Name: An Intro to a Resource-Based Economy (Peter Joseph on TEDx) [deutsche Untertitel]
Uploaded: 2018-11-29T08:16:20.000Z
Duration: 18 min 50 s
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Hello, my name is Peter Joseph and welcome to

'Introduction to a Resource-Based Economy'.

The goal of the following brief presentation is to outline

the basic train of thought that arrives at this new economic model

which is based not on the movement of money

but rather the intelligent management of the Earth's resources

drawing inference from the physical world

as to the most efficient, strategic and sustainable method

for meeting the needs of the human population.

In the world today, societal decisions are essentially

the responsibility of individuals or groups

within the arena of politics or business;

in fact, one could note that politics and business

are the governing group entities of the social order as we know it.

whenever anything goes wrong on the societal level

the tendency is for one group or a sub-group

The left will blame the right, the Conservatives will blame the Liberals

a new administration will blame an old administration, etc.

of the foundation of the social operation itself;

it appears to simply be presupposed by most.

In other words, the culture seems to unconditionally accept

the socioeconomic paradigm without question

and politics and business are assumed to be

Even in a world of growing unemployment, growing poverty

growing mental health disorders, drug abuse, raw resource depletion

overall environmental degradation, violence and war propensities

accelerated inflation, atmospheric destabilization

and many other social and ecological problems

there still exists a general refusal to consider that

maybe the socioeconomic system itself could be at fault.

What if the very game we play is really the problem?

What if the very nature of the dominant institutions

and methods of our time are actually creating

and reinforcing certain behavioral tendencies

which are (to put it simply) unsustainable and destructive

we've seen a natural erosion of various forms of superstition

and provably non-progressive social practices.

We are slowly inching into a true age of reason

which recognizes that there are indeed proven governing natural laws

and that this method of thought, which we can term scientific

allows us to extrapolate viable approaches to our conduct

which almost virtually guarantee a tangible return

is what has produced the vast technology we see around us

to even our understanding of the universe itself.

Simply put, science is an approach to our comprehension of the world

to the closest approximation of reality as we could possibly have.

And of course while we all see the obvious fruits

of this method of thought and its vast applications

which stands virtually untouched by the scientific methodology:

In this context we appear to be stuck in time

using antiquated traditionalized practices

we give dictatorial powers to politicians and political parties

under the guise of something we label 'Democracy'

- politicians who on average clearly have no education or training

in the technical affairs of social organization.

In a world where one child unnecessarily dies every five seconds

many look to government institutions for resolution

not really considering the scientific reality

that feeding and caring for the people of the world

resolvable by simple resource management and allocation

and the intelligent and strategic application of technology.

Likewise, we have these things we call corporations or businesses

which are able to arbitrarily claim property

of the finite natural resources of this planet -

They utilize those resources for the betterment of an isolated group

through a self-interest-based system we call free-market exchange.

the message of this system is quite clear:

either you submit to this game of differential advantage and self-interest

or you simply do not deserve the right to live.

You must earn your right to life on this planet, if you will

which, to a thinking mind, is clearly a pseudo-totalitarian construct

to perpetuate one group or class over another.

Yet again, this inhumanity goes unnoticed

We are born into this system and we are groomed to think

it is a natural fact, an empirical way of life...

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