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Social Efficiency Theory - saving in every aspect of life

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Social Efficiency Theory (SET) is conceived to achieve a better functioning of our world by the gradual and continuous effort of each person doing something as little as “saving something today” (according to his/her own capabilites, wishes and priorities).

Social Efficiency Theory is not a change at all, but just an improvement or change of focus to any activity we perform today (governement processes, industrial, commerce or banking activity, family relationships, personal development, social work, etc.)

The vehicle to achieve a more efficient society (a one that makes exactly the same it does now, but without any kind of waste) is by the personal commitment of a daily saving. This saving is not restricted to only money, time, water or electricity; as our actual paradigm sets. Anything can be saved (of course the former 4 and also: ideas, napkins, words, laziness, books, efforts, plastic, garbage, work, etc.; anything that someone has in excess). Any saving provokes a direct or indirect benefit either to the same person, to someone else, to another group of persons or to the natural environment. According to the specific saving there will be a time condition, so that the benefit will be noticed in either a short, medium or long term.

To explain how something so simple, can incite such a big improvement, there are some issues that need to be explained:

Efficiency: capacity to do something with the minimum necessary resources to make it possible.

Saving: accumulation of surpluses to use them for something in a given moment.

Potential saving (surplus): Difference between what I normally use and what I actually need.

Social efficiency: proper functioning of society without producing waste (or with trend to produce less and less)

Individual decision: each individual is encouraged to decide what to save. It is not important what he saves, it is only important to do it thoroughly. Each person is potentially capable to save at least, 50 different things, he is free enough to start saving the easier ones or the ones that gives him back an immediate personal satisfaction.

If a person has the attitude to save something today, eventually he will gain a saving behavior. If that behavior is repeatedly done and furthered, he will build a habit in himself. A habit constitutes a cultural trait.

The world is a complex system in which the actors (enterprises, religions, governments, NGOs, civil society, etc.) are intensively interrelated among them. But if we simply set everything in a simple input-transformation-output process, part of the outcome is: poverty, pollution, lack of time with children, delinquency, lawsuits, civil & mercantile abuses, corruption, racism, natural resources destruction, wars, noise, stress, disinformation, religious fanaticism and a long list of others.

Conclusion: society works in an inefficient way, or in other words, resources are not used wisely.

Besides, if we analyze some problems on a cause-and-effect basis, we would find loops. And the more problems we add, the more loops we can find. Surely, we’ll be part of one or more of those loops. Then, how to break a “vicious circle”? Well, some might argue to break it by the more significant vertex, but in fact, at any point it can be broken. So if we are part of one, then let’s start by ourselves saving something we have in excess on a daily basis. Eventually that complex and inefficient society will improve, and the more people involved with that personal effort, the faster we’ll live in the world we all want to live.

Saving something today to achieve an efficient society is suitable to support government strategies and budget control, companies’ policies and planning, personal fulfillment, education programs, etc. Possibilities are infinite and every person’s talent is highly used.

For example, if I work too much and I can save a little bit of that worktime to be with my sons, that small contribution to world efficiency is enough in one day.

SET has been “working” for 3 weeks now, and is being spread little by little. The important thing is that even it’s been a short time, there are already interesting results. This information is only a brief text of many ideas that are being shaped.