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January 3, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

 

Happy New Year!

 

One year ago on January 3, 2025, I had not met you at the CVS yet.

 

One year ago I had not experienced your positive response to the message on the sticker I would subsequently be handing out: "Let's remove the rich from power; have real, not fake, democracy with no rich and no poor."

 

One year ago I didn't know that I would end up handing out about 3,500 stickers at the CVS in Brighton Center in 2025.

 

One year ago I didn't know that I would have countless wonderful conversations with you at the CVS. Here's an example.

 

One year ago I didn't know that by year's end some of you would join with me in founding the Brighton Assembly of Egalitarians (BAE) and that twelve people would consider themselves members of it, thereby creating a new game in town that aims to get us off of the Treadmill of Defeat.

 

One year ago I didn't know that there would be BAE posters about illegal immigration displayed in many shop windows in Brighton Center, as you can see in these photos online.  These posters break the virtual total censorship on the truth about why there are so many illegal immigrants, a truth that when widely known would cause almost all the people who presently support ICE to change their mind and be sympathetic to the illegal immigrants and angry at the billionaires who have forced them to enter the U.S. illegally in huge numbers just in order to survive.

 

But now I know about all of these things that happened in 2025 in Brighton and I am very grateful to you for making them happen.

 

I wonder what I will know happened in Brighton by January 3, 2027?

 

I hope that I will know that the BAE has grown in numbers by engaging in activities that inspire more people to decide to join it, and possibly inspire people elsewhere to form similar assemblies of egalitarians.

 

What activities might the BAE carry out this year? Well, the BAE members will be deciding that at its meetings on the second Sunday of each month. The next BAE meeting is Sunday, January 11, 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror (362 Washington St.) I look forward to seeing you then.

 

All the best,

 

--John

 

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

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January 7, 2026

Hi my 77 Brighton CVS-ville neighbors*,

 

I wrote the following in my recent Substack. I suggest we discuss this at this Sunday's  (January 11) BAE meeting, 1:30 PM at the Cafe Mirror.

 

Spread the Egalitarian Vision & SOLUTION for Good Health Care and Good Housing for ALL

The ruling class censors the egalitarian vision & solution so that we will remain hopeless that there is any solution whatsoever, and hence not fight for it.

Our ruling class limits discourse about the big problems people want solved—such as the lack of affordable good housing and good health care—to ‘solutions’ that leave the rich in power and perpetuate the some-rich-and-some-poor class inequality of our society. Thus limited, the possible ‘solutions’ are no solutions at all. This—that there are no true solutions—is the conclusion the ruling class wants us to draw. The ruling class aim is to make us feel so hopeless about the possibility of any real solution that we will not seriously engage in a fight to make it become actual.

 

But there IS in fact a real solution!

 

The solution is the egalitarian solution, a solution that the vast majority of people today would LOVE to see implemented. Let’s take a look at this solution.

 

The solution for good health care and good housing for all:

 

  • All people who contribute reasonably (i.e., ‘work’) according to ability1 have the right to receive good health care and good housing for free. Period! It’s not complicated.

     

  • People who receive good health care or good housing for free pay for it by contributing reasonably according to ability. Period. It’s not complicated.

     

  • Health care providers and housing builders are paid by having the right to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire (including good housing and health care and good education and fun vacations, etc. etc., and have scarce things (luxury items and organ transplants, etc.) equitably rationed (democratically, as described below) according to need. Period. It’s not complicated.

     

  • All workers—those who work reasonably according to ability by farming and building houses and doing scientific research and entertaining people and repairing plumbing and teaching children and providing transportation, etc. etc. etc. are paid by having the right to take for free from the economy what they need or reasonably desire and have scarce things equitably rationed according to need. Period. It’s not complicated.

     

  • Truly democratic government—genuine democracy as described here—with a non-centralized moneyless economy based on mutual agreements—as described here—decides what constitutes “contributing reasonably according to ability.” Ordinary people—there’s no rich and no poor!—this way decide whether, for example, somebody will be considered to be working reasonably according to ability if they join the ranks of those already serving in the military, or they join the ranks of those already serving as prison guards, or of those already serving as entertainers…OR alternatively if they join the ranks of those already serving as, say, healthcare providers or housing builders or teachers. If people think there are not enough healthcare providers, or not enough housing builders, then they democratically decide to alter their decision-making so as to promote more people providing healthcare or building homes and fewer people doing different kinds of things. Period. It’s not complicated.

     

  • Yes, all resources are finite. This means, of course, that it may not be possible for society to provide all of the health care or all of the good housing that might be desired. BUT…the time when society will tell somebody, “We’re sorry. We cannot provide you the life-saving treatment you require because we need to ration those finite resources in order to provide for other important social needs,” is AFTER, not before, there are no rich and no poor and AFTER there is no obscene economic inequality. Period. It’s not complicated.

     

When this vision of the egalitarian solution to the big problems—such as the lack of good health care and good housing—is widespread, then we the have-nots will no longer be politically paralyzed by hopelessness and despair. We will KNOW there is a solution, a perfectly reasonable and desirable solution based on the egalitarian values held by most people and summarized here. And we will feel empowered to fight for it and remove from power those who oppose its implementation. Yes, this is possible, as I discuss here.

 

One way to spread this vision of the real solution, the egalitarian solution, is to form local assemblies of egalitarians for that exact purpose, like we did in Brighton, Massachusetts. Why don’t you do it in your local community too?

 

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For some people, what they can contribute reasonably according to ability, is zero, due to their being children or retired elderly, or due to some physical or mental disability, or due to the absence for some reason of an opportunity to do useful work; also being a student or apprentice, etc., and caring for a child or another adult counts as working reasonably according to ability. Egalitarians are reasonable!

 

All the best,

 

--John

 

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* Read my email sent September 8 here about what I call "Brighton CVS-ville" and what I hope you will help make happen in it.

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