Rent, profit, savings, interest, monetary inflation and wasted economic activity like redundant weapons systems are all contributors to economic problems….and also all a part of the “gap”. Why? because they all macro-economically reduce the total amount of individual income available at any and all times…to liquidate production as it comes to the market. Hence the economy is not free flowing.

Steven Lesh is quite right when he says technology more and more creates our wealth, not an individual. I know he is concerned about monetary inflation, but what if you simply issued additional vouchers/denominated tickets that were legal tender only for domestic consumption of a concrete good or service and also for the paying of private individual debts? Then say they could not be used for purely financial speculative purposes (they could however be used to invest in traditionally productive enterprises or on speculative research in these areas and in ways to do more with less in same). And of course we’d still need a discount mechanism to equate the other costs above as they will still pool and continue to throw the economy out of equilibrium.

But would this domestic ticketing system allay your concerns about monetary inflation?