Greetings from a "non-VPer."
ladyattis:
Hello, I have a few questions that I hope you can help clarify (perhaps adjust?).
1) How does an RBE handle the calculation problem?
To expand on this question here's the problem that see with RBE systems, even those projected in ZG:A. First, you have to figure out what is really valuable to a person? This holds true for each possible case a person could deduce value on their own (aka the Diamond v Water Paradox). Plus how in each case a person could deduce value in relation to other goods s/he already possesses (marginal utility). Second, how do you figure out what should be made in absence of priority measures? However priority is decided; by timeliness, necessity and/or quantity demanded. This particular problem itself is a common one even for factories today (who have internal/interdepartment quotas and queues), which most resolve to produce either a little less or a little more.
2) How does an RBE handle disagreement from within and without?
Basically, how do you solve issues of domestic and 'international' disputes whether it's over resolves or privileges of access (trade rights, resource rights, and etc)?
3) How does an RBE interact with non-RBEs?
Lets say Earth goes globally an RBE, what if you bump into Ferengi (unlikely, but wth...)? What are the going to be the ab/normal relations with unlike societies per diplomacy?
4) How does an RBE handle secession and/or social diaspora?
Lets assume that some populations on Earth (or elsewhere) flatly refuse to interact or support an RBE in any capacity. What's the normal/average response to such mass civil discord?
That's all I have at the moment, thanks in advance.
