Who would pay for all of this? With no money how would the government be able to collect resources to give out? Without renumeration and investment where would all the goods come from? iPods don't grow on trees, they're only so cheap because they are manufactured in China and other low cost countries.
Also, since when were resources infinite? How would you cope with their exhaustion?
[li] Everyone who wish to work just need to enlist. You get formation for what you wish to accomplish with your life. In the event of mass laziness, robots will be created for the tasks left that needs to be done. People who dont want to or can't work dont have to.[/li]
Who would build these Robots? Do you have any idea how much work goes into the design, manuufacturing, AI and alogrithms? Who would maintain the robots!? How would there be any innovation with robots doing anything?
Furthermore, what incentive would there be for anyone to work? If there was no benefit then very few people would work. The result would be a largely sedentary population which would suffer from numerous and serious health problems.
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[li] Profits. [/li]
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What!? You haven't written anything, profit is derived from money so that point is negated by point 1.
There are different opinions about changing all the known economical systems to a Resource-Based Economy but the dominant opinion is not neutrality.
There's the pessimists who think it would ressemble something like this.
There's the optimist (Like me) who think it would ressemble something like this.
In short, people fighting against a resource based economy are assuming that human nature is inherent. People fighting for it are assuming that human nature isn't inherent but the real question would be "Is it wise to keep a monetary economical system under such circumstances?"
This is far too implistic, the arguments against it arewide ranging. There's nothing wrong with money itself, it's human behaviour that's the problem.
In the last great economical depression our modern society litteraly became a shithole where it was less obvious to survive then in the wilderness and many were left to themselves and a good example of this would be the multitude of kids working in coal mines.
What!? So kids working in coal mines shows that economic depression is bad. You do realise that kids stll work in mines, and sweat shops. Many people are still slaves, often sex slaves and abused everyday all because f the persuit of wealth and power. It's not money that's the problem, it's people.
All of our current economic systems failled to help us survive as a species a multitude of times...
Yeah... remember that time we all failed to survive, oh wait, we've never failed to survive because WE'RE ALL STILL HERE!
so often that today the whole world is left hungry for change. But the meaning of this "change" is not something that the politicians, the beurocrats or the aristocrats of your society are going to make because those individual dont really care about anything else then their precious money and if they wish to prove me wrong then ask of them to talk publicly about the many benefits of a ressource based economy.
For freedom.
Of course, governments are only interested in power, the wheels of government are oiled by corruption. None of this would change by switching the economic basis, people have always been horrible to each other from fuedal through to socialist states.
They, like me, don't really see many benefits to a resource based economy because they aren't that great. You talk about freedom but you would prefer a system forced upon us which we may not all want.
If you have a problem with our society then by all means talk about it, write to your elected officials about it, try living by it. Just don't expect everyone to agree with you and don't make the assumption that your ideas will solve all of the world's problems. Too many people believe that they can fix the world by controlling those around them. I'm happy they don't make it into power because they always make things worse.
