Resource Based Economy > Monetary Economy

First, I'd like to insist that my opponent stop posting in the comments. He chose the 4000 character preference for this debate, limiting the depth of the topic. As stated already, all of these ideas should be implemented. If they are a realistic alternative to energy use, and would provide a limitless source for food and fuel, they will be used eventually. Everyone should feel free to read the info and web site of the Venus project and the zeitgeist films on utube to see how plausible they feel these ideas are. Like myself I think they will feel similarly that Jacque Fresco is a brilliant designer and thinker. However when the questions I have asked to my opponent, were asked of Fresco, the answers were similarly not sufficient. Fresco quotes the biblical saying, "From the sweat of your brow you shall eat", he says he doesn't believe it should be that way. I have no reason not to believe that it hasn't always been that way, and will not continue to be that way. Any society where the few are being productive so the overwhelming majority can rest will collapse. When asked these questions about a society where everything is provided, Fresco gives a short response saying he doesn't believe it would be that way. My opponent says the same, believing people will work hard for prestige or self-satisfaction. If my opponent can provide other answers Fresco has given to these questions it would be helpful to his resolution. In the meantime my opponent (and Fresco) has failed to respond to these realities. "We have the energy, food, vast land of untapped resources, and the electronics." In places where people are being productive and not irresponsibly over populating we have enough of all this stuff. In the west food is plentiful, cheap and healthy (if one desires). The profit incentive for food has created a near limitless supply that could already feed the world (and would if not for poor distribution). Distribution of food and resources for the common good leads to people waiting in line waiting for their equally small portion. "If we have economic equality, people won't feel the need to have so many children" Depends on how this system is implemented. If I have 10 kids while my friend only has 5, will I not be allotted more bricks and goats? Wouldn't this be an incentive to reproduce irresponsibly? Another huge flaw. "They have ownership of what they need and access to what they want…why …hoard bricks if I already have quality housing for free?" What if I want more chocolate? "People come up with ideas for inventions every day…only incentive is to change the world" It takes a lot of people and risk for the greater endeavors, so it takes more tangible incentives to convince so many people to invest. "If all…money in the world…disappear tomorrow, we'd [lose] nothing but our sanity." We'd lose a simple solution for transferring our productivity into goods and services. "…owning…is keeping the business… It wouldn't be business in the same sense…it'd be…people coming together to form ideas and put them in action, not a group of people struggling…and resorting so scams." A business exists because it provides a good that's in demand. Profit is part of what is the incentive for the hard work that goes into it as well as a method of determining if what the business does is necessary. "There's a monopoly on gold. There could still be jewelry, but most would go towards useful things like electronics and grills, as you stated." What organization has a monopoly on gold? I can buy it and sell it in multiple locations... And because gold holds its value so well, it is now being used as an investment holding. I recommend everyone have some gold in their investment portfolios and grills.[1] "If you want a…pool…maybe…is feasible." It's guaranteed under the current system. So I think we should stick with that. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...