Unleashing Technology's Ability to Improve Lives through A Resource-Based Economy

The idea that technology has the capability of freeing our time so that we can focus on other pursuits such as education, health and leisure, is something that seems to have gotten away from the First World. Technology, instead, seems to have had the opposite effect. And, in addition, has reached the saturation point where instead of generating more wealth, it is actually plunging people into poverty because technology is increasingly taking the place of human labor and causing unemployment. In Jacque Fresco's The Venus Project, and in his book The Best That Money Can't Buy, he proposes that the way to reverse this trend and to restore technology to its place of helping instead of hindering human progress and education, is to replace the current monetary system with a resource-based economy, therefore allowing the abundance that technology allows us to produce to be shared and distributed in equal measure, without the constraints of the monetary system which.

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Below is a review of a book about the history of technological unemployment in the U.S., showing that it has been a concern without a successful solution for several decades.

I know that this week's mission is about empowering women, but I see this exercise, as I see many of the others, as being a bit beside the point, and not addressing the root of the problem. For all of these missions, I see the monetary system as the number one obstacle to solving these problems on a global scale, including the issue of empowering women. In places where wealth and standards of living are low, families and societies are forced to make choices about who they can afford to educate and who they can favor. If access to wealth and education were not made in exchange for money, then the improvements for women all over the world would be massive. The challenges facing women are merely a result of a huge disparity in the distribution of wealth and could be remedied by changing the way we structure our economy by making resources, education and time free and accessible for all people, with wealth and money becoming a barbaric and archaic form of gaining access to things that are basic human needs and human rights.