Balanced Jobs

• Is balancing jobs the same as job rotation?
• What are the benefits of balancing jobs?
• Won’t balancing jobs exclude specialisation and waste scarce talents?

Collective Consumption

• How is this different to collective consumption by a local government body today?
• If I don’t use a collective good, do I still pay for it?
• What things make sense to be consumed collectively?

Consumers' Federations

• Do representatives in higher councils get paid?
• How many consumer federation levels would there be?
• What are the main tasks that consumer federations perform?

General

• Are there any examples of a Participatory Economy in practice?
• Are there classes in a Participatory Economy?
• How do we get from here to a Participatory Economy?
• Is personal freedom sacrificed?
• Is this a blue-print?
• Is this compatible with human nature?
• Isn’t there more to life than economics?

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Income for Effort

• Can rewarding effort really be efficient?
• Isn’t it difficult to measure effort or sacrifice?
• What are the incentives to work?
• What is the incentive to train or educate yourself?
• Won’t workers exaggerate their effort?

Income for Need

• What about Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Basic Services (UBS)?
• Why not distribute only based on need?

Participatory Annual Planning

• Can I borrow or save?
• How is this different to Command Planning?
• How is this different to Markets?
• Is there money in a Participatory Economy?
• Isn’t all this planning time consuming?
• Will I need to know what to consume one year ahead?

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The Consumers' Council

• How are decisions made in the consumer council?
• Why do we even need organisations for consumption?
• Won’t there be too many meetings?

The Workers' Council

• What is the incentive for innovation?
• Won’t there be too many meetings?
• Won’t workers’ self-management exclude expertise?

Workers' Federations

• How does a workplace gain or lose membership of a federation?
• How many worker federations will there be?
• What are the main tasks that federations perform?

Participatory Investment Planning

• Can I use my personal savings to make investments?
• How do I get investment for a startup business idea I have?
• Is there a stock market?

Participatory Development Planning

• How is this different to how development planning is done today?