by Tbone
A brief historic overview of the Technocracy technate social movement and the Progressive liberal movement and Libertarian movement in North America.
A comparison of a science based social design based on energy economics, with the current political Price System method of operating a society.
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The "antiquated" market system brought society and the well being of it's people so far above what it had been previously, that it's abolition seems self destructive and silly. The advance of technology, which is our real hope of salvation, must be funded with real currency in a real world. The system is good. The corruption of that system is bad.
Philip Katz:
Speaking of corruption...read the story of the fall of the Roman Republic,
Imperator- Life of Caesar, Books I-VI.
Book VII is on the way.
Tbone:
Spoken like a spokesman of the neo classical Keynes school on nonsense. Google technocracy technate. Real currency? That would be energy but that is not a currency it is an accounting system.
Man Hours and Distribution ...
Man-Hours and Distribution: M. King Hubbert Man-Hours and Distribution which was derived from an ...
Tbone:
People have been trying to reform the Price System since the beginning... and it is not going to reform. Using a money system is pointless at this stage of the world. Energy conversion dwarfs human effort as to 'work'. The labor theory of value is now more of a form of wage slavery than anything. Traditional economics does not account for sustainability as does 'systems ecology'.
Very interesting. I'm far from convinced that tech is the answer to any of our social ills. And Energy Accounting leaves out crucial Skill and Info value. But I've thus far seen just the one article and I do want to know more about these ideas. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Sure wish we had a full-on forum 'round here.
Tbone:
Thanks for your interest. Check out this also http://www.technocracytechnate.org/
Texto interessante!
Tbone:
Thank you. Feel free to ask about more informaiton