Originally published at: What if a consumer doesn’t want to participate during annual planning? - Participatory Economy
What would happen to someone who did not bother to fill out and submit consumption request forms for next year during the participatory annual planning process? It is not hard for me to imagine there would be people like this in a participatory economy. Being a lazy person myself, on several occasions I have not…
I think that consumption patterns are fairly consistent from one year to the next. As a start what needs to be flagged by individual households is any major changes. For example if an elderly couple sold their home to a family of four with two pets etc then this is a big change especially if the newcomers are from another state. Only major purchases should be flagged such as if someone wanted to buy a new car or renovate their home. I believe that the demographic profile of a neighborhood would dictate what is needed overall. For example as children age their needs differ. That kind of information is probably all you would need overall to estimate what to produce.