Resource- based economy versus the Free Market

yeah so I checked out project venus, that is straight communism. If you don't know how communism ends. Please wiki the revolutions of 1989.

The thing that I found most poignant about Project Venus was that is mention utilizing technology to solve all our problems. Communism has been proven to slow innovation to a crawl, because problems are not actually solved in communism by innovating, instead they are solved by dumping resources, mainly labor, at the problem. Project Venus would suggest that we are at the end point of our technological advancements and should 'rest on our laurels' so they say.

Edit: I do think that it is always a good thought experiment to think of how we can improve and disrupt our current way of life. Unfortunately Project Venus is just the same book with a different title.

As to a true resource based economy, IDK, I have a feeling that project venus isn't doing that term justice. If we are a service based economy, I would think a resource based economy would be one that produces/exports mainly resources as a large % of their GDP.

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Still, I find their assertion that competition is conditioned compelling, even if I don't agree with it. How much of our economy and social structure is inevitable, do you think?

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That is a great question. I personally think that our economy and social structures to a large part are inevitable because they are based on survival, or maybe one can argue, maslow's hierarchy of needs. Now as science and technology advance our social structures and economy will evolve with our progression, but to have such a huge radical shift like project venus is talking about would require amazing advancements in robotics, automation, and A.I as well as mass implementation of all these things into our daily lives.


My argument against the assertion that competition is conditioned is that we see it not just in our own economy, but in hundreds of economies throughout the world. We can see which ones flourish and which ones don't. Additionally we have thousands of cultures so we can see which ones create advancements in technologies, science, the arts, etc. We also see it in the wild, some animals cooperate in small groups which compete against each other for food. But we also see large amounts of competition within those groups too, mating, pecking order, food, etc.