Bitter Ashes
4th April 2009, 00:09
I'm not sure what to call this really, so I'm accepting better suggestions than the one above :P
I'm just wondering how this would work. I know that we'd be aiming for everyone working in the industries that are local to them and obviously, whatever is produced is freely distributed, but I'm guessing that there's going to be quite a few times when a kind of "trade" is going to be required between communities.
e.g. There may be a coal mine some distance away from a steelworks and an iron mine in the other direction and places that need steel in thier industries somewhere else. The iron and the coal need to come together at the steelworks and the refined steel needs to go to factories and what's produced needs to go to the miners and the steelworkers as well as the factory workers.
So, how does everyone know how much of what needs to go where? Will it be up to individual factory unions to look up in a yellow pages where thier nearest steel mill is and in turn, the union in the steel mill looking up where the mines are and putting in "orders"? Or, would it be more efficient to have like a beaucrocratic position acting like a broker for these products, who deciedes what each community requires both to produce and to live off and ensures that it all reaches them? Are there dangers in this position becoming corrupted?
I guess I'm curious to know the full process of how a can of beans would end up in my cupboard after the fall of the free market :)
I'm just wondering how this would work. I know that we'd be aiming for everyone working in the industries that are local to them and obviously, whatever is produced is freely distributed, but I'm guessing that there's going to be quite a few times when a kind of "trade" is going to be required between communities.
e.g. There may be a coal mine some distance away from a steelworks and an iron mine in the other direction and places that need steel in thier industries somewhere else. The iron and the coal need to come together at the steelworks and the refined steel needs to go to factories and what's produced needs to go to the miners and the steelworkers as well as the factory workers.
So, how does everyone know how much of what needs to go where? Will it be up to individual factory unions to look up in a yellow pages where thier nearest steel mill is and in turn, the union in the steel mill looking up where the mines are and putting in "orders"? Or, would it be more efficient to have like a beaucrocratic position acting like a broker for these products, who deciedes what each community requires both to produce and to live off and ensures that it all reaches them? Are there dangers in this position becoming corrupted?
I guess I'm curious to know the full process of how a can of beans would end up in my cupboard after the fall of the free market :)