It's the change we need. Our technology has evolved significantly, now it's time for our society to follow.
Watch this:http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912Then look here:http://www.thevenusproject.com/http://thezeitgeistmovement.com/Money is a burden which, through technology, we can get rid of.I urge you to get involved in this revolution.Edit: I figure I'd give this blog another run through the Recent Blogs. I'll put my pokemans back up after this gets pushed off the list, if I don't just write an entirely new entry.
Resource based economy?
As in, I'll trade you one sheep for two ore?No, as in we achieve such an abundance of resources through automated technology that it'd be absurd for it to be anything other than free to everybody.
So you're assuming infinite natural resources?
Because industries shouldn't have to pay for their inefficiencies
Everything is free?
Fantastic, I'll have one billion 9800GTs, then.@flashback: No. I'm assuming that through automation, we can yield greater amounts of needed resources. And through technology we can distribute these resources more evenly.
@s: The whole idea of The Venus Project is to get rid of the monetary system. No monetary system, no traditional industries. Today's industries are inefficient because to be efficient would cost them money. "Why pay to dispose of waste properly when you can dump it in rivers for damn-near free?" is how today's greedy companies think. Without money, people would work solely to improve the world.@PY: I see your point, but really, what would you do with one billion 9800GT's? The only reason you could want them is to be a twat.Watch the movie before assuming insurmountable laws in the idea. It will explain things with more depth than I, and it will likely address most of your questions or concerns.So the point is to make efficiency more profitable than inefficiency. That doesn't require an economic revolution
Only problem is that efficiency can not be more profitable in a monetary system. Things are only worth money when they are scarce.
Again, watch the movie. It explains the things wrong with our monetary economy.Ummm, you do realize that when physical resources become effectively infinite, data will be the new base of the economy.
@DesertFox: You mean people will start exchanging data? Thanks to the internet, data can also be freely available. And as there'd be no exchanging of data for materialistic items, there'd be no benefit in withholding data. However, making the data freely available would benefit society.
Let's say a guy has a really good recipe for fried chicken. In a monetary society, yeah, he could sell that recipe to a food joint. Or he could use it to gain a money-earning advantage over other food joints for his very own food joint. But in a society as envisioned by The Venus Product, there is no money. So there's no reason why the guy would not make the recipe freely available to everyone.