A possible future, or, is this progressive enough for you?

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2. Unfortunately government won't wither away. But it will convert to management of all resources.

1) Rents are paid to the community government, who manage the whole community, and are the "landlord."

2) The CG would take the rent, and food cost, and medical cost, out of your central "bank" of hours. You have control over the value of your personal hours.

3) The CG is the landlord of everything: land, buildings, factories. You ask for permission to do what you want to, and get it or not. The CG would ordinarily have no reason to evict anyone, since everyone had agreed to all the main elements of whatever agreement had been worked out.

4) Yes.

5) A surgeon's hours are worth the same as a stocker's hours. Both their educations are free, of course.

6)a Basically half a work day, ideally.

6)b For health care workers, they might well work longer shifts than others. Their common fund hours would convert to personal hours halfway through their work day, if it ran longer than four hours.

7) Lots of jobs will be scheduled so they can be done by two people working a half day each. No one will clean floors or do surgery all day every day unless they want to.

8) The system I imagine seems a lot more people friendly to me than the one we've got now.