I'm a Utopian idealist - prove me wrong!

First of all, thank you AdCiv for bringing in this interesting topic. Arguments: I would like to state that I must agree with you. In an ideal world, with amount of manpower and resources that would be quite high, nowhere near what we can muster at the moment, this economical theory would be quite useful. However, we are not in an ideal world. I will state below why: "Quote" The apparent scarcity of water, oil, food etc. can easily be overcome by applying the know-how we have to increase production or decrease consumption. To take one example, the apparent 'water crisis' can be neutralized by desalinating seawater with nanofilters. Our planet's surface ifs 69% water, so as long as we apply our know-how in utilising that water, there is no way we can run out. Similar logic applies to all essential resources. There is no reason to ration our resources any more, because they are so abundant at everyone can take their fill and there'll be plenty for everyone. "End of quote" First of all, the apparent scarcity of oil is not "apparent". Oil is used is many energy producing factories in nowadays technologies, and the direct impact is the loss of the said oil. In short term, we will come to lack oil as other energy resources are either high priced and therefore unavailable to most of in-development countries. The same problem applies to water. Even tough 69% of our planet is water, only 2 percents are drinkable. And only 0,65% are in surface and easy of access. For your alternative, we might be able to treat it so it can be non-saline and therefore potable, but it considers considerable amounts of energy, time, and money. Aspects that most in-development countries lacks. As for the food resource, I will come back on this point later on. Also, the said theory lack two major points: Long term effects and Investments. As you already probably noticed, the changes proposed by the theory requires large amounts of investments and a change of economic process, therefore cutting off the country from import/export. Also, this will require everyone to be specialist in every single matter. As for an example, you cannot treat someone that suffered an injury or serious disease "on the spot" with Internet-related knowledge only. And you can't have a medicine unit ready to treat someone in time, unless your industry is instantaneous. Which is obviously not the case. Another fact with your theory that does not compute well and work out is the raw materials management. We do indeed have large amounts of those, scattered around the globe. The main problem with it is that it's either untreated, such as iron coped with minerals, or too far buried to be of any use. The unsolved problem with the use of automatism to treat and extract those is that they will eventually need repairs and continuously use amounts of energy. For the first case, we do not yet possess the required technology for the self repairs capabilities, and even with it there would be need of a maintenance crew in case this precise piece breaks down. My last point will point out the long term effects. Even with the management you proposed, there will be a lack in resources some day, due to the simple overpopulation that will occur. With idea resources management you can indeed treat a vast numbers of human beings-- Up to 12-13 billions. But the fact is, that even with that management, we will outer pass this number some day, and it will lead to the precise situation you tried to avoid with the theory: It will lead to a "you or me" situation with people taking advantage of the situations to the detriments of others. I'm eager to wait for your answer.