And when I say “everyone knows the needs of everyone else”, I don’t mean that they know the general situation and a few presumed abstract survivalist concerns. I mean that they know the details concerning all physical, medical, mental, and emotional needs/issues as well as the individuals situations. And that is why there is a natural limit to the size of the corp… Imagine trying to know all of that information in precise detail and having to verify it all for 10,000 people in real time. If the only thing that John knows about Bill is that he is a good guy, has a family of four, and works in the “Awareness Department”, then the corp. has grown far too large already.
This is one of the scariest parts of the SAM corp… People today are very accustomed, trained in fact, to be very leery of each other and releasing private information. And they are right in feeling that way (although simultaneously trusting an unseen judgmental government with anything and everything). But that is only due to the manner in which people have been governed, taught, and judged (especially by that unseen government).
So a new SAM corp. can only be formed with people who can trust each other with extremely detailed, the normally private information. And that would constitute very few people.
Informationally at this point, the corporation is a communistic group in that they all share the same information. But as can be seen a little later, it is physically impossible to form a truly communist nation or even large city with so much information having to be shared in real time. In most cases, the maximum size of the corp. would be around 10-15 people or so, else the information becomes too much to handle. And the need for all of that information comes due to two concerns.
The first concern involving the need for accurate, detailed, and verified information concerning every member involves the need to make good decisions for sake of the members. This is the same reasoning that larger governments make to excuse extreme spying liberties. But of course, it can never actually work for any very large group. Even super-intelligent androids could not handle a group as large as merely a city, much less a nation. Communication has a natural immutable limit. And if that limit is over-reached, errors will occur. And those decisions are being based, not on simple estimated need for monetary distribution, but on the gauged IJOT (“Integral of Joy Over Time”) for each and every member. Gauging that for even one member is not trivial, but a human mind can do wonderful things, once it gets the general idea and a little shared practice.
The other primary concern for the need of such information sharing, normally strongly unfavorable, is that it stifles deceit. When everyone knows far more information about everyone else, the web of truth becomes too great a maze for the serpent of deceit to wriggle through. Susan says to Sally,
“Did you hear what I heard about John and Joan’s rendezvous?”
Susan replies, “Yeah, I read about it in the paper.”
“Don’t you think they did more than just talk?”
“Well, Joan’s husband said that he was helping her with that broken watch band and little Johnny verified that. Why, do you think they were doing something naughty?”
“Well, you know how John is. I can’t believe they just played with a silly watchband.”
“Yes, I know John really well. He helped me with my kitchen stove a few weeks ago. Pauline verified that one, I think. He does that sort of thing all the time. He enjoys helping out. Do you have any verification that he did any more than that with Joan?”
The next day’s paper reads in part, “…and Susan suggested to Sally that John might be playing around with Joan…”
Serpents really hate being exposed to daylight.
But as I said, it takes first a few people who can trust intimate knowledge of each other to an extraordinary extreme. But such information is not passed to the world, merely within their “family corporation”. As far as the corp.'s neighboring corp. is concerned, “Who is John”?
Ten people living for sake of helping the other nine, with each intimately aware of each other’s true situation, needs, and desires, makes accomplishing a small spot of heaven, a haven, much easier against the malignant world of manipulators. The larger idea involves each corp. doing that same thing for themselves also, a much larger spot of heaven made of smaller ones. And guess what you get when eventually Man is doing nothing else.
“…And for what shall we pray?”