Do we have the
required amount of resources to feed, clothe and house everybody in the world
today? Yes, we do. We have more than enough. It's just that the way we use
these resources, is wasteful.There are, nowadays, millions of cars parked
outside by the sidewalk, being unused.Cars don't need to rest! In a smarter and
more efficient society, there would be a system of public vehicle centers.People
would park the car in the nearest vehicle center, and while they're at home,
you'd go and take that vehicle when you're just going out.This can be further
improved by having cars drive themselves around the city. Think about a
self-regulated "taxi service".You'd place an "order" for an
available car on some website, or a server, that dispatches this order to all
cars in your area.The nearest unused car, would then just drive itself to your
location, and pick you up.And since there are always more cars available than
people need at any given moment, there are always unused cars, ready to at a
moment's notice to pick anyone up from any location.
The monetary system wastes endless amounts of resources, on useless duplication of unnecessary products.
A new version of a vehicle is released each year. A tiny change is applied to the appearance of the vehicle, maybe adding a little fin in the back, making it look just a little different, with the whole purpose of making people buy more. It's the same for everything. Cars, phones, shoes, etc.
The products produced today are designed in such a way that makes them break after a short while, in many cases.In case there's warranty, they usually last just a little bit until after the warranty expires, then wear down and finally break.It's very stupid, on our part, to produce products that wear down and break very quickly. It's a waste of resources.We don't want electronic devices that break down and fall apart, that's a burden on society.
But in the monetary system, if your phone breaks, I sell another one.That creates mountains of trash and waste. Everything MUST be recycled instead!
If we get rid of the monetary system and manage our resources effectively, we could all live better than Bill Gates.If you're finding it difficult to understand, you could buy the most expensive Rolls Royce on the market, and then get stuck in a traffic jam.You can be very rich, and then get cancer, and all the money in the world won't help you then.If you're still having trouble: every average person in the Western world today, lives better than the kings of the past. He has a phone, a car with air conditioning, no king has ever had those things.If we go and release science from the chains of funding and patents, and give every research laboratory everything it needs, we have the resources and ability to create anything we need. We could create lenses for microscopes, we could wrap the entire planet in glass if we wanted to.We just need to get rid of these barriers, and then we can all live better than the richest people today.
If you're still having trouble understanding: we won't produce a "cheap" car, since it'll weigh exactly the same as an "expensive" car. We'll process and recycle all the cheapest cars we have today, and build the best cars we possibly can, for everybody to use.If you still don't understand: the United States military doesn't have "cheap" airplanes. It has the best airplanes, the best radar systems, the most advanced guns. Why aren't we doing all this in peace time as well? Because it's not "profitable".The state agrees to invest huge amounts of money on the military, because it's for "fighting the enemy".The *real* enemy is poverty, hunger, ignorance, environmental destruction - those issues are the real national safety issues.Those are the real borders that need to be protected, the real problems we need to solve, so that we don't have these things in our society all around us.
The Venus Project offers to utilize all our technological and scientific capabilities not only in times of war, but in times of peace.
The combined expenses of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany during World War II, their arms race, the rebuilding and rehabilitation process they underwent after the war, if we calculate all that... we could have set up schools and universities in the whole world, set up hospitals all over the whole world, eradicated poverty and hunger all over the world, given every research laboratory everything it needs...
How stupid can we be?
The monetary system wastes endless amounts of resources, on useless duplication of unnecessary products.
A new version of a vehicle is released each year. A tiny change is applied to the appearance of the vehicle, maybe adding a little fin in the back, making it look just a little different, with the whole purpose of making people buy more. It's the same for everything. Cars, phones, shoes, etc.
The products produced today are designed in such a way that makes them break after a short while, in many cases.In case there's warranty, they usually last just a little bit until after the warranty expires, then wear down and finally break.It's very stupid, on our part, to produce products that wear down and break very quickly. It's a waste of resources.We don't want electronic devices that break down and fall apart, that's a burden on society.
But in the monetary system, if your phone breaks, I sell another one.That creates mountains of trash and waste. Everything MUST be recycled instead!
If we get rid of the monetary system and manage our resources effectively, we could all live better than Bill Gates.If you're finding it difficult to understand, you could buy the most expensive Rolls Royce on the market, and then get stuck in a traffic jam.You can be very rich, and then get cancer, and all the money in the world won't help you then.If you're still having trouble: every average person in the Western world today, lives better than the kings of the past. He has a phone, a car with air conditioning, no king has ever had those things.If we go and release science from the chains of funding and patents, and give every research laboratory everything it needs, we have the resources and ability to create anything we need. We could create lenses for microscopes, we could wrap the entire planet in glass if we wanted to.We just need to get rid of these barriers, and then we can all live better than the richest people today.
If you're still having trouble understanding: we won't produce a "cheap" car, since it'll weigh exactly the same as an "expensive" car. We'll process and recycle all the cheapest cars we have today, and build the best cars we possibly can, for everybody to use.If you still don't understand: the United States military doesn't have "cheap" airplanes. It has the best airplanes, the best radar systems, the most advanced guns. Why aren't we doing all this in peace time as well? Because it's not "profitable".The state agrees to invest huge amounts of money on the military, because it's for "fighting the enemy".The *real* enemy is poverty, hunger, ignorance, environmental destruction - those issues are the real national safety issues.Those are the real borders that need to be protected, the real problems we need to solve, so that we don't have these things in our society all around us.
The Venus Project offers to utilize all our technological and scientific capabilities not only in times of war, but in times of peace.
The combined expenses of the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany during World War II, their arms race, the rebuilding and rehabilitation process they underwent after the war, if we calculate all that... we could have set up schools and universities in the whole world, set up hospitals all over the whole world, eradicated poverty and hunger all over the world, given every research laboratory everything it needs...
How stupid can we be?
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