Of course RBE is not perfect. There is no such thing as a perfect system. And perfection is made even more unattainable if you consider that things tend to change overtime, requiring that the system changes somewhat with them. I praise your willingness to better develop the RBE ideas.
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The problem is that many systems are established (like current) one which means that they are very resistant to change. Also guardians of the status quo of these systems claim that they are perfect or they try to reach perfection (which is utopian thinking). Current system is an utopian one. It reached a point where there is little change, just repetitiin of thr same mistakes over and over again.
About RBE "politics". Let me quote something short from
the book " The Best That Money Can't Buy" by J. Fresco.
"The conflict today between human beings is about opposing values. If we manage
to arrive at a saner future, conflicts will be about problems common to all humans. In a
vibrant and emergent culture instead of conflicts between nations, the challenges will be
overcoming scarcity, reclaiming damaged environments, creating innovative
technologies, increasing agricultural yield, improving communications, building
communications between nations, sharing technologies, and living a meaningful life."
About performing peer reviewed, replicated studies of RBE by scientific community. It does not make sense. You cannot test whole social system in a lab, same as you cannot test in a lab or computer communism, socialism, fascism, capitalism etc. You can test certain technologies and designs that are part of RBE city. That is why TVP proposes building whole experimental city to research and test it and use it to learn and improve. Just like Eden Project but on much larger scale. It would require inhabitants identified (RBE values) with updated value system though, which is the hardest part to find.