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". [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://users.bigpond.net.au/rvanspaa/ Competition provides the motivation, Cooperation provides the means.
