infinite desire, limited resources
As I've already posted, there's no actual evidence to support this claim.
To reiterate:
More likely, human desire is instead very large - each human only has a few cupfuls of grey matter to imagine things to desire and that grey matter can only work so quickly. It has been proven that the level of desire where people are happiest has been proven to be quite moderate - in the UK of 2000, it was around £15,000/year worth of consumption, which was below the GDP/capita of the UK at the moment. (It appears that desire is stressful, so at some point the gains of fulfilling more desires is LESS than the stress caused by seeking that fulfillment.)
This is one of those daft ideas that was just plucked out of the air by people 300 years ago and that has hung around like a bad smell since.
Could we live in an abundance of spending 2-3k USD each
According to
here, $100 in 1939 is $1,762.27. That's the
daily resource allocation. 1,762.27*365=643,228.55
$643,228.55 per year would comfortably put you or I in the top 1% of earners in the US today. It is, bluntly, steenkin' rich.
Of course, people would be less able to accumulate wealth, since you couldn't spend your resource allocation on buying the means of production, so $643,228.55 per year worth of energy credits wouldn't exactly be like having this sort of income in today's America is. If Technocracy was implemented "by the book" there'd be no savings and no investments. It would be enough to cover most any medical emergency or reasonable requirement for education, services or physical goods a family might have just out of the basic stipend for one person.
Personally, I think a smaller stipend of energy credits combined with some sort of retail banking and insurance industry would be healthier.
but then some are really fearful because its giving away a lot of power to untested systems.
Burkean conservatism (which can be summed up as: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater by getting too radical too fast) has a few saltmines worth of grains of truth in it.
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