May 23, 2009
I was shopping for a new computer and office chair a few weeks ago and was struck by how absurd prices have become. I bought a fully loaded quad-core PC for about $500 and was stunned to find the best office chairs cost even more! What kind of crazy world do we live in? Consider all the research, engineering, design, manufacturing, assembly, shipping from the four corners of the earth… required to build a computer, then compare that process to a few pieces of plastic/metal with a cushion wrapped in some cloth or leather. Are you kidding me? That’s an astounding testament to the incredible productivity of the technology sector and those who work in it. Every other industry sucks in comparison, you heard me.
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This is ironic, as I’ve just finished reading your article (and many of the comments) on the Venus project.
What if every industry was this efficient/automated?
I think the feature on the Venus project and the end of Zeitgeist Addendum is to short, and shows only general concepts without spending time going in to details of individual topics that would counter peoples (based on their information gather so far) opinions of the resource based economy.
I have watched and listened to may lectures by Jaque Fresco, and the most consistent thing I see from him is his use of creative critical thinking. Together with his fundamental realization of the interconnected and inpermanent nature of all things.
In my opinion the main fallacy in the ideology of the Venus project is that having a sophisticated enough level of technology shortages and poverty would end without any motivation or incentives.
This is easily disproven, take for example the Soviet Union which had the technology to put people into space, yet they couldn’t solve the simplest of tasks, delivering food for they own people in countries that were previously self sufficient.
“This is easily disproven, take for example the Soviet Union which had the technology to put people into space, yet they couldn’t solve the simplest of tasks, delivering food for they own people in countries that were previously self sufficient.”
Not only is your argument faulty but also ingeniousness. The Soviet Union could not feed some of its people due to its misconceived arms race with the United States, nothing more and nothing less. Please stop comparing true Communism and Socialism to the Soviet Union, they have never existed in our collective history. It not only makes you look ignorant but also uneducated.
Netflix is good, too.
I put my movie in the mail box today and I get a notification the next day that they have received it and my next movie is on the way.
Or maybe it’s the post office that deserves the credit?
Nahhhh!