Re:Jacque Fresco has died
by igor_filippov on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:54AM
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If you can't make money, entrepreneurship is not for you.
Re:Jacque Fresco has died
by worldsayshi on Friday May 26, 2017 @09:58AM
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If you can't make money you can't build a better world?
Re:Jacque Fresco has died
by rukittenme on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:13AM
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Yes. Please rate the better world: World A (has food) or World B (does not have food).
Money isn't magic. Its an abstraction. Remove it and possessions become currency.
So if your better world does not make "money" (read: food, water, shelter, doctors, raw materials, etc.) then your "better" world will kill all of its inhabitants.
Re:Jacque Fresco has died
by worldsayshi on Friday May 26, 2017 @01:09PM
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It's obvious that money is not a sufficient abstraction for resources and/or the usage of money eventually leads to world b. The "money system" is killing whatever resources it's supposed to represent.
Re:Jacque Fresco has died
by rukittenme on Friday May 26, 2017 @02:27PM
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> It's obvious that money is not a sufficient abstraction for resources and/or the usage of money eventually leads to world b
Citation needed...
We had "resource based economies" for hundreds of thousands of years. In that time, millions starved to death.
Clearly a hidden variable exists... North Koreans starve under a monetary system. Americans waste billions of pounds of food every year under a monetary system. How could money be responsible for both outcomes? Surely there are alternative explanations.
edit: Sure I realize that you can start with something smaller and fund able by smaller means. But how long until you can fund what you really want to create?