{"id":24722,"date":"2017-10-16T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24722"},"modified":"2017-10-16T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T17:13:49","slug":"left-forum-hosts-dr-paul-cockshott-on-cybersocialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/10\/16\/left-forum-hosts-dr-paul-cockshott-on-cybersocialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Left Forum hosts Dr Paul Cockshott on Cybersocialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube<\/em> has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LtlZys7QOO4\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Left Forum hosts Dr Paul Cockshott on Cybersocialism<\/a>.  This video was suggested to me when I complained that I had never heard an explanation on the idea of a Resource Based Economy that I could fully understand.  The part that always got me confused was the idea of getting rid of money and replacing it with a resource basis.  I just could not figure out what such a replacement would be that was not money.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LtlZys7QOO4?rel=0\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>I have watched most of the video by Cockshott on Cybersocialism. The only part I didn&#8217;t finish was the Q &#038; A section. There are some very interesting ideas presented here, but there is a certain amount of naivete, inconsistency, and pure factual errors here. I don&#8217;t mean to say that you have to throw out everything he said, but I am saying you cannot accept everything he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the talk he took pains to explain that you could not measure an entire economy based on a single factor like labor. He then proposes a system that is based only on labor hours worked.  (In other words labor backed money instead of money backed by something else such as gold.)<\/p>\n<p>By the way, my background includes 40 years of computer software engineering. I am well familiar with linear programming as he mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>I was pleased to see the electronic voting system he proposed has fundamental similarities to my proposal that I published on my blog in 2012, <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2012\/11\/05\/making-electronic-voting-transparent\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Making Electronic Voting Transparent<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Left Forum hosts Dr Paul Cockshott on Cybersocialism. This video was suggested to me when I complained that I had never heard an explanation on the idea of a Resource Based Economy that I could fully understand. The part that always got me confused was the idea of getting rid of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24723,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24722\/revisions\/24723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}