HISTORY OF A RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY The concept of an economic system of cooperation over competition that eventually evolved and became popularized by Jacque Fresco (of The Venus Project) in the 1970′s as a “resource-based economy,” was first envisioned by Howard Scott in the early 1900‘s and released to the public by the Technical Alliance (which became Technocracy Incorporated). At its core it is a philosophy of abundance, sharing, and cooperation in which all goods and services are available to all community members without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. We believe the top three reasons for this approach are common sense, ecological sustainability, and social responsibility. Most people now realize that we live on a planet with the necessary resources to feed, clothe, and shelter our entire population but greed and rationing have made these resources so unavailable that over 10,000 children die every day because it is not profitable to provide the necessities they need to survive. This pattern of withholding what is needed, and the hoarding of possessions, is in our opinion both irrational and counterproductive to our survival yet it continues on the national, city, community, and even the family level throughout most ‘civilized’ cultures. We don’t think it needs to be this way.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:26:48 +0000