Visualizing a Plenitude Economy
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More at http://www.newdream.org Video by the Center for a New American Dream This fun animation provides a vision of what a post-consumer society could look like, with people working fewer hours and pursuing re-skilling, homesteading, and small-scale enterprises that can help reduce the overall size and impact of the consumer economy. Narrated by economist and best-selling author Juliet Schor (http://www.julietschor.org). Produced by: RMD2 - http://rmd2.net Artist: Anthony Maughan Learn more at http://www.newdream.org
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Good video - the main issue may hinge around the very way that we calculate value on the basis of growth and consumption alone – present value of a future sum analysis and all of its derivatives. This is the way everything in our society is valued and particularly monetary investment. This will take a militant new form of economics that involves development, improvement and enhancement without increased consumption and reliable means of measuring the real values. This does not need to be a direct challenge to capitalism and free enterprise - but rather an enhancement involving real costs and real values as agreed upon by common experience
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what really needs to be addressed here is what people will have to do with more time on their hands, this is complex and it would involve a cultural shift, that would be noticeable to all except of course the very young
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This is a great video. The 'leisure' industry was a brilliant construct of 'capitalism' to always Go, Go, Go!!! Walt Disney, Hollywood, The 'travel' industry and other vehicles of the economy made us always in a state of Wanting MORE from domestic industries like manufacturing and others that gave us less or nothing at all (Detroit to Rust Belt economy).
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"..they're building social capital as an alternative to the borrow-&-spend consumer culture" xD
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The only thing that lack in the plan is the fact we all got to forget about the fact we need money. Otherwise there's always gonna be someone or a small group of people who gonna chose whats the rest of the others have to do in they lifes...
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This is a looney tunes world. Sheer idiocy
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People want to attain "things" in life in order to be fulfilled.Well we all know they won't,they will be chasing it and probably get it,and then die and lose it.Pointless life with that kind of view.
After all your purpose here at this evolved state is to discover the truth of life by yourself.
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Unfortunately with out abolishing the Federal Reserve, and changing the way our monetary system works then nothing will change and things will only get worse.
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Ok for suburban and rural, but what about the Mega cities?
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Good idea but a little idealistic. The trouble is that employers really want to hire only three employees to do the work of four. They already pay lower than a liveable wage which make working less hours difficult to sustain. This of course is my observation as with the last 66 months having worked only 42, with only 18 of those months allowing for full time hours.
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This is Permaculture. This video rocks! Thank you!
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This is no new economic model... you are basically saying work less so that there are more jobs to go around....
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Nice to see people offering intelligent options to real problems. Here is another source: http://www.ic.org
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great tool for that watch?v=uEri4hBUBxE
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wow. she needs an education.
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Not really utopian. The Venus Project or a resourced based economy is utopian, but this can be implemented right away in a voluntray way. There are job, salaries, freedom to exchange goods. Its the same as now but with a few mino/major tweaks that make it more 'fair' for everyone and its less of a burden for the planet.
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Everyone who insists in having a car, will have one. If there willing to live somewhere rural, or fight traffic for 3 hrs day in the city. Those are your choices. If you don't hold it against me for having an ebike and using mass transit. I wont hold your car against you.
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crazy liberal hippy
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and the rich get richer , like you guys over at the center for the new American dream , you are all in the upper income bracket's (might not be in the 5% but your close) so why would you want us to do what's in this video ? your not doing it yourself ! so why , what do you gain ? less freeway traffic for your limo when the rest of us have to switch to bicycles ? makes me wonder and worry a little
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