A Resource Based Economy is better than Free Markets

Money as an incentive: In a RBE money’s “implicit value” does not apply. 1. Part of true human incentive is our curiosity. This has been true ever since we were kids. Kids constantly want to explore and learn things without being offered $$$; Heck they don’t even know or use money until a certain age. Incentive for money isn't inborn. It is taught to us as we grow older in the monetary system.2. $$$ is just a technology created by human beings & was never in nature to begin with.Competition/trade: Yes free trade was beneficial in the past because 1. Advanced technologies today did not exist before. 2. The world wasn’t a global economy. It was the "survival of the fittest" & "divide and conquer". A RBE wouldn’t have been a good system during that time. In an age of information/technology/energy abundance, exchanging for other stuff will no longer be necessary since someone can just as easily obtain/access what another person has. “Being profit driven was inherent to human nature”, not money. Thanks for clearing it up & yes I agree we are all “profit-driven” beings, & want to have a net positive/personal gain for ourselves. Though, personal gain doesn’t necessarily only imply material things, but also things that really matter to us as human beings such as receiving love & companionship from family/friends, free time, and honing talents. Humans are social beings and cannot live only to profit for themselves. “No man is an island.” You can have all the things in the world but if you’re the only person left, what good do all those things do? You have no one to share/enjoy it with which won’t give you happiness. Humans are only as “profit-driven” for things as much as they have people to enjoy it with. Money can be exchanged for any physical things but it can’t buy true friendship & love. Today a lot of women marry rich men for their money, which is expected in a monetary system. In a RBE people will inherently have better moral values such as loving & respecting other people for who they are, rather than how much money or things they have. Electric Cars: Con is ignoring the fact that implementing renewable energy will essentially eliminate CO2 emissions because it’s clear that no business can profit from free abundant renewable source of energy. Manufacturing electric cars will be CO2 free. Today, financial cost is why renewable energies have been struggling to be implemented & also since there’s less profit in it in the long run. The question shouldn’t be “Do we have the money?”, but rather “DO WE HAVE THE RESOURCES?” The answer is YES. Today the military industry uses up so much resources to build weapons, drones, WOMD, etc. which all their purpose are to end lives. Imagine how much better our world would be if we used all those resources for creation instead of destruction. Today we are using technology many for the wrong purposes since it’s profitable. Access Vs. Ownership – Relatively, we wouldn’t need as much cars because let’s say people work 8 hours a day. Those 8 hours you are not using your car, someone else could have been using it; it’s called sharing and it’s efficiently making the most out of available resource. This can apply to almost any item, not just cars. It saves resources from being wasted because stuff are not just sitting around on a shelf/garage/parking lot, but being used; that’s what it was made for. Supplies will be efficiently shared so it will be used all the time & nothing is wasted. If the demand grows for certain items, then computer algorithms will intelligently calculate how much more we need to make based on the current data. 1. Scarcity: Yes scarcity will always exist since we live in a finite planet, but a RBE significantly reduces this issue by efficiently & intelligently managing the Earth’s resources (supply) with technology & renewable energy, and determining the current population demand. Whether RBE or Free Market, people will always have unlimited wants, BUT people only have so much capacity & obviously don’t have enough time to spend with all their unlimited wants. Ex: You can’t ride 10 ars simultaneously. You can’t play guitar while playing Xbox while driving...you get my point? While we may have unlimited wants we can only focus on one or two activities at a time; thus you would only use limited amount of items at a certain time. But a flaw of a free market is that consumers have to perpetually buy & consume products even if there isn't enough respurces available. We cannot have exponential monetary economic growth in a finite resource planet. 2. “We have too large of a population for that to be determined, and for that to be true, much more would need to be produced.” An RBE would take a survey of every person's realistic demand with the help of computers, internet, and data management systems (technology, it’s amazing isn’t it). Again technology will keep track of who wants to use which items at what time & their current availability. Of course it’s not fixed but computers adjust to live data & updates automatically. This is part of what’s called “The Internet of Things”.3. “Supply and demand is the best way to determine how much should be produced”Supply & Demand still also applies in a RBE; the population cannot live above the aggregate resources available. As I have said before, technology keeps track of the total supply and demands.CONCLUSION: Significantly more progress in a RBE than free market.-100% renewable energy-latest tech./things will be built to last for as long as possible, unlike planned obsolescence in a Free Market.-smart, efficient management/distribution of resources.-Eliminates hunger/diseases/violence/crime. -Human potential & creativity is unleashed with the liberation from boring daily meaningless jobs.Sources: RBE vs. Libertarianism: http://tinyurl.com... Disruptive tech.: http://www.mckinsey.com...