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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #16
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Economists today are finally
acknowledging what they had been denying for years:
not only is technological unemployment exasperating the current
labor crisis we see across the
world due to the global economic downturn
but the more the recession deepens
the faster the industries are mechanizing.
The catch, which is not realized
is that the faster they mechanize to save money;
the more they displace people -
the more they reduce public purchasing power.
This means that, while the corporation
can produce everything more cheaply
fewer and fewer people will actually have money to buy anything
regardless of how cheap they become.
The bottom line is that the labor for
income game is slowly coming to an end.
In fact, if you take a moment to reflect
on the jobs which are in existence today
which automation could take over right now, if applied
75% of the global workforce could be
replaced by mechanization tomorrow.
And this is why, in a Resource-Based Economy
There is no Monetary-Market system.
No money at all...
for there is no need.
a Resource-Based Economy
recognizes the efficiency of mechanization
and accepts it for what it offers.
It doesn't fight it, like we do today.
Why? Because it is irresponsible not to
given any interest in efficiency and sustainability.
And this brings us back to our city system.
In the center is the Central Dome
which not only houses the
educational facilities and transportation hub -
it also hosts the mainframe that
runs the cities technical operations.
The city is, in fact, one big automated machine.
It has sensors in all technical belts
to track the progress of architecture -
energy gathering, production, distribution and the like.
Now, would people be needed to oversee these
operations in the event of a malfunction and the like?
Most probably:
yes.But that number would decrease
over time as improvements continue.
However, as of today, maybe 3% of
the city population would be needed
for this job when you break it down.
And I can assure you:
that in an economic system which is
actually designed to take care of you
and secure your well being
without you having to submit to
private dictatorship on a daily basis...
usually to a job that is either
technically unnecessary or socially pointless
while often struggling with debt that doesn't exist
just to make ends meet...
I guarantee you:
people will volunteer their time left and rightto maintain and improve a system
that actually takes care of them.
And coupled with this issue of 'Incentive' -
comes the common assumption that
if there isn't some external pressure
for "one to work for a living"
people would just sit around, do nothing
and turn into fat lazy blobs.
This is nonsense.
The labor system we have today is
in fact the generator of laziness -
not a resolver of it.
If you think back to when you were a child -
full of life, interested in new things to understand -
likely creating and exploring...
but as time went on, the system pushed you
into the focus of figuring out how to make money.
And from early education
to study at a university, you are narrowed.
Only to emerge as a creature which serves
as a cog in a wheel in a model that
sends all the fruits to the upper 1%.
Scientific Studies have now shown that people are, in fact
not motivated by monetary reward
when it comes to ingenuity and creation.
The creation itself is the reward.
Money, in fact, appears only to serve as an incentive
for repetitive, mundane actions -
a role we have just now shown can be replaced by machine.
When it comes to innovation
the actual use of the human mind
the monetary incentive has proven to be a hindrance
interfering and detracting from creative thought.
And this might explain why Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers
and other inventors who contributed massively
to our current world
never showed a monetary incentive to do so.
Money is, in fact, a false incentive
and causes 100 times more distortion
than it does contribution.
Good morning class. Please settle down.
The first thing I would like to do is go around the room
and ask what everyone would like to be when they grow up.
Who would like to go first?
Okay, how about you Sarah?
When I grow up I want to work at McDonald's like my mom!
Oh, family tradition, eh?
How about you, Linda?
When I grow up, I'm going to be a
prostitute on the streets of New York City!
Oh! glamour girl, huh?
Very ambitious.
How about you, Tommy?
When I grow up, I'm going to be a
rich, elitist businessman who works
on Wall Street and profits off of
the collapse of foreign economies.
Enterprising...
And great to see some multicultural interest!
[Victims of Culture]
As stated before, a Resource-Based
Economy applies the Scientific Method to social concern
and this isn't limited to simply technical efficiency.
It also has the consideration of
human and social well-being directly and what comprises it.
What good is a social system if, in the end
it doesn't produce happiness and peaceful coexistence?
So, it is important to point out that
with the removal of the money system
and the necessities of life provided
we would see a global reduction in
crime by about 95% almost immediately
for there is nothing to steal, embezzle, scam, or the like.
95% of all people in prisons today are there
due to some monetary related crime or drug abuse
and drug abuse is a disorder - not a crime.
the truly violent...
often seeming to some as being
violent for the sake of being violent...
are they just "evil" people?
The reason that I frankly think it's a waste of time
to engage in moral value judgments
about people's violence is
because it doesn't advance by one iota
our understanding of either the causes
or the prevention of the violent behavior.
People sometimes ask if I believe in "forgiving" criminals.
My answer to that is
No, I don't believe in forgiveness
anymore than I believe in condemnation.
It's only if we, as a society
can take the same attitude of treating violence as
a problem in public health and preventive medicine
rather than as a moral "evil"...
it's only when we make that change in our
own attitudes and assumptions and values
that we will actually succeed in reducing the
level of violence rather than stimulating it -
which is what we do now.
The more justice you seek, the more hurt you become
because there's no such thing as justice.
There is whatever there is out there. That's it.
In other words, if people are conditioned to be racist bigots -
if they are brought up in an environment that advocates that
why do you blame the person for it?
They are a victim of a subculture.
Therefore they have to be helped.
The point is, we have to redesign the environment
that produces aberrant behavior.
That's the problem.
"freedom of choice" - such concepts
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