Letter to Money. Pass it on.
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Gabriel Lambert
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Please watch the Zeitgeist Orientation Presentation, youre view is completely misguided. There is no central planning, if you wanted to give it a name in that sense i would call it dynamic associative-informed based cybernetic planning, you dont fill out forms, you just request whatever you need through whatever interface is available to you. The central resource management system does not control you or any social attributes, it only overseas each city from a global perspective and monitors larger order systems on earth such a weather, solar activity, ocean activity...
Each city has its own brain and production capability, so there it is a decentralized system with centralized oversight.
Jas Garcha
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An RBE is not a centrally planned economy, its more like a participatory economy, where the 'planning' is distributed by having it occur at the level of each individual. By doing this, the information disconnect which exists between the population and the planners in centrally planned economy is overcome because the individual has direct access to the information necessary to plan their economic lives (that information being the individual's own consumption habits). Of course, unlike the standard participatory system, in an RBE the information is not submitted to any particular group of people, but to the automated system. This kind of system is completely voluntary, because even if some people choose not to fill out a survey, the automated system can extrapolate from the available data (perhaps overshooting slightly in order to accommodate uncertainty) to take into account the whole population.
You seem to fall prey to the false dichotomy that anything which is not a Market is Centrally Planned. There are an infinite number of ways to run a society, not just 2. Even if the description I gave here turns out not to be an accurate portrayal of how an RBE turns out, it still doesn't mean that an RBE would default to central planning, particularly as the Internet has given us the option to pursue distributed planning.
As far as the notion that an RBE takes and gives as it sees fit, there is no logic behind this assertion. Participatory survey systems mean that production and distribution is tailor-made for the population, the only thing that is being 'dictated' is that this is done in the most sustainable way possible. If this thought worries you, keep in mind that doing something in the most sustainable fashion is not the opinion of any person, and could therefore be accomplished without enforcing the will of any person or group.
To summarize, your judgement of an RBE is based on a comparison to contemporary systems, but an RBE is fundamentally different from any of these systems. Saying an RBE would be bad by comparing it to cental planning is like finding the circumference of a circle by using pythagorus' theorem