The concepts of development of terrestrial civilization, popular today, are in a state of crisis. Many who are not satisfied with the current state of affairs are beginning to search for alternatives. One of them has become a resource-oriented economy. What it is? What are the principles for building a society?
About the founder
He formulated, designed and actively promotes this view of life by a man named Jacques Fresco. He is an architect by training and for a long time was engaged in creating “buildings of the future”. At the same time, he had to go to many situations that prompted reflection on a number of topics. Over time, it came to understand that society is not moving forward optimally. There was a desire to pay attention to this. Over time, he combined ideas on this subject under the name "sociocybernetics." As the ideas developed, numerous supporters joined him, the most famous of which was Roxanne Meadows, and all the achievements were combined under the Venus project. The following argument can be used to prove popularity: in the Russian Federation, the community of followers of this development path on the VKontakte social network has more than 177 thousand people at the time of writing.
Resource-oriented economy
This name refers to the organization of a system in which goods and services are accessible without the use of commodity-money exchange, the attributes of which are money and barter. But this is possible only when natural resources are recognized as the common heritage of the entire population of the planet. A resource-oriented economy is a system that believes that the planet is replete with resources and opportunities that will allow you to create everything you need. Therefore, it is necessary to abandon the monetarist practice, which is now being used all over the planet. After all, any system, no matter what philosophy it professes, depends on resources. Therefore, for development it is necessary to take care that they are enough for any projects.
Basis
In this case, resources are used as a basis. Thanks to fair methods of their distribution, it is planned to distribute them among the world's population with the greatest efficiency. The society has advanced technologies that will help provide everyone with food, clothing, shelter and the necessary medical services. Also, a resource-oriented economy provides for the development of an appropriate education system that will interest people with science and invention from an early age, and will also take care of the availability of a large amount of knowledge that will adequately assess challenges. Also important is the work on the creation of renewable energy sources, which include geothermal, wind, solar and other power plants. Thus, decades or maybe even years separate us from practical implementation.
Performance
To understand what a resource-oriented economy is, let's imagine the following situation. So all over the world, money is gone. But arable land, factories, factories, scientific laboratories and other things will remain at our disposal. We will have everything necessary to meet the needs and opportunities. People don’t need mountains of money. We need free access to necessary things. And it must be provided. And in cases where resources and, more importantly, education will become available without a price tag, then human potential will not be held back. It may be difficult for contemporaries to understand, but even the richest man of our time cannot secure the average wealth of such a future. Remember - even medieval kings cannot boast of the standard of living that a person with an income of 30,000 rubles has. And what has been said before does not look so impossible anymore, if we pay attention to the past.
Project Venus
It serves as an accumulating center for the idea of a resource-oriented economy. Moreover, it exists not only declaratively, on paper, but also in reality. So, within its framework, a research center was created, which occupies 10 hectares of the city of Venus in the state of Florida in the United States. Separate developments are being implemented on this territory (as a rule, of the architectural and robomechatronic type). A special pride of the research center is a group of miniature mobile robots that can assemble proportional houses. They are the prototype of the technology of the future, which will serve human needs. In addition, the center publishes informational literature and creates films on the subject. If you want to familiarize yourself with this topic in more detail, you can advise "All the best that you can’t buy for money" and "Paradise or oblivion." Of course, there are only general theses, but more detailed and detailed information can be found in other materials that are translated into Russian by the local territorial community.