Visualizing a Plenitude Economy

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Video by the Center for a New American Dream

This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (http://www.julietschor.org).

Produced by: RMD2 - http://rmd2.net
Artist: Anthony Maughan

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[crow x.]

this shit is already happening in Los Angeles though the only thing standing in the way is the bombardment of useless advertisement and gangwar. shit i almost forgot about the hard drugs. all in reach of the young. good vs evil at its prime.

[Amari Ismyname]

Precisely, When i said motivation i did not mean motivation for invention, i meant motivating humans to uphold civilisation without them becoming corrupt.

[chetdude]

Most of real, useful human innovation is motivated by creativity and curiosity, NOT money...

[chetdude]

YES!  Why not?

[chetdude]

Postscript: Then we can examine what passes for "work" done by most folks just to survive in the top-heavy capitalist Ponzi-Scheme mislabeled as an "economy". Most of what many people do for a "living" is paper-pushing, resource wasting and basically hostile to the Planet we depend upon for survival...

[Antonio Ruiz]

so... you want a utopia

[EnvisionPeaceMuseum]

Inspiring glimpse of an abundant society. Nice to think about how a lot of small DIY actions might combine into community and society wide shifts.

[Jody van der Kwaak]

Well, what I mean is that a lot of people want more and more and consume a lot which is doing our planet no good. A fact isn't it? If we stop being so material it could have a very positive contribution to save our planet. What is wrong with sharing and giving? I think my opinion was being interpreted in a negative way. But things happen. I'm surprised that my comment was interpreted in such way. And I don't think I said people should be compelled. This will never work.

[TheCrimson7272]

hoover was not laissez-faire and had restrictions on asset prices and set wage floors which resulted in businesses not being able to hire people for low enough wages to produce a profit . there are many videos on youtube that show the causes of the depression and laisses faire capitalism isnt one of them. same with the tech bubble. if you look at the federal interest rates in 1998-2001 and 2004-2007 its ironic how the second the fed rises them, the economy has a set back.

[bmarkovic79]

RIght, since if I'm not drinking the Steve-aide, I must be a stinkin' commie... (btw I do a lot of creative work on my computer but it doesn't mean buying an iPhone will turn you into Salvador Dali or Karlheinz Stockhauzen, despite what Apple marketing made you beleive). Sent from my Mac, where I'm still not thinking quite that differently...