This is where they will get the best answers I can offer. The book cannot answer every question.
Pensions:
This is more of an addendum to the written book. Someone mentioned the notion of a pension and I have not spent any time considering such things in terms of the discussion made about the compensations for work done. The ISR is paid for the work you do, and a normal pension is something you obtain through an organization that “invests” money to fund such retirement benefits. There is no such source of money. However, it IS feasible for workers to organize, as a Union, to agree to pay a portion of their income to support retired members of that Union. It is somewhat less feasible for a company to alter its cost structure by reserving some of its allocated employment ISR to be paid out to retired members.
Page 20
“For a society using money as debt, interest demands growth or becomes theft.”
– should read –
“For a society using money as debt, interest demands growth and becomes theft.”
Page 134
To the extent that they work to maintain the things they own and rent to others, their income is legitimate in thermodynamic law.
The work of creation is also legitimately a source of income.
Competition (Page 164):
It occurs to me now, re-reading this for what must be the 101st time and with spots before my eyes, that one of the ways someone might compete would be to grossly understate the hours they work in order to obtain the efficiency and no-waste rewards. I cannot imagine this as being of great benefit, as the balance between those two advantages and the benefit of being paid for another few hours of work was always (in my mind) larger than the amount gained by one of those rewards. It is a consideration in setting the scale of the rewards and the standard hourly rate.
Intellectual Idea Development (Page 186)
Intellectual idea development is often an “investment” of work by an originating company or designer. This entails money being put into R&D rather than profit. It is conceivable that this could be a separate category of investment for the society to spend money back into the society. It is “entrepreneurial” in nature but it is different from starting a new business. This is a decision of government policy as well as an individual’s choice to spend their time inventing something new.
Land Rent (Page 198)
The juxtaposition of this discussion of a land rent (tax) with the assertion that an ownership tax is the only tax we will have, is a flaw. The book should not assert that there is only a single tax required, as this one appears to be necessary as well. As the book cannot be delayed further, the flaw will remain. I will mention it here, but I will not attempt to correct it in this version of the book. These pages may be errata that go into a subsequent version, but at present, the text is inaccessible to changes.
Spacing
23 (last line hanging)
209- List items 2.0, and 2.1 should be on page 210
Page 138
“Why? Because it detaches the value of work done from the people doing it and reattaches it to the owners of everything. This system allows the owning class to profit from the work of everyone not in the owning class.”
The use of the word “value” here is an error. This could be better written as either “Because it detaches the work done from the people doing it” or “Because it detaches the ownership of work done from the people doing it“
Making Money Real 