diff --git a/crash_course_socialism.md b/crash_course_socialism.md index 68fda85..447aa96 100755 --- a/crash_course_socialism.md +++ b/crash_course_socialism.md @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ Past and present socialist/anarchist societies include - [Revolutionary Cataloni [Ward Wilson - The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan … Stalin Did](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:832c59dd7fc6dcf76801dd0230d080c015d08d71&dn=Ward+Wilson+-+The+Bomb+Didn%26rsquo%3Bt+Beat+Japan+Stalin+Did&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fzer0day.ch%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.demonii.com%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969) -
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All goods / services are valued by their **composite labor time** ( in labor voucher hours, see below ). Factor in depreciation and education into cost. For example, a smartphone might cost 0.5 labor hours. Goods that have neglible marginal cost ( ~ 0 labor hours ) would be free. - Open, publicly funded research and development is shared by all, with the goal of **decreasing the labor time cost** of every good. -- Workers are paid in labor vouchers per hour work performed. Working 8 hours would earn you 8 LVH ( labor voucher hours ). Multipliers *may* be used if certain work is deemed more necessary, or dangerous, but most likely limited by a certain ratio to foster community. +- Workers are paid in labor vouchers **per hour work performed**. Working 8 hours would earn you 8 LVH ( labor voucher hours ). Multipliers *may* be used if certain work is deemed more necessary, or dangerous, but most likely limited by a certain ratio to foster community. - Goods are sold in public shops. -- Shop managers are instructed to adjust labor prices so that all goods are sold. While a good selling out is itself an indicator of demand, adjusting by a certain limited ratio gives more demand information, and prevents unwanted goods from going to waste. +- Shop managers are instructed to **adjust labor prices so that all goods are sold**. While a good selling out is itself an indicator of demand, adjusting by a certain limited ratio gives more demand information, and prevents unwanted goods from going to waste. - Each good now has a ratio of its *sold labor time* to actual labor time cost. - If goods are selling *above* their actual labor cost ( ratio > 1 ), that means society wants *more* labor allocated to produce that good. Below that means they want less labor allocated. - Planners adjust output targets based on this demand. -- Planners do material balances to derive gross output requirements. +- Planners do material balances to derive gross output requirements ( raw materials + intermediate materials + labor ). Input-output tables are solved using linear algebra. - They compare these requirements with the *actual resources* available. Some of these might be set by environmental constraints, or limited quantities. - Population uses direct democracy to vote on how much labor to allocate to non-consumer goods ( see below ). - They see if the final output targets can be met, and if not, go back to the adjust output targets step. @@ -23,14 +23,29 @@ Taken from his book, [Towards a New Socialism](http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottr ### Labor vouchers - Earned by workers. 1 LVH = 1 Labor Voucher Hour earned per hour of work. -- Attached to a single person / family, likely through a credit card. -- Can only be exchanged for consumer goods. + +- Attached to a single person / family, likely through a credit card. + +- Can only be exchanged for consumer goods. You cannot transfer them to another person. Buying absentee property is illegal. + - Are destroyed after being used in shops. + - Possibly destroyed after a certain amount of time ( to prevent hoarding ) +- Labor time across the economy is preserved. If there are 6 million working people in a country : + + - Labor ministry issues 6 million person-years vouchers to workers. + + - ``` + 0 = Labor hours used producing non-consumer goods ( 2 million person-years ) + labor hours used in consumer goods production ( 4 million person-years ) = cost of goods in shops ( 4 million person-years ) + ( 2 million person-years cancelled for social tax bin ) + ``` + + - Workers spend 4 million in the shops, social income tax of 2 million ( to provide for social services ), and the 6 million labor hours are fully canceled. + + - This defetishizes consumer-producer relations, since you can see exactly how human labor is being allocated, and spent. + ### Direct democracy for non-consumer goods - New enterprises, entertainment, research and development, social services are all examples of non-consumer goods. - +- Society votes on how much labor to devote to social services: education, health care, child care, environmental protection, national defense. If a country has 6 million adult workers, it might allocate 2 million people to non-consumer goods. - Major strategic decisions taken democratically by all the interested population. Minor decisions left to planners. Information open to all, voting available to all. -- Society votes on how much labor to devote to social services: education, health care, child care, environmental protection, national defense.