Czcibor
4th December 2012, 19:43
Possible disclaimers and clarifications:
* My point here is not to try convince anyone to anything. But, rather get a question "how do you think?" or "which policies would you suggest?".
* I was wondering whether to place this topic more on media topics. However, I decided to err on safety and place it here, so no one could complain that any of my question is in implicit way improper.
* I need the answers for purpose of RPG scenario (yes, a Role Play Game) in SF post apocalyptic setting.
Yes, seriously I need input for game purposes. I want to have a question answered from left wing perspective, and not what according to people of different ideology left wing should believe in. (I was also afraid that I would either select unrealistically pragmatic ideas, or make opposite error and select ideas that are interesting from story reasons, but practically no one would support them seriously)
OK, the situation looks as the following:
You have approximately 500 000 like-minded people (from outsider perspective, in practice there would be quite many ideological streams of left, that may after closer inspection consider each other as heretics, ;) especially with those more anarchist leaning). You escaped (by supernatural means) to a habitable planet.*
You had to escape from impending doom that endangered Earth.
Assets:
- natural resources - abundant*
- human resources - not perfect match for your needs, but still quite good skills
- capital resources - terribly scarce, you were unable to take much stuff
- food - so far can be hunted/fished quite easily, though moving towards agriculture soon would be necessary
- technology - nominally early XXIst century, though because of population number there is risk of technological regression
A discussion concerning future political and economic system started. What would you advice?
1) Political system? (direct/indirect democracy? centralised/federal? Anything else?)
2) Taxes? (or any other way to maintain state apparatus like each person is supposed to do work for collective one day a week?)
3) Money? (Emitted by central bank? Ration stamps? Labour vouchers? Irrelevant in gift economy?)
4) Law and order? (How would police force look like, sentencing and punishments)
5) Form of organization of production? (Centrally planed? Cooperatives? As long as not too big company - free market?)
6) Which parts of safety net would be the priority? (and how terribly scare resources at start be protected against free riders)
7) Trade unions or positive discrimination? (I mean would such think be still endorsed, or it would be automatically considered that they were necessary in the past but no longer needed)
8) Retirement system? (to what extend pensions would be based on previous contributions of individual)
9) Any other interesting laws suggested?
* My point here is not to try convince anyone to anything. But, rather get a question "how do you think?" or "which policies would you suggest?".
* I was wondering whether to place this topic more on media topics. However, I decided to err on safety and place it here, so no one could complain that any of my question is in implicit way improper.
* I need the answers for purpose of RPG scenario (yes, a Role Play Game) in SF post apocalyptic setting.
Yes, seriously I need input for game purposes. I want to have a question answered from left wing perspective, and not what according to people of different ideology left wing should believe in. (I was also afraid that I would either select unrealistically pragmatic ideas, or make opposite error and select ideas that are interesting from story reasons, but practically no one would support them seriously)
OK, the situation looks as the following:
You have approximately 500 000 like-minded people (from outsider perspective, in practice there would be quite many ideological streams of left, that may after closer inspection consider each other as heretics, ;) especially with those more anarchist leaning). You escaped (by supernatural means) to a habitable planet.*
You had to escape from impending doom that endangered Earth.
Assets:
- natural resources - abundant*
- human resources - not perfect match for your needs, but still quite good skills
- capital resources - terribly scarce, you were unable to take much stuff
- food - so far can be hunted/fished quite easily, though moving towards agriculture soon would be necessary
- technology - nominally early XXIst century, though because of population number there is risk of technological regression
A discussion concerning future political and economic system started. What would you advice?
1) Political system? (direct/indirect democracy? centralised/federal? Anything else?)
2) Taxes? (or any other way to maintain state apparatus like each person is supposed to do work for collective one day a week?)
3) Money? (Emitted by central bank? Ration stamps? Labour vouchers? Irrelevant in gift economy?)
4) Law and order? (How would police force look like, sentencing and punishments)
5) Form of organization of production? (Centrally planed? Cooperatives? As long as not too big company - free market?)
6) Which parts of safety net would be the priority? (and how terribly scare resources at start be protected against free riders)
7) Trade unions or positive discrimination? (I mean would such think be still endorsed, or it would be automatically considered that they were necessary in the past but no longer needed)
8) Retirement system? (to what extend pensions would be based on previous contributions of individual)
9) Any other interesting laws suggested?