the thing it's supposed to be for) dress-up extravaganza that it is -- And then it might actually become (or be replaced [likely with "AI"] with) a system of distributing resources that is hopefully more efficient than the current abysmal policy-making system we have now.
BTW there is something I don't get in this whole RBE/Zeitgeist/Venus thing. In a post-scarcity economy, why would you need a political system to distribute resources?? Isn't that contradictory? People (sometimes) need to ration things precisely when they are scarce. If there is no scarcity, why don't you just let people build whatever they need when they need it?
Because if i have unlimited energy i could make a gun to blow off my neighbors head because he looked at me in a funy way and i was like realy realy bored...
In other words, the general population is genetically not well equipped to deal with unlimited energy.
There is a shitload of psychological problems with endless resources. We are all pre-programmed for scarcity. Greed is nothing more than a survival mechanism for low-resource environments.
We have a lot more resources now and yet we fail at not being greedy. We have come as far as making most of our greed virtual so we don't actually rip food from other peoples hands, most of the time.
But thinking that the world population will just ignore their animal drives to get something like a resource based economy going is ludicrous.
You will not be able to get there (and i also said this before) without genetically modifying the entire human species to not be so damn human anymore.
Im the product of my environnement, not my genes.... Ok, genes can gives me some predisposition, but im most of all the product of my environnement !