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Board Economics
Re: A Resource Based Economy
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4v4l0n42
on 30/06/2011, 20:38:44 UTC
1) Scientifically directed evolution assumes good is an absolute concept

1.1 Who ever said "scientifically directed evolution"? It;s something you brought up, I don't even know what that would mean/imply.
1.2 Good as an absolute concept. No, on the contrary, it's highly subjective. But there are things are are objectively negative, and we should avoid (e.g.: starvation, slavery). The free market doesn't solve any of those by design.

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2) The end of scarceness and strategic conservation conflict between them.

Eh, what? Huh

2.1 Priority number one, strategic conversation and sustainability
2.2 Automate the process as much as possible
2.3 People get access to the necessities of life without having to enslave themselves for profit, and can finally do something useful for themselves and for the rest of society

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3) Private property and free trade are best recipes for non coercive society

Say, whaaaat? Huh

The evidence shows exactly the opposite. You have to illusion of being free, sure, but you are only as free as your purchasing power allows you to, which is a complete joke because social darwinism implies almost complete social immobility, poor getting poorer and rich getting richer, centralisation of power.

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4) Interest is a flaw of a technology called money with evil effects for both the society and the environment

Interest is only part of the problem. The real problem is that the bottom line of a moetary based economy is to make money, not to live well, not to live sustainably, not to be happy. It's to make money.

And it's been proven over and ver that:
4.1 money doesn't make you happy (as the complete lack of it, what matters is to get access to what you need)
4.2 profit-based competition breeds natural monopolies, corruption and environmental degradation

I thin we are missing the point here. I'll make it crystal clear, and I'll call it number zero, 'cause it's the one that matters most Wink

0. We need to find a way to live sustainably on the planet, where people are not forced into slavery/poverty and everybody gets access to the necessities of life.

Tell me how the free market is going to provide that.