I have noticed that many Steemians have never heard of, or explored in more detail the concept of Resource-Based Economy (RBE), so I decided to start a series of articles that hopefully will help you to better understand this subject.
Introduction To Resource-Based Economy - What Is Wrong With Our Socio-Economic System
Moneyless system.
What is Resource-Based Economy. Simply, it is an application of Scientific Method for social and environmental concern. This economic system is based on intelligent, strategic management of Earth's resources as opposite to management through the movement of money (like in current, so-called "economic system"). It is the system which takes direct reference from the physical world in order to find ways and solutions that would be the most strategically efficient and sustainable for meeting the needs of humanity. It is a truly economic system, because it is designed around scientific understanding of natural laws.
Governance within the box.
In current social system the governance is imposed either by a single individual or a group of individuals through political or business mechanisms. The whole government is an actual political and business entity. The history has repeatedly proven that whenever there are any problems with with current governance, one group of people simply tries to blame the other. New government blames the previous one, democrats blame conservatives, liberals blame left, and so on. Seldom we ever hear any criticism of the social system itself. The existence of this system seems to be unconditionally taken for granted as presupposed entity, where business and politics are perceived as so something intrinsic to human nature.
What is wrong with the current "economic" system.
The degradation of natural world with global warming is intensifying. The poverty level and gap between the rich and poor are growing. The number of people with mental health disorders, including addictions, is on the rise. Violence is pervading the world and wars are ongoing. Earth's resources are being depleted and wasted. Myriads of people die every hour from preventable diseases. This is just to name few problems affecting humanity every day. There are many other social and environmental problems that don't seem to improve, while many new ones keep showing up.
Regardless all of these issues, almost no-one seems to admit that foundations of this socio-economic system may be questionable. There is complete lack of recognition that the structure of this system seems to reinforce or reward certain aberrant and unsustainable behaviour.
The only area that has not been affected by science.
Never ending increase of human knowledge, ingenuity and development of new technologies have been inseparable part of our species since its dawn. Humanity has experienced a dissolution of many different forms of superstition and detrimental social practices. This progress has brought us up to true age of enlightenment with its scientific understandings of the natural laws that directly govern all aspects of our life. The scientific evolution has brought us immense amount of technology that surrounds us every day. While we take advantage of the products arriving from these scientific discoveries, there is still one area that has not been affected by science - our socio-economic system.
We still apply outdated methods to govern social affairs that are blatantly inefficient and unsustainable. We rely on and empower politicians to solve our social problems that are clearly of technical not political nature. For example, finding ways of providing food and medical care to vast amounts of people living in poverty is a technical issue not political. Politicians, in general, lack scientific and technical knowledge to understand and solve social and environmental problems, which can be fixed by an intelligent and strategic management and allocation of resources and technology.
This is the end of the first part in the series.
Please follow me to future articles where I will explain other differences between RBE and current social system. Later, I will also focus on different, specific aspects of RBE such as city design, social engineering, automaton of production, etc.
If you would like to learn more right now, please check up The Venus Project.
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