Transitioning away from monetary economics to a resource based economy will be a multi-step process. It will require a significant shift in the way we think about our planet and the interconnected relationships we as a species have with it, life in general and each other. This can be facilitated, in part, by expanding our understandings of the natural world and the information planetary and human sciences have to share with us.
Initiate a campaign aimed at making people aware of our social potential and explaining how we plan to get there from here. Adopt complete transparency in the way decisions are arrived at and strive to address questions and concerns as they arise. Maintain a platform which will allow people to get involved and help with the entire process. Establish a system of open learning, so anyone with interest can have access to free education and expand their own understandings in subjects which interest them.
All media will be used to expose people to this new emergent direction and celebrate our solutions and golden innovations.
A global survey of available resources, technical personnel, production plants, arable land etc. will be done to provide us with sufficient information in order to ascertain the parameters of social design. During the initial phase the cybernated system being developed will serve as a data bank to tell us what is available. This will enable us to proceed with the designs.
A transition from a system of distribution facilitated by any form of monetary means will require assessment of efficiencies. In order to understand and gauge the efficiency of any behavior we will also need to collect data in relation to resource availability. Once we have an awareness of resource availability, including resource regeneration, we can test use vs. outcomes and establish an efficiency for each use of any resource.
Identify all human needs for life in the 21st century. These may include water sanitation, food, shelter, health, communication etc. Grade these needs based on life sequence value, that is to say what are the people in any particular area in greatest need of at the current time in relation to maintaining life. In one area this may be housing, while in another it is water sanitation. This process should include public polling to identify and understand what is desired by people and establish minimum required production levels.
Here we create a database of companies/organisations which are designing and/or producing items that have either proved to be the most efficient in the product range or are absolute needs. Generate design protocols which prioritize the need for ease of maintenance, upgrade-ability, recycle-ability, durability optimized against use, and aesthetic manipulation where applicable. Include automation companies which can assess and develop production sites for optimized efficiency.
Maintain an open source platform to allow designers to submit ideas and criticisms at a global level, facilitating continual product improvement and creating an atmosphere of global collaboration.
The global community will agree to no longer use money in ONE DAY. We will have been preparing as to make sure the necessary systems are in place to support this immediate transition. As well as activating Copiosis, where economic activity will be monitored by an all volunteer “Payer organization” made up of people who are experts in their fields. These “Payers” gather data used to determine how much NBR is awarded. Net benefit is awarded only after it is quantifiably shown how people and the planet have been made better off. People can redeem their net benefit rewards for luxury items beyond the basic necessities, which are given to all for free. People may also receive net benefit reward for offering luxury items, so long as the consumption of those luxury items does not create a negative net benefit to society. Net benefit reward is both virtual and non-transferable, meaning only the person who owns the net benefit reward can redeem the rewards for luxury goods and services. Once the net benefit reward is redeemed, that particular NBR is retired.
The research departments throughout the world will be assigned the tasks of developing alternative systems and materials to overcome shortages. One must remember that the research and development does not depend on funding and resources will be assigned where most needed so development will be tremendously accelerated.
Clean sources of energy will be a priority in all of the infrastructure. Energy will come from wind, solar, heat concentrators, photovoltaic, wave, biomass, geothermal and other sources.
Creating departments that can act immediately in the event of any unforeseen events.
Manufacturing would be automated by "on-demand" systems. Where an item is desired it would be "designed" utilizing user-friendly software/interfaces. A final design would be transmitted to an automated manufacturing system for production. Manufactured items would be sent to the consumer direct by means of the automated capsule pipeline network. Unlike today under capitalism, manufactured items would be free of charge, and optimally made with respect to longevity. Planned obsolescence, and artificial scarcity, would be eliminated.
Construct a fully autonomous transportation system consisting of pipelines through which capsules convey both cargo and passengers at very high speed.
Housing and land will become the property of all. It will be distributed fairly so that all will have shelter or land on which to construct shelter. The latter can be undertaken by automatic "3D" house-building "printers" utilizing materials obtained without causing environmental or ecological harm. All land under the RBE would be considered as common heritage of all the world. The introduction of the RBE would negate all monetary based requirements for land ownership, thus freeing this most fundamental resource
Establish fully automated food production facilities. These could consist of soil-less indoor grow systems, and/or conventional outdoors farming (sans toxic agri-chemicals). Both systems would incorporate autonomous harvesting technology.
Very little waste would be produced. Any "disposable" packaging, and the like, would be made entirely from plant derived polymers, and recyclable material. Composting would be the dominant waste management mode.
Automate healthcare. With the availability of free healthy food for all, the dissolution of the capitalistic marketing of health-harming foods of the sort that currently dominate standard diets, public health would improve significantly. Furthermore, with automated transport, the ending of employment, and automated manufacturing; with safety considerations increased (made possible by the dissolution of monetary restrictions in this respect), and the widespread implementation of health & safety aids (predictive, advisory, and control software & hardware), and with increased education, the reduction in stress, and anxiety promoting factors, the current need for healthcare would be decimated.