The acquisition of knowledge is the default impetus of children, broadly speaking. Absorbing our surroundings, our culture and ideas is the fundamental behavior that has allowed us to become a dominant species. The limitless and and nearly inexhaustible desire to learn is slowly eroded by institutions and situations in which children are not provided an environment that promotes this activity. Increasingly in the monetary system, we abandon children to watch television, sit still, shut up and learn inside of government run child warehouses that promote social norms, competition and stratification, and then we are shoved into a dwindling job market that rewards dulling, repetitious and uncritical or thoughtless labor, menial servitude or other irrelevant services that sap our energy, desire and spirit. Nothing in our current system promotes cooperation for the betterment of all people everywhere. Instead we are forced to chip away at each other bit by bit while engaging in a monetary system that is currently self destructing. Social cohesion, concern for others and the desire to sustainably utilize our resources for the benefit of everyone is the farthest thing from our minds in the dominant culture. "Education" has only become "hard work" because the system has deemed it antithetical to the profit motive, and therefor has molded it to allow only the misinformed, mislead and misguided consuming masses to become "successful" in it. Given the state of our technological capability, scientific understanding and global interconnectedness, it is absolutely shameful that we continue to allow ourselves and others to be treated this way.

I have already directed you to the appropriate thread.

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http://youtu.be/TDaFwnOiKVE

An interesting look at how we have bent our technology to serve the monetary system, in turn shaping the world we all share.

A monetary system perpetuates structural violence, which is more far reaching and more devastating than physical violence. This discussion is outside of the thread topic, however.

There is no right or wrong. Your choices are highly influenced by your environment. Examine your environment to determine what influences your thinking process. You can make a better choice after that.

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Those limits imposed in a monetary system where a minority have access to the majority of the resources just because they have the most purchasing power.

More accurately, stupidity would not be encouraged, rewarded or promoted the way it is inside of a monetary system.

I'm sure that you believe that you understand these ideas, but the questions you are asking and the ideas you are promoting indicate that you have much more to learn. I am fortunate in that I enjoy learning, perhaps more than others.

Access abundance given the carrying capacity of the earth is not the same as infinite resources.

All behavior is emergent, but the environment plays a significant role in the result. A better environment produces better behavior, generally speaking.

Many people here do not seem to be able to assimilate the ideas I'm talking about very rapidly. That is fine though, because it took me nearly a decade to understand it myself.

Good effort, thank you so much for doing this work.

There is no mention of a relevant education for all people, promotion of life sustaining values, an intelligent decentralized global resource tracking and management system, or the implementation of such a society in new city systems. It also implies that people and/or machines "make" decisions, as opposed to arriving at them using the scientific method to determine optimal outcomes. So no.

Mugging and starving are the choices presented in a monetary system.

Given a relevant education, I don't see how the idea of imaginary and arbitrary limits on necessary resources comes to fruition. What compels a person that understands that we live on a finite planet to believe that a shared fantasy is conducive to sustaining life?

"Stupid people" don't pop into reality from another dimension. We have decided to promote irrational beliefs and traditions over critical thinking skills.

A monetary system requires mislead, misinformed and uncritical people, which has little to do with intelligence.

Currency, as well as all other man made systems, tools and shared customs etc., are technologies.

You have invented the contradiction. Rights don't exist, so not having them is meaningless. Money is unnecessary, not disallowed.

Nothing makes someone more or less free. We are all subject to the laws of nature and are unable to escape from it. The fantasy world of currency, philosophy, politics etc. are irrelevant to physical reality.

Such behavior would not likely continue in an RBE because it is not rewarded. Most likely, such persons would change their behavior when they recognize that it is unnecessary, unproductive and not given attention. Technocracy is irrelevant to the ideas being discussed in this thread. There is no rigid control in an RBE of society, only the promotion of relevant values. Nothing is banned or illegal.

While such occurrences can't be ruled out completely, a community that is not based on competition, aggressiveness, dominance or false authority is severely less likely to create the conditions for such behavior. An RBE could not exist with "ignorant masses", as opposed to a monetary system which thrives on and indeed requires it.

I think that currency is a technology we will be better off without. Charity doesn't exist in an RBE because caring for people is not confined to it's own little corner of economic activity, but in fact the basis for common survival.

I don't confuse virtual reality with actual reality. "Trolling douchebags" are created by real world problems, not a result of online communities.

An RBE would provide greater variety of such ingredients because food production can be incredibly scaled up to allow for it. Since we wouldn't waste so much area, materials time and effort on meaningless activities and goals, then a healthier community would emerge with a better agricultural base.

Perhaps it is certainly perceived that way. I am not familiar with such communities, but corruption and abuse is far more likely to occur when such systems are implemented, regardless of the ideal qualities they possess. You are confusing equality of capability and character with social status, which is what I refer to when I speak of it. Money highly influences social status, causing inequality of access and limiting potential.