what's wrong with the Venus Project?
Maybe because its the most pie-in-the sky shit I've ever heard, next to Marx.
The kind of transformation they talk about - to even begin their society - would take 3 generations, if not more......So, basically 3 generations have to tell their kids this fantasy for them to even see if it can work in the first place.
Besides that? They don't even get into the nitty gritty details about how resources get distributed. They just show a bunch of fantasy buildings.
The way I think of communism is this - the Ipod. Why do you need it? You have recordable cds, you have the artists cds. Why would a government create a device that lets you store and sort music files any way you want?
The opposite, is capitalism. Where you let people decide what the want.
Those are the choices. Either let the people decide how to use the available resources, or have a government bureauracracy decide how to use them.
What we have now is both. Based on arbitrary political whims, the government chooses who to give resources to and who not to.
Take airlines vs. autos vs. banks. Banks, because of the fiat finance system get bailed out constantly and without question (because the federal reserve oversees the means of production in that sector), autos get a bailout reluctantly so as to gain control over the means of production, and the airlines get nothing - because nobody wants to control the means of production for non-primary mode of transportation.....The plane makers, do get a subsidy - via the military.
We live in a socialist country that pretends to be free. If you produce something that has any kind of political value - you get a subsidy, to get your vote. Farms, Oil, Schools............etc........
There are basically, 3 economic systems.. Pure capitalism, Pure socialism, and any combination of the two.
Now, if you really want to get your "lid" blown.
Toke On this..................
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