Book: Designing the future

Money itself has no value. These are just pictures on cheap pieces of paper, and an agreement among people about what can be bought with them. If it rains hundred dollar checks tomorrow, everyone will be happy except the bankers.

From a scientific point of view, the Earth has all the conditions to create an abundance of food, and more than enough minerals to satisfy the needs of all people if properly managed. There are enough resources for every person to have a very high standard of living. It is necessary to use technology, raw materials and technical potential wisely. When we talk about technology, we mean technology that does not harm people, the environment, or waste time and energy.

Money is just an obstacle between what a person needs and what he can get. People don't need money, they need access to resources.

The benefits of technology are available only to those with high purchasing power.

Think about it: when there is a crisis, and people do not have enough money to buy things, does the Earth become some other place? Are goods disappearing from store shelves and soil to grow grains somewhere? It's just the rules of the game that we follow and that cause so much suffering.

Every action we take or does not take affects the future.

Identity manifests itself in how we think, not in how we look.

There is no such thing as "utopia." Because it assumes static and immutable. The viability of any social system depends entirely on its propensity to change for the benefit of the whole society.

Do the people living in a monetary system or not, but they are constantly manipulated through the media. The deepest beliefs of people imposed on books, movies, television, religions, role models and closest surroundings. Even the concepts of good and evil, notions of morality are part of their cultural heritage and life experience. This control method does not require the use of brute force and it works so well that most do not even feel and do not realize that they are being manipulated.

The core values of any social system rarely are simple people. Most often, they represent a belief system "core management group", such as Church, army, banks, corporations, the ruling elite, or a combination thereof. These groups develop a hidden program of development of society, the courts, taxes, etc. structures that serve for the benefit of their own interests and support the eternal illusion that social values are determined by society. In addition, governments suppress any deviations from the predetermined course, which may harm them.