30 per cent

You can start a business as the boss, employ 20 people, pay them as little as possible, make them work for the longest hours for minimum pay. That is common today. This is called the effect of market forces. It drives the life out of life. Market forces turn people into automata, pawns moved around by people in power.

It is happening all over the world. People see it but it is happening so quickly and subtly that they don't actually take it in: why am I earning less per hour, working longer hours than I did 10 years ago? Why is my standard of living falling though that of the country as a whole is supposed to be going up?

So what do you do? For example, you might start your new business as a co-operative. You employ say 20 people, so there are 21 of you and you share the money you make. No one gets more than the others. Everyone works as hard as everyone else. You try to keep the hours you all work to a minimum and you try to pay everyone the maximum for what they do. It's the New Age formula. When you begin to work in this way you understand what is meant by synthesis; that way you create groups. The energy of Aquarius only works in a synthetic way – through groups. It has no individual application.

You have to transform your whole idea of making money and becoming rich. If you do it the Aquarian way you're not going to become fantastically rich or you are all going to become rich.

Maitreya says the economy of a country is like a cart, it needs two wheels: capitalism and socialism. From the Masters' point of view the best combination is 70 per cent socialism and 30 per cent capitalism. That is the best means for the greatest wellbeing of all the people in the country.