Originally posted by Cryotank
[email protected] 03, 2007 10:26 pm
By using technology? As of right now, we probably have enough technological advances to create abundance but do to the 'price system' we create artificial scarcity and according to Technocracy the 'price system' depends upon artificial scarcity and is obsolete and said 'price system' should be eliminated, so thus as Q-collective said through technology and a new system we could create superabundance. All the posts other than yours and Q-collective's are bullshit.
From the Technocracy FAQ v1.3 (http://www.technocracy.ca/simp/Technocracy_FAQ_1.x.htm#6.61)
Although elements of both socialist and democratic systems might be found in Technocracy's design, this should not be taken as Technocracy being similar to either. While it is both easy and common to want to group Technocracy together with more familiar political and economic systems, this would be a mistake. The simple reason for this is because Technocracy is far too different from any other social system ever devised.
It cannot be grouped with other political systems because Technocracy does not involve politics. Technocracy is about the scientific control of technology, not a philosophical method of controlling people. Likewise, Technocracy cannot be grouped with other economic systems because Technocracy relies on the existence of an established, technological abundance, whereas all other systems, i.e. "Price Systems", all rely on the existence of a natural state of scarcity. Therefore, we find that Technocracy is not, and cannot be easily compared to, either a socialist or democratic system.
Incidentally, if one were to pick these systems apart for their good and bad points, it would be likely that one would find the best elements of these other systems existing in a Technocratic society, with all the problems of those same systems being absent. This, however, is another discussion
Basically Technocracy decides to skip around class (as class is political), Marx also though it would be best for Communism to start in the heart of capitalism where it has the massive productive forces built by capitalism. As for scientific control of technology, while science can tell you cause and effect science itself can't control anything.
There would be no need of Labor Unions. Since there would be no money being paid out for salaries, there would be no use for bargaining for better wages. There could probably be some kind of grievance committees within each industry to bring major or minor disputes before some judicial persons knowledgeable about the handling of such controversies, without a raucous discord disrupting the work of other employees or other public services.
Here again skipping around the class issue, that just because salaries are gone there would be no class conflict, also unions would allow workers from different workplaces to get together but again that would be something one would find in workers state which technocracy doesn't necessarily subscribe to.