Language: English
another distinguishing feature of id is its distinction between basic and non-basic needs remuneration is according to need for basic needs and according to effort for non-basic needs id is based on the principle that meeting basic needs is a fundamental human right which is guaranteed to all who are in a physical condition to offer a minimal amount of work by contrastfotopoulos argues parecon follows the socialdemocratic rather than the anarcho-communist tradition and instead of proposing satisfaction according to need as the id project does declares first that particular consumption needs such as health care or public parks will be free to all and second that as regards special needs people will be able to make particular requests for need based consumption to be addressed case by case by others in the economy in fact michael albert explicitly states that what he calls norm four ie remuneration according to each persons need should be applied only in exceptional cases of basic needs and not to all needs defined as such by the citizens assemblies as the inclusive democracy project declares thus as albert stresses "beyond economic justice we have our compassion to be applied via norm four where appropriate such as in cases of illness catastrophe incapacity and so on"