Addendum

I was a little disappointed in the “solution.” I agree with the problems of a monetary based system, and like the idea of a resource-based system, but there are some questions I still have about it.

1) If technology is king, but people don’t do jobs, then where do scientists come from to further the improved technology that would further and perpetuate the system.
2) Resource-based equality demand infinite resources, which isn’t reality: enter back in the problem of scarcity.
3) How do you get from the monetary-based system to a resource-based system? A roadmap would be, um, useful here. I think that is the largest obstacle…can’t get there from here. They give some nebulous, rebellious steps that are too vague and too dangerous to implement. The other stuff is idealistic: should the system go bankrupt. Do you think this will ever happen? Probably not.
4) Who decides which direction the technology goes? That person would be a dictator. Enter special interest and the flawed human nature to fuel it. Enter the sheeple to propogate it and allow it to happen.
5) Similarly, since resources are not limitless, as they would have you believe, who directs who gets resources that are not plentiful to all? Enter special interest and favoritism, and social status.

Didn’t stuff like this fail in The Demolition Man?

Link goes to site…let me know if I overlooked the answers to any of these questions.