Where are the 21st century thinkers and leaders whom should be proposing and implementing such plans?
A group of scientists and educators, back in the early 1900s, conducted a 10 year survey and did some math to document an accounting system they call "Technocracy". In this proposed system, education is the primary industry and the conduit for production, and ever improving technology is a key factor in the design.
They had estimated that if the north american continent were properly organized, it would only require 4 hours of contribution, 4 days a week, plus an additional 2.5 months off of vacation time per person in order to match or exceed the supplies to demands. Top notch free education in your field of choice would occur in the early years until one was ready to apprentice and professionalize their skill, work from ages 25-45, then retire (if you'd like). And, the more people contributed, or technology improved, the less hours collectively would be required to meet the demands. On top of that, everything would be open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and shared freely. Not everyone would be required to work, actually, with ever improving technology, the objective is to reduce the number of hours and number of people required to supply the demands. Because competition has been removed and replaced with cooperation, and education as the backbone of production, our consumables would be the most technologically advanced products we could possibly imagine by the most educated, practiced, and celebrated of us, all while using the most efficient means possible to reduce waste and unnecessary duplications.
What they basically did was build an accounting system to balance loads by math to match or exceed the supplies to the demands. They understood that its all about measuring the demands and efficiently organizing the cooperative to meet production through education and ever advancing technology.
Of course, discipline is still required. Because everything is free, it doesn't mean you should have 20 babies and overpopulate and burden the loads. Education and communication could help curb abuse. There is only a finite limit to resources and balance must be achieved (or improved technology created to expand or eliminate the limits). Abuse aside, this balance could actually provide for an overabundance for everyone within the boundaries of the resources, provided education, communication, and proper accounting is achieved.
Seems logical, doesn't it?
I'm not saying that this is THE plan of all plans. What I'm acknowledging is it is A logical plan that makes sense in a world where people are trying to maximize production and meet demands when resources are being equally shared in an ever evolving technology advanced civilization without the necessity for enslaving the population to a trade or price or competition system which would only serve to limit Human development and cause unnecessary imbalance, waste, and duplication across a population.
So I ask again, where are the 21st century thinkers and leaders whom should be proposing and implementing logical real world plans to address logical real world problems?
