A resource based economy fails due to the same top down structure that makes our current system so bad.

It sounds nice because "science", but really science and the view that progress is king, are fallacies. We are not the most technologically advanced society that has been on this planet.

We can't even argue correctly about climate change. People, scientists even, are still arguing that CO2 is the thing that needs to be measured, when it was shown that it is a following indicator long long long ago. CO2 should have been removed from the discussion long long long ago.

So, I do not believe in a scientific application of redistribution. It doesn't work. No matter how well you divide things up. If you have 8 units of food and 10 people, 2 are going to die. Innovation happens at the individual level and can never be predicted or have a plan made around it. It is the bunch of individuals trying various approaches that can increase productivity to 10 units of food.

To express this in a different way. All of the above structures (pictures) are pretty. And in the same breath, pretty useless. Real usable structures don't look like that. Real usable structures have nooks and crannies. They have individual details everywhere. They have a character every place you look. The structures above only make engineering a bit simpler. Make maintenance a bit easier. But destroy all the humans that would live within them, mandating a boring life.