Resource-Based Economy: Could it work?

[BigTom]

I wasn't proposing that we adopt RBE wholesale according to the ideas of the Zeitgeist Movement. And an economy that is literally fully-automated, with no human involvement at all is probably impossible. If that is what they mean. I assumed they just meant a bit more automation than we have at present.

No, the impression that I've got is that everything is automated, and no-one has to work. I didn't round to asking how the machines are made, installed and maintained.

As for the problems with food production, that is a separate issue, nothing to do with RBE or any other economic system.

Except that the system of food production proposed by the zeitgeist people I've spoken to involves the use of oil based fertilisers as far as I can work out. This makes it a particular issue for the zeitgeist proposals, without it they are reliant on technology that doesn't exist to automate organic/permaculture methods of production.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

No, the impression that I've got is that everything is automated, and no-one has to work. I didn't round to asking how the machines are made, installed and maintained.

Self replicating Drexler nano recyclers?