Jungle Law Trumps Biology
April 1, 2020
'Corona Virus be condemned to eternity,' says the
Young Professional (citing Covid-19, the mortal inferior to human betrayal; a pathogen no human cure has
ever eviscerated). The Young Professional joined a foreign company, bringing
them to the U.S. market for the first time, using the exact business plan and
playbook brought to the foreign company by the Young Professional (profiting
handsomely for many years). The plan was so successful, the foreign company
asked the Young Professional to open new markets: China, Republic of China,
Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Philippines, Viet Nam and India. The Young
Professional stood 5’10”, intelligent, blue-eyed and blonde. This was the
person the foreign company first saw. Then, not believing their luck, a present
arrived from the Young Professional via international carrier written in
English, showing The Plan worth hundreds of USD $Millions to the foreign
company, changing all their lives forever. The foreign company, with profitable
growth on their minds, offered a lucrative contract to the Young Professional.
They became friends, forming an international bond and making a lot of people very
happy. The Young Professional and the foreign company achieved their wildest
dreams, and it felt good. Alas, this is where “Jungle Law Trumps Biology”
starts its story.
Perhaps if growth were 200%, not 1000%, things might
have turned out differently. That did not happen. What happened was a tale of
$6M to $66M and a 1,000% growth rocket exceeded only by the ascent of this
nasty Corona virus. The virus and slow growth, however, were not what the
public foreign company and Young Professional experienced together, under a
contract. A contract, not governed by the United Nations, with 168 members and
their negotiated terms. Not governed by treaty or trade rules. Not governed by the Arbitration/Mediation and benign agreement.
Not governed by one legal jurisdiction exercising governance over all others.
Governed, on the contrary, by the local Law of the Jungle in California.
The foreign company and Young Professional (a.k.a.,
the Naïve One) needed to agree on a legal jurisdiction for their profitable
relationship and contract. The Naïve One suggested the laws of California
govern their relationship, and the foreign company agreed. 'That was too easy,'
thought the Naïve One, excited and thrilled to live a personal childhood dream,
from California to China, Asia and beyond. California is a gorgeous, abundant,
terrifying jungle of opportunity with its own customs, legal jurisdiction and
laws. The California State Jurisdiction, then, would be the living, breathing
“Jungle” legal jurisdiction decreed
by World Trade Advocates.
Amidst all this success, one day the foreign company
called the Young Professional to its big foreign company headquarters in a
faraway place. The Young Professional (jet lagged and numb, looking over a
breakfast of wet eggs, soft toast, instant coffee and tap water) leaned in
quietly, face-to-face, to hear the announcement that they -- the public foreign
company now worth hundreds of millions of dollars -- would not make the Big Pay
Day to the Young Professional, as agreed under contract. There was a viral
contagion afoot, and the Young Professional was not good enough. He would not
be paid under contract as a result, only fit for demotion four levels down. The
Young Professional (a.k.a., Sick One) was indeed sick, sitting there far away,
a childhood dream made, a childhood dream slayed, and $6M to $66M by an
overnight thunderbolt thrown across the Pacific with stunning precision and
result. It had worked famously for everyone. Out? Just like that? In the far
away Jungle sat the stunned Sick One who had only one thought: 'This is not
that ugly bio virus borne by animal. This betrayal is an ugly pathogen borne by
man; in the Jungle. The Rule of Law is the antidote to contractual Human
betrayal, and Jungle Law is on my side. This is enough.'
Now, with cold wet eggs, soggy toast, dank coffee
and warm water, the Young Professional (a.k.a., Empowered Dragon) said to the
public foreign company worth hundreds of millions, “if you are refusing to pay
me the Big Pay Day, then you leave me no choice but to sue you in California
State Court for Breach of Contract and violations of Labor Law. I will start a
competing company today.” This is how the Young Professional transformed into
the Empowered Dragon. This is the transformative Rule of the Jungle. So too is
our world now evolving, thanks be to our newfound common enemy: Covid-19. Adapt
and overcome.
California State Law is unique in the United States
and world when it comes to contract and labor law. California is a “fire at
will” and a “right to work state”. Any boss can fire anyone at any time for any
reason, so long as they do not discriminate; this is the “fire at will” aspect
of the California Jungle. The fired have a right to work in their professional
field of endeavor, so long as it is fair competition. Non-compete clauses are
illegal. Someone can be fired, hired, re-fired and start a competitor in the
same day. Under The Law of the Jungle, the Young Professional was
well-protected.
The Young Professional and California legal team
argued under California Jungle Law in a California Jungle Court to a California
Jungle Judge (and Jungle Jury if there ever was one). Twelve California Jurors
who didn’t seem to know or care much about the Young Professional or foreign
company. But truth is truth, and people with a mind for fairness care about
that in the Jury box. The evidence showed it, Jungle Law exposed it, great lawyers
proved it, the impartial Judge ruled fair and Jungle Jurors made the call.
Common people of the Jungle know what truth looks like, with all evidence in
plain sight. Just like T-cells and Jimmy Allison know what cancer cells look
like, and that’s the point. Fair is Fair as viewed from the T-Cell Jungle and
its laws, not the mountain top
and its viral edicts watered down to please, infecting the body with
controlling viruses. The public foreign company worth hundreds of
millions (compared to a mere six million before the Young Professional
cold-called them from many thousand kilometers away, many Moon Cakes ago) made
a new competitor that day. A human competitor more powerful than any viral
infection, pathogen or animal toxin.
The public foreign company, with no gratitude nor
grace, knew from the beginning they would throw the Young Professional out (according to digital evidence required by Jungle
Law). But, thanks to Jungle Law, the healthy, Empowered Dragon forged a new
competitor to the public company, birthing an even more remarkable result and
new story for another time.
In the viral Jungle, we all need our local antidotes
(i.e., local Jungle Laws). It’s the safest, most sustainable way. The Law of
the Jungle means that a person, company, or organization can retain their local
legal rights when contracting across legal judiciary boundaries. Can any
international body consisting of 168 countries agree on global standards that
are flexible and voracious enough to meet the interests of everyone, both locally
and globally simultaneously? Forestalling, stopping dead-cold, terminal
cellular-level biological human threats? Under negotiated rules of engagement
in an Arbitration/Mediation, or civil court inquiries, would the public foreign
company (with no gratitude, no grace, no sense and no integrity) surrender
damning evidence against itself? Without a jurisdictional will requiring full
transparency? Will a biological pathogen so severe ever succumb to a mediated
stop?
Local jurisdictions with laser-like focus on human
legal viruses are the backbone of successful domestic societies and economies.
The same is true at the global level; totally obvious for all of us now. By
aligning together globally, killing Corona and illegal viruses alike,
governments, biological communities, businesses, non-profits, students, lawyers
and the public across international borders can align bilateral legal
standards, reinforcing The Principle of Reciprocity and Comity across the
Jungle. For the betterment of us all. Long Live global Comity. Long live Jungle
Judiciaries. Long Live Our Human Jungle Trumping wild Biology.
Todd King is CEO &
Founder AmerAsia Company(s) | Reciprocity
Project Curator
Michael S. Meyer, Editor