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If an island, like Haiti

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had about several hundred million dollars

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in assets. But they went on, and they printed more money

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than they had things to back it up, or gold.

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Then that money has no value. If a little island, say like

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St. Croix printed lots of money and just came to the US

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trying to buy things (they ran their printing presses night and day)

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the money is not backed, that's why it doesn't have anything.

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Your whole banking system's utterly corrupt.

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Your lending institutions have loused up the system.

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But there's nobody out there telling you what's wrong with it.

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So it looks okay to you.

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The national debt has grown too large

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for the National Debt Clock.

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Failed systems

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None of the world's economic systems have eliminated our most dire problems.

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All social arrangements to date have remained plagued with war

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poverty, crime, racism, elitism and most of all:

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scarcity.

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There's no way of making this system just.

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We have to make a system that assures human rights.

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When everybody has free access to goods and services

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you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights;

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it's automatic in a society that's set up that way.

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Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social

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and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities

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which could otherwise easily create a world of abundance for all people

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free of servitude and debt.

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This system will keep installing more and more automation

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cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people.

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It's not China or India taking our jobs away

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the machine has beaten the man.

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There will come a time called the gaussian curve

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where employment is that, production is this

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and purchasing power is that. The system stops.

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A social alternative

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Our problems and their solutions are technical, not political.

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Most problems can be solved when technology and the methods of science

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are used with human and environmental concern to serve all people

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rather than a select few.

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It'll all be based on a form of dynamic equilibrium.

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That means operating everything at the highest potential

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without environmental neglect.

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When we unleash science and technology directly into the social system

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without the restrictions of the marketplace, finances

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or patents, we could achieve a very high standard of living

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within a very short period of time.

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We have the brains, the know-how, the technology and the feasibility

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to build an entirely new civilization.

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Paradise or Oblivion

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