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Balanced Jobs

  • Is balancing jobs the same as job rotation?
  • What are the benefits of balancing jobs?
  • Won't balancing jobs exclude specialisation and waste scarce talents?

Collective Consumption

  • How is this different to collective consumption by a local government body today?
  • If I don’t use a collective good, do I still pay for it?
  • What things make sense to be consumed collectively?

Consumers' Federations

  • Do representatives in higher councils get paid?
  • How many consumer federation levels would there be?
  • What are the main tasks that consumer federations perform?

General

  • Are there any examples of a Participatory Economy in practice?
  • Are there classes in a Participatory Economy
  • How do we get from here to a Participatory Economy?
  • Is personal freedom sacrificed?
  • Is this a blue-print?
  • Is this compatible with human nature?
  • Isn't there more to life than economics?

Income for Effort

  • Can rewarding effort really be efficient?
  • Isn't it difficult to measure effort or sacrifice?
  • What are the incentives to work?
  • What is the incentive to train or educate yourself?
  • Won’t workers exaggerate their effort?

Income for Need

  • What about Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Basic Services (UBS)?
  • Why not distribute only based on need?

Participatory Annual Planning

  • Can I borrow or save?
  • How is this different to Command Planning?
  • How is this different to Markets?
  • Is there money in a Participatory Economy?
  • Isn’t all this planning time consuming?
  • Will I need to know what to consume one year ahead?

The Consumers' Council

  • How are decisions made in the consumer council?
  • Why do we even need organisations for consumption?
  • Won’t there be too many neighbourhood meetings?

The Workers' Council

  • Can self-management work in larger workplaces with lots of people?
  • How does a workplace hire or dismiss members?
  • What is the incentive for innovation?
  • Won't there be too many meetings?
  • Won’t workers’ self-management exclude expertise?

Workers' Federations

  • How does a workplace gain or lose membership of a federation?
  • How many worker federations will there be?
  • What are the main tasks that federations perform?

Participatory Investment Planning

  • Can I use my personal savings to make investments?
  • How do I get investment for a startup business idea I have?
  • Is there a stock market?

Participatory Development Planning

  • How is this different to how development planning is done today?

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