red team
7th September 2006, 05:03
Okay. So prove "technocracy" will be a more efficient system of distribution.
Simple, everything from the oil that powers your car to the electricity that power factory machinery to the food that power human labour are measureable in terms of scientifically quantifiable energy units. Given that everything including products that are manufactured and purchased needs a measurable amount of energy to shape into its final useful form, if the total amount of energy that a civilization uses to make their goods and services are distributed evenly among the consumers of such goods and products and we simply let consumer demand for a product measured in quantity acquired determine future adjustments to production quantity for a product there would be virtually no way and no reason for the economy to periodically stall (the business cycle) and for people to be forced by economic necessity to take on jobs they don't want to do or be forced by the necessity of a price-based economy to be left without an income to live when business becomes unprofitable and needs to mass-fire workers.
Energy credits are different from money in that energy credits are simply the measured amount of the sum total of energy used up in making all the products and services available to the people to acquire for consumer use in contrast to ownership which will be impossible given that everybody has an equal amount of energy credits to stake a claim of consumer use for any given product or service.
But even if such a situation were to occur in that someone stake a claim upon a product and leaves it idle introducing artificial consumer scarcity where there was none before, this could easily be remedied by introducing a scarcity fee for idle resources equivalent in cost to the proportion of time it was intentionally left idle over the useful lifetime of the resource (this should be familiar to anybody in the bookkeeping field as depreciation) plus the difference in cost in securing an alternative resource (which is usually more expensive in energy costs to make). But, again this is a hypothetical situation that would seldom arise given that everybody is allocated an even amount of energy credits since machine labour already far outproduces human labour in terms of quantity of goods and services churned out making any inequalities in energy credits for bonuses given out (let's say for the small amount of time taken to do manual work that's not yet automated) insignificant. In any case the bonus given out for manual work would be measured as the amount of average consumer expenditures in energy credits over the time that a worker uses to work and therefore not participating in consumption (as everybody else would who are not working).
Energy credits are also different from money in that they cannot be traded, negotiated or hoarded as individual debt trading tokens as money is. It's simply the total measured amount of energy used up in the production process of a society and changes according to the amount of energy available to the given society, so if you build more power plants or discover a new source of fuel you have more total energy credits. Also energy credits are bounded to the product or service once the act of purchase is made effectively taking it out of circulation until such time as when the consumer item is destroyed or consumed at which time the energy credit also is consumed or the item is bought by somebody else in which case the energy credit remaining as measured as the remaining useful lifetime of the item is returned to the public consumer energy pool. This by the way is all computerized with smart cards and network computer accounts so paper money is obsolete.
Simple, everything from the oil that powers your car to the electricity that power factory machinery to the food that power human labour are measureable in terms of scientifically quantifiable energy units. Given that everything including products that are manufactured and purchased needs a measurable amount of energy to shape into its final useful form, if the total amount of energy that a civilization uses to make their goods and services are distributed evenly among the consumers of such goods and products and we simply let consumer demand for a product measured in quantity acquired determine future adjustments to production quantity for a product there would be virtually no way and no reason for the economy to periodically stall (the business cycle) and for people to be forced by economic necessity to take on jobs they don't want to do or be forced by the necessity of a price-based economy to be left without an income to live when business becomes unprofitable and needs to mass-fire workers.
Energy credits are different from money in that energy credits are simply the measured amount of the sum total of energy used up in making all the products and services available to the people to acquire for consumer use in contrast to ownership which will be impossible given that everybody has an equal amount of energy credits to stake a claim of consumer use for any given product or service.
But even if such a situation were to occur in that someone stake a claim upon a product and leaves it idle introducing artificial consumer scarcity where there was none before, this could easily be remedied by introducing a scarcity fee for idle resources equivalent in cost to the proportion of time it was intentionally left idle over the useful lifetime of the resource (this should be familiar to anybody in the bookkeeping field as depreciation) plus the difference in cost in securing an alternative resource (which is usually more expensive in energy costs to make). But, again this is a hypothetical situation that would seldom arise given that everybody is allocated an even amount of energy credits since machine labour already far outproduces human labour in terms of quantity of goods and services churned out making any inequalities in energy credits for bonuses given out (let's say for the small amount of time taken to do manual work that's not yet automated) insignificant. In any case the bonus given out for manual work would be measured as the amount of average consumer expenditures in energy credits over the time that a worker uses to work and therefore not participating in consumption (as everybody else would who are not working).
Energy credits are also different from money in that they cannot be traded, negotiated or hoarded as individual debt trading tokens as money is. It's simply the total measured amount of energy used up in the production process of a society and changes according to the amount of energy available to the given society, so if you build more power plants or discover a new source of fuel you have more total energy credits. Also energy credits are bounded to the product or service once the act of purchase is made effectively taking it out of circulation until such time as when the consumer item is destroyed or consumed at which time the energy credit also is consumed or the item is bought by somebody else in which case the energy credit remaining as measured as the remaining useful lifetime of the item is returned to the public consumer energy pool. This by the way is all computerized with smart cards and network computer accounts so paper money is obsolete.