About

Anthony A. Payne was born and educated in England but has spent most of his life abroad. He served in the British Army based in Germany. He was then employed as an expatriate manager and consultant in the Hong Kong, Japanese, Australian and Singaporean branches of a London-based international trading company.  

Subsequently, in Hong Kong, he set up a number of his own businesses, including printing, publishing, offshore company formations, database management and retail mall management.   

He has visited many countries and has observed the poverty and inequality that still exist in the world.  Initially, he thought that some radical upgrades of democracy - called "happi"Ocracy - could solve these problems. 

Eventually he concluded that today's democracy - more accurately called representative democracy - means short-termism, with representatives being more interested in getting reelected than in the long-term good of their electorates.  
  

Anthony Payne believes that putting money directly into the pockets of the world's billions of Minorities-Of-One (that's all of us), is the best way to solve today's inequality within countries and between them.  "HappiMoney For All" is his story.