The Future of Economics - Zeitgeist Movement 1/8

Lecture on commodity, receipt and fractional (and by extension fiat) money by Ben McLeish of the Zeitgeist Movement.

Covers automation, resource based economy, employment, technological unemployment, fractional reserve banking, and the media in the monetary system.

Recorded at a meeting with the UK arm of Humanity Plus (H+) in Birkbeck College, London.

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[MarkoKraguljac]

Its unbelievably frustrating how these topics are completely ignored by broader mainstream. Very important and urgent, still absolutely ignored. And I fear that this silence is just an indicator of mass confusion and unwillingness to question path of our "train" which is going nowhere if it continues. Can they expect 70% of people to work as salesmen and paper-pushers just to keep the illusion of 19th century economics working? They insist on staying in the box which we outgrown long ago.

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[ISMOPANAMA]

I look at it this way. If we humans do not bring the "Shift of Paradigm" it seems that our creations "Machines" will. I see that by the mid-century we most probably would have achieved "Artificial Intelligence". Within a short time from the "Zero Point of Machine Sapience" Super A.I. (that is "machine beings" so intellectually adherent that they would be the equivalent of entire Universities filled with professors and students of all subjects) will see the Problems and bluntly point them out.

[impactgreatness]

Such an intelligent video. Lots of points I get. I wonder why this video didn't propagate well. I think it will help a lot for future changes. Economics is constantly changing and it is very assured that when Economic changes, the business of the human resource will also be affected.

[markusboyd3]

Its ignored because they were not educated in this way. Therefore it is irrelevant to their job, and damaging to their status. It's a power thing, politicians don't give a damn about anybody but themselves and their petty regimes.

[ienttellinya]

I'm glad that people are starting to awaken to these facts. It's a good sign for the near future.

[VolcanicPenguin]

Very nice presentation so far! *goes to part 2*

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