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[BigMTBrain]

So far only one mention of Resource-Based Economy, The Venus Project or The Zeitgeist Movement. Well, I guess, now two. The resource-based economy sounds like a solution, but the path to getting there is quite unclear.

[KevoEffect]

Absolutely, great vid, barter based economy and living within our means.

[Rousecat]

"Sitting in the back seat of the car the whole time. With your diamond ring on your hand...barking at the driver seemingly clueless that the car is remotely controlled."

That hits the nail on the head. Brings it right on home. Brilliant.

[Sparkygravity]

@Sparkygravity personally I struggle in the dilemma of... how do I productively participate in society without encouraging the propagation of this corrupt system of monetary control?

[Sparkygravity]

I don't think of gold as money, but I do think of it as an facilitator in exchangable goods or services. In which case anything can act as a currency silver, steel, grain, apples. I think the main problem of money is the equivalence of money = controlled/manipulate currency. I do think that the systematic problem is ancient. Reserve banking, interest loans, non-family/friend loans, and stock exchanges, which have been around pre-17th century way back to BCE.

[Primalxbeast]

I'm homeless because I consider working for less than a living wage without benifits little more than slavery or indentured servitude. Why should I work my ass off to make somebody else rich, while I'm not making enough to pay the bills or have health insurance? and regardless of how hard you work, and how little you make, the people you're making money for still act as if they're doing you a favor.

[Primalxbeast]

The fact that labor and useful products are the only things of real value has been truely lost in most people's world view. I am so damn tired of Faux news describing rich people as the people who are the one contributing to society, while they call the people working two jobs, and actually producing things the takers, even though they barely get enough money to survive. The ppl who have (made something of themselves) as Faux calls the rich, are the true takers.

[ImperviousMason]

u mad?

[loveisallneed]

I very much agree with the first half of your video, it is the argument for a progressive tax system. Wealthy people benefited more from the system, so they should invest in it at a higher %. Money is more efficient than barter, but there are problems as you mention. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater - nah.

[tenagliac]

Some call it economy. Some call it government. Some call it the world order. The ancient Greeks knew it was hard to pin down too and they called it kosmos. Not in the sense of outer space, but in a sense of a universal framework that makes everything work and play together.

[hDMIratioNz]

I think that you wear one healthy brain.