The pinnacle of progress (stage 3) is achieved once the market (stage 2) proves ubiquitous demand and the possibility of ubiquitous supply.
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A couple of required mechanisms: 1. A cap on the total size of markets This ensures human progress and the security and protection of nature and vital assets, by necessitating that ubiquitous demands move out of the market and into mass autonomous / cheaply managed supply.
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Example: energy. It's clear we can move this to stage 3 rapidly. This moves energy production out of the market mechanism, into near-ubiquity of demand & supply. The total market size shrinks - but creates a chunk of market to be filled. Good capitalists should rub their hands.
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Mechanism 2: - A ban on damaging forms of provision which have been superceded e.g. moving energy to stage 3 negates the need for oil, gas & coal. This one may kick in before mechanism 1, whilst the market is still useful for developing the technology to move to stage 3.
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Another example: Take genetic engineering. If stage 2 is the pinnacle, then homo economicus will create copies of nature's wonders that are unable to reproduce; in order that what used to be abundant is now scarce, which = printing money.
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Whereas if stage 3 is the pinnacle, homo ingenuicus will create new life forms, for example, which construct the now man-made built environment - eradicating the need for labour & man-made, scarcely-managed materials - and so will create streets, homes & cities for all, for free.
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Mechanism 3: - Monopolies ban in s2, with exceptions Monopolies aren't good market mechanisms. However, if orgs that wish to dominate a sector demonstrate near-ubiquity of demand & supply, and will transition themselves to s3, a monopoly may be beneficial to ubiquitous scale.
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Mechanism 4: - Luxury goods & services will always be market items; with exceptions Over time, if a good or service achieves ubiquity, by definition that good or service can no longer be a luxury. e.g. the smartphone. At the point of near-ubiquity, luxury status is removed.
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That one is involved, because it might need to be the case for a particular sub-type of good or service rather than a whole class of good or service. e.g. an iPhone 10 is still a luxury item; a standard Android variant is not.
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Mechanism 4a might be: Prove sufficient difference between product iterations / lines in order to demonstrate some sort of step-change in progress is being made. Otherwise, this thing is stage 3 - post-market. aka "be a better capitalist" & "minor product iterations aren't it".
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Great stuff. Talking about this often riles people up, but the unsustainability of global capitalism is undeniable, and a sustainable future planet requires these conversations to be had
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Replying to @cosimia_
Thanks, appreciated. I did make this non-political party (it helps I don't really think in those terms anymore), but it is inevitably at least in part a political set of proposals. Although I also think each stage should involve a healthy pluralism of delivery models.
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Replying to @antonjw
One of the great ironies of our time is that there is no market for alternative economic systems. (...and the capitalist ideologues promptly vanished in a puff of logic.) If we can't talk about alternative economic systems, we are screwed. Not only that, we need to build them.
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