- 14 Nov 2012 18:19
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What are your thoughts on using free market principles for the consumer market in a technocracy-like economy? To clarify: who- (or what)ever is responsible for the manufacturing (whether it's a computer running competing algorithms or an actual collection of competing businesses "owned" by society) measures demand based on what people are willing to pay for a product, just like in a free market. Citizens are given a monthly income of energy that they can spend as they please, with the state responsible for all energy production, land ownership (citizens can only rent land, not own it) and confiscating a fixed percentage for services such as basic foodstuffs, health care and education apart from the citizen income budget. Any surplus energy received for manufacturing (that which is not spend on either production or investment) periodically flows back to the sole shareholder, society itself. In my view this system solves some practical questions technocracy struggles with and would also make the transition easier to accept for many people.
What are your thoughts on this?
What are your thoughts on this?