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Can you imagine an
America and world free from the influences of money? Where everyone would have access
to education and healthcare without the burden to pay for it. Where everyone would
be free to fully pursue his or her passion in a world at peace, free, and where
inequality wouldn’t exist. An America and world where there is real technical
and social progress without profit limitations placed on innovative research
and development.
Of course,
capitalist will voraciously and unrelenting attack any attempts to weaken the
free enterprise system. Most people would say such a concept would be
impossible to achieve.
Many would describe
such an idea as Marxist, socialist, or communist. But these are money-based
economic theories. Therefore, such descriptions do not apply to a moneyless
economy.
A moneyless
world is egalitarian utopian and a viably aspiring idea. Viable ideas produce
theories, and can lead the way to reality. Much work has been done to make a
moneyless world a reality, especially Jacques Fresco's The Venus Project.
Fresco has been promoting and working on what he calls a resource-based economy
since at least 1971.
You see, What The
Venus Project claims are true. The free enterprise system has failed us. It
has produced “war, poverty, hunger, debt, environmental degradation, and
unnecessary human suffering. All of the world's economic systems - socialism,
communism, fascism, and even the vaunted free enterprise system - perpetuate
social stratification, elitism, nationalism, and racism, primarily based on
economic disparity. As long as a social system uses money or barter, people and
nations will seek to maintain the economic competitive edge or, if they cannot
do so by means of commerce, they will by military intervention.”
But, on the
other hand, if we embrace and promote the concept of a moneyless world based on
global resource-based economic systems, we can lead America and the world out
of the mess it’s gotten itself into.
Copyright © 2015 Horatio Green
