Economic relief is provided through transfers of purchasing power and sometimes other entitlements. Economic securities are provided, mainly or entirely, through exchanges of premiums or contributions for benefits, then always having recourse to actuarial mutualization165.
Both in theory and in practice, the art of forming a society is clearer when it is accepted that any economic security is in reality neither more nor less social than the whole of economic exchanges. Similarly, any economic relief is neither more nor less social than many other transfers, including those carried out, among others, by a à la carte retirement system with actuarial neutrality. The public sector has no monopoly on services rendered to the public and to society.
More precisely, there must be capital. More precisely still, it is capital through refundable shares that, in matters of economic securities, of access of the less wealthy to comfortable housing and other vital amenities, best fits the bill, for it provides a collective property.
● It reduces the extent of the powers of high finance, both private and public, and the vulnerability to crises of financial origin.