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Criticism of Project Venus

2 Pages 558 Words August 2015

In a time of major economic shocks, financial crises, amid the general panic, mostly among people not educated, very popular are various utopian theories and conspiracy theories. It is understandable that people are aware of the problems, but do not know the key to these problems and seek to justify their impotence than anything but true fact.
By one of those theories that exploded in 2007, along with the movie "Zeitgeist", almost forgotten by 2013, and were brought to the impoverished dramatically among young people in Russia in 2014, is the so-called project "Venus" Utopian dreamer and Jacque Fresco.
Before we talk about the project "Venus", it is worth mentioning that Jacque Fresco is not the first, nor the last utopian, focuses on existing financial and monetary system. Fourier, Owen, Paul Pot, in part, Marx and Engels - many spoke about the nature of money, as a product of certain controversial social relations. If you talk directly about the resource-based economy, which is represented by Jacques Fresco as the only possible way to save mankind from wars, conflicts and all the other problems that exist at the moment - there is not obvious at first glance, a logical fallacy. All states of the world (eventually elites) are invited to declare the resources the common heritage of all people on the planet. In other words, to build communism without money.
People moved from public to private ownership for a very simple reason: people and active workers did not agree as fast as slackers and drones. Now, in this concept, is expected to turn around and go in the opposite direction, towards the transition to public ownership. Does it go all the powerful people of this world? Will the this state that accumulate their resources over the centuries? For what? The problem's not the unwillingness of people to share their blessings. The problem is that the resource-based economy recognizes the same benefits to all people, regardless of their labo...

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