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wrongsage t1_iqqd59l wrote

Reply to comment by apriorian in Utopia”: meaning ‘no place’; from Greek: οὐ (not’) and τόπος (‘place’) by Sphaerocypraea

Simply because life at its very core is a conversion of energy. That energy needs to be supplied. Since we are talking about a society, one would assume people belonging to such society would help with the resource management and distribution, even to those, who can not directly partake themselves.

How do you run a society without duties and privileges? And what is the goal of such community?

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apriorian t1_iqqg32c wrote

The purpose of man is to create value. There is only one way to do this, through specialization. Equiton is a model community without duties. It is represented by an accounting system using equity in the form of preferred shares contracted to prefers, as a type of currency. Adding value to assets creates equity which represents a credit to the persons account.

Since Equiton is a creation of its citizens it is owned by its citizens who work to add value to the city though specialized activity. Because all persons benefit from the work of adding value there is no benefit to anyone being idle or prevented from working, which means there is no poverty and everyone is well able to pay for the things they need.

(And I am well aware that a two paragraph summary does not exhaust every issue and question regarding a new model of society).

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biedl t1_iqqmdur wrote

Why is the purpose of man to create value? How do you know the purpose of man? How do you know there is purpose to begin with?

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wrongsage t1_iqrq9jy wrote

You need to provide a lot more details than that to make any sense. Because what you wrote does not conclude any of your points you made at the end.

There will be people, who can't produce value, who don't want to, who want to destroy the value instead of creating it. There may be competing societies who run on different systems. Just by having stake in the society (essentially socialism) you do not solve any of those problems.

From the very basics, you need education for any long-term community, and that in and of itself does not do well without duties.

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apriorian t1_iqrvqxt wrote

Am I to understand from this you did not read the essay or you do not know how an experiment is conducted?

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