User:Andreas

Thoughts on a Resource-Based Economic Model (RBEM)

For me an RBEM is a system that tries to minimize total discontent in a sustainable way. An important part of the system is active resource management, but the social aspect is just as important as the environmental aspect. Hence, maximizing freedom and taking individual needs and preferences into account are major issues of an RBEM.

Science and technology seem to be cornerstones in an RBEM. A major goal is to provide resources in abundance, which are freely accessible for everyone. Access to scarce resources will be granted by consent.

Possible Consequences

In my opinion, some of the following possible consequences are falsely seen as requirements by many supporters of an RBEM.

• Improvement, reduction and potential removal of the use of money: My current view is that money as we know it will disappear completely in an RBEM, but reward systems that have some common features with money will persist.
• Improvement, reduction and potential removal of laws: My current view is that most public laws will be redundant. Conflicts of interests will be solved with the best currently available solution. Help can be provided by third parties, but conflicts have to be solved solely by the involved parties. There will still be contracts to define procedures of collaboration in advance.
• Improvement, reduction and potential removal of government: My current view is that specialists will be required to create knowledge, plans and standards or to communicate interests. Such specialists can help to solve conflicts, but only the involved parties can make decisions (though someone could still decide to delegate certain decisions for a certain period to a specialist or a protocol).

Implementation

For me it will be crucial that an RBEM must be able to be used within the current social system. More specifically this means that I must be able to keep current social and business relationships, I must be able to travel freely, I must be able to get products and services that are not available in an RBEM system yet. This means that I must be able to earn money and to have private property. These are personal concerns, but I think they are also essential for an RBEM to work on a large scale.

The solution is that I can use my time and any abundant resources that come from the RBEM and do not compromise sustainability (e.g. energy, knowledge, communication and transportation) for whatever I like. I can purchase, store, process and sell private property. The use of scarce resources or the removal of non-renewable RBEM resources must, of course, be granted by the other parties of the RBEM system.