Resource Based Economy

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www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

In this documentary shortcomings of today's political systems are highlighted. It also suggests the inherent flaws of the existing monetary/market economic model, such as its reliance of created artificial debt and a presumption of infinite growth, have led to social decay, false materialism, crime, poverty, environmental destruction, and inequality. In effect there are literally billions of people around the world who are unable to meet the basic necessities of life.

The movie highlights that human beings are Bio-Psycho Social Organisms that are affected by the surrounding environment symbiotically. This is also known as "social conditioning", and means that if an infant or young child is exposed to negative conditions such as stress, abuse, or suffering, it will likely lead to addictions or violence later in life. For this reason, people being able to meet the necessities of life in all forms should not just be considered a luxury as it is in today's economic system, but be made a social imperative.

A "Resource Based Economy" is an entirely new economic model not based on monetary exchange but on the efficient management of the Earth's environment and its finite resources. The main objective of a RBE is complex management and innovation that would minimise waste, technological obsolescence, environmental depletion, and inefficiency, all factors which plague the modern monetary/market system. If all these factors were made primary considerations, there would be more than enough resources on Earth to provide the entire population with the basic necessities of life.

In a RBE the society would need to;

• Find out what resources are needed;
• Gather knowledge and conduct surveys of what resources exist, and where they are found;
• Verify how they will be used/what they will be used for;
• Monitor and track the usage and natural replenishment of these resources in order to maintain a "dynamic equilibrium";

From this data a RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM would be established, involving the following strategies;

• Strategic preservation;
• Strategic safety - avoidance of negative retro actions such as production or use that damages human and environmental health;
• Strategic efficiency
• goods designed to last
• goods designed for recycling
• goods designed to update
• goods designed for standardisation and universal inter-changeability;

As these strategies are of a purely of a technical nature, they can be programmed into a computer system which can weigh and calculate all the variables. This would in turn establish a PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

A "proximity strategy" would also need to be developed, where there would be increased local production, requiring less energy in the transportation of goods. Demand would also need to be assessed;

• Monitoring of what goods need to be manufactured and why;
• Demand of what people need to be healthy and have a high quality of life;

Core Life Supporting Necessities

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HUMAN AND SOCIAL HEALTH

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Social and Recreational Needs

From this a DEMAND AND DISTRIBUTION TRACKING SYSTEM would be established.

"It is the scientific method applied to social concern"

• Free of political bias
• Free of subjective opinions of what's needed and what's not, what's true or false.

Possible Idea for Architectural Proposal

One of the ideas from the film I found interesting was one concerning "strategic access". This is concerned with the possibility of goods being made available to people when they need it, taking away the need for ownership in some cases (reducing consumerist wastage), and therefore eliminating the need to replicate a good for every single person (i.e. cars). "Centralised and regional access centres" was one of the proposals. This could be applied to the Australian government context, and could be a model for the efficient managing of the nations resource and services distribution.