No More MONEY (Problems?)
May 20, 2009
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I have seen the future of money, and its name is The Venus Project. Yes, from the same type of people who brought you Zeitgeist: The Movie where they claim religion is lie, 911 was an inside job, and the evil Federal Reserve is responsible for it all! Who is the genius behind this world saving endeavor? Why none other than renowned social scientist Jacque Fresco.
In the words of Master Fresco (as we will all soon call him):
Previous generations left a legacy of, exploitation, occupation, and irrelevant values that present great challenges, but also opportunities to the people of today.
The challenges of our current time are greater than any generation before us. We must not be afraid to throw off the old stale ideas of Capitalism and Individual Freedom. As Master Fresco says:
Important documents and proclamations have been issued granting rights and privileges to members of societies, but at the heart of human progress – or destruction – is the rock-solid foundation of science.
Did you hear that Lawfordcap? Your hero has arrived! Bow down before his evolutionary wisdom now. Surrender all your rights and freedoms in the name of evolutionary advancement. After all, it was you who told me that “the cult of individualism that we see in society today can not last forever.” Evolution and Science (oh Great Science!) dictates that we must change from our selfish selves and become the collective.
In the past we may have needed such Foolish documents as the Magna Carta and the U.S. Constitution, but no more. Burn all the copies! Throw them into a bon fire with the works of Mises and Hayek and Rothbard and for that matter every other economist.
The future will have no need for economists!
Oh! Preach it! Preach it Comrade Fresco:
The goal is to help rid the world of war, poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation, and to create the best world for all inhabitants, given the resources at hand, for the longest period of time.
Did you hear that Brother Devoish!? We are going to create the best of all possible worlds. There will be an evolutionary safety net for all, and best of all no more pollution!
But it gets even better my brethren. For this is no Marxist Utopia where everyone puts in their fair share and does an honest day’s work for equal pay. No! In our new world order there will be NO MONEY!
After all: What has been handed down to us does not seem to be working for the majority of the people.
Clearly, causation is correlation: the existence of money is the cause of all the worlds ills. We instead need to put all our faith in the Scientific Method to arrive at decisions that will bring about a better world.
We are our own salvation or damnation, and the degree to which we don’t apply this scientific method to the way we live on Earth may very well determine the unnecessary amount of suffering that will occur.
In the future there will be no need for religion or ethics because: It is not ethical people that are needed but rather a way of intelligently managing the Earth’s resources for everyone’s well-being.
Now I know that some of you (David in Qatar) are going to once again bring up the Economic Calculation Problem of Socialism, and claim that Master Fresco has indeed not solved this nearly one-hundred-year-old theory. But he has solved it! He has solved it by ignoring its very existence. He has used the science of philosophy to say: I think, therefore I am. I think that the Theory of the Economic Calculation Problem of Socialism does not exist, therefore it is not!
Problem solved. Now moving on to bigger more important issues like the reason for the abolition of money. First, everyone should be impressed with Master Fresco’s brilliant understanding of economics (Zloj are you paying attention?):
When there is a recession and people have little money to buy things, isn’t the Earth still the same place? Are there still goods on the store shelves and land to grow crops? It is just the rules of the game that we play by that are obsolete and cause so much suffering.
Sure. I know some of you so-called “economists” out there would be quick to point out that recessions are in fact not cause by “little money to buy things” but are in fact the product of people saving the money they already have, but your logic would be flawed because as our current government has shown us there is no reason to save money ever or they will just print more and spend it for us:
The existence of money is hardly ever questioned or examined, but let’s consider our use of money. Money itself does not have any value (at least not anymore…). It is just a picture on a cheap piece of paper with an agreement among people as to what it can buy (and obviously people’s agreements are worthless…). If it rained hundred dollar bills tomorrow, everyone would be happy except the bankers.
And we all hate banks and bankers, right? Especially, that evil Federal Reserve!
Some of you may not yet be convinced, so let’s examine more of Master Fresco’s other reasons to do away with money:
1) It is not money people need, it is access to resources. 2) Money results in social stratification and elitism based primarily on economic disparity. 3) People are not equal without equal purchasing power. 4) Most people are slaves to jobs they do not like because they need the money. 5) Those who control purchasing power have great influence. 6) Money is used to control the behavior of those with limited purchasing power. 7) There is tremendous environmental degradation due to the high cost of better methods of waste disposal. 8) The Earth is being plundered for profit.
9) MOST IMPORTANT, when corporation’s bottom line is profit, decisions in all areas are made not for the benefit of people, and the environment, but primarily for the acquisition of wealth, property, and power.
Are you sold yet Devoish? Are you willing to surrender all your property for the betterment of the Earth and mankind? Everyone should be convinced by now. Fresco is promising you a future without work, without needs, without suffering! Together we can create “a heaven from this hell.”
We will ABOLISH SUFFERING! All the world has to do is surrender everything they own to the social scientists and engineers. All we need is Math, and computers, and the scientific method. We will build robots to do all of our work. And robots to fix the robots! Our brightest and best will create Artificial Intelligence and complex computer programs that will allocate our resources properly. Machines will become smarter and smarter and create even smarter machines!
Machines can easily replace humans in government and in the management of world affairs.
We will cure Cancer and AIDS and the Swine Flu! Money is no object! We can allocate resources for the benefit of mankind until one day we can look out at our new sources of energy and our University cities in the sea and say, We did it! We abolished suffering!
By replacing human labor with machines and implementing a global resource-based economy, everyone lives better than the wealthiest of today.
ARE YOU WITH ME fools?
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