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Forum Post: Our current system is obsolete

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 6:30 p.m. EST by rbe (687)
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The problem we are facing is the system itself. Our current system is obsolete. Trying to change bits and pieces of a broken system will not work. We have to change the whole system. I went to the protest and I was mind boggled by how many different directions I saw people striving for out there. If you have a list of demands, they can easily try to silence us by somewhat satisfying one or two. There needs to be an objective that encompasses as much as possible and gets everyone moving towards one common goal.

One reason why our system is obsolete is due to technology. If you're an entrepreneur in our monetary based system and you have the choice between buying a computer for $7,000 that handles a lot of needed tasks versus hiring 5 people at $35,000 a year + plus benefits, sick leave, etc., which will you choose? Human labor is slowly becoming unwanted. When more and more jobs are automated, where will people work? Marketing? Customer service? Retail is gradually fading away due to online shopping. Customer service is being replaced by either online services, or becoming computer operated, if not outsourced to other countries and they are losing those jobs due to automation as well. Accounting is becoming more automated as well as legal services. The Home Depot in Queens used to have on average 6 cashiers a few years ago, now they have on average 2, and the rest are self check out. Most warehouses are automating. Where are humans going to work? The worse our economy gets, the more businesses are having to automate to compete in the market.

It's hard to tell companies to create jobs, when logically they don't need to in order to maintain efficiency. What do you want? For a company to give you something to do that isn't needed, just for the sake of "job creation"? To have a job digging a hole and for someone else's job to be to fill that hole in? That's insanity! We've accomplished so much in the past say 100 years that our current system is no longer logical. The whole purpose of technology is to make our lives easier but instead it's making our lives harder. Why is that? It's because we're still operating in a system that's been for the most part unchanged over the past 100 years. We're operating like we haven't had the progress that we've had, and we are seeing the effects of not adapting.

Research a "resource based economy." It's not perfect but it makes sense and is way more humane than what we have now. I would like to have a conversation started about this and maybe we could move in this direction if everyone understands it. It sums up all of our goals and would give our movement an identity and a fairly simple objective. It would be a good label to attract the rest of the population and would bring about a lot of research into a better way of life. It may seem a little radical at first but once you understand it, it makes sense. I don't think society has any choice but to move in this direction and what better organization to pave the way than us? Check out http://www.thevenusproject.com/ , it gives a good example of a potential "resource based economy."

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[-] 1 points by MerchantofLight (46) from Chicago, IL 12 years ago

Very nice! Thank you for sharing! I hope you'll do me the honor of dropping in on my facebook group, Common Nonsense, sometime. Yours is a perspective I've not yet heard, always an exciting prospect, and I'm the others would appreciate it as well.

[-] 1 points by rbe (687) 12 years ago

You're welcome!!!!!

[-] 1 points by rbe (687) 12 years ago

http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/faq

How does the Venus Project compare with communism?

Communism being similar to a resource-based economy or The Venus Project is an erroneous concept. Communism has money, banks, armies, police, prisons, charismatic personalities, social stratification, and is managed by appointed leaders. The Venus Project's aim is to surpass the need for the use of money. Police, prisons and the military would no longer be necessary when goods, services, healthcare, and education are available to all people. The Venus Project would replace politicians with a cybernated society in which all of the physical entities are managed and operated by computerized systems. The only region that the computers do not operate or manage is the surveillance of human beings. This would be completely unnecessary and considered socially offensive. A society that uses technology without human concern has no basis of survival. Communism has no blueprint or methodology to carry out their ideals and along with capitalism, fascism, and socialism, will ultimately go down in history as failed social experiments.

[-] 1 points by 3701 (5) 12 years ago

Damn that Constitution is so old also. We need something new....a ...a.. Manifesto.

[-] 1 points by MerchantofLight (46) from Chicago, IL 12 years ago

hehehe

[-] 1 points by rbe (687) 12 years ago

http://www.thevenusproject.com/en/the-venus-project/faq

How does the Venus Project compare with communism?

Communism being similar to a resource-based economy or The Venus Project is an erroneous concept. Communism has money, banks, armies, police, prisons, charismatic personalities, social stratification, and is managed by appointed leaders. The Venus Project's aim is to surpass the need for the use of money. Police, prisons and the military would no longer be necessary when goods, services, healthcare, and education are available to all people. The Venus Project would replace politicians with a cybernated society in which all of the physical entities are managed and operated by computerized systems. The only region that the computers do not operate or manage is the surveillance of human beings. This would be completely unnecessary and considered socially offensive. A society that uses technology without human concern has no basis of survival. Communism has no blueprint or methodology to carry out their ideals and along with capitalism, fascism, and socialism, will ultimately go down in history as failed social experiments.