Planners don\u2019t have enough information.\u00a0 They never do.\u00a0 It\u2019s the nature of their problem.\u00a0 Looking into the future when all things are known, from the vantage point of the present, has its limitations.\u00a0 Planners don\u2019t have enough information because they can\u2019t have enough information.\u00a0 They can\u2019t have enough information because that information doesn\u2019t exist yet.<\/p>\n
This fact of space and the direction of time does not deter them.\u00a0 They envision a harmonious future world with all people and things relating to one another in the most optimally sweet balance of sources and uses, comings and goings, beings and doings, with socially just outcomes, no big losers, and no big winners.<\/p>\n
In their future, earned equity is the only value \u2013 but only insofar as the equity has no past, no family, and no inheritance.\u00a0 Those things involve capital and capital comes from profit.\u00a0 Profit means that something more was gained by one party in a transaction than was fairly deserved based on cost.\u00a0 Profit can never be earned because it\u2019s essentially unfair.\u00a0 The Marxist theory that labor determines value doesn\u2019t allow for earned value to exceed the cost of sustaining the labor.<\/p>\n
So planners posit their sustainable future without profit.\u00a0 Their models have people only needing and receiving enough to sustain them in the lifestyles they\u2019re accustomed to.\u00a0 After all, why should they need more?\u00a0 They\u2019re just going to die in a few years like everyone else.\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t someone else have a fair chance?\u00a0 It\u2019s only fair.<\/p>\n
In their optimally sweet sustainable future, people live in the class they were born into.\u00a0 They don\u2019t profit, they don\u2019t accumulate wealth, they don\u2019t move up in society, because there are no winners and losers when we all balance each other from each according to our abilities, to each according to our needs.<\/p>\n
Well that\u2019s all nice enough on paper.\u00a0 It just falls completely apart when you try to shoehorn human nature into the picture.\u00a0 Without motivation, people don\u2019t work.\u00a0 A system that provides a subsistence level of motivation yields a subsistence level of human energy where everyone just subsists\u2026in an optimally sweet harmonious and fair balance\u2026at the level of the least common denominator.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying planners are short sighted, at least not more than the nature of their avocation demands.\u00a0 One can see from reading their plans, zones and various diktats that they\u2019re quite thorough.\u00a0 They\u2019re no doubt doing the best they can in trying to solve a problem that, by its nature, can\u2019t be solved.<\/p>\n
What confounds, however, is what on earth they must see in their harmonized sustainable least common future to motivate them to try to bring it about?\u00a0 Imagine a sailor who dreams of a flat lake without a breath of air to move his boat.\u00a0 It just makes no sense.<\/p>\n
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Planners don\u2019t have enough information.\u00a0 They never do.\u00a0 It\u2019s the nature of their problem.\u00a0 Looking into the future when all things are known, from the vantage point of the present, has its limitations.\u00a0 Planners don\u2019t have enough information because they can\u2019t have enough information.\u00a0 They can\u2019t have enough information because that information doesn\u2019t exist yet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning","7":"category-zoning","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}