Our Future Is Free: The Problems With Money And Possibilities Without It by Greer Matt

Author:Greer, Matt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

For example, you might load the following preferences into the app for next Saturday:

1. Go and watch your team play football

2. Take a boat out with friends

3. Spend a night at a holiday home

If the football stadium holds 60,000 and only 55,000 people want to go, you would get a ticket. However, If 100,000 want to go then it would go to the next measure, contribution. If 80,000 of the 100,000 people are contributors (still more than the 60,000 seats the stadium holds) then we could consider the type of contribution they make. We could reward those doing jobs nobody wants to do (like sewer cleaners) by giving them priority over people doing jobs many people want to do (like travel tour guides).

If after factoring in contribution we still couldn’t determine an appropriate hierarchy to allocate the 60,000 tickets, the remaining tickets would be distributed using the next measure, random allocation. If you aren’t allocated one of the 60,000 tickets, you move to the pool of people wanting your second preference (taking a boat out). The same process is followed until eventually you get to enjoy one of your favoured scarce resources. With this approach we’d have maximum utilisation of scarce resources on any given day.

This approach would ensure far more people get access to far more stuff than they do today. It would enable everyone a realistic opportunity to experience the things most important to them (whether in work or play). Keep in mind, this would only be needed until a given resource is made abundant (or for the occasional things we can never make abundant, such as seats to popular one-off events).

There are many possible approaches to distribute scarce resources without money. This isn’t necessarily the best approach, it’s just one approach that could facilitate a transition.

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