Before & After

Before

Today the economy seems to matter more than anything else and it is our guide to the health of our civilization. In our fragile interconnected economies all around the world, high economic growth seems to bring stability to the world, but low or stagnant economic growth brings misery, despair, crime, and unrest. The boom and bust cycles have been with us for decades, producing winners and losers, where the lucky ones keep their jobs and can have a fairly normal life, while others lose their jobs, their homes, their self-respect, and are desperate to find a way out of it.

After

In Nutopia there is no concept of an "economy". Maximum employment is not a goal, instead people work to fulfill the needs of the community not to increase output and production for more growth. The work needed is equally shared among the citizens and all have their needs met, and there is no concept of being "unemployed" or the misery that comes with it. Contrary to the world we live in today, a lower human labor requirement is a sign of our success which is the absolute opposite of capitalism where high unemployment is considered to be failure.

The needs of the community are satisfied with the production and manufacturing of goods and the provision of services but there is no desire to continually innovate for the sake of more production and consumption to keep the economy going. Innovation and the advancement of science and technology are alive and well in Nutopia but the focus is entirely on research and development to solve problems not to produce frivolous and unnecessary items that are superfluous to requirements. The "needs" of the community are put forward, identified, and approved by the people using the Guardian System so that new goods and services are created to satisfy the requirements of the community, but there is no business sector or group of entrepreneurs trying to come up with new gadgets and other unnecessary products to try and entice the mindlessly consuming public.