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Also a huge financial burden which brings us now to the economy
you know, for great many people it has become a system that is in part broken
In part result of 2008 financial collapse. So how do we climb out and get to a place of progress?
Big problems need big ideas. And here is one.
Start with this. Money. And throw it away.
It sounds crazy, right? Now we are gonna talk to someone who thinks
this might be exactly what we need.
Peter Joseph is the filmmaker and also the founder of the Zeitgeist Movement
Hey there, Peter. I am, of course, simplyfying here.
It´s not just get rid of money your currency. It is instead making this
monetary based economy, you make it a resource based economy.
Talk about what this actually means.
Well, actually you have right. Resource based economy explicitly does want
to remove the actual mechanics of exchange and the market system itself
as radical as that may seem to most.
You have to understand first of all that the problems we´re seeing in the world
is not result of some bad policy or some legislation or some inflationary cycle
boom and bust phenomenon that is typically taught in traditional economics.
The very foundation of economic structure is intrinsically flawed.
We create money out of debt. We charge interest on that, which does not exist.
We create the principal but yet principal plus the interest is always outstanding
It´s a game of musical chairs to put it into a singular phrase.
Everyone systematically suffers through this system and is offset.
So when you hear about debt collapse, sovereign debt defaults, these are inevitabilities
of the system, not based on someone´s rogue policy or some flagrant activity of the stock market and
derivatives, those are very important attributes of it but my point and my work with the movement
is that the system is intrinsically, inherently flawed.
Entrust on a scale, on a pace, in a way to make our societies sustainable
not suffer all these economic consequences. We have to get down to the lifeground
what actually supports human life
what we´ve learned from the natural world, the systems that actually
generate food. When you realize that we are living in a technical reality not a monetary one
and if we, for example one child dies every five seconds from poverty and preventable diseases
on this planet. This is of course not necessary technically. We can easily feed everyone on this planet.
And when you extrapolate that train of thought, when you take technical perspektive as opposed to a monetary perspective
we see weak result just about all the major human worls on this planet
by restructuring the entire economical phenomenon to be truly economic
meaning preservation, sustainability....
You were talking earlier and you said everyone suffers by this system.
I think that may be. Let´s clarify little bit. A lot of people suffer but there are some people
who want to keep this system exactly how it is.
Isn´t that right?
Let´s say upper one percent certainly has a prime interest
has very easy way to justify the fruits that they have claimed.
We have one percent of the world population owning 40 percent of the planet´s wealth.
If that isn´t a sign post to the intrinsic flaw of this system.
that is there to perpetuate one class over another.
I´m not sure what is.
So, yes. The proper one percent has very vested interest and naturally carries on the governments
which are essentially funded and supported by the corporate instituions.
I continue this.... You´ve written about this large gap between rich and poor
and I know one point you´ve made in your writings
is that America is one of the most socially immovable countries in the world
I kind of stop and read that again when I thought that, but basically what you´are saying I think is
you´re born poor, chances are you´ll stay poor
other than of course a few exceptions
How does this change under the Zeitgeist system?
What´s a Zeitgeist system? This work builds upon research commitment by man
of Jacque Fresco, which builds upon researchers from the past 150 years.
People have continually thought about different economic model
not based on monetary exchange and all of the intrinsic problems that come out of that.
The Venus Project is something important to mention which I suggest people look into.
That is a partnership with Zeigeist Movement and it´s a blueprint system
based on referencing natural law. What that means you actually get
to the lifeground as I mentioned earlier. You look into what it means to make a human being
What it means to meet the needs of human necessity from obviously bare neccesities to all of the emotional and bio-psycho social phenomenon
that generate our behaviour, generate our well-being, mental health
when you put all this together, which is in completely technical orientation very limited when it comes to human opinion
This is what science has given us by the way.
You see our current economic model is stucked in time
It´s not actually representing what needs human needs
and more you step back and look how we can technically
provide for the human population eliminate war, eliminate famine
eliminate povery, eliminate 95 percent of most crime
which by the way is monetary related. You began to see an entirely new approach can be taken
It´s very difficult for me to describe that to you in a very short little segment
but resource based economy is based upon resource management intrinsically
Monetary relationships don´t manage anything. We have cost efficiency