Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Modes of Transition to a Resource Economy

I see several modes of transition that can be used to go from a currency system to a resource system. All these systems start in a profit making mode to increase their sphere of influence and because we're still in a monetary based system, but they don't use currency to trade resources in the system.

Resource Node System:
Entire communities become shareholders in a common, renewable, mostly automated resource site (energy, agriculture, transportation, clothing, housing, etc. producers). All the community owns the resource, and repairs the service and then uses the profits to make other types of resource nodes.

Small Community Construction:
Communities become totally self contained economies. All their resources are provided by the community and no money is used in the community. Profits from the sale of their renewable resources are reinvested to create either larger communities or communities in other areas.

Networks of self reliant individuals:
Individuals go off the grid on their own and help others to go off the grid. Common resources are assessed by the community and on an honor system to be given freely to people in the network or traded to other people. Profits from traded resources are used to increase the size of the network.

Experimental City Construction:
An entire city is constructed with all the needs for a given community is constructed. The city creates wealth initially by creating the best possible products to sell to the outside world. The profits from its products (either from selling their extra renewable resources, their created products, or their labor in testing new products) is reinvested into creating a new experimental city.

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