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  • What is a Resource Based Economy?

  • I'm sure you've all heard about it.

  • But a Resource Based Economy is entirely different than anything

  • that has ever existed in the past.

  • Most decisions were made by kings, politicians, statesmen

  • but nothing based upon resources.

  • To better understand the meaning of a Resource Based Economy

  • picture an island somewhere in the South Pacific.

  • And you really want to know how many people

  • can that island support and to what degree

  • can the extravagance of the island be maintained.

  • First, you have to know how much wood there is

  • how much water, how much arable land.

  • Once you do a survey of the resources of that island

  • that can best be the method for determining

  • how many people it will support.

  • If the materials do not exist, you can only design a culture

  • based upon the materials that do exist.

  • You can only grow food based upon the arable land area

  • and the water surrounding the island

  • the fish, crustaceans, all the other things.

  • And if you have an agronomist on your island

  • or a series of them, they can advise you

  • as what is best to grow in that tropical region.

  • So you really need technical competence

  • in order to arrive at decisions that make sense.

  • You cannot arrive at decisions

  • that make sense by consensus.

  • By asking people what they want.

  • You have to find out what the island has to offer.

  • And that's what you can determine the future by.

  • All other systems will fail.

  • Politicians have opinions about everything

  • and information about nothing in particular.

  • Therefore you understand

  • that the decisions are not made by the majority of people.

  • They are made by the majority of people that have technical competence

  • that have information in the areas you wish to excel in

  • and methods of scientific scales of performance.

  • If you have a million sincere people that have no technical competence

  • I can assure you, nothing can be accomplished.

  • So you have to ask the questions:

  • Can we build a society of sustainability?

  • If you have no information as to the availability of resources

  • you cannot undertake such a project.

  • Suppose you have a shortage of resources.

  • That's the function of research labs:

  • to make alternative materials

  • that will substitute for lack of materials.

  • Technicians do not tell you what to do or how to live.

  • They merely carry out the function of designing elevators

  • transportation units, bridges, housing systems.

  • They do not tell people what to do, what to think or how to live.

  • That's a mistake that most people make.

  • They think that a Resource Based Economy

  • has technicians that also tell you what lifestyle to use.

  • No they don't. The resources determine that.

  • All that the technicians do

  • is build a system that can utilize those resources

  • for the benefit of all the people involved.

  • It has to be global.

  • If it's not global, if you have most of the resources

  • and most of the building equipment and most of the automated machinery

  • and most of the arable land and most of the drinking water

  • countries that do not have that will attempt to invade your country

  • and take what they need.

  • Every nation wants a piece of the pie. Keep that in mind.

  • So, to the degree that you try to live a sustainable life to yourself

  • will not work because other nations

  • that lack material will invade you.

  • In the rebuilding of cities throughout the world

  • you have to consider how far those cities are from resources.

  • That means available materials: concrete, steel reinforcement, etc.

  • If the cities are near that source

  • then it becomes more efficient to design the cities

  • as systems operations, meaning that the city itself

  • must meet the needs of the people that live there.

  • We announce on television what is available

  • and what is not available at the time

  • and when it probably will be available.

  • So the public has information of where to go

  • to access whatever it is that they need.

  • So people will have access to more things than they've ever had

  • in a monetary system.

  • More things and more opportunities will be available.

  • All of the cities are designed

  • to utilize the minimal amount of energy for maximum service.

  • In that way, we conserve energy

  • so that we can handle more people.

  • There are people throughout the world that do not have access

  • to high energy systems.

  • We will be able to provide more for human need

  • if we use efficiency.

  • Naturally, if we fail to do that

  • you can only take care of a limited amount of people.

  • The Resource Based Economy has millions of slaves.

  • But they are machines. And machines do repetitive

  • boring and dangerous jobs.

  • That's what the machines are for. They are not to put you out of work.

  • If they can turn things out faster than you, we don't need you working.

  • In fact we don't want you working in industrial plants.

  • We want you to go back to school and study whatever you're interested in

  • whatever you think you'd like to study

  • whatever you feel you'd like to understand better.

  • Unfortunately, money doesn't represent things in existence.

  • If you set a value on every tree

  • every inch of arable land, all the water

  • and you printed money proportionate to the resources

  • so that the money represents resources

  • then it can have meaning, but today

  • that is not accomplished. Although they may tell you

  • that demand will really bring about these things.

  • No, demand doesn't bring about the things.

  • Available resources do.

  • And if money doesn't represent available resources

  • it has no basis for social management.

  • When you live in a false society

  • that bases its wealth upon money

  • then that society itself will collapse eventually.

  • Not because I say so. Because it's not based on physical referent.

  • In a Resource Based Economy, where production and automation

  • can turn out more goods and services

  • there's no need to use money anymore.

  • If you really wish to put an end to war, poverty

  • hunger, territorial disputes

  • you must utilize all the world's resources

  • as the common heritage of all the world's people.

  • Anything less than that will remain

  • with the same problems that you've had continuously for centuries.

  • Now you have to consider what I'm saying.

  • The reason nations invade other nations is because of scarcity.

  • When a few nations control most of the earth's resources

  • you've got to have territorial disputes.

  • No matter how many treaties you sign or laws you make

  • if you don't declare all the earth's resources

  • as the common heritage of all the world's people

  • and bring all the separate nations together

  • in one unified system -

  • there is no solution other than that.

  • And this is why we recommend the Resource Based Economy.

What is a Resource Based Economy?

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