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  • lazyraccoon@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlJacque Fresco
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    2 years ago

    His criticism is very American-centric (gasp) but offers no transition that is feasible. You can’t be self sufficient inside a country that demands tax.

    I think the closest his vision got to reality is the BRICS joint effort to make a new currency based on rare metals, but I don’t think that Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa have seen zeitgeist.


  • Money is a technological tool. It represents value of either commodities, services or work.

    If it were to be used in its original form, it would be fine, but people have been complaining about manipulation since the bible (old testament).

    So money isn’t to blame, it is (TADA!) people that are at fault.


  • logically it can’t be true that the members of an association ought to govern themselves by the democratic process, and at the same time a majority of the association may properly strip a minority of its primary political rights. That logical statement is only true if you assume that in a democracy, political power is equal.

    And yet, by definition, Democracies are not holding said contradiction to be a paradox or negating factor. As a matter of fact, the only conclusive definition of the word Democracy is “a form of government that allows all eligible members of it to partake in the ruling of the country.”

    By that definition, China is a democracy. It is, by the Chinese constitution - “The people’s Democratic dictatorship”, but it is still a democracy. It is actually intentional, to make sure that reactionary forces won’t overthrow the communist party. At least, that’s what I’ve read so far.

    I stand corrected, and apologize for being confidently wrong in my terminology.