> Why are consumers needed -- for whom is production. How does one know
> what is wanted unless the population, wearing its consumer hate,
> manifests its preferences...
consumers and consumer councils aren't the same thing....i was just asking why the councils are neccesary. i mean if there's no incentive in parecon to do anything remotely bad....and all production is owned univerally.....i can't imagine what the negotiation would go like, the bread maker council would say something like 'if we reduce the price of bread 25% of your members will make less money'.....and if parecon works out that would be actually true? it seems self regulating maybe....and an uneccesary meeting to attend.
the bread maker council raises the price of bread to 500$ a loaf the gasoline council raises it's prices to 500$ a gal so their workers/bread consumers can aford bread and so on and so on.
could a consumer council stop an alliance of worker councils that made up 50% of their members?
~M.E.
so on and so on
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