The Venus Project-What do you think?

I found a "Project Venus" thing. They say they're a company that wants to create a global civilization with no poverty, politics or war, with some futuristic "bright future" pictures on their site. Whatever, I see them as future evil weapon market leaders, like in many games. :) You know, they convince people they want to make their life better and brighter and they care about just people security. You know, brainwash... There are many games with the evil brainwashing company(often with a female, white dressed leader):twisted: that took over the world and you are a rebel, so you figure it out. What do you think about it? Good joke?:D

The only thing good out of the whole is there fancy high tech cities. It's essentially Communism 2.0 ran by optimists. Basically i don't think it will work. That and the guy who came up with the idea is a high school dropout.

Definitely not. Humanity is an a collision course to self-anihilation. We have one planet with limited resources, but we're living like we have nothing to worry about. Our grandchildren are going to look back and ask us, "Didn't you know you were destroying the planet?" It doesn't have to be this way. We need to take more responsibility for our actions, for the good of future generations. We need a new plan. The Venus Project is a solution. Is there a better solution? Maybe, but I haven't seen it.bkyle888

I know a better solution:

But communism leads to poverty, I don't see how this will fix society at all. Capitalism drives progress, take the space program for example; NASA is government funded yet because of this there are no plans to send anything but remote-controlled cars to outer space. In Russia people actually pay to go into space, the profits made can go into research to make better rockets, suits and other astro-equipment. If the Venus-Project actually takes hold who decides were the food and money goes? At least in a capitalist society the products go to where the people want them, not where politicians decide.

But communism leads to poverty, I don't see how this will fix society at all. Capitalism drives progress, take the space program for example; NASA is government funded yet because of this there are no plans to send anything but remote-controlled cars to outer space. In Russia people actually pay to go into space, the profits made can go into research to make better rockets, suits and other astro-equipment. If the Venus-Project actually takes hold who decides were the food and money goes? At least in a capitalist society the products go to where the people want them, not where politicians decide.

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kudos i'm not the only one who thinks the space program could benefit us economically.

Well, good luck with that.

If you want to create a utopia or close to it:

-Eliminate religion: (this has done nothing but cause conflict between others), absolutely useless in the wake of advancing technology. We live in a society where claims must be backed up logical reasoning and/or evidence not arbitrary opinions.

-Focus on education: Educated people leads to advancement of human civilization. Focus on sciences and economics. Government expenditure should be spent primarily on subsidizing education. The more people are educated the less uneducated people we have in future generations. Make it mandatory to attend university. Dropouts are not eligible for EI, welfare healthcare. We don't need uneducated leeches in society.

-Have a capitalist economy: The invisible hand will regulate the market. If we are consuming too much, it will be evident and consumer trends will adjust and so will firms. Government is only allowed to intervene during recessions since unions are stubborn and won't accept lower wages. That means no price ceilings or price floors implemented by the government.

-Health Care: Government expenditure should be spent secondarily on health care, subsidizing it almost completely. However, install a head tax every time medical facilities are used so we don't have morons clogging up doctor's offices and ERs when there's nothing wrong with them.

I agree that in order to solve our world's divisive and inevitable destructive pattern of past, we will eventually need to accept and move towards full globalization. I support a one world government and the establishment of a economy not based on monetary gain, but on the welfare of and advancement of our society. Education should be the primary focus of our society, focusing on sciences and philosophy.

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