Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 20:52:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: ParEcon


--- Tom Messmer <messmer-AT-endpage.com> wrote:
 Personally I can't imagine a society
> which does not ask its 
> members to contribute materially in some way. Can
> you suggest a way 
> this could be done effectively in a society with
> what you refer to as 
> "free production"?

This is an interesting topic. First of all, it seems
important that there be a guaranteed income for all.
Second of all, if everyone works, then there is less
work for all, different than the present system in
which a lot of people can't find work and the rest
bust their ass.

Now we can imagine that with freer access to
education,etc that enough people would want to study
medicine, engineering, etc. even if these weren't so
highly remunerated vis a' vis other members of
society...However, on a funny note, who the hell is
going to want to be a mortician?

-Thomas



====<<Be like me!  The Primal Mother, eternally creative, eternally impelling into life,
    eternally drawing satisfaction from the ceaseless flux of phenomena.>>
    -Nietzsche, "The Birth of Tragedy"

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