A recent movie called Zeitgeist: Addendum introduces a concept called Resource-Based Economy from The Venus Project as a replacement to our current fiat based fractional reserve monetary system. The movie raises a lot of questions and observations and I will address here only a few of them based on the article only.
Medium of Exchange, Barter, and [...]

- Happiness is living without expectations.
- You can own silver and gold but never any fiat currency issued by someone else.
- Life is what happens when you jump out of your mind and use your senses.
- Time is the sequential experience of movement in consciousness.
- We seem to rely on systems, not people.
- No system [...]

“Politics is not about public interest but someone’s special (economic) interest.”
“Life is about giving, and the rest is taken care of.”
“Nothing has any meaning except the one we give to it— everything simply is.”
“Humbleness is all it takes.”
“The impossible happens when the possible is ignored.”
“If you don’t know what to do, meditate.”
“The (future) wealth is [...]

Why is politics often associated with corruption, dishonesty, and shallowness? You may be surprised to notice that there is a common denominator underneath that we have often forgotten or just haven’t bothered to think about at all.
Franz Oppenheimer once described the only two ways to work in a society. The first is based on voluntary [...]

“The intrusion of politics into the field of economics is simply an evidence of human ignorance or arrogance, and is as fatuous as an attempt to control the rise and fall of tides. Since the beginning of political institutions, there have been attempts to fix wages, control prices, and create capital, all resulting in failure.”
Frank [...]

For many the government is the only option available when one is talking about defence. This does not need to be the case. Get convinced by reading an excerpt from Murray Rothbard’s Power & Market (pdf).

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