Rod here.
I'm very interested in the tech being used and I'd like to study more about the designs that have been developed so far. I love the idea of open source and the power of collaborative effort.
The one thing I'd like to suggest is a way to boot strap this effort. If these designs are as efficient as the videos suggest it should be a no brainer as to how to create an income stream and develop a labor force.
Rather than charging a student $10,000 dollars a year to participate in the development of the E-Farm it seems that his sweat equity could help produce saleable goods to earn profit. The school and the student share in the profit. The more efficient the student is at creating enough profit to assist the school the more time he can spend studying or at leisure.
This suggestion has two benefits;
First it allows E-Farm to attract more self directed and motivated students to work with.
Second it give the E-Farm project more control of it's own funding rather than having to rely on the good wishes of those that might (or might not) donate.
Next I’d like to address the question of the social aspect of a developed E-Farm. It seems from the videos I’ve seen so far that there is an effort to design the whole social aspect of the group so that every person has a specific role. This seems akin to trying to write all the specific code to develop AI rather that creating a dynamic framework.
I submit that people are too complex to engineer a place in society for even one person and I doubt that it is even possible for the best and the brightest to engineer a system that will work for any small number of people.
I suggest a flexible outline. Identify the jobs that need to be done and allow any person to do any job. Let demand for each service set the value of the work to be paid to the person that chooses to do that job.
This is a self leveling system. Every need will be met because as the need grows the incentive to get the job done will grow with the need. This allows each person the freedom to choose for themselves the role or roles they will serve within the group and thereby set their own standard of living.
How it works in practice. If a home is being built; the owner of the home bids on the price of the bricks he needs. The brick maker can decide to accept the bid or reject it. If he rejects it any other person that is willing to make bricks for the bid price is welcome to do the job.
If the bricks supplied for the job do not meet the standards of the future home owner he can reject them and the brick maker can them offer those bricks for sale.
This is a standard free market approach that has proven to be the most efficient means for people to work together.
This Forum is Currently Locked – Access is Read Only
Login
Search 
Home
Print this Post 
Topic RSS 
