What a crock of garbage. 6.5 minutes of hand having and pie-in-the-sky dreaming, without a scrap of evidence that anything being said has any basis in reality. This is clearly divorced from basic economic principles.
To pick one of many lines that show this guy is utterly clueless, "Technology has completely freed us from hard labour."
Oh, really? The guys building the house across the street from me right now look like they're working pretty hard. Coal doesn't mine itself. I guess pixies and fairies will wish our roads, bridges, and buildings into existence.
And who exactly is going to build these magic machines that poop out the things we all need to survive? Who exactly is going to ration the output to make things "fair."
Money exists for a reason, that reason is human nature, and no amount of commie propaganda is going to change that.
Money exists for a reason, that reason is
human nature, and no amount of commie propaganda
is going to change that.
I agree that this idea has some holes, but to throw it out as "commie propaganda" is a little much. It seems anything that isn't capitalism is immediately communism. I believe resource-based economics are completely different, perhaps completely opposite from communism.
I agree with you only because Communism is a well thought out theory. A theory that most (at least in the United States) feel has failed but a well thought out theory none the less. For example, every manifestation of Communism has established a monetary system. That system just happens to be centrally planed.
This proposal doesn't provide any real structure as to how society would work. It proposes abolishing almost everything we've established the world's societies on but provides no adequate replacement for that infrastructure.
But, I agree that I shouldn't have called it communism. That label doesn't quite fit what the video is advocating. It's still propaganda though, of whatever variety.
To pick one of many lines that show this guy is utterly clueless, "Technology has completely freed us from hard labour."
Oh, really? The guys building the house across the street from me right now look like they're working pretty hard. Coal doesn't mine itself. I guess pixies and fairies will wish our roads, bridges, and buildings into existence.
And who exactly is going to build these magic machines that poop out the things we all need to survive? Who exactly is going to ration the output to make things "fair."
Money exists for a reason, that reason is human nature, and no amount of commie propaganda is going to change that.