Robin van Spaandonk wrote: > In reply to Harry Veeder's message of Fri, 12 May 2006 00:19:02 > -0500: > Hi, > [snip] >> >> The article does not say this, but I suspect something like capitalism will >> still be required. A percentage of energy tokens may go unused because >> many people may be happy to consume less than their alloted share. > > Energy is going to be almost "too cheap to meter". The only > eternally valid unit of exchange is the "hour of work", since this > is the only resource which we all value about equally. (The > communists did get something right). Even in Star Trek they > exchange "shifts". >
IMO, as long as work, money, and energy consumption, are culturally linked the "too cheap to meter" dream will never be realised. Even if energy becomes 100 times less expensive, we, as individuals, will find ourselves consuming 100 times more energy. Harry
