The State Is Not Great: How Government Poisons Everything

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[carultch]

8:20. Does this remind anyone of Mayor Bloomberg?

[antidote7]

I think that doing what I would rather call the few hours of community service all of us would do to live in a system giving us free access to everything followed by the work of self development, what we really love as individuals for the rest of the time, or that 30 hours a week as you stated. Of course leisure and family time also.

[Ttoxcs]

While I do tend agree with you, people are generaly happiest if the work on average 33 hours a week. Less or more produces boredom/overworking respectively. If you would like to continue this conversation I will use private massages as this is no longer contributing to the comments about the subject and is now a theoretical discussion on RBEs/economics.

If you are trying to help the world’s economy I wish you luck, but I will stick to more manageable projects for now, like assisting Wolf PAC.

[antidote7]

I think it would make sense to replace all boring work with automation. At this point we can do amazing things, much more than we know because technology is being held back by cost. I understand not wanting to go back to the dark ages.In 1930 scientists understood the work week could be cut to 3 days a week with more production being done. Now some say it's only a few hours a week. The way it's used is whats wrong. It's used to subjugate labor and protect the management class. Doesn't have to be

[Ttoxcs]

Yes we do need to scale back on shipping, but we can't just go back to the middle ages were you only saw a few dozen square miles throughout your lifetime unless you were lucky, rich, or willing to risk dangerous travel. For example some regions of the world don't have much in the way of iron deposits, and would need to ship iron in.

In short, we need some trade, and sometimes trade from distant regions, but we really do ship things too frivolously.

[antidote7]

But with technology I think that could be overcome, plus I don't think we should be moving resources from one place to other so much, we need to master the bio-regions. Centralization is what is making our food toxic etc. So we could scale back for sure.

[Ttoxcs]

RBEs can't spread resources very efficiently over larger areas, but they are extremely efficient in terms of resource management, and reducing environmental impact, and the gold standard would be a good way of trading between RBEs as It is nearly universally recognized as valuable, and easy to test. (It's very difficult to corrode gold, plus I've never been able to find anything that produces gold oxide.)

[antidote7]

Gold standard only solves a very small part of the problem. What is "it" can't spread resources efficiently?

[Ttoxcs]

That's my point. It can't easily spread resources efficiently, (in the economic sense) but can handle a single small community efficiently (in the scientific sense) for each RBE. Theoretically they could be arrayed in a lattice work with a gold standard or similar for intersystem trade.

[antidote7]

Although Michael Albert has made a case for his participatory economics. good stuff in there. And of course there may certainly be other ideas I know nothing about.