A world where parents hope their kids will live. I would not only volunteer to help with this, I would dedicate my life for this project. Not a perfect world, but a MUCH BETTER one. Thank you Colin!
This is not an idea, this is how we have to live, but people need to understand that change, it's the most important, because most people is deep in the way "we need money to live". Thanks for the speech. I support this way, long ago.
Maybe most people already think like that and it’s just a greedy few in positions of power that prevent us from realizing that another world is possible.
I think many people in the world can think like him, they just need the invitation and community organization opportunity to do so. See One Small Town Contributionism initiative. See how cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership can lead to such localized abundance and prosperity that we can make poverty, politics, debt, money and war obsolete!
watching this again..because it's so directly presented and enunciated so effortlessly...a seemingly complex challenging idea....present so clearly and with so much human empathy.the "minus banana" bit was hilarious too!..just a perfect highlight on the insanity of debt-based monetary economics..a total breath of fresh air from a wonderful caring human..
For more on this, check out Peter Joseph's brilliant work, a film called Interreflections, based on a great book The New Human Rights Movement and a free podcast called Revolution Now! A great source of sanity in this otherwise pretty insane world.
Problem we have, is those who obtain their power from the current monetary system, tell us, and pay others to tell us, any other system would not work.
And who buys their product or services? Vote with your money since we are still on planet casino. I (who is I?) prefer a resource based economy. So much more efficient and better then we can imagine.
@@skdkskdk Actually, another socio-economic system WOULD indeed work. Its called Resource Based Economy as proposed by the Venus Project (originally coined by Jacque Fresco). There is no such thing as 'human nature' for example... and besides, I think RBE will come out very quickly out of NECESSITY because existing socio-economic system is already not working and its highly destructive to the planet and our own survival (nevermind wellbeing).
@@deksroning125 Existing systems are working very well, there about 4 billion people in lockdown worldwide and nobody is starving for example (well I am talking about those the system is feeding, not those the system forgot to feed for 60 years)
"I had a dream". I then WOKE UP and asked google to search out the contents of that dream. This is what I found. Amazing. Wake up people and bring someone less fortunate than you along with you. ONE LOVE! Equality as human life was meant to be. This Ted talk in my opinion is the most profound and intelligent talk that no church, political party or scholar has ever brought to the publics attention. Sir you are a true leader and you should run for a position on the panel for the new New World Order.
It would be so nice to live in a world with an open access economy to provide the people of the world with what they need to survive and live a good life.
Colin Turner likes to refer to this type of economy as an open access economy, which is fine. I like to use the term Natural Law Resource Based Economy. I feel, the name itself, describes it pretty well and how viable and sustainable it would be. We don't need money, we need resources and the careful management of those resources to meet our needs. Money is the the illusion and money is now a major barrier in solving our world problems. There is also a great video on a Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy by Peter Joseph that shows how a RBE like that would work. Of course, the goal would be a global RBE, but realistically, it could and should start locally. For most people live locally anywhere, most of their lives, even those who enjoy travel. Everybody we know would benefit from living in a NLRBE and we don't have to lose many of the things we care about like certain foods, recreational activities or attractions. We just have to understand that sharing is an ultimately more sustainable ethic and we need an economy that allows us to check what can be done in the most efficient way.
True! Even Capt. Picard from Next Generation had a great scene about this idea of a moneyless society, eliminating need, providing for everybody who needs it. Then he was asked "so what is the challenge then?" and Picard replied 'To improve oneself!' And we would do that and we do that when we have our basic needs met. And if EVERYbody had their needs met, wow, the amazing things we could do, within a sustainable system, would probably be unprecedented. If we could all be free, thinking, creating, designing, playing, discovering beings - Indeed, a Star Trek-like existence is within our grasp. We just have to choose that path and do things to increase awareness that the path for a brighter, freer and more sustainable future is there, we just can't go down the money road and expect to get there.
Imagine this scenario: I don't like doing much but playing games and eating good food. It's an 'open access society' and I go to the store to grab some lobster and a new gamepad for my next game. Let's say you and John are my neighbours, you work at the store, and John is working at a fishing boat. Working in the store (in this kind of society) isn't too hard, you basically hand me the goods I want, or place them on a shelf when they arrive. But you don't like that you're spending X amount of hours every day there and I'm just sitting all day, eating and playing games. But what about John? You can't just work a few hours at the fishing boat one day and then rest a few etc., you have to be there for weeks out in the sea, being wet, cold, tired... And John also sees me just enjoying life, doing nothing constructive. But in the end we're all entitled to the same stuff? Does that seem fair? How long would you tolerate it? And the problem is, the more people choose the easier life, the harder all the others would have to work, or there would be shortages, decrease of quality and so on, to which the easy-goers would even complain. Fair system? I think not. Sustainable? Not at all...
@@gerbertthorne3191 Wrong analogy. Besides there are hundreds of millions of volunteers around the globe doing relevant things. The 'job' you are referring to is not productive in the slightest. You still project an outdated image of a human 'working for a living'. When in RBE, that's simply not the case. RBE is an economy that's completely automated. Humans are free to pursue higher things. An occasional maintenance or repair might be needed if the technology breaks down to the point it cannot repair itself, but those would be rare occasions, and given that these systems are something everyone depend on to live... do you REALLY think that no one would choose to volunteer their time to make the effort? If you actually think that, you have a VERY warped value system. Even when I was unemployed but had enough money to live without working, I STILL dedicated my spare time helping others with relevant work. If you want to spend your time playing games, that's your decision... no one will stop you... but don't presume that EVERYONE would do the same thing (because I can assure you, they won't). If you're not familiar with RBE (and you clearly seem to not be), I suggest you educate yourself about what it is and how it works before you project current behaviors and lack of education onto a system that's a polar opposite of what we have today. Furthermore, if you want to say a system is unsustainable... just have a look at what Capitalism is doing to the environment, the biosphere, and how negatively it impacts human behavior. Infinite growth on a finite planet is what's unsustainable and its literally KILLING us as we speak.
@@deksroning125 Anecdotes anecdotes. Humans are incentive based creatures, there are A LOT of real life examples of what happens when you apply the "free stuff" mentality, it led to shortages, starvation and worse, tyranny and oppression.
@@ValerioRhys Never tried this new system without money on a global scale and people still arguing and arguing and arguing that this couldnt work without even trying it. Anecdotes , anecdotes claiming to know what the true nature of the human being is just basing the claim on a system that basically forces humans to this behaviour by the system's mechanical structure. This system with money caused the real starvation, tyranny masked by "democracy" , shortages and oppression. Just for the capital, just for the money, and the time you spent 8 or 6 hours a day just to survive. Time that will never be given back to you. Im sorry but i dont agree with you and i think a world without money and "free" would be infinitely better and peacfull than the one we live nowaday. We just have to at least try it
Its wild. I feel like I watched this a year or two ago and was like "eh, ok, that's an interesting concept." Now, years later, I've been doing my own thinking on a moneyless world and ideal society, and most of the things I've settled on were already in this video (especially on trade). Really great stuff!
More sources to enjoy and learn about that are related: A World Beyond Capitalism, Moneyless Society, TZMOfficialChannel, Michael Tellinger and One Small Town Contributionism.
I'm into these ideas! Volunteering my time and effort for a basic income, food, health care and shelter in a group home for mental health supports, safety in numbers, cooperation in cooking and baking and cleaning.... even public transportation, thanks to the communities of the Metro Vancouver BC region and Vancouver Island!!! A taste of heaven on earth!
Well, I can tell that you have never grown a crop for food or survived in the wild. Survival takes a huge amount of backbreaking work to do as an individual.
We creat our own suffering with our greed for more when what you really need for happiness are small things (like something to eat and shelter) and healthy people around you.
This competitive system better come to an end before it's too late. Because it's this system itself which INHERENTLY produces growing poverty and inequality, hunger and homelessness, crime and corruption, endless wars, not to mention the environmental crisis which is now a threat to our very survival. Moving into a collaborative system can solve these problems, and I would say it's the only thing that can. Whether we call it an Open Access Economy, the Sharing Economy, a Natural Law Economy, a Resource Based Economy, the Gift Economy... we're all talking about the same thing. Let's make this happen. Thank you for this talk, Colin Turner, and all the work you've done to move us forward.
Have you checked out the work by Peter Joseph like the book The New Human Rights Movement or related film Interreflections or his "5 Great Economic Transitions" and podcast Revolution Now? What a great ally and source of information and ideas that could be for your cause. Also the talk on "Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy" could be very helpful.
@@coolioso808 Yes, Peter Joseph's work aligns beautifully with ours and has been an inspiration in some areas. Good suggestion to reach out to him though, that we have not done.
@@onecommunityorg Good to know! One more suggestion, if you are looking to continue getting the word out and building a wider community, with discussion and ideas flowing - there is a Peter Joseph ally comedian named Lee Camp, has a Moment of Clarity podcast, often openly anti-capitalist, has open chats that people can chime in on as well as a "locals" page that is even more interactive. A lot of great minds could come together in those contexts and grow into something really special.
Great talk, Colin and terrific work you do. I’ve followed you for years. These ideas need to spread and be implemented. For those who want to learn more about how this would work look into others who talked of similar ideas like Buckminster Fuller, Jacques Fresco, Peter Joseph and the Zeitgeist films. It all makes so much sense. Humans are the only animals who pay to live on earth. But we’re the most intelligent species right? With continued advancements in robotics most work can be done by machines freeing humans to live rather than be slaves.
Well said! Great additional authors, speakers and thinkers that you mentioned for people to check out. Peter Joseph has a great, current podcast called Revolution Now and is developing Zeitgeist 4. The path to a brighter future is there for us to take, but will enough of us realize that before we let the misguided masses push their way to the dark path? Spreading the word, having important conversations like this are all helpful in heading us in the right direction.
@@coolioso808 but how do we transit to that when living paying rent to private landlords? The robots that can produce everything belong to companies which belong to their shareholders. Why would they give up on them to make them available to everyone? As long as they live in maximum luxury why would they want to change that? Because there will be major changes in their life style too. Why would they be served in all ways by other people when there's no incentive anymore? Will some young people become volunteer hookers to let themselves be abused by old relics? Very likely they won't. Which is good for them, but not for the current rich people. Not all rich of course, and most old people are great respectable persons, I was just using as an example why the current holders of the most producing equipment are very unlikely to let them be used to produce free things for everyone instead of producing only for themselves and get more money that they will ever need. The world overall would surely be a nicer place to live for everyone when each looks for everyone else and each person is cared for by everyone else, but there are way too many who sucomb to the option to become the biggest landlord of the city, to have the flashiest yachts and private jets, and would exploit and trick and steal wherever they can to come closer to that dream. While this is still happening we can have zeitgeist 578 and millions of visionaries, because there won't be any difference. Unless it happens in some full country at once at least, and spread from there the model. Highest chances maybe Finland or such after few hundred years.
First of all, great questions. You are clearly a keen observer of society and critical thinker to ask such important questions. I've pondered many of the same questions. I have some answers, probably not for all, as many things are unpredictable, but I will do my best to answer. There is a talk from Peter Joseph, free on YT called "Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy" and a Q and A at the end that is very enlightening. Our better, sustainable world can come from a viable system called a Natural Law Resource Based Economy, very similar to what Colin Turner is speaking about. But how do we transition towards it is a great, important question. Because you are right, under the current system ruled by wealthy elites, they have most of the important land, own politicians, lawyers and resources that they aren't going to be interested in giving up. Well, to put it frankly, that situation is not sustainble. They can't keep living like that and expect it to end well. We are going to need a revolution, we are going to need a mass, sustained movement of civil disobedience. But not just that, because that's been done before with various protests. This sort of revolution needs to be focused on system change, with actionable demands to the ruling elites (the elected leaders and 1% class). Needs to be planned with mutual aide ready like people willing to take others in, feed, clothe and shelter people who might be ousted from where they live or their job. There are way more average folk than wealthy ruling elites, despite their control of the wealth, they are not the essential workers, they are not the truck drivers, the store clerks, the nurses, the teachers, daycare workers, the plumbers, the electricians, the programmers, etc. That would be part of the mass civil disobedience, a significant number of the essential workers would be on a General Strike, not go into work. Even if just a significant number of store clerks and delivery drivers did a General Strike, the ruling elites would HAVE TO stop and listen. But once they stop and listen the message has to be CLEAR and actionable demands. Something like, for human rights and environmental protection we need to end the oppressive capitalist system that runs on infinite consumption which is a recipe for disaster on a planet with finite resources. We demand a Universal Basic Income so that people can access their basic needs without labor-for-income. We need to let automation take jobs that are dehumanizing, unsafe or unnecessary for us to continue doing INCLUDING the very jobs of delivery and store clerks. A UBI is necessary because of technological unemployment and we can't keep consuming at these rates if we hope to do anything meaningful to address climate change and environmental destruction. So, we demand a UBI, as human right, we do not support capitalism, it is an unsustainable system, we want to actively transition towards a resource based economy to end the oppression. Now those are some possible "How-Tos" but your questions about why would the wealthy elites want this? Of course they wouldn't. But we need the value shift in society where regular, average people understand that elite wealth is NOT healthy and not something we should support. We should actively shame it, in fact. Understand that billionaires, unless they openly reject the very system that allows them to be a billionaire as unhealthy and unsustainable, are symbols of violence and should not be respected for that. We can look at the numbers, most people you see and interact day to day are not the ownership class. They work paycheck to paycheck mostly. Some may be 'well off' maybe have a high paying job and some property and that increases their wealth. They may be millionaires. But they don't live like the ruling elites who have so much money they buy media, buy politicians, and have their mega mansions, private jets, private islands and private meetings. Those are the 1%. Everybody else is somewhere in a working class position and could definitely empathize with the plight of the poor and also want a better life for themselves, less taxes and lower cost of living. Well, there is an answer for that. Where there is NO monetary cost of living and no poor people to oppress with a high standard of living for all. That is under the transition towards a resource-based economy. People with land, even a nice sized home, a cottage, a recreational farm or whatnot, they aren't going to be "taken away." That's not the idea of a RBE. The idea is access-oriented and removable of profit-incentive and debt. No more debt means no more concern about profiting off everything. People can open access essentials and more encouraged to open access or share spaces and things. In short summary: We need a value system change where people see the 1% as symbols of violence of the current system and shame them for that until they agree to help change the system. Market capitalism is unsustainable and people need to know that before going in for mass civil disobedience movement, with a demand like a UBI so we all have time and energy to fight and transform our social system to something better. I do agree that there are a few countries who are pretty close and I hope to see them change. Finland is pretty close. I don't know how many natural resources they have. Because a UBI could help the process, and a full RBE would include an inventory of all the world's resources and strategic sharing of them, I think a nation trying an RBE might be cut off from other capitalist countries' resources and have to be prepared for it, like Cuba was. Could Finland provide clean energy, nutritious food, clean water, sustainable/durable/functional clothing, transportation and keep that basic standard of living like with computers, TVs and modern conveniences using the resources it has in the country? Maybe so. Maybe other countries could do the same, or better. Possibly Costa Rica, possibly Australia. I'm afraid a big country like USA, Canada, China or India won't be the starters of this because even though they may have the natural resources to support it, the physical space and distance along with population issues (either too few and spread out in Canada's case or too many in the other cases) is a big challenge. One that would be better to face if a smaller scale example was done in say Finland or Australia. Ok, that's what I have for now. Anything else? I'll try to cover more short and sweet next time.
animals pay to live on earth, they just don't pay in money. not only do many animals work to get food, they also "pay the price" of sleeping outside in the elements. just two small examples.
Things aren’t free, they are the product of someones labor. This idea that things are free is ridiculous and this guy has a riduculous model of people agreeing to work with no compensation or control of their choices.
So no need to work? Everything is free. If there is a need to work, who enforces that? This is a nicely presented package of something that has failed many times over. I think it was Walter Williams who said that the first law of economics is scarcity, and the first principle of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.
Just like in Star Trek. Smart responsible educated and morally incorruptible populace live free and work to create useful systems in a prosperous community.
@@MahmoudHaggag91 If we make a world where human dignity and decency are the rules, and everyone grows up to respect these, it is a long way toward the ideal
An excellent talk, extremely informative and eye opening. This is yet another wonderful resource to be shared with others. We not only can build a money free world, it is in our best interest to do so. Wonderful example for showing that although the trade - market system disincentives volunteering we still do it in droves. Practically a good part of the Empire is created and functions quite well without money. We are at nature a society that is humane, cooperative and very invested in caring for one another.
Great, you got the big picture right. I would suggest you emphase on explaining how we already produce more products and goods that what is required to provide everyone with top quality ones. How many TVs are there in all the stores of the world unused..
Actually the "need" for a TV is reversely proportional to the freedom we have and feel we have, if we are on the 9-5 plus commuting then we need to embellish our prison cell, that's all. And most likely we do not have a garden to take care off, a beach to swim at, a mountain to go hiking, a forest to collect herbs and meditate. We might have the car of course to run away from each other and, most importantly, ourselves.But to make the need-less society to work would be a tremendous social engineering project. One is reminded with Amsterdam a few decades ago, they made their city bike free in all senses of the word, and within months it was all "stolen". Funny ha, stealing is partly about getting money for something else but it is mostly about un-freeing, making sure I have a bike when I want it, you solve your problem. If there was any solidarity your problem would be my problem too, but we are so far away and heading in the wrong direction!
This is especially important now that not only is AI displacing some fields and forcing retraining and career transitions but also the business model involves creating a trust mode for consumers to be willing to “trade” data essentially for free and willingness to be targeted for ads. The uselessness of the monetary idea in the first place from trade by proxy has devolved into a dystopic wealth via indebtness of the customer base. The problem is that customers are not real humans. They’re pawns in a game of checkers. It isn’t even chess.
This topic popped into my brain a month or 2 ago because there is so much Conspiracy of bad things happening in secrecy all for a dollar. It sounds so nice to be rich but we don't know what some are willing to do to get it . Money is very likely the cause of some our worst crimes in world . It might be late now but could we have had a world without money ?. The way i imagine it wouldn't be very exciting but there would be equality , we would take care of each other , work would basically be for survival and development , no profit . 🤔 If you really think about it thats how we started out as primitives but could be have reached as advance as we are now without money ? To plot out how this would work in an advanced civilization is going to take a great of thinking .
Great lecture. A few points to add: Money is a tool, and could still have its place like any other tool. The key is to diversity, and as with many things in nature, the ideal solution lies somewhere in between the two extremes. What we need is a world where all the basic human needs and all forms af knowledge are available for free. And If this proves too extreme, we should still be able to implement 80 to 90 percent of the picture. 9:08 We shelter pets, provide them with food and water, Why can't we shelter ourselves?? Humans are animals, mammals with evolved brains. The majority of humans will continue to act on their natural instincts if their basic needs are not readily available.
And people would just do what they love to do, their passions that are of service. Everybody has something that they can contribute. We wouldn’t have to volunteer for things we don’t vibe with. And we could help people find their “calling”
even MAINSTREAM sience fiction has shown this once. Star Trek is the perfect example for a moneyless society. But it doesn't have to be so far in the future - it can be reality NOW.
"Would I volunteer time to help make TV's"? No. No I wouldn't. Just being honest here. His entire argument just falls apart right there when he talks about this honestly. Most people just don't work this way. We can see this even in small communities where most people don't do anything for that community. Only a small fraction of people do things within a community to help the community. Most people just want to do their own thing and be left alone honestly. Not to mention that I would also consume 5 TV's (one for each room) where I only have 1 TV today because I'm not buying 5 TV's. So consumption goes up sadly. The only way to address the work side of this situation is via robots and AI. Robots making other robots that harvest the raw materials and other robots to make the things we need/want or give us the raw materials to make the easy things ourselves. We aren't there yet. Close but not there. Then some rich person has to make this leap to get it kickstarted and even then it'll be met with a TON of resistance and issues with the land for the resources which would still cost money at the time of starting. Government will never start this process in todays society. This however doesn't address the consumption side of things which is very real.
Doesn't matter, the rich and powerful want to retain the riches and power. Human nature would prevail even if forced meaning the system requires a totalitarian dictatorship to enforce it by an all powerful but fair leader (e.g. A god who is actually active and involved). Such systems are idealistic utopias and aren't achievable in reality. That said, the quality on life would likely, on average still increase with such a system as it does not prioritise individual gain even if it is abused as such by those who take more than they contribute
Sorry but this would never work. In order to maintain making progress it would still be necessary that some people educate themselves more than othere ones. Way less people for instance would be ready to study medicine or other sophisticated degrees that require a lot of work if they don't get an adequate reward for it. Besides, It's not that there would be only one wave of people going nuts and buying as many things as they can. Everybody would like to have the newest car, the biggest house, the most difficult to produce what ever, which would cause a demand that nobody can handle. The majority of the people in the world have to be carefull with their belongings and can't just replace everything they don't like or what is broken but, instead, have to live with it or fix instead of throwing it away for good. Furthermore, considering that the recources on our planet are limited, it wouldn't take long until we are out of necessary materials.
You don't think it would work...because you clearly don't properly understand the concept...you still think getting money for your work is a "proper reward" lol duh
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I really like this guy's proposed system on the surface, but it falls flat with deeper inspection like this. What he's talking about works perfectly fine for volunteering for things like art, music, food service, etc. But what about surgery? You don't want some untrained joe schmoe off the street risking your life by cutting into you without proper qualifications.
Something to consider: Human existence does not add to or benefit the Earth or the environment in any way. Indeed, the Earth does not need humans to survive. The Earth would get along fine without us, probably better. Rather it is humans that need the Earth, the environment and the biosphere in order to survive. And it is the Earth which has so far allowed humanity to exist. Mr. Turner's talk and proposal goes along way towards helping to correct the selfish, greedy and arrogant behavior we humans have inflicted on this beautiful world.
Humans are here already. They need to be accommodated in such a way that they (we) can more easily do good than harm. I am working on a plan for that but it is hard work as I am working alone. The Earth is just that, earth (rock and water). Humans can help themselves and the other lifeforms on this wet rock when we work together to that end. The biosphere needs us to get our act together. The rock will survive regardless of the lifeforms clinging to it. But our survival depends on our actions.
thing is, with current ai and robotic tech advancing at such breakneck speed, this post money world is more possible than ever thanks to a post labor world.
Thinking We Have to get everyone on board is a real limit to action, whereas just moving ahead and creating Open Acess Economies is available everywhere. Tool Libraries, Boat Sharing, Books, Bikes, Building Materials etc etc
It’s funny how this is already exactly how things work within many small, tight-knit communities…in particular, families and close friends. Everyone brings what they can to the table and all share equally from the pot. First, this requires that NO ONE in a position to exploit the system has any desire to do so. Second, the moment that any agreement to the tune of “I volunteered more hours to build TVs, so I should get a bigger TV”, we will be right back where we started. That being said, there really is no reason (no technological or logistical limitation) that every person on the planet shouldn’t have access to ample food and clean water…provided our population doesn’t continue to run out of control. The problem is, in our current global economic system, there is no way to operate without exploiting something or someone. Any company’s profit is the difference between what it’s employees are actually worth, and what they get paid. Some companies (non-profits) put that difference directly back into growing the company. As long as for-profit companies exist, there will be someone at the very bottom of the “food chain” being exploited. Globally, these are the people scraping a life out of $2.50 or less a day while the exploiters are buying yachts for sums of money that could provide a single meal to every person in a small country. In the US (and other countries), we have actors/actresses and athletes living in homes that cost as much as basic annual healthcare for a hundred thousand people or more, or to build affordable housing for a couple thousand people…and for what?
If everything in the world was for free we would have peace in the world because making everything free means making every human beings equal which would bring all humanity together to work as one for a better future... And once you turn 18 everyone should be given one thing they all need to survive so you get to pick a house a car a boat and a job working and doing what they are best at and enjoy while working there way up to where they want to be...
14:56 if you take away the need for money, you’ll get what we see from rich people: they get stuff they don’t need: fancy cars, large mansions, drugs. They do stuff that doesn’t help anyone: party, play bingo, go golfing, watch tv, play video games, travel for pleasure.
I want to be productive. But in order to be productive I need to be in a position of power. I don't mind doing physical labor. But physical laborers get no respect within the organization and no benefits. The more parasitic/ wasteful you are the more that benefits are steered in your direction. That's why i hate working for big corporations. I enjoy physical work, but physical work is seen as "lowly" and thus we get little pay and no respect.
gninja92 in the society that Colin is describing, coal face engineers and all in the caring professions will have the MOSYT respect. Financial, legal, commercial professions irrelevant.
Function of Money is Misunderstood here. What money is ? It is just an acknowledgement legal receipt of our transaction of exchange. By selling something to you what I have produced , & you being buying from me, you are acknowledging the fact that the product came from me and it is somehow useful to you, by giving me money you are acknowledging my human abilities and giving autheticity to it. Here the buying power of money is the real culprit of social inequality, not the money itself. What is taxation ? it is just another tool to accurately estimate the number of transactions for a specific product or service in society. Taxation is a great mechanism to utilize the share of every individual's ability for benefit of collective society.
Ultimately, the entire world would benefit from converting to a open access, moneyless society, yes. But realistically, it wouldn't likely happen simultaneously. However, if a moneyless, small region or country every got going, and people got to see how it would work, the snowball effect that it could have on the average people in the world to enact change in their own communities could be immense. In a strange example, if we look at how fast the world shutdown because of the COVID virus, shutting down in ways nobody thought would be possible worldwide, if on the positive side, a community broke off from this money mad world, converted to a moneyless society - that visual model could go viral and set off a mass movement that would be unstoppable by the ruling class. The truth is, there is still more of us than there are of the elite 1%, and we are largely essential workers. If we cooperate for the right cause, we can make drastic change for the better.
We need to go further. Making a living, we have created a ton of stuff we don't need. Let's concentrate on simplifying things to food, water, clothing and shelter. No tvs, internet and get back to spending times with family and ones in the community..
Great talk. I heard the saying... That man is so poor he only has money. World without money free up many resources for other potensial things we love. We could start visualise the beauty and harmony and better living of this rather than be concerned about opinions of why it can not work.
An interesting idea, based on our past behaviors in most of our societies. I'd imagine that those with a lot of current power, control, and money would struggle against its' implementation. They would probably try to game the new system, trying to maintain loopholes for themselves. It would be easier on the planet, though, if we didn't produce excessive amounts of everything, and only produce what we actually need. Designing everything so that items could be easily upgradeable, while keeping the same original item, would be a big plus. And, as well, eliminating the scourge of "planned obsolescence", making everything extremely durable--as we used to do.
Watch Orville they have a work ethic based economy. it’s truly amazing. I already feel money is useless. I volunteered plenty. Also a male caregiver for developmentally disabled children and adults. What up where’s my tv?
What he and his avid fans here fail to acknowledge, is that all the volunteers are only volunteers because they can afford it. Their livelihood doesn't depend on it. Unless we do what he says ..... then it does.^^
The only group that doesn’t want an open access economy is those who have most of the wealth and power now. It would be amazing to end debt, fake money and trade through grand volunteering…which so many of those with less means do, only to be used or trampled on by those who hold power. We have to find a way to shift power first, then the open access economy works flawlessly. Well done!
This is same pie in the sky thinking that lead to the failed communist systems of the 20th century. Someone sits back and assumes everyone is going to volunteer for their great idea, then when reality strikes and they realize no one wants to spend their time on this planet working for you for free out comes the guns and police state.
Solutions to 90% of humanities problems: make everything free: Alternative economic systems: - a Resource Based Economy (RBE) - Ubuntu Contributionism - an Open Economy - a Freedom Economy Here are the main Money Free Movement groups in the world today. Please give them your consideration and support. - Money Free Party Australia (MFPA) - Money Free Party UK/NZ/US - The Venus Project (TVP / RBE) - Jacque Fresco - The Ubuntu Contribution System (TUCS)- Michael Tellinger - The Free World Charter (open economy) - Colin R. Turner - New Earth Nation (NEN) - Sacha Stone - Common Heritage Pledge/Movement - Intentional Community Sharing (ICS) - you - The Mocica Project - mocica .org/en/Project - Paradism - Rael - The Valhalla Movement - Copiosis - The Zeitgeist Movement - The Transition - Freeworlder - One Community - Free World One - The Auravana Project - LifeGames - Futurist Playground Money Free Movement books: 1- The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War by Jacque Fresco 2- F-Day: The Second Dawn Of Man by Colin R. Turner 3- Into The Open Economy by Colin R. Turner 4- Escaping The Fish Bowl: The Awakening To A Freedom Economy by Robyn Moyle 5- UBUNTU Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity by Michael Tellinger 6- Trekonomics : The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
A world without money could be better than the present mess, but how do we get there? What actions will ensure it? I think we need to use what we have in the present system. We have to use the present system itself because it is what we have available to us. There is no moneyless country we can move to. So make your plans based on what you have. That is what I am doing. I have accumulated various assets over the decades and I aim to use them to get more as a group than I can on my own. I think it is possible for a transition group to grow exponentially very quickly if it uses money judiciously. I think it should be possible to double the number of members every year. If it can also double the number or value of assets every year then the sky is the limit. It is assets like land and properties and businesses that count more than money itself. Money acts as an enabler (after taxes). As the group makes money and buys assets, it becomes more attractive (all else being equal). A group with land and labour and income can grow its own food and get the rest of the things it needs from its multiplicity of businesses.
I studied this too. It won't work because the context in which they're doing it forces them to focus on things other than humanness. And that distracted focus and their efforts within that context support and empower that which in those who like it the way they are because they benefit disproportionately from the situation. The answer is that the grassroots level. And not everybody can do it. You have to make it socially and evolutionary advantaging, not disadvantaging to give in a social context. And the solution has to be truly comprehensive, not just about economy for it to ultimately and permanently work. Confluence Infinite International
I think this would be better. Open access community. No more rich and poor caused by fiat currencies. Everyone pulls their wait. Quick learns and slow learners. It will help disabled to get into work more easily because the workforce would welcome disabled people more readily without biases because of pay for trade. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
4:43 you can get rid of profit, but you can’t get rid of the selfishness in every one of us. As long as people are still selfish, they will continue to overconsume and hoard. Removing payment for work just removes the incentive to work. If you think you’re so selfless, donate everything you have to charity. You won’t. you just SELFISHLY want the fruit of other people’s labor for free, while you give NOTHING. hypocrites.
We are PROGRAMMED from birth to want things, to want more than what we have, it is pounded into our heads from all directions, BECAUSE this is HOW THE RICH GOT RICH! By CREATING SLAVES to do their bidding! You are WRONG in your assumptions that money is vital to life on this planet! It is just a scoring system to see who is better at cheating, forcing others to do their will!
15:06 part of the reason school was made compulsory was to take children off the streets, because idle children commit crimes. When people are not busy working, they too will commit crimes in their boredom. We saw this during the pandemic as well. People got relieved of their jobs, so they found things to do which did not help anyone: racing in their cars, graffitiing, drug use, overeating, and violent protesting.
7:21 there would be people who hoard the TVs, in order to use them for trade, making it so that not everyone got one. so there would still be a shortage of TVs.
7:56 “would i be willing to volunteer my time to help make tvs? no! Why would i do that? someone else can do it! I’m too busy watching tv!” - everyone. Result: no new tvs get made. Result: even more of a shortage of TVs.
Talking to the vast majority of mixed minds will not get you anywhere. We are all different soul age, different leagues. Start gathering those who are ripe and ready to build this kind of living in small villages, experience it, make it work. Show that it works! Write me in!
to create a new system you must understand the original psychological reasons for why a previous system existed. We must understand why price was ever put on anything.
17:52 they have to put a monetary value on bottles for people to bother recycling them. and even with that monetary value, i still see bottles littered all over the place.
tbh everything is free cuz we did not created anything not even our bodies. if we live for each others cooperate and with humanity for the great future of earth then everything will be good.
Can you imagine if this can be achieved, we would get rid of half of all ailments, save rest of Amazon rainforest, reduce global warming by a lot, crime rate would lower by sixty to eighty percent, eventually racism go extinct, will be no wars, and people could live a much happier life.
More problems because people will not appreciate what we have been given and will be given, because more people will be more LAZY like now and expect someone do the work! This is already happening and expecting thing for free. People expect others to help someone else. We as humans are mentally unwell and self-centred!
@KLJF What goes around comes around. Laziness does not contribute to positive outcomes with doing NOTHING. If everyone on the entire planet was pure breeded lazy humans and did nothing and sat on their couch for the rest of their life..the outcome of this world would be a disaster. It is basic common sense. Oh wait...common sense is not common!
KLJF, I do understand, but if the mother of invention came from the root of lazy people who decided to ‘’not give up” easily. Alexander Graham Bell had to repeat things hundred and thousands of times before the telephone would even work!! Even his other inventions, too!!! We would not have many of the positive things we have today. We should promote in the media and all sources of human information that “Lets Become a Lazy World and Do Nothing”, right? This should become the new adage of the world. What would become of this world if this was the new normality of the human race? People by nature are selfish and having things free will do no long term good as people don’t appreciate things that are already given to them anyways. A great majority of our time in this modern world we forget to appreciate small things that would never have been a normal thing to receive. Hundreds of years ago, people had to work to get what they needed to survive and they appreciated what the got for their work. We already live ‘’free’’ for many things in this world and this is why we are already selfish and people take advantage of the government system. The food banks in the world were suppose to be temporary and it will never end for now that we have people getting food for free, etc. in this world, as one good example. It makes no sense to have everything free forever and ongoing and ongoing. It is not what the human race was created to do and be.
So I've read that if all the money and value in goods in the world were distributed equally with the entire world population, every person would get about 32.000 dollars. What is the correlation between that and 3:42?
@@nansir you can find possible solutions online if you search around. Also, you might try Zeitgeist: Moving Forward which basically explains what this video does in greater detail and presents one possible solution.
@@josiahferrell5022 I know I can. I'm not trying to be over critical, I appreciate Colin's efforts but we're all still learning. An Open Economy doesn't seem to address the question of managing our finite resources in the same way as a Resource Based Economy does.
@@nansir....Who has been telling us that those things are finite? I've learned that quite the opposite is true! Think about that one! Also, with everything being free, people will not feel a need to be greedy and selfish. One uses what one needs and continues to enjoy life. No more hoarding stuff in storage lockers, basements, banks, etc.
A world where parents hope their kids will live. I would not only volunteer to help with this, I would dedicate my life for this project. Not a perfect world, but a MUCH BETTER one. Thank you Colin!
Not this parent. Read “the case against socialism” and get educated.
This is not an idea, this is how we have to live, but people need to understand that change, it's the most important, because most people is deep in the way "we need money to live". Thanks for the speech. I support this way, long ago.
If most people in our planet thought like him, what a wonderful place the earth will be.
the media ban the thoughts in most mankind mindes
Maybe most people already think like that and it’s just a greedy few in positions of power that prevent us from realizing that another world is possible.
I think many people in the world can think like him, they just need the invitation and community organization opportunity to do so. See One Small Town Contributionism initiative. See how cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership can lead to such localized abundance and prosperity that we can make poverty, politics, debt, money and war obsolete!
watching this again..because it's so directly presented and enunciated so effortlessly...a seemingly complex challenging idea....present so clearly and with so much human empathy.the "minus banana" bit was hilarious too!..just a perfect highlight on the insanity of debt-based monetary economics..a total breath of fresh air from a wonderful caring human..
For more on this, check out Peter Joseph's brilliant work, a film called Interreflections, based on a great book The New Human Rights Movement and a free podcast called Revolution Now! A great source of sanity in this otherwise pretty insane world.
Better than the banana analogy is the picture of the surge protector plugged into itself. That’s how commies like him think the world can work.
Problem we have, is those who obtain their power from the current monetary system, tell us, and pay others to tell us, any other system would not work.
Yes, I agree completely, it's all about control of the masses.
@@randomnesspersonified Any other system would not work
And who buys their product or services? Vote with your money since we are still on planet casino. I (who is I?) prefer a resource based economy. So much more efficient and better then we can imagine.
@@skdkskdk Actually, another socio-economic system WOULD indeed work.
Its called Resource Based Economy as proposed by the Venus Project (originally coined by Jacque Fresco).
There is no such thing as 'human nature' for example... and besides, I think RBE will come out very quickly out of NECESSITY because existing socio-economic system is already not working and its highly destructive to the planet and our own survival (nevermind wellbeing).
@@deksroning125 Existing systems are working very well, there about 4 billion people in lockdown worldwide and nobody is starving for example (well I am talking about those the system is feeding, not those the system forgot to feed for 60 years)
"I had a dream". I then WOKE UP and asked google to search out the contents of that dream. This is what I found. Amazing. Wake up people and bring someone less fortunate than you along with you. ONE LOVE! Equality as human life was meant to be. This Ted talk in my opinion is the most profound and intelligent talk that no church, political party or scholar has ever brought to the publics attention. Sir you are a true leader and you should run for a position on the panel for the new New World Order.
It would be so nice to live in a world with an open access economy to provide the people of the world with what they need to survive and live a good life.
Colin Turner likes to refer to this type of economy as an open access economy, which is fine. I like to use the term Natural Law Resource Based Economy. I feel, the name itself, describes it pretty well and how viable and sustainable it would be.
We don't need money, we need resources and the careful management of those resources to meet our needs. Money is the the illusion and money is now a major barrier in solving our world problems.
There is also a great video on a Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy by Peter Joseph that shows how a RBE like that would work. Of course, the goal would be a global RBE, but realistically, it could and should start locally. For most people live locally anywhere, most of their lives, even those who enjoy travel.
Everybody we know would benefit from living in a NLRBE and we don't have to lose many of the things we care about like certain foods, recreational activities or attractions. We just have to understand that sharing is an ultimately more sustainable ethic and we need an economy that allows us to check what can be done in the most efficient way.
Then comes Tesla motors
We could be halfway to Star Trek by now (without the aliens).
Good job Colin.
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I know it's slow but the knowledge is growing.
True! Even Capt. Picard from Next Generation had a great scene about this idea of a moneyless society, eliminating need, providing for everybody who needs it. Then he was asked "so what is the challenge then?" and Picard replied 'To improve oneself!' And we would do that and we do that when we have our basic needs met. And if EVERYbody had their needs met, wow, the amazing things we could do, within a sustainable system, would probably be unprecedented. If we could all be free, thinking, creating, designing, playing, discovering beings - Indeed, a Star Trek-like existence is within our grasp.
We just have to choose that path and do things to increase awareness that the path for a brighter, freer and more sustainable future is there, we just can't go down the money road and expect to get there.
Brave talk Colin! Thanks for continuing to open the eyes of the world and for BEing the change we are looking for!!
Very good speech! Indeed, trade is holding us back and we need to move forward to an open access society.
Resource Based Economy as presented by The Venus Project.
Imagine this scenario:
I don't like doing much but playing games and eating good food.
It's an 'open access society' and I go to the store to grab some lobster and a new gamepad for my next game.
Let's say you and John are my neighbours, you work at the store, and John is working at a fishing boat.
Working in the store (in this kind of society) isn't too hard, you basically hand me the goods I want, or place them on a shelf when they arrive. But you don't like that you're spending X amount of hours every day there and I'm just sitting all day, eating and playing games.
But what about John? You can't just work a few hours at the fishing boat one day and then rest a few etc., you have to be there for weeks out in the sea, being wet, cold, tired...
And John also sees me just enjoying life, doing nothing constructive.
But in the end we're all entitled to the same stuff?
Does that seem fair? How long would you tolerate it?
And the problem is, the more people choose the easier life, the harder all the others would have to work, or there would be shortages, decrease of quality and so on, to which the easy-goers would even complain.
Fair system? I think not. Sustainable? Not at all...
@@gerbertthorne3191 Wrong analogy.
Besides there are hundreds of millions of volunteers around the globe doing relevant things.
The 'job' you are referring to is not productive in the slightest.
You still project an outdated image of a human 'working for a living'.
When in RBE, that's simply not the case.
RBE is an economy that's completely automated.
Humans are free to pursue higher things.
An occasional maintenance or repair might be needed if the technology breaks down to the point it cannot repair itself, but those would be rare occasions, and given that these systems are something everyone depend on to live... do you REALLY think that no one would choose to volunteer their time to make the effort?
If you actually think that, you have a VERY warped value system.
Even when I was unemployed but had enough money to live without working, I STILL dedicated my spare time helping others with relevant work.
If you want to spend your time playing games, that's your decision... no one will stop you... but don't presume that EVERYONE would do the same thing (because I can assure you, they won't).
If you're not familiar with RBE (and you clearly seem to not be), I suggest you educate yourself about what it is and how it works before you project current behaviors and lack of education onto a system that's a polar opposite of what we have today.
Furthermore, if you want to say a system is unsustainable... just have a look at what Capitalism is doing to the environment, the biosphere, and how negatively it impacts human behavior.
Infinite growth on a finite planet is what's unsustainable and its literally KILLING us as we speak.
@@deksroning125 Anecdotes anecdotes. Humans are incentive based creatures, there are A LOT of real life examples of what happens when you apply the "free stuff" mentality, it led to shortages, starvation and worse, tyranny and oppression.
@@ValerioRhys Never tried this new system without money on a global scale and people still arguing and arguing and arguing that this couldnt work without even trying it. Anecdotes , anecdotes claiming to know what the true nature of the human being is just basing the claim on a system that basically forces humans to this behaviour by the system's mechanical structure. This system with money caused the real starvation, tyranny masked by "democracy" , shortages and oppression. Just for the capital, just for the money, and the time you spent 8 or 6 hours a day just to survive. Time that will never be given back to you. Im sorry but i dont agree with you and i think a world without money and "free" would be infinitely better and peacfull than the one we live nowaday. We just have to at least try it
Its wild. I feel like I watched this a year or two ago and was like "eh, ok, that's an interesting concept." Now, years later, I've been doing my own thinking on a moneyless world and ideal society, and most of the things I've settled on were already in this video (especially on trade). Really great stuff!
Sometimes you meet a mirror of yourself far away.
More sources to enjoy and learn about that are related: A World Beyond Capitalism, Moneyless Society, TZMOfficialChannel, Michael Tellinger and One Small Town Contributionism.
This would evolve us as a species so damn much
I'm into these ideas! Volunteering my time and effort for a basic income, food, health care and shelter in a group home for mental health supports, safety in numbers, cooperation in cooking and baking and cleaning.... even public transportation, thanks to the communities of the Metro Vancouver BC region and Vancouver Island!!! A taste of heaven on earth!
I was thinking on these for some time, I'm glad I found this talk, we need a better system.
Everything is FREE! the Earth doesn't ask for anything,we are just suffering from an Illusion. NLE/RBE FTW!
Exactly
Well, I can tell that you have never grown a crop for food or survived in the wild. Survival takes a huge amount of backbreaking work to do as an individual.
@@updatemysettings5095 you cannot survive as an individual humans have always been communal in our survival
We creat our own suffering with our greed for more when what you really need for happiness are small things (like something to eat and shelter) and healthy people around you.
This competitive system better come to an end before it's too late. Because it's this system itself which INHERENTLY produces growing poverty and inequality, hunger and homelessness, crime and corruption, endless wars, not to mention the environmental crisis which is now a threat to our very survival. Moving into a collaborative system can solve these problems, and I would say it's the only thing that can. Whether we call it an Open Access Economy, the Sharing Economy, a Natural Law Economy, a Resource Based Economy, the Gift Economy... we're all talking about the same thing. Let's make this happen. Thank you for this talk, Colin Turner, and all the work you've done to move us forward.
So good. One Community Global is creating open source designs for communities that can demonstrate living this way.
Have you checked out the work by Peter Joseph like the book The New Human Rights Movement or related film Interreflections or his "5 Great Economic Transitions" and podcast Revolution Now? What a great ally and source of information and ideas that could be for your cause. Also the talk on "Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy" could be very helpful.
@@coolioso808 Yes, Peter Joseph's work aligns beautifully with ours and has been an inspiration in some areas. Good suggestion to reach out to him though, that we have not done.
@@onecommunityorg Good to know! One more suggestion, if you are looking to continue getting the word out and building a wider community, with discussion and ideas flowing - there is a Peter Joseph ally comedian named Lee Camp, has a Moment of Clarity podcast, often openly anti-capitalist, has open chats that people can chime in on as well as a "locals" page that is even more interactive. A lot of great minds could come together in those contexts and grow into something really special.
@@coolioso808 Excellent, thank you! We'll reach out to him also.
Great talk, Colin and terrific work you do. I’ve followed you for years. These ideas need to spread and be implemented. For those who want to learn more about how this would work look into others who talked of similar ideas like Buckminster Fuller, Jacques Fresco, Peter Joseph and the Zeitgeist films. It all makes so much sense. Humans are the only animals who pay to live on earth. But we’re the most intelligent species right? With continued advancements in robotics most work can be done by machines freeing humans to live rather than be slaves.
Well said! Great additional authors, speakers and thinkers that you mentioned for people to check out. Peter Joseph has a great, current podcast called Revolution Now and is developing Zeitgeist 4. The path to a brighter future is there for us to take, but will enough of us realize that before we let the misguided masses push their way to the dark path? Spreading the word, having important conversations like this are all helpful in heading us in the right direction.
@@coolioso808 but how do we transit to that when living paying rent to private landlords? The robots that can produce everything belong to companies which belong to their shareholders. Why would they give up on them to make them available to everyone? As long as they live in maximum luxury why would they want to change that? Because there will be major changes in their life style too. Why would they be served in all ways by other people when there's no incentive anymore? Will some young people become volunteer hookers to let themselves be abused by old relics? Very likely they won't. Which is good for them, but not for the current rich people. Not all rich of course, and most old people are great respectable persons, I was just using as an example why the current holders of the most producing equipment are very unlikely to let them be used to produce free things for everyone instead of producing only for themselves and get more money that they will ever need.
The world overall would surely be a nicer place to live for everyone when each looks for everyone else and each person is cared for by everyone else, but there are way too many who sucomb to the option to become the biggest landlord of the city, to have the flashiest yachts and private jets, and would exploit and trick and steal wherever they can to come closer to that dream. While this is still happening we can have zeitgeist 578 and millions of visionaries, because there won't be any difference. Unless it happens in some full country at once at least, and spread from there the model. Highest chances maybe Finland or such after few hundred years.
First of all, great questions. You are clearly a keen observer of society and critical thinker to ask such important questions. I've pondered many of the same questions. I have some answers, probably not for all, as many things are unpredictable, but I will do my best to answer.
There is a talk from Peter Joseph, free on YT called "Economic Calculation in a Natural Law Resource Based Economy" and a Q and A at the end that is very enlightening. Our better, sustainable world can come from a viable system called a Natural Law Resource Based Economy, very similar to what Colin Turner is speaking about. But how do we transition towards it is a great, important question.
Because you are right, under the current system ruled by wealthy elites, they have most of the important land, own politicians, lawyers and resources that they aren't going to be interested in giving up. Well, to put it frankly, that situation is not sustainble. They can't keep living like that and expect it to end well. We are going to need a revolution, we are going to need a mass, sustained movement of civil disobedience. But not just that, because that's been done before with various protests. This sort of revolution needs to be focused on system change, with actionable demands to the ruling elites (the elected leaders and 1% class). Needs to be planned with mutual aide ready like people willing to take others in, feed, clothe and shelter people who might be ousted from where they live or their job. There are way more average folk than wealthy ruling elites, despite their control of the wealth, they are not the essential workers, they are not the truck drivers, the store clerks, the nurses, the teachers, daycare workers, the plumbers, the electricians, the programmers, etc. That would be part of the mass civil disobedience, a significant number of the essential workers would be on a General Strike, not go into work. Even if just a significant number of store clerks and delivery drivers did a General Strike, the ruling elites would HAVE TO stop and listen. But once they stop and listen the message has to be CLEAR and actionable demands. Something like, for human rights and environmental protection we need to end the oppressive capitalist system that runs on infinite consumption which is a recipe for disaster on a planet with finite resources. We demand a Universal Basic Income so that people can access their basic needs without labor-for-income. We need to let automation take jobs that are dehumanizing, unsafe or unnecessary for us to continue doing INCLUDING the very jobs of delivery and store clerks. A UBI is necessary because of technological unemployment and we can't keep consuming at these rates if we hope to do anything meaningful to address climate change and environmental destruction. So, we demand a UBI, as human right, we do not support capitalism, it is an unsustainable system, we want to actively transition towards a resource based economy to end the oppression.
Now those are some possible "How-Tos" but your questions about why would the wealthy elites want this? Of course they wouldn't. But we need the value shift in society where regular, average people understand that elite wealth is NOT healthy and not something we should support. We should actively shame it, in fact. Understand that billionaires, unless they openly reject the very system that allows them to be a billionaire as unhealthy and unsustainable, are symbols of violence and should not be respected for that. We can look at the numbers, most people you see and interact day to day are not the ownership class. They work paycheck to paycheck mostly. Some may be 'well off' maybe have a high paying job and some property and that increases their wealth. They may be millionaires. But they don't live like the ruling elites who have so much money they buy media, buy politicians, and have their mega mansions, private jets, private islands and private meetings. Those are the 1%. Everybody else is somewhere in a working class position and could definitely empathize with the plight of the poor and also want a better life for themselves, less taxes and lower cost of living. Well, there is an answer for that. Where there is NO monetary cost of living and no poor people to oppress with a high standard of living for all. That is under the transition towards a resource-based economy.
People with land, even a nice sized home, a cottage, a recreational farm or whatnot, they aren't going to be "taken away." That's not the idea of a RBE. The idea is access-oriented and removable of profit-incentive and debt. No more debt means no more concern about profiting off everything. People can open access essentials and more encouraged to open access or share spaces and things.
In short summary: We need a value system change where people see the 1% as symbols of violence of the current system and shame them for that until they agree to help change the system. Market capitalism is unsustainable and people need to know that before going in for mass civil disobedience movement, with a demand like a UBI so we all have time and energy to fight and transform our social system to something better.
I do agree that there are a few countries who are pretty close and I hope to see them change. Finland is pretty close. I don't know how many natural resources they have. Because a UBI could help the process, and a full RBE would include an inventory of all the world's resources and strategic sharing of them, I think a nation trying an RBE might be cut off from other capitalist countries' resources and have to be prepared for it, like Cuba was. Could Finland provide clean energy, nutritious food, clean water, sustainable/durable/functional clothing, transportation and keep that basic standard of living like with computers, TVs and modern conveniences using the resources it has in the country? Maybe so. Maybe other countries could do the same, or better. Possibly Costa Rica, possibly Australia. I'm afraid a big country like USA, Canada, China or India won't be the starters of this because even though they may have the natural resources to support it, the physical space and distance along with population issues (either too few and spread out in Canada's case or too many in the other cases) is a big challenge. One that would be better to face if a smaller scale example was done in say Finland or Australia.
Ok, that's what I have for now. Anything else? I'll try to cover more short and sweet next time.
animals pay to live on earth, they just don't pay in money. not only do many animals work to get food, they also "pay the price" of sleeping outside in the elements. just two small examples.
We spend trillions of hours per year simply keeping track of a # of who owes who what[sic].
We are not Free, until EVERYTHING is Free.
and everybody
Things aren’t free, they are the product of someones labor. This idea that things are free is ridiculous and this guy has a riduculous model of people agreeing to work with no compensation or control of their choices.
Excellent job Colin!!! Great presentation!!!
Fantastic!...well done Mr Turner!
So no need to work? Everything is free.
If there is a need to work, who enforces that?
This is a nicely presented package of something that has failed many times over.
I think it was Walter Williams who said that the first law of economics is scarcity, and the first principle of politics is to ignore the first law of economics.
It will sure succeed if our corrupt society tries even 1 %.
Just like in Star Trek. Smart responsible educated and morally incorruptible populace live free and work to create useful systems in a prosperous community.
the truth is that 99% of us are slaves we born that way as slafe in that bloody system why still slaves untile the end of this sico drama
star trek which one???
@@hemantaku8339 It's an ideal, reliant upon every person being honest and responsible and clear-minded, etc
@@MahmoudHaggag91 If we make a world where human dignity and decency are the rules, and everyone grows up to respect these, it is a long way toward the ideal
@@hemantaku8339 deep space nine and next generations. In Star Trek, Earth evolved away from money.
He's not the greatest speaker or presenter, but he has an excellent mind. Thank you sir for articulating necessary concepts
I will give a solute to this man, sharing the positive prospective of the world with necessary freedom.
An excellent talk, extremely informative and eye opening. This is yet another wonderful resource to be shared with others. We not only can build a money free world, it is in our best interest to do so. Wonderful example for showing that although the trade - market system disincentives volunteering we still do it in droves. Practically a good part of the Empire is created and functions quite well without money. We are at nature a society that is humane, cooperative and very invested in caring for one another.
Great, you got the big picture right.
I would suggest you emphase on explaining how we already produce more products and goods that what is required to provide everyone with top quality ones. How many TVs are there in all the stores of the world unused..
Actually the "need" for a TV is reversely proportional to the freedom we have and feel we have, if we are on the 9-5 plus commuting then we need to embellish our prison cell, that's all. And most likely we do not have a garden to take care off, a beach to swim at, a mountain to go hiking, a forest to collect herbs and meditate. We might have the car of course to run away from each other and, most importantly, ourselves.But to make the need-less society to work would be a tremendous social engineering project. One is reminded with Amsterdam a few decades ago, they made their city bike free in all senses of the word, and within months it was all "stolen". Funny ha, stealing is partly about getting money for something else but it is mostly about un-freeing, making sure I have a bike when I want it, you solve your problem. If there was any solidarity your problem would be my problem too, but we are so far away and heading in the wrong direction!
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Excellent job Colin 👍
This is especially important now that not only is AI displacing some fields and forcing retraining and career transitions but also the business model involves creating a trust mode for consumers to be willing to “trade” data essentially for free and willingness to be targeted for ads.
The uselessness of the monetary idea in the first place from trade by proxy has devolved into a dystopic wealth via indebtness of the customer base.
The problem is that customers are not real humans. They’re pawns in a game of checkers. It isn’t even chess.
You have to push the reset button, wipe all debt and all currency the same value
This topic popped into my brain a month or 2 ago because there is so much Conspiracy of bad things happening in secrecy all for a dollar. It sounds so nice to be rich but we don't know what some are willing to do to get it . Money is very likely the cause of some our worst crimes in world . It might be late now but could we have had a world without money ?. The way i imagine it wouldn't be very exciting but there would be equality , we would take care of each other , work would basically be for survival and development , no profit . 🤔 If you really think about it thats how we started out as primitives but could be have reached as advance as we are now without money ? To plot out how this would work in an advanced civilization is going to take a great of thinking .
Great lecture. A few points to add:
Money is a tool, and could still have its place like any other tool.
The key is to diversity, and as with many things in nature, the ideal solution lies somewhere in between the two extremes.
What we need is a world where all the basic human needs and all forms af knowledge are available for free. And If this proves too extreme, we should still be able to implement 80 to 90 percent of the picture.
9:08
We shelter pets, provide them with food and water, Why can't we shelter ourselves?? Humans are animals, mammals with evolved brains. The majority of humans will continue to act on their natural instincts if their basic needs are not readily available.
congrats, I will feature it in one of my next blogs/vlogs
And people would just do what they love to do, their passions that are of service. Everybody has something that they can contribute. We wouldn’t have to volunteer for things we don’t vibe with. And we could help people find their “calling”
even MAINSTREAM sience fiction has shown this once. Star Trek is the perfect example for a moneyless society. But it doesn't have to be so far in the future - it can be reality NOW.
This is really fantastic. Thank you so much!
Congratulations Colin! Well said!!!
"Would I volunteer time to help make TV's"? No. No I wouldn't. Just being honest here. His entire argument just falls apart right there when he talks about this honestly. Most people just don't work this way. We can see this even in small communities where most people don't do anything for that community. Only a small fraction of people do things within a community to help the community. Most people just want to do their own thing and be left alone honestly. Not to mention that I would also consume 5 TV's (one for each room) where I only have 1 TV today because I'm not buying 5 TV's. So consumption goes up sadly. The only way to address the work side of this situation is via robots and AI. Robots making other robots that harvest the raw materials and other robots to make the things we need/want or give us the raw materials to make the easy things ourselves. We aren't there yet. Close but not there. Then some rich person has to make this leap to get it kickstarted and even then it'll be met with a TON of resistance and issues with the land for the resources which would still cost money at the time of starting. Government will never start this process in todays society. This however doesn't address the consumption side of things which is very real.
Doesn't matter, the rich and powerful want to retain the riches and power. Human nature would prevail even if forced meaning the system requires a totalitarian dictatorship to enforce it by an all powerful but fair leader (e.g. A god who is actually active and involved). Such systems are idealistic utopias and aren't achievable in reality. That said, the quality on life would likely, on average still increase with such a system as it does not prioritise individual gain even if it is abused as such by those who take more than they contribute
People have said I was crazy for talking about this a long long time ago. If we get off the money trap then we can evolve out of this matrix
I studied this for my on presentation and it really helped! 😄👏🏻👍🏽
Sorry but this would never work. In order to maintain making progress it would still be necessary that some people educate themselves more than othere ones. Way less people for instance would be ready to study medicine or other sophisticated degrees that require a lot of work if they don't get an adequate reward for it. Besides, It's not that there would be only one wave of people going nuts and buying as many things as they can. Everybody would like to have the newest car, the biggest house, the most difficult to produce what ever, which would cause a demand that nobody can handle. The majority of the people in the world have to be carefull with their belongings and can't just replace everything they don't like or what is broken but, instead, have to live with it or fix instead of throwing it away for good. Furthermore, considering that the recources on our planet are limited, it wouldn't take long until we are out of necessary materials.
The reasons why this won't work are - not really surprisingly - overlapping with the reasons why communism never worked and will never work.
If it will never work, the result would be end of the human race, and that is not why we exist
You don't think it would work...because you clearly don't properly understand the concept...you still think getting money for your work is a "proper reward" lol duh
@@Marcel-rq8jt Communism does work...every time it's tried...what doesn't work is conflating totalitarianism and dictatorships with communism.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with you. I really like this guy's proposed system on the surface, but it falls flat with deeper inspection like this. What he's talking about works perfectly fine for volunteering for things like art, music, food service, etc. But what about surgery? You don't want some untrained joe schmoe off the street risking your life by cutting into you without proper qualifications.
For these ideas to be seriously considered, they need to be debated and not spoken in echo chambers. Debate a Capitalist.
Bankers don't like any progress that doesn't pay their tax.
Thinking outside the box!!
Something to consider: Human existence does not add to or benefit the Earth or the environment in any way. Indeed, the Earth does not need humans to survive. The Earth would get along fine without us, probably better. Rather it is humans that need the Earth, the environment and the biosphere in order to survive. And it is the Earth which has so far allowed humanity to exist.
Mr. Turner's talk and proposal goes along way towards helping to correct the selfish, greedy and arrogant behavior we humans have inflicted on this beautiful world.
Humans are here already. They need to be accommodated in such a way that they (we) can more easily do good than harm. I am working on a plan for that but it is hard work as I am working alone. The Earth is just that, earth (rock and water). Humans can help themselves and the other lifeforms on this wet rock when we work together to that end. The biosphere needs us to get our act together. The rock will survive regardless of the lifeforms clinging to it. But our survival depends on our actions.
@@robertcircleone Yeah, well as soon as you eliminate the lust for material things, fame and power that drive human beings let me know.
@@donmiller2908, OK.
thing is, with current ai and robotic tech advancing at such breakneck speed, this post money world is more possible than ever thanks to a post labor world.
Well done, I have been onboard with you for years now.
Thinking We Have to get everyone on board is a real limit to action, whereas just moving ahead and creating Open Acess Economies is available everywhere. Tool Libraries, Boat Sharing, Books, Bikes, Building Materials etc etc
It’s funny how this is already exactly how things work within many small, tight-knit communities…in particular, families and close friends. Everyone brings what they can to the table and all share equally from the pot.
First, this requires that NO ONE in a position to exploit the system has any desire to do so.
Second, the moment that any agreement to the tune of “I volunteered more hours to build TVs, so I should get a bigger TV”, we will be right back where we started.
That being said, there really is no reason (no technological or logistical limitation) that every person on the planet shouldn’t have access to ample food and clean water…provided our population doesn’t continue to run out of control. The problem is, in our current global economic system, there is no way to operate without exploiting something or someone.
Any company’s profit is the difference between what it’s employees are actually worth, and what they get paid.
Some companies (non-profits) put that difference directly back into growing the company. As long as for-profit companies exist, there will be someone at the very bottom of the “food chain” being exploited. Globally, these are the people scraping a life out of $2.50 or less a day while the exploiters are buying yachts for sums of money that could provide a single meal to every person in a small country.
In the US (and other countries), we have actors/actresses and athletes living in homes that cost as much as basic annual healthcare for a hundred thousand people or more, or to build affordable housing for a couple thousand people…and for what?
For speeding up the climate catastrophe.
John Lennon already stated in "Imagine" song. Would we joined him ?
If everything in the world was for free we would have peace in the world because making everything free means making every human beings equal which would bring all humanity together to work as one for a better future... And once you turn 18 everyone should be given one thing they all need to survive so you get to pick a house a car a boat and a job working and doing what they are best at and enjoy while working there way up to where they want to be...
Oh god please make this a reality..i love this idea
14:56 if you take away the need for money, you’ll get what we see from rich people: they get stuff they don’t need: fancy cars, large mansions, drugs. They do stuff that doesn’t help anyone: party, play bingo, go golfing, watch tv, play video games, travel for pleasure.
Fantastic video.
Superb
I want to be productive. But in order to be productive I need to be in a position of power. I don't mind doing physical labor. But physical laborers get no respect within the organization and no benefits. The more parasitic/ wasteful you are the more that benefits are steered in your direction. That's why i hate working for big corporations. I enjoy physical work, but physical work is seen as "lowly" and thus we get little pay and no respect.
gninja92 in the society that Colin is describing, coal face engineers and all in the caring professions will have the MOSYT respect. Financial, legal, commercial professions irrelevant.
Great video! Totally agree :)
Function of Money is Misunderstood here.
What money is ? It is just an acknowledgement legal receipt of our transaction of exchange. By selling something to you what I have produced , & you being buying from me, you are acknowledging the fact that the product came from me and it is somehow useful to you, by giving me money you are acknowledging my human abilities and giving autheticity to it.
Here the buying power of money is the real culprit of social inequality, not the money itself.
What is taxation ? it is just another tool to accurately estimate the number of transactions for a specific product or service in society. Taxation is a great mechanism to utilize the share of every individual's ability for benefit of collective society.
Wouldn't the entire world need to convert simultaneously? I think he says, ’better world’ meaning this needs to happen worldwide.
Ultimately, the entire world would benefit from converting to a open access, moneyless society, yes. But realistically, it wouldn't likely happen simultaneously. However, if a moneyless, small region or country every got going, and people got to see how it would work, the snowball effect that it could have on the average people in the world to enact change in their own communities could be immense.
In a strange example, if we look at how fast the world shutdown because of the COVID virus, shutting down in ways nobody thought would be possible worldwide, if on the positive side, a community broke off from this money mad world, converted to a moneyless society - that visual model could go viral and set off a mass movement that would be unstoppable by the ruling class.
The truth is, there is still more of us than there are of the elite 1%, and we are largely essential workers. If we cooperate for the right cause, we can make drastic change for the better.
We need to go further. Making a living, we have created a ton of stuff we don't need. Let's concentrate on simplifying things to food, water, clothing and shelter. No tvs, internet and get back to spending times with family and ones in the community..
I want to be apart of this kind of society. If y’all make a place like this let me know please.
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Great talk. I heard the saying... That man is so poor he only has money. World without money free up many resources for other potensial things we love. We could start visualise the beauty and harmony and better living of this rather than be concerned about opinions of why it can not work.
Thank you for your insight
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"fight for crumbs of social justice"
how this video, has only 6k views, when tedx channel has 18m subs..? maybe youtube doesn't want to recommended this idea?
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@@Wavetopp stay broke
An interesting idea, based on our past behaviors in most of our societies. I'd imagine that those with a lot of current power, control, and money would struggle against its' implementation. They would probably try to game the new system, trying to maintain loopholes for themselves. It would be easier on the planet, though, if we didn't produce excessive amounts of everything, and only produce what we actually need. Designing everything so that items could be easily upgradeable, while keeping the same original item, would be a big plus. And, as well, eliminating the scourge of "planned obsolescence", making everything extremely durable--as we used to do.
I'm willing to do more for that world than this one. Everything would taste better, feel better, and be worth our every callous.
He discovered communism
Why do u think its communism
Communism used money. This is free of that.
@@mohanravi495 this is the idea of "communism". He probably stayed away from the word because it has some false stigma
Having more than one needs when others can't meet basic needs is obscene.
Watch Orville they have a work ethic based economy. it’s truly amazing. I already feel money is useless. I volunteered plenty. Also a male caregiver for developmentally disabled children and adults. What up where’s my tv?
Not only do you have the volunteers, you have all the people in the world that volunteer with their donations to non profits and other organizations.
What he and his avid fans here fail to acknowledge, is that all the volunteers are only volunteers because they can afford it. Their livelihood doesn't depend on it. Unless we do what he says ..... then it does.^^
spot on!
Everything must be free and a person should get only that much which us required
I didn't know watching a TED Talk could be this painful.
Why so?
Ideas are painful for the unthinking.
Unconditional Basic Income.
2:36 if you can’t have a prosperous life at $2.50 a day, then what makes you think you can have a prosperous life at $0 a day?
The only group that doesn’t want an open access economy is those who have most of the wealth and power now. It would be amazing to end debt, fake money and trade through grand volunteering…which so many of those with less means do, only to be used or trampled on by those who hold power. We have to find a way to shift power first, then the open access economy works flawlessly. Well done!
This is same pie in the sky thinking that lead to the failed communist systems of the 20th century. Someone sits back and assumes everyone is going to volunteer for their great idea, then when reality strikes and they realize no one wants to spend their time on this planet working for you for free out comes the guns and police state.
Brilliant idea.
Great video groundbreaking actually ❤
Solutions to 90% of humanities problems: make everything free:
Alternative economic systems:
- a Resource Based Economy (RBE)
- Ubuntu Contributionism
- an Open Economy
- a Freedom Economy
Here are the main Money Free Movement groups in the world today. Please give them your consideration and support.
- Money Free Party Australia (MFPA)
- Money Free Party UK/NZ/US
- The Venus Project (TVP / RBE) - Jacque Fresco
- The Ubuntu Contribution System (TUCS)- Michael Tellinger
- The Free World Charter (open economy) - Colin R. Turner
- New Earth Nation (NEN) - Sacha Stone
- Common Heritage Pledge/Movement
- Intentional Community Sharing (ICS) - you
- The Mocica Project - mocica .org/en/Project
- Paradism - Rael
- The Valhalla Movement
- Copiosis
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- The Transition
- Freeworlder
- One Community
- Free World One
- The Auravana Project
- LifeGames
- Futurist Playground
Money Free Movement books:
1- The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty & War by Jacque Fresco
2- F-Day: The Second Dawn Of Man by Colin R. Turner
3- Into The Open Economy by Colin R. Turner
4- Escaping The Fish Bowl: The Awakening To A Freedom Economy by Robyn Moyle
5- UBUNTU Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity by Michael Tellinger
6- Trekonomics : The Economics of Star Trek by Manu Saadia
A world without money could be better than the present mess, but how do we get there? What actions will ensure it? I think we need to use what we have in the present system. We have to use the present system itself because it is what we have available to us. There is no moneyless country we can move to. So make your plans based on what you have. That is what I am doing. I have accumulated various assets over the decades and I aim to use them to get more as a group than I can on my own. I think it is possible for a transition group to grow exponentially very quickly if it uses money judiciously. I think it should be possible to double the number of members every year. If it can also double the number or value of assets every year then the sky is the limit. It is assets like land and properties and businesses that count more than money itself. Money acts as an enabler (after taxes). As the group makes money and buys assets, it becomes more attractive (all else being equal). A group with land and labour and income can grow its own food and get the rest of the things it needs from its multiplicity of businesses.
it would have to start in small communities who wanted it and agreed to using this model before it expanded
I studied this too. It won't work because the context in which they're doing it forces them to focus on things other than humanness. And that distracted focus and their efforts within that context support and empower that which in those who like it the way they are because they benefit disproportionately from the situation. The answer is that the grassroots level. And not everybody can do it. You have to make it socially and evolutionary advantaging, not disadvantaging to give in a social context. And the solution has to be truly comprehensive, not just about economy for it to ultimately and permanently work. Confluence Infinite International
I think this would be better. Open access community. No more rich and poor caused by fiat currencies. Everyone pulls their wait. Quick learns and slow learners. It will help disabled to get into work more easily because the workforce would welcome disabled people more readily without biases because of pay for trade. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Video would be better if shortened by 2/3rds
Like Star Trek universe 😃
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4:43 you can get rid of profit, but you can’t get rid of the selfishness in every one of us. As long as people are still selfish, they will continue to overconsume and hoard. Removing payment for work just removes the incentive to work. If you think you’re so selfless, donate everything you have to charity. You won’t. you just SELFISHLY want the fruit of other people’s labor for free, while you give NOTHING. hypocrites.
We are PROGRAMMED from birth to want things, to want more than what we have, it is pounded into our heads from all directions, BECAUSE this is HOW THE RICH GOT RICH! By CREATING SLAVES to do their bidding! You are WRONG in your assumptions that money is vital to life on this planet! It is just a scoring system to see who is better at cheating, forcing others to do their will!
15:06 part of the reason school was made compulsory was to take children off the streets, because idle children commit crimes. When people are not busy working, they too will commit crimes in their boredom. We saw this during the pandemic as well. People got relieved of their jobs, so they found things to do which did not help anyone: racing in their cars, graffitiing, drug use, overeating, and violent protesting.
7:21 there would be people who hoard the TVs, in order to use them for trade, making it so that not everyone got one. so there would still be a shortage of TVs.
7:56 “would i be willing to volunteer my time to help make tvs? no! Why would i do that? someone else can do it! I’m too busy watching tv!” - everyone. Result: no new tvs get made. Result: even more of a shortage of TVs.
Talking to the vast majority of mixed minds will not get you anywhere. We are all different soul age, different leagues. Start gathering those who are ripe and ready to build this kind of living in small villages, experience it, make it work. Show that it works! Write me in!
Anyone watching this from London?
12:01 Wow, didn't expect to hear linux mentioned in this video :)
The country that owes a trillion dollars in debt has exactly the same resources as a country that owes a dollar.
to create a new system you must understand the original psychological reasons for why a previous system existed.
We must understand why price was ever put on anything.
It was used as an alternative to bartering because unlike cows, people will always want money.
17:52 they have to put a monetary value on bottles for people to bother recycling them. and even with that monetary value, i still see bottles littered all over the place.
tbh everything is free cuz we did not created anything not even our bodies. if we live for each others cooperate and with humanity for the great future of earth then everything will be good.
Can you imagine if this can be achieved, we would get rid of half of all ailments, save rest of Amazon rainforest, reduce global warming by a lot, crime rate would lower by sixty to eighty percent, eventually racism go extinct, will be no wars, and people could live a much happier life.
More problems because people will not appreciate what we have been given and will be given, because more people will be more LAZY like now and expect someone do the work! This is already happening and expecting thing for free. People expect others to help someone else. We as humans are mentally unwell and self-centred!
@KLJF What goes around comes around. Laziness does not contribute to positive outcomes with doing NOTHING. If everyone on the entire planet was pure breeded lazy humans and did nothing and sat on their couch for the rest of their life..the outcome of this world would be a disaster. It is basic common sense. Oh wait...common sense is not common!
KLJF, I do understand, but if the mother of invention came from the root of lazy people who decided to ‘’not give up” easily. Alexander Graham Bell had to repeat things hundred and thousands of times before the telephone would even work!! Even his other inventions, too!!! We would not have many of the positive things we have today. We should promote in the media and all sources of human information that “Lets Become a Lazy World and Do Nothing”, right? This should become the new adage of the world. What would become of this world if this was the new normality of the human race? People by nature are selfish and having things free will do no long term good as people don’t appreciate things that are already given to them anyways. A great majority of our time in this modern world we forget to appreciate small things that would never have been a normal thing to receive. Hundreds of years ago, people had to work to get what they needed to survive and they appreciated what the got for their work. We already live ‘’free’’ for many things in this world and this is why we are already selfish and people take advantage of the government system. The food banks in the world were suppose to be temporary and it will never end for now that we have people getting food for free, etc. in this world, as one good example. It makes no sense to have everything free forever and ongoing and ongoing. It is not what the human race was created to do and be.
One step ahead & you're a genius.
2 steps ahead & you're a crazyman.
So I've read that if all the money and value in goods in the world were distributed equally with the entire world population, every person would get about 32.000 dollars. What is the correlation between that and 3:42?
Very good.. But how do we manage our finite resources ?
'finite resources' is an idea from trade, the idea of scarcity in benefit of trade. The same as there are to many people...
@@stonyhi No, not really, some resources ARE finite, oil, gas, water etc. Wouldn't we need a system in place to manage what we're using ?
@@nansir you can find possible solutions online if you search around. Also, you might try Zeitgeist: Moving Forward which basically explains what this video does in greater detail and presents one possible solution.
@@josiahferrell5022 I know I can. I'm not trying to be over critical, I appreciate Colin's efforts but we're all still learning. An Open Economy doesn't seem to address the question of managing our finite resources in the same way as a Resource Based Economy does.
@@nansir....Who has been telling us that those things are finite? I've learned that quite the opposite is true! Think about that one! Also, with everything being free, people will not feel a need to be greedy and selfish. One uses what one needs and continues to enjoy life. No more hoarding stuff in storage lockers, basements, banks, etc.