WEBVTT 00:00:00.482 --> 00:00:02.319 If an island, like Haiti 00:00:02.319 --> 00:00:05.609 had about several hundred million dollars 00:00:05.609 --> 00:00:08.106 in assets. But they went on, and they printed more money 00:00:08.106 --> 00:00:10.549 than they had things to back it up, or gold. 00:00:10.549 --> 00:00:14.189 Then that money has no value. If a little island, say like 00:00:14.189 --> 00:00:17.335 St. Croix printed lots of money and just came to the US 00:00:17.335 --> 00:00:20.199 trying to buy things (they ran their printing presses night and day) 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:23.079 the money is not backed, that's why it doesn't have anything. 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:25.369 Your whole banking system's utterly corrupt. 00:00:25.369 --> 00:00:27.879 Your lending institutions have loused up the system. 00:00:27.879 --> 00:00:30.369 But there's nobody out there telling you what's wrong with it. 00:00:30.369 --> 00:00:32.296 So it looks okay to you. 00:00:32.296 --> 00:00:35.479 The national debt has grown too large 00:00:35.479 --> 00:00:40.020 for the National Debt Clock. 00:00:40.020 --> 00:00:42.230 Failed systems 00:00:42.230 --> 00:00:46.440 None of the world's economic systems have eliminated our most dire problems. 00:00:46.440 --> 00:00:50.385 All social arrangements to date have remained plagued with war 00:00:50.385 --> 00:00:55.873 poverty, crime, racism, elitism and most of all: 00:00:55.873 --> 00:00:58.992 scarcity. 00:00:58.992 --> 00:01:01.478 There's no way of making this system just. 00:01:01.478 --> 00:01:05.181 We have to make a system that assures human rights. 00:01:05.181 --> 00:01:08.121 When everybody has free access to goods and services 00:01:08.121 --> 00:01:10.959 you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights; 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:14.429 it's automatic in a society that's set up that way. 00:01:14.429 --> 00:01:17.894 Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social 00:01:17.894 --> 00:01:22.085 and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities 00:01:22.085 --> 00:01:25.656 which could otherwise easily create a world of abundance for all people 00:01:25.656 --> 00:01:27.806 free of servitude and debt. 00:01:27.806 --> 00:01:30.942 This system will keep installing more and more automation 00:01:30.942 --> 00:01:34.258 cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people. 00:01:34.258 --> 00:01:38.186 It's not China or India taking our jobs away 00:01:38.186 --> 00:01:40.475 the machine has beaten the man. 00:01:40.475 --> 00:01:43.799 There will come a time called the gaussian curve 00:01:43.799 --> 00:01:47.085 where employment is that, production is this 00:01:47.085 --> 00:01:50.878 and purchasing power is that. The system stops. 00:01:50.878 --> 00:01:53.755 A social alternative 00:01:53.755 --> 00:01:58.664 Our problems and their solutions are technical, not political. 00:01:58.664 --> 00:02:02.182 Most problems can be solved when technology and the methods of science 00:02:02.182 --> 00:02:06.468 are used with human and environmental concern to serve all people 00:02:06.468 --> 00:02:08.777 rather than a select few. 00:02:08.777 --> 00:02:13.252 It'll all be based on a form of dynamic equilibrium. 00:02:13.252 --> 00:02:18.323 That means operating everything at the highest potential 00:02:18.323 --> 00:02:21.864 without environmental neglect. 00:02:21.864 --> 00:02:27.319 When we unleash science and technology directly into the social system 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:31.101 without the restrictions of the marketplace, finances 00:02:31.101 --> 00:02:34.962 or patents, we could achieve a very high standard of living 00:02:34.962 --> 00:02:38.543 within a very short period of time. 00:02:38.543 --> 00:02:43.839 We have the brains, the know-how, the technology and the feasibility 00:02:43.839 --> 00:02:46.882 to build an entirely new civilization. 00:02:46.882 --> 00:02:50.218 Paradise or Oblivion 00:02:50.218 --> 99:59:59.999 Available free online - March 2012 www.thevenusproject.com