Forum Post: "Systems"

The systems model we are using are what is wrong. Our current economic system is mechanistic (based on transfer of resources through a process, resulting as product, with inherent loss in the system [entropy]) "Profit" is derived from the product, and loss is termed "waste." The only known mechanistic systems are man-made. We need to build a new economy based on an organic systems model, where instead of "profit" and "waste" there is growth and decline. There is no "profit" and there is no "waste" in nature because one organism's "trash" is another organism's "treasure." Entropy in an organic system can be thought of as "internal complexification." Organic systems are the only naturally occurring physical systems, and unlike mechanistic systems they have built in feedback functions that check the growth, and ease the decline.

We need an organic economic system where the capital is locally controlled, but tallied as a whole across the nation. In a system like the value is based on the product of work, and the potential of the workforce, instead of credited debt. There is inflation and deflation, but it is directly linked to the production and size of the workforce. The size of our currency would replace GDP. This system would necessarily have to be completely democratic, and self-regulating.

We would also have to collectively make a decision on what must be shared, and what can be traded in order to protect our natural world and the rights of individuals. We would need to decide what a person "needs" and what a person can "want." Two conjoined markets would need to be created, one a "shared" market of common resources and services, the other a "traded" market of human-made commodities.