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.)
From The Unjustified Burden and Its Implications.
The administration of these Pads is itself not lethal, but the point of concern is the way this is done and their desperate need to sustain the society. This has led to the stealing of these Pads (Wealth, being a mobile form, is the main instrument in this regard, while the other two are then artificially administered by various means) (this stealing is not only due to a deficit; a disturbed desire to necessity equilibrium is among the chief causes, along with a disturbed Participation to Burden ratio; these will be discussed later, so keep on reading) from the underprivileged by devising a system of dominance that is based on inequality and oppression. To understand this, let’s take an example of a family in which the father and mother keep quarrelling (i.e. HSP violation within the family); this leads to their dissatisfaction and sleeplessness, and then, instead of fixing the source, they get money and try to satisfy themselves by booking solo trips, buying brand-new things and so on. Likewise, a society with high HSP violation is so disturbed that it tries to satisfy its members with Pads, and as these Pads are not enough within itself, it steals them from other societies (mainly in the form of wealth). (In practice, this can be measured by how much of the NEPs a society is producing and how much of it is being exported, i.e. a society that exports a large share of its NEP production while its own NEPs remain unmet is being drained of its Pads.) The problem with this system is that it can never provide prosperity to human civilization as a whole. It’s just like a mega-parasitic relationship with beneficiaries and sufferers at each level (this is true within the society and also among different societies). If we want to normalize things for everyone, we must first abandon HSP violation, while a strict accountability procedure must be adopted for the stealers of Pads (i.e. the other societies refuse to accept their discriminatory policies) (if they are not allowed to have discriminatory policies, then they will ultimately suffer, and either they will abandon HSP violation or risk a total collapse).
From The Destined Future (HSPs).
