Some thoughts in no

Some thoughts in no particular order:Firsty the money / market system doesn’t effectivly solve these problems since market decisions are made according to ‘effective demand’ i.e who has money, not human need. But we all know this…The ‘community’ is the whole world so if needed scarce resources can be bought in from elsewhere.When the determining factor is not what takes the less labour-time but what fulfills needs to the highest degree, I think resources will rapidly be pushed into finding alternatives to materials that are scarce.Supply and demand can be tracked directly as goods flow through distribution centres. It is unnecessary to have a centralised plan or meetings to decide what people want.I’m not sure if it is really possible to rank needs in such a way as you are describing, since ‘use’ is something entirely subjective and it is impossible for individuals (and a society at large) to come up with a priotised list of wants, since these are constanly changing. I think you’ve bought this idea accross due to the influence of marginalist economics. (I’ll probably have to say more to explain this better)If there is no need or incentive for individuals to hoard I don’t think overconsumption would be a problem. An accumulation of stuff you don’t need is a burden.Here’s an article on labour vouchers. http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/education/depth-articles/history/labour-vouchersThere’s a lot more detail that could be gone into..