RE: Introduction To Resource-Based Economy - What Is Wrong With Our Socio-Economic System.
For example, finding ways of providing food and medical care to vast amounts of people living in poverty is a technical issue not political.
That is simply false. While the creation of food itself may be technical problem, the solution would require a reallocation of ressources and that is certainly political. Reallocation means taking away somewhere, be it by taxation, by inflation or unpaid/voluntary work.
While your view certainly sounds idealistic it is, sadly, also completely unrealistic.
Full automation can create abundance. Yes, it can. But someone needs to build those automatons and they wont do it for free, even if they wanted to. There's a cost to everything, monetary or time.
People always forget that someone needs to spend time implementing their ideas.
So untill robots are somehow self-producing, this will not work.
Also, the scientific method has never, ever actually created a product. It created the basis for products. Then the scientist - or more often someon else - turned it into a practical solution in form of a product. That is unfair, but it is what happens. Practical application requires a different mindset and it's not the scientific method.
Even if the robots make themselves, they have to get materials from somewhere.
Indeed, that is another point. I'll have to be mined from someones land. Or an asteroid, but that would require someones rocket...
1st. You missed the point. You premise is false. You give examples of political management in monetary based system built around pseudoscience of economics. I am not sure if you read carefully but RBE DOES NOT revolve around the movement of money. Resources are real, money is an idea based on belief. It only exist because people believe it does and has value. Relocation of resources does not require monetary medium to allocate resources. That is what RBE does - intelligently allocates resources without use of money.
2nd. Nowhere it is claimed that RBE would be introduced right away, immediately. It is impossible and unscientific. There has to be transitional period.
3rd. No everyone needs money to work. Vast amounts of people volunteer fir free for betterment of society or environment. Those who work for monetary reward, do it so they can exchange those notes for necessities of life. When you satisfy necessities of life through technological abundance, the concept of money does nit make sense.
4th. Who has said that Scientific Method created a product. It does nit make sense. It is a method of assessing natural phenomena. What creates products is technology. New technologies are often developed after scientific discoveries.
I recommend learning more what RBE actually is before projecting assumptions.