Introduction To Resource Based Economy - Automation And Access Abundance
Automation Must Replace Human Labour
As part of Strategic Design, automation (and robotization) must replace all human labour. Despite that the products must be manufactured to be as efficient as possible, also the production process designed to produce these goods must be strategically designed to acquire the highest achievable efficiency to maximize the output. As it has become evident within the last decade, automation in all three economic sectors has made many people unemployed. Automation increases productivity, which means that productivity is inverse to employment. Although in monetary system it may look that making people lose their jobs due automation is not socially responsible, but from scientific point of view it is actually socially irresponsible not to automate. That is because automation can create an abundance. In existing monetary system the corporations try to cut the cost of production by replacing their human workers with machines. Although, they can increase production and sell cheaper goods, there are less and less people being able to afford those goods due to lack of purchasing power caused by increase in automation-related unemployment. The corporations by attempting to increase their profits, actually, bring themselves closer and closer to their own demise.
Access Abundance
It is necessary to move from present day system of property into the system of abundance, because we no longer live in the world of scarcity like we used to live in the past. Nowadays, we have technology (and enough resources) to create Access Abundance - a global system of free access to goods and services without a need to use money, for everyone on the planet. Current property and value-based system requires constant hoarding and protection, while Access Abundance is a system of interchangeable access similar to free rental system that you can see in public libraries (or some bicycle hire schemes). For example, it makes no efficient sense for me to store my car or heavy camera equipment if I use it only few hours a week and leave it unused for the rest of the time. It is more logical for me to just go and pick up the necessary product from the distribution centre (that also takes care of its maintenance, repair and updating), when I need it and bring it back when I no longer use it. If you apply this concept to our goods sector, you realize that you can, in fact, reduce production, increase efficiency and reduce the use of resources which, paradoxically, would increase people's access to goods when they need them.
This idea of strategic access may be difficult to accept or comprehend as we have been conditioned by socially dominant, materialistic ideology revolving around requirements for perpetual consumption, employment and acquisition of property. Once you remove these flawed requirements, you realize how much more efficient the system of strategic Access Abundance would be over market-based system of production.
Introducing Access Abundance would also eradicate many socially aberrant behaviors, such as stealing or robbery, for example. There would be no logical sense for anyone to steal a product that you cannot sell to anyone, because it is always easily accessible for free to everyone (just as no-one ever robs the libraries).
Previous articles in this series:
"Introduction To Resource-Based Economy - What Is Wrong With Our Socio-Economic System."
"Introduction To Resource-Based Economy - Inequality Is Good For Monetary "Economy"."
"Introduction To Resource-Based Economy - Cost Efficiency Vs Technological Efficiency."
Book References:
"The Best That Money Can't Buy", Jacque Fresco, The Venus Project 2002.
"TZM Defined: Realizing a New Train of Thought", The Zeitgeist Movement's Lecture Team, 2014.
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