RBE10K/Objectives

The RBE10K Project has two main objectives: 1) proving that the RBEM is viable, and 2) providing a voluntary and realistic transition towards a RBEM.

Primary objectives: short term, one off RBEM experiment

The objective of the project is to test the predictions by the theories behind the Resource-Based Economic Model from a social standpoint, i.e. the ability of a community to live and thrive without trade, property or authority, and the capability of its citizens to self-govern and contribute to the community's goals, supported by a systems infrastructure based mainly on open computer software. There are a few main goals in this respect:

1. the ability to raise interest of enough people to make the project viable
2. the ability to define within the 2-year timeframe all the information necessary for the success of the settlement stage
3. the ability to obtain the resources necessary for a successful settlement
4. accomplishing the settlement in a safe location and with all the people and resources required
5. maintaining a functional and productive society for the 2-year long duration of the experiment
6. learning from any conflicts or problems and update the knowledge-base with relevant information to reduce impact in further occurrences
7. maintain the health, safety and personal growth of all its inhabitants
8. at the conclusion of the 2-year long experiment, achieve a willingness of the majority of the inhabitants to sign-up for another 2 years in the experiment

Secondary objectives: long term, expansion of the RBE10K settlements

Each RBE10K city would have three secondary objectives, in the following order of priorities:

1. provide for the basic needs (as per the knowledge-base) of all its members using exclusively its own resources, sustainably, and privileging those resources that are available for it in great abundance
2. constantly improve its own knowledge-base, relying for it as much as practicable on the methods of science
3. founding a new RBE10K city every two years (inviting 10,000 people living outside RBE10K cities to populate roughhly half of the old and half of the new cities)
4. automate anything that can be automatable, and contribute to the development of science and technology