, and after sifting through reams of data and doing all sorts of calculations and statistical analysis, Piketty came to the conclusion, that the best thing he could do would be a global tax on wealth. Why worldwide? Then you can’t hide.”

5. The need for a Financial Renaissance

Based on the insights of the above-mentioned professors, the founder of this manifesto Fonteijn wrote a book in which he describes the necessity for a Financial Renaissance.

Under our current financial laws, all our money bleeds away to the super-rich, making our economies unhealthy and our governments bankrupt. As a result, more and more people fall into poverty, more and more wars arise and climate change cannot be stopped. Humanity is at a critical crossroads. Only a ‘Financial Renaissance’ can bring humanity back into balance.

In other words, this book describes humanity’s core problem and how we can solve it.

The book is a call to all people to wake up. The book gives clear examples of how it can be done.

The book is available at all well-known bookstores and webshops and also available via this website in the languages English, Spanish, German and Dutch. You can also download a FREE PDF version of the book via the To the book’ button below.

Also watch the two videos below in which Fonteijn explains the necessity of the Financial Renaissance.

6. Let’s break the Political Impasse

We as humanity are becoming increasingly out of balance. Our global problems related to the cost of living, wars and climate change are becoming increasingly serious. Left-leaning parties recognise the problem and want to tackle it by increasing taxes. Right-leaning parties, on the other hand, understand that hiking taxes will only exacerbate the issue. Both sides have valid points, but neither offers a solution. We are in a political impasse. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Humanity stands at a critical crossroads. We can either continue to flounder in our national politics, allowing wealth to bleed away to a select few or we can join forces with countries worldwide to enact revolutionary legislative changes that redirect the flow of wealth back to the working people.

Below you can watch a video in which Fonteijn also explains the above via video. The video is narrated by David Attenborough via AI.

7. Vote now

Only a ‘Financial Renaissance’ can solve humanity’s growing problems with wars, the cost of living and the environment.

There is light at the end of the tunnel if we all vote for the following adjustments to our legislation:

1. A wealth tax of 30% for all assets above 10 million, so that people can only be rich up to 10 million euros. That is much healthier for our economies.
2. Corporate profits from successful companies no longer only go to the shareholders, but 50% also to the employees, so that more money ends up in the hands of working people.
3. Current taxes on working people can be reduced because many of today’s poor people will fare better thanks to healthier economies, so the middle class will grow bigger instead of being smaller as it is now. The poor people who remain poor despite the healthier economies and are still struggling can be helped much better by the government because their numbers will then be much smaller than they are now.

Vote Now for this Financial Renaissance!

The greater the number of Votes,

the greater the support for politics,

to implement this renaissance.

Together, we have the power to alter the world.

Let’s not just be spectators,

let’s be the catalyst for change.

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