[ox-en] Fairness + Decentralisation

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Stefan Merten wrote:
> Hi Raoul and all!
>
> 4 minutes ago Stefan Merten wrote:
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>> 3. Another possible solution
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>> As far as there is still not a sufficient ampleness of goods and
>> capacities of production in order to allow free and unlimited
>> distribution, how to restrict the consumption to the prevailing
>> possibilities of production? If we abandon the wage principle: "*to
>> each according to the value of his labor force*"; if we refuse the
>> principle: "*to each according to his work*", what principle to use?
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> I agree that this is the question.
>   
What about "from each according to his wish"?... More equitable rules 
tend to be invidious. If people generally wish things to be fair, this 
principle might in practice be relatively equitable.

> ...To make an example: I think we all know situations when we are torn
> between two options we would love to take but they exclude each other
> for instance because you can't take them both at the same time. I for
> one more often than not have a hard time to decide in such situations.
> If you project this difficulty in my own mind to a societal mechanism
> I think it gets even more complicated.
>   
Life is full of hard choices, which I don't want a system to make for 
me. What I would like from an accounting system is some insight into how 
my choices would affect people.
> The question is whether abuses are possible at all. They are clearly
> possible if you can abuse the system to get more than you actually
> need and then have the ability to sell some way. This would open the
> door for black markets again.
>
> As a consequence you could forbid trade by non-authorized persons
> altogether.
If it were possible for some people to forbid other people's use of a 
system, that assumes variable privileges. It seems to me that such a 
system would be vulnerable to failure/control of a small group 
(superusers/central bankers). I am still more attracted to a 
decentralised design which gave everyone equal access.

Robin
http://altruists.org/ae


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