
056 - Socialist Labour Time Planning, with Tom O'Brien, Part 2
General Intellect Unit
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The Homogenizing Problem in Green Economy
If you were to create a regime that was exclusively organized on the basis of labor time economizing then you would actually have this kind of homogenizing problem right. I'm not so certain that like you know measuring things in tons or meters squared versus some kind of scalar unit is like in any way better because it's like well I don't know I mean the ontological status of tons is important in some ways but I don't think it matters in a sense of like what is actually valuable. The kind of stuff like environmental impact or these kind of weird kind of intangibles are better accounted for democratically rather than trying to make it into a currency unit.
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