Some questions

[Karl Marx's Camel]

Well, not actually my questions, but another person.


Production is planned and geared towards need, not profit

He said:

"How is this supposed to be done? Who knows everybody's need?

He proceeded to ask how a "comitee for people's needs" could dream about developing new products that does not yet exist?

"If they unexplainably had this power, how is this supposed to be done, and why would they do that? Do you think this comitee would've, in 1980-ish, sit down and figured that "hey, I think we have a need for something called Personal Computers"? You really think computer factories would even EXIST at this point, with this way of "developing products"?



What would be your take on this?

[LuXe]

Then the question would be interpeted as something such as; Do we really need for example computers? the answer is obviously yes, we use them ALOT in daily society - and eventually someone would think outside the buuble and come up with an idea. Hell, why wouldnt that happen? Then the society, (if evolved around its own good, kinda darwinistic in a sense) would take steps to harvest this idea, and start yo take advantage of it according to societies best interest.

We would of course beat the cappy models of society in this, because the capitalists are marketing solely in the interest of making cash, thereby producing alot of uneccesary crap.

The essence of "need" would be cried out by the people through the media. Such as TV or newspapers.

[kuhkuh]

What are the needs of people and who is to decide (but ourselves)

I find Maslow's hierarchy of needs pretty interesting.

We dont really need much... but how many is willing to live in a bush and hunt for food.

Nowadays sadly many people sees the need of objects more important than need of love, social contact, security etc. which are not products. Though production should be done help to satisfy people (consumers), most production on our world exist more to satisfy the rich.


so, "Production is planned and geared towards need, not profit"- that is how it should be, not how it is.