Reasonable Consumption

Dr. Michael LaitmanQuestion: Let us say that the workday at a business is being cut in half. In other words, a person will work four hours and spend four hours studying. We will have to decrease people’s salary, but we will need to do it gradually and guarantee the minimum standard of living.

Answer:
I think that, after several months, it would be possible to begin doing a completely different kind of work with them. We would be able to begin to transition the city, all its services, and all social relationships to reasonable consumption.Reasonable consumption is when we care for the entire city so that people have a normal standard of living, not a minimal standard of living, but normal. We create a certain basket of consumption and make sure that the entire population receives it under certain conditions, such as when a person participates in upbringing, education, certain types of production, or public works. For example, let us say that he provides social services and must remain at his job. Then, gradually, all people will come to a normal level of consumption.

Question:
Will a normal picture of consumption vary for different age groups and genders?

Answer:
I think that this only depends on a person’s physical and physiological needs, never on his position in society.

Question:
Is there a certain algorithm for determining it? It is simply that I, as a practical person, immediately imagine a line of people.

Answer:
There will not be a line. We need to create a communal service that simply will supply every single person with everything he or she needs. The minimal provision needs to be in the form of products so that a family would receive at least whatever it needs to exist in its natural form and, perhaps, a part in monetary form.

Question:
However, the city has funds such as pensions and federal child benefits.

Answer:
No, we are saying that we are trying to gradually transition the entire population to a completely different type of existence. What does a person really need money for when he is fully provided with all services? We are speaking about a city that lives within its closed system, and about a reasonable standard of living that we must provide people with, being certain that, together with education, they will not have the ability to profiteer from it. This can only be avoided by natural provision.
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