“To better understand a Resource Based Economy, consider this: if all the money in the world suddenly disappeared, but topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we chose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need, but access to the necessities of life without having to appeal to a government bureaucracy nor any other agency.
In a Resource Based Economy money is irrelevant. What’s required are the resources and manufacturing and distribution of the products. In a monetary system, purchasing power is not related to the capacity to produce goods and services. For example, in a recession there are computers in store windows and automobiles in car lots; but people do not have the purchasing power to buy them. The rules of the monetary system are obsolete and create needless strife, deprivation, and human suffering.
In today’s culture of profit we do not grow foods based on demand; nor do we practice medicine solely to cure diseases. Industry’s major motivation is profit.”
– JACQUE FRESCO, Founder of The Venus Project
A CONVERSATION WITH JACQUE FRESCO
What is the difference between a Resource Based Economy and a monetary system? Why is it that monetary economics cannot survive? Can we eliminate scarcity? Who makes the decisions? What stands in the way of our transition to such a system? The answers to these and many other questions are presented in this documentary. Discover how The Venus Project aims to end territorial disputes, provide a new incentive system and bring the people of the world into a peaceful, productive, global society that cares for its members and the environment.
Number 3 (of 10) in a series. Find out more about Resource Based Economics,
and Jacque Fresco, at: https://www.thevenusproject.com/