What is Stolen Participation?
Stolen Participation is in fact the Artificial Burden, but in the sense that Self Participation is comparatively minimal or simply none. To understand it, think of a person who is fulfilling his desires by enslaving others while being dependent on those he subjugates to maintain this domination. To examine it in our society, there are people who are not participating in the NEPs, or otherwise their artificial burden is tremendous, with a disturbed desire to necessity equilibrium, while the system is still allocating them huge resources from the societal pool, which in turn are used by these individuals to fulfil their excessive or illegitimate desires. Such individuals are dependent on the Keepers of the oppressive system (i.e. all those, in any profession, who endorse this system and resist any attempt to change it) to maintain their dominance. As you can see, the whole process is regulated in an indirect way, thus giving this Artificial Burden the name of Stolen Participation. Stolen Participation is recognized by the means through which the societal pool is squeezed, i.e. the resources are drawn out of the pool in ways that the Keepers protect; in fact, these very ways are the system that they are protecting. (In practice, Stolen Participation can be measured by splitting the resources an individual draws into what is earned by his work and what is drawn without work (e.g. income from houses and land, and unearned gains); it should first be reported for groups rather than as personal scores, as a wrong label harms an innocent individual.) (Measured in this way, for groups only and never as personal scores, the individual ratio of seven societies of today is given step by step in THE CURRENT STATUS OF THE SOCIETY, Part 2, at the end of this book.)