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An Irrelevant Problem in a Resource-based Economy
In 2020, I envision myself living in a self-sustained, technologically advanced city in a global resource-based economy (RBE). Politics and the notion of nationalism of the present have been long abolished, eradicating the present-day problems of corruption, crime, poverty and war. In its place, a global RBE, where decisions are arrived at through the integration of the world's knowledge databases, enables Humanity to use its amazing capabilities to solely advance the human and environmental well-being; a far-cry from today, where decisions are usually made to benefit vested interests or based on erroneous opinions, limited by lack of information.
With scarcity forever abolished through the careful management of the world's resources as the common heritage of all the world's peoples, the use of money has been phased out, freeing Mankind from employment. Consequently, professions that deal with finance such as bankers, lawyers etc will be come obsolete. Likewise, following the trends of the last 100 years, automation will almost completely displace human labour from having to provide goods and services to society. As such, Mankind has the unprecedented opportunity to pursue any intellectual, scientific or artistic endeavour. At the same time, the engineered consumer society has faded away since the need to generate perpetual profit via constant consumption has been made obsolete. Henceforth, all products will be made with the best possible materials with the most advanced methods. Any planned or unplanned obsolescence designed in products to fuel cyclical consumption will be remembered as a distorted concept in human history that simply wastes resources.
Energy shortages will be an archaic concept since a RBE utilising the fullest potential of our technological progress. Without the need to withhold efficiency and promote scarcity to generate profits, Humanity will be able to tap the unlimited energy sources available in the biosphere via solar, wind, wave, tidal and geothermal energy systems. With an abundance of energy, automation of food and clean water production would solve all scarcity problems, giving all peoples access to the necessities of life. The crisis that Alchemy envisions would be irrelevant in such a RBE.
In such a society, people would be able to transcend the dominant value systems of childish competition, self-centeredness, inferiority complexes and the various neurosis that promotes a conflict-filled society. Education would not be designed to train subservient and narrow-minded consumers. Instead, the RBE culture would be geared towards the achievement of one's fullest potential in the fullest sense of the word, not paying lip-service to the idea. We would have a culture that promotes unity between all peoples, a genuiniely civic-minded global society.
Following my passions, I see myself as a teacher in the RBE, though not in the conventional sense as we use it today. I would not be teaching for a salary, but because I enjoy teaching and it allows me to actively participate in the elevating of the social consciousness. Children of a RBE would not be taught in the manner public schooling does, but they would be given the necessary tools to pursue whichever fields of knowledge interests them. No more will the present notion of duality or us-against-them be promoted, among others. Education in a RBE will give students a nuanced and open-minded view of the world and provide them with the opportunity to become multi-disciplinarians in order to solve social problems rather than specialised for mundane employment.
While this vision of the future sounds highly idealistic, even utopian, at present, we have all the tools and resources to create such a world. Through far from 'perfect' (for perfection never exists due to constant progress), it offers a better way of solving solving the massive social problems we face. As Jacque Fresco stated, "The only limitations of the future of Mankind are those we impose upon ourselves".
With scarcity forever abolished through the careful management of the world's resources as the common heritage of all the world's peoples, the use of money has been phased out, freeing Mankind from employment. Consequently, professions that deal with finance such as bankers, lawyers etc will be come obsolete. Likewise, following the trends of the last 100 years, automation will almost completely displace human labour from having to provide goods and services to society. As such, Mankind has the unprecedented opportunity to pursue any intellectual, scientific or artistic endeavour. At the same time, the engineered consumer society has faded away since the need to generate perpetual profit via constant consumption has been made obsolete. Henceforth, all products will be made with the best possible materials with the most advanced methods. Any planned or unplanned obsolescence designed in products to fuel cyclical consumption will be remembered as a distorted concept in human history that simply wastes resources.
Energy shortages will be an archaic concept since a RBE utilising the fullest potential of our technological progress. Without the need to withhold efficiency and promote scarcity to generate profits, Humanity will be able to tap the unlimited energy sources available in the biosphere via solar, wind, wave, tidal and geothermal energy systems. With an abundance of energy, automation of food and clean water production would solve all scarcity problems, giving all peoples access to the necessities of life. The crisis that Alchemy envisions would be irrelevant in such a RBE.
In such a society, people would be able to transcend the dominant value systems of childish competition, self-centeredness, inferiority complexes and the various neurosis that promotes a conflict-filled society. Education would not be designed to train subservient and narrow-minded consumers. Instead, the RBE culture would be geared towards the achievement of one's fullest potential in the fullest sense of the word, not paying lip-service to the idea. We would have a culture that promotes unity between all peoples, a genuiniely civic-minded global society.
Following my passions, I see myself as a teacher in the RBE, though not in the conventional sense as we use it today. I would not be teaching for a salary, but because I enjoy teaching and it allows me to actively participate in the elevating of the social consciousness. Children of a RBE would not be taught in the manner public schooling does, but they would be given the necessary tools to pursue whichever fields of knowledge interests them. No more will the present notion of duality or us-against-them be promoted, among others. Education in a RBE will give students a nuanced and open-minded view of the world and provide them with the opportunity to become multi-disciplinarians in order to solve social problems rather than specialised for mundane employment.
While this vision of the future sounds highly idealistic, even utopian, at present, we have all the tools and resources to create such a world. Through far from 'perfect' (for perfection never exists due to constant progress), it offers a better way of solving solving the massive social problems we face. As Jacque Fresco stated, "The only limitations of the future of Mankind are those we impose upon ourselves".
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Comment by Ternura Rojas on April 22, 2010 at 10:34am
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Lovely post Erza. Did you label it?
By the way to you all: you are aught to know that the HSEQ management system is the perfect tool to develop a global a resouce-based economomy in a snap BUT it depends on all of us, we have to actively participate...we can make Erza's imagine1 come true! T
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on April 22, 2010 at 11:04am
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Temura, how does this HSEQ management system compare to and/or parallel the Prime Directive where each level of government (global, regional, local) serves the purpose of helping to provide three things
1. basic needs for physical health (food, water, air, warmth, light)
2. outlets for free expression of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual stuff
3. mediation with the goal of mutually agreed upon win-win solutions
And they only step in to help when requested by the individual, if the more local government is not able to help the individual out.
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Hi Turil, love your question!
First of all HSEQ is an independent system (no one rules it, and it is universally run/ruled at the same time) which does empower public services to provide those basic psychical, physical and intellectual needs. HSEQ is not only based on but also compelled by mutual agreement upon win-win solutions :-)
Hard to believe eh? as an HSEQ manager myself I can only rephase Wayne Dyer: The Sky's the Limit!!
If you have any specific questions on how, who when, etc. let me know I want to see this happening ASAP. Cheers, T
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So what's the basic directive of HSEQ?
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HSEQ stands for Health, Safety (including security) Environment and Quality. It is the management system adopted worldwide by private and public insitutions who want to increase their income (for a start).
Quality and Environment management are based on the requirements set by stakeholders, clients, providers, public bodies, local associations (consumer and environmental), etc....even greenpeace!!
Health and Safety deal with the psychologic, emotive, intellectual and physical wellbeing and development of the employees. When employees feel fine, their families feel also fine, and the wh*** community smiles, as welfare is very contagious :-)
When consumers unite and address situations (quality and environmental issues) of which they are concerned about, they become actuators of the improvement that can be asily and pacefully achieved through the HSEQ system.
Ii sounds like magic, but I am here talking about nothing else but ISO and OHSAS standards. Erza's dream can become true if we wisely apply these well-known, widely spread systems to set goals and comply with regulations along with consumer rights.
Piece of cake! Everybody should aknowledge their own potential to make a huge change as we are perfect, beautiful drops of water forming a wonderful sea ;-)
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So how would you (or are you already doing) adapt this process for your own household, for example?
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:-))) at home we are 2 HSEQ managers, so imagine! goes from getting and sharing information about regulations or consumer rights and obligations to improving the communication, through seeking to optimise the use of our time and resources.
We have our own Q&E policy at home, we set and review our environmental objectives, -most of them measurable ones- to a****s the impact of our activities (mainly for the environment, but also the quality of our work and our education).
Our aim is not really to comply with local regulations as laws for civilians in Spain are flawed, so we had to go further, away from our own household and trigger a change. What we do is setting an example and also we offer this knowledge to others, specially the ones who care nothing about this subject.
Within your HSEQ home management you can use an holistic approach (mind, soul, body) and emphasize those activities you prefer or you do best. Initially we set the requirements for our outputs (relationships, work performance, the waste we produce, etc) and then we look around for opinions and current tendencies to increase the quality to the "services" that we give.
Sounds complicated? it is just terminology. I bet you practice all this as you run your home, and I bet you can do better than we do!
Ternura
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Comment by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on April 23, 2010 at 4:48am
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I truly love the vision you have there. And I honestly think that is the inevitable progression of our current world and culture. I don't think it will happen in 10 years. It will take quite a few generations and sadly some bloodshed, I'm sure. But bottom line is, I do believe we will get there eventually.
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