1 00:00:02,459 --> 00:00:05,678 Let's say it rained gold for one day. 2 00:00:05,818 --> 00:00:09,985 People would empty all their drawers, fill it with gold, the attic and everything 3 00:00:10,125 --> 00:00:14,911 but if it kept raining gold for months, they'd sweep it up, throw their rings away. 4 00:00:15,051 --> 00:00:19,681 Scarcity. They save the gold because it has a value now 5 00:00:20,032 --> 00:00:23,743 but it only has a value as long as it's scarce. 6 00:00:24,187 --> 00:00:28,787 But if we find a whole mountain of gold, it would lose its value. 7 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:34,512 Scarcity is one of the main operating characteristics that produces 8 00:00:34,652 --> 00:00:38,518 on a large extent 'murder for gold'. 9 00:00:38,768 --> 00:00:43,444 Wherever you've got the history of the diamond, you've got all kinds of horrors behind it. 10 00:00:43,584 --> 00:00:45,521 In the future 11 00:00:45,661 --> 00:00:49,427 people will be ashamed to wear things like that. 12 00:00:49,936 --> 00:00:53,785 Roxanne's father was a jeweler, always trying to give her things to wear. 13 00:00:53,925 --> 00:00:56,396 She doesn't want any of that shit 14 00:00:56,536 --> 00:01:01,814 but there are people who feel that this diamond is worth $100,000. 15 00:01:02,795 --> 00:01:06,610 They would never achieve peace 16 00:01:06,750 --> 00:01:10,168 because there's always somebody that's got a bigger diamond than they have. 17 00:01:10,308 --> 00:01:12,881 If you put up the largest building in the world 18 00:01:13,021 --> 00:01:16,737 then another guy will beat your building by 200 feet. 19 00:01:16,877 --> 00:01:19,629 And you say "God damn it! I'm going to put up another building." 20 00:01:19,769 --> 00:01:23,161 This sickness that we have, there's no end to it. 21 00:01:23,301 --> 00:01:25,222 The richest man in the world... 22 00:01:25,362 --> 00:01:28,119 I would be ashamed if I were the richest man in the world 23 00:01:28,259 --> 00:01:31,196 because I know that the public made me the richest man in the world. 24 00:01:31,336 --> 00:01:34,504 I'd want to build schools and hospitals with the money. 25 00:01:34,644 --> 00:01:37,251 I would see no other use for it 26 00:01:37,391 --> 00:01:41,162 but to give back to society what I've taken. 27 00:01:43,070 --> 00:01:45,600 - We feel that within a monetary system 28 00:01:45,740 --> 00:01:49,182 the system cannot be just or equitable. 29 00:01:49,845 --> 00:01:53,200 There'll always be haves and have-nots. 30 00:01:56,313 --> 00:02:00,534 A Resource-Based Economy would eliminate that. 31 00:02:00,965 --> 00:02:03,531 The problems that we have today will continue to go on. 32 00:02:03,671 --> 00:02:07,500 There'll always be busts and booms, markets going up and down 33 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:11,707 and people manipulating for their own advantage 34 00:02:11,847 --> 00:02:15,337 and this will never go away within a monetary system 35 00:02:15,477 --> 00:02:18,451 because there'll always be people with advantage. 36 00:02:18,591 --> 00:02:23,373 Within a Resource-Based Economy, what we want to do is to eliminate 37 00:02:23,513 --> 00:02:27,853 the causes of the problems, eliminate the processes 38 00:02:28,481 --> 00:02:32,736 that produce greed, bigotry, prejudice 39 00:02:33,708 --> 00:02:37,103 people taking advantage of one another, elitism 40 00:02:37,243 --> 00:02:40,371 and really eliminating 41 00:02:40,511 --> 00:02:44,720 the need for prisons and welfare. 42 00:02:45,071 --> 00:02:47,623 When you make things available to people 43 00:02:47,763 --> 00:02:50,030 you don't have the problems that you have today. 44 00:02:50,170 --> 00:02:54,222 We've always had these problems because we've always lived within scarcity 45 00:02:54,362 --> 00:02:59,515 barter and monetary systems that produce scarcity. 46 00:02:59,848 --> 00:03:02,382 We're talking about a Resource-Based Economy 47 00:03:02,522 --> 00:03:06,000 which makes things available to everyone. 48 00:03:07,857 --> 00:03:10,089 - I look at this system differently. 49 00:03:10,229 --> 00:03:14,254 I see a tough job ahead; it's not easy. 50 00:03:14,394 --> 00:03:19,249 I see a lot of assassination and a lot of imprisonment 51 00:03:19,389 --> 00:03:22,664 and cops beating people that are good. 52 00:03:22,804 --> 00:03:25,666 And the cops not knowing any better. 53 00:03:25,806 --> 00:03:30,584 Because they've joined the police force they believe they're holding law and order. 54 00:03:30,724 --> 00:03:33,830 In their heads they're doing the right thing. 55 00:03:33,970 --> 00:03:37,069 Whenever you're in trouble you call a policeman. 56 00:03:37,209 --> 00:03:42,319 All of these built-in systems are going to have to be surpassed. 57 00:03:43,168 --> 00:03:46,969 - The only thing I can see that's really negative of this system that we talk about 58 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:52,000 a Resource-Based Economy, is getting from here to there. 59 00:03:52,301 --> 00:03:56,264 We have a lot of things we have to do 60 00:03:56,404 --> 00:04:00,531 to take care of the detrimental things that we did in this society. 61 00:04:00,671 --> 00:04:04,744 We have to clean up the environment, the oceans, the air 62 00:04:04,884 --> 00:04:09,707 and clean up the detrimental values that people have from this society 63 00:04:09,847 --> 00:04:12,082 of greed and embezzlement 64 00:04:12,222 --> 00:04:16,629 and 'me for myself,' not caring about anyone else. 65 00:04:18,957 --> 00:04:21,182 The hardest thing will be... 66 00:04:21,322 --> 00:04:23,530 That's what the problems will be for sociologists 67 00:04:23,687 --> 00:04:27,191 and people who care about other people: to change values 68 00:04:27,331 --> 00:04:32,596 and to start afresh from children to care for others and take care of the Earth. 69 00:04:32,736 --> 00:04:35,267 That's what our education will be like. 70 00:04:36,125 --> 00:04:39,767 - There's no way of you, in a given culture, saying 71 00:04:39,907 --> 00:04:42,738 "I'm not going to remain a gypsy; that's ridiculous 72 00:04:42,878 --> 00:04:45,602 to wear these earrings and headbands." 73 00:04:45,742 --> 00:04:50,305 If you walk over to Seminole Indians and you say, dancing around the fire 74 00:04:50,445 --> 00:04:53,829 "LALALALA," to Iroquois or any other Indians. That's ridiculous! 75 00:04:53,969 --> 00:04:58,303 The Indians say "That's a hell of a good point, LALALA." That doesn't mean anything. 76 00:04:58,443 --> 00:05:01,728 You can't do that. It's no more possible 77 00:05:01,868 --> 00:05:04,871 to take a group of cannibals, headhunters and say 78 00:05:05,011 --> 00:05:07,766 "What you're doing is ridiculous," and the chief saying 79 00:05:07,906 --> 00:05:10,917 "You know, that's a great in-depth concept." 80 00:05:11,057 --> 00:05:14,080 He doesn't have that associative system. 81 00:05:14,220 --> 00:05:17,061 People think "If I, as a Christian, I just can get there 82 00:05:17,201 --> 00:05:20,600 and tell them about the sacrifice of Christ..." 83 00:05:20,740 --> 00:05:25,223 You can take Polynesians that have food and all of that, and they're eating 84 00:05:25,363 --> 00:05:30,293 they'll go do anything and listen to anything and you can condition them 85 00:05:30,699 --> 00:05:34,393 to worship Jesus or anybody, or Allah 86 00:05:34,727 --> 00:05:38,373 but you go to a scarcity country where people are not eating 87 00:05:38,513 --> 00:05:41,116 and try to give them Christ without food... 88 00:05:41,256 --> 00:05:44,792 The church, if it doesn't provide food, has no attendance 89 00:05:44,932 --> 00:05:49,281 so the early churches provided dinners and food for starving people 90 00:05:49,421 --> 00:05:51,688 so that some of them went to church. 91 00:05:51,828 --> 00:05:54,953 You've got to have gimmicks. It's a fishhook! 92 00:05:55,093 --> 00:05:58,402 Bait, and that's what commercials are. 93 00:05:58,542 --> 00:06:01,714 Fine print is an attempt at deception. 94 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:08,788 I know of no other way except presenting information, real [information] 95 00:06:08,928 --> 00:06:12,560 and if our system is not sophisticated enough 96 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:17,257 or you don't have enough time left before we come to the point of no return... 97 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:22,578 We've damaged the oceans and the environment to such an extent 98 00:06:22,718 --> 00:06:25,137 that we don't have the means 99 00:06:25,277 --> 00:06:29,060 and the organizations to do away with that. 100 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:32,745 And that means a miserable death for most people 101 00:06:32,885 --> 00:06:35,392 the end of our civilization. 102 00:06:35,532 --> 00:06:39,849 That's why Roxanne and I... We have no power. 103 00:06:40,419 --> 00:06:43,824 People say "When are you and Roxanne going to build this new world? 104 00:06:43,964 --> 00:06:47,245 I get calls "I'd come with my suitcases, be happy to live in it!" 105 00:06:47,385 --> 00:06:49,125 We don't need that. 106 00:06:49,265 --> 00:06:53,271 We need your participation and support to make it happen. 107 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,802 You have an avenue which may work. 108 00:06:58,653 --> 00:07:00,874 There's nothing else out there.