I posted a related comment in response to an earli...

2011-10-23T20:05:11.388-04:00

I posted a related comment in response to an earlier blog post on your site, so I won't repeat it here. But essentially, there have always been at least four interwoven economies (subsistence, gift, exchange, and planned -- as well as theft when the social consensus breaks down), and the balance changes with cultural and technological changes.

The most straightforward response to the current crisis is simply a "basic income", or essentially social security for all from birth as a right of citizenship and as compensation for the enclosure of the land and for things like legally created monopolies. This basic income can also replace obsolete compulsory public schooling as it provides time and money for life-long self-education, private schooling, and homeschooling.

There are more options though to expand the subsistence, gift, and planned economies. For lots of details, see my site or this related knol I put together: http://knol.google.com/k/beyond-a-jobless-recovery

Probably fewer jobs, if not jobless. "Jobs&q...

2011-08-07T03:41:41.320-04:00

Probably fewer jobs, if not jobless. "Jobs" are all about an economy in which giant hierarchal institutions -- employers -- act as gatekeepers regulating access to opportunities for production. When an exploding share of forms of production no longer requires high capital outlays -- the main justification for wage employment and large organizations -- production in those areas will be carried out to a much greater extent directly, rather than being mediated by jobs.

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