[Script Info] Title: [Events] Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.48,0:00:02.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If an island, like Haiti Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.32,0:00:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had about several hundred million dollars Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.61,0:00:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in assets. But they went on, and they printed more money Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.11,0:00:10.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they had things to back it up, or gold. Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.55,0:00:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then that money has no value. If a little island, say like Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.19,0:00:17.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,St. Croix printed lots of money and just came to the US Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.34,0:00:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trying to buy things (they ran their printing presses night and day) Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.20,0:00:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the money is not backed, that's why it doesn't have anything. Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.08,0:00:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your whole banking system's utterly corrupt. Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.37,0:00:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your lending institutions have loused up the system. Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.88,0:00:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there's nobody out there telling you what's wrong with it. Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.37,0:00:32.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So it looks okay to you. Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.30,0:00:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The national debt has grown too large Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.48,0:00:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the National Debt Clock. Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.02,0:00:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Failed systems Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.23,0:00:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,None of the world's economic systems have eliminated our most dire problems. Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.44,0:00:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All social arrangements to date have remained plagued with war Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.38,0:00:55.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,poverty, crime, racism, elitism and most of all: Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.87,0:00:58.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scarcity. Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.99,0:01:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's no way of making this system just. Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.48,0:01:05.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to make a system that assures human rights. Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.18,0:01:08.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When everybody has free access to goods and services Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.12,0:01:10.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights; Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.96,0:01:14.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's automatic in a society that's set up that way. Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.43,0:01:17.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.89,0:01:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.08,0:01:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which could otherwise easily create a world of abundance for all people Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.66,0:01:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free of servitude and debt. Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.81,0:01:30.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This system will keep installing more and more automation Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.94,0:01:34.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people. Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.26,0:01:38.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not China or India taking our jobs away Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.19,0:01:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the machine has beaten the man. Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.48,0:01:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There will come a time called the gaussian curve Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.80,0:01:47.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where employment is that, production is this Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.08,0:01:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and purchasing power is that. The system stops. Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.88,0:01:53.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A social alternative Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.76,0:01:58.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our problems and their solutions are technical, not political. Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.66,0:02:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most problems can be solved when technology and the methods of science Dialogue: 0,0:02:02.18,0:02:06.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are used with human and environmental concern to serve all people Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.47,0:02:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rather than a select few. Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.78,0:02:13.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It'll all be based on a form of dynamic equilibrium. Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.25,0:02:18.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means operating everything at the highest potential Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.32,0:02:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without environmental neglect. Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.86,0:02:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we unleash science and technology directly into the social system Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.32,0:02:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without the restrictions of the marketplace, finances Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.10,0:02:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or patents, we could achieve a very high standard of living Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.96,0:02:38.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within a very short period of time. Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.54,0:02:43.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have the brains, the know-how, the technology and the feasibility Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.84,0:02:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to build an entirely new civilization. Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.88,0:02:50.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paradise or Oblivion Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.22,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Available free online - March 2012 www.thevenusproject.com