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Board Economics
Re: A Resource Based Economy
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Sjalq
on 28/06/2011, 14:26:04 UTC
Progress occurs in spite of the monetary system, not because of it. Trade secrets, patents, copyright and a corrupt legislative and legal system work to inhibit the free flow of ideas, cooperation and faster progress. We are stuck with medieval institutions and methodologies that have been around for centuries despite our enormous advancements in productivity and capability. Servicing the profit motive is no way to make things better for people. If we each understood that the individual does better when all of society does better, then personal profit would not be rewarded as much as it is now.
Economic data over the last 300 years disagrees with you. We have had incredible growth in options, daily income, caloric intake, you name it. Individuals might do better when they take society into consideration but society definitely does better if it allows individual freedom. I am also against the current forms of intellectual property and I agree 100% that the current legal framework does little but protect established interests.

Pricing is however not part of the problem but part of the solution. If you do not allow both freedom and sound money then resources will be miss-allocated in most shocking ways.

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There is no free will. Your actions, thoughts and ideas are limited to the experiences and environment you have developed in. You will continue your actions until you experience the consequences of them. That is why our main focus as an movement is making people aware that there are alternatives and that we can choose a better way of life. Our model has nothing in common with historical failed experiments in social control.
I know you believe this but again, my question is the same. Will you force me or anyone else or approve of force against someone so that they co-operate with the plan if a version of the Venus project ever takes off or will all work be 100% voluntary?