StarLord
Senior Member
The Perfect Nation
Phoenix,
Al relates that there is a form of 'money' to be exchanged for personal desires. As a society that has little "personal posesions or items" and the "doo-dads" artifacts that are not available for barter of any kind, so that takes them out of the loop, what is left for trade is Time. Trading personal Time rather than items.
The society where he lives L-5, a space station, is based on the fact that everybody pulls their own weight, thus ensuring that everybody has what they need to thrive.
Al states that when Russia sends a manned mission to venus, the crap hits the fan here on earth, Nuclear War caused by the "Kooks". Crazy People?, Terrorists? who knows..
According to Al, the folks that had working computers became the ruling class, "The Council" and there is one Central World Bank
The coasts are ravaged due to tidal waves from earth quakes, "Pretty stupid to build on the coasts wasn't it?" (cheeky devil wasn't he?)
And last but not least, "buy All the NavCom stock you can". What The Hell??? If a society goes bust after a nuclear war, wouldn't you think that the stock market would go bust as the blasts, EMP's, took out all the computers...
Of Course, you could always use Semaphore and a series of about 3000 Boy Scouts streching across the continental US to relay Buy/Sell orders....
Phoenix,
Al relates that there is a form of 'money' to be exchanged for personal desires. As a society that has little "personal posesions or items" and the "doo-dads" artifacts that are not available for barter of any kind, so that takes them out of the loop, what is left for trade is Time. Trading personal Time rather than items.
The society where he lives L-5, a space station, is based on the fact that everybody pulls their own weight, thus ensuring that everybody has what they need to thrive.
Al states that when Russia sends a manned mission to venus, the crap hits the fan here on earth, Nuclear War caused by the "Kooks". Crazy People?, Terrorists? who knows..
According to Al, the folks that had working computers became the ruling class, "The Council" and there is one Central World Bank
The coasts are ravaged due to tidal waves from earth quakes, "Pretty stupid to build on the coasts wasn't it?" (cheeky devil wasn't he?)
And last but not least, "buy All the NavCom stock you can". What The Hell??? If a society goes bust after a nuclear war, wouldn't you think that the stock market would go bust as the blasts, EMP's, took out all the computers...
Of Course, you could always use Semaphore and a series of about 3000 Boy Scouts streching across the continental US to relay Buy/Sell orders....