RE: FUTURE ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION

I think that many of us see a change of vast proportions, and that the economic value of the individual is in question when we discuss consumption goods.

Our assertion is that we will need fewer poeple in production distribution and trade, and will be able to shift those people to the production of commons.

Think of the use of people in egypt on one hand, to the soviet experience, to village polity of the middle ages england, to contemporary america on the other.

This forms a spectrum between central organization of production of goods and commons to the distributed production.  But the allocation of the population within that spectrum between private and public goods is variable.

So we have two dimensions to play with as humans: the dominant means of organization, and the application of people variable.

So I don’t really see these potential futures as ‘challenges’ I see them as questions of practical necessity.

Our organization recommends all peoples base their polities on natural law, while the means of political decision making and the means of economic organization must be flexible and the polity’s ability to adapt politically and economically a choice built into the political order (constitution).

So the future if it manifests as a decrease in the necessity of people to be allocated to production, then it just means we allocate people to the production of commons.

Right now there is a terrible failure to maintain the commons – whereas much of europe remains an open air museum.  And that investment into the commons creates a better environment for all, and a greater common interest for all.