I know my eyesight is bad, but I am just not seeing these issues addressed in post #1. But no matter, I think you are dramatically insulting current public sector workers if you are proposing that random civilians without expertise and experience can do current public sector job responsibilities in 2-3 hours a day of volunteer work.Elder wrote:Please reread the OP and you will find that ALL of these questions are already answered there.LuckyR wrote:For example, there are huge, I mean really huge parts of the current public sector that according to the OP would not be part of the new public sector, so what becomes of them? Are they switched to the private sector? Are they dropped altogether? I am speaking of say the military, the justice system, the penal system, roads, the post office, ports, regulatory agencies, education the list is quite long and the topics covered most would agree are critical to basic civilization as we know it.
The public sector is self contained, covering EVERYTHING that is required to satisfy basic needs, including police, firemen, etc., etc., etc.
No military is assumed in the scenario because, if at all it can ever be implemented, no military would be needed any more.
Again, the question is if you would like to live in a world as I described? Would it be better, fairer, more sustainable than the one we have now?
This is not communism I am proposing (even though a lot of people did take it seriously at one time or another -- some still do). This is a compromise situation that provides for both of our emotional needs: freedom and compassion.
If we don't consider something that was never tried before, we are destined to keep going around in circles, trying the same old and failed 'solutions' until we run out of time.
It is possible to think and look outside the box we have been locked in all our lives.
If your system was magically implemented, I would imagine that surrounding countries would either empty as their citizens streamed across the border to your country, or the neighboring country's leader attacked to quash this source of revolution within their own country. Nope, I think you're going to need a military.