http://twentytwowords.com/how-one-north-dakota-cafe-thrives-despite-rejecting-what-every-other-cafe-needs-to-survive/
In the town of Valley City, North Dakota, a former bank has been renovated and is now The Vault, a go-to coffee shop for the small community. Of course it has coffee, tea, and a few pastries...otherwise it wouldn't really be a coffee shop.
But what it doesn't have is what sets it apart — Employees.
Nobody works at The Vault. The owners Kimberly and David Brekke stop by to keep it stocked, but that's it. Prices are clearly marked for customers who get whatever they want, add up their own total, and then swipe their credit card or slip cash or check into the slot on the counter. It's entirely run on the honor system.
Is it working? Yes, it is.
David says that, while they aren't making money yet because of the costs of renovations, revenue is 15% higher than if customers only paid the marked prices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAC64bgRhqU
I have been watching Enterprise recently, which was the fifth Star Trek series. It was a prequel, and focused on the period leading up to the creation of the Federation. When I read stories like the above, I honestly believe that I'm witnessing the first, tentative steps being taken towards the very kind of provisional post-scarcity society that Gene Roddenberry envisioned, and that Amy does too.
The Pleiadian Equal Value System (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_channelers14.htm) - This is a more formal description of the type of system I am talking about.
We are not going to become extinct. All we need to do is live long enough, for us to get past the obstacles to the above being implemented.
The big difference between the coffee shop and TAP is that the shop is not run by People who simply wish to make Others happy by arranging the availability of the product with no expectation of monetary payment.
It does show what I have been saying all along: MOST of Us are reasonably good People. We want to create betterment. We have the Betterment Ethic already in place, though few think about it in those terms. Yes, knowing We are good and not the evil scum the useless eliters portray Us as being helps to pave the way to thinking in TAP terms.
It's time to promote the Betterment Ethic over the slave's work "ethic."