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I think you don't know much about The Venus Project. He did not believe human were competitive by nature. He believed competition is a product of scarcity. And

I think you don't know much about The Venus Project. He did not believe human were competitive by nature. He believed competition is a product of scarcity. And he understood that while visiting the Tuamotu islands, where natives lived very differently than we do. Corruption in a monetary system is exacerbated. It's so easy to pay off someone that it became normal. We do know how to reduce conflict. But we don't want to. Every country has interests to keep one of the factions involved in power. How can the conflict terminate if one country gives weapons to a faction while another bombs them? In 2016 he was awarded by UN for "City Design & Community". And he may receive other awards post mortem. If you look more deeply there is little ideology in Fresco's view.

jokoon 9y ago
> I think you don't know much about The Venus Project. I learned about this project in 2009. It's idealist by nature. It's great, but it doesn't really account for the reality of how politics work. > He believed competition is a product of scarcity. Good luck keeping that nice living standard by removing competition off the table. Corruption is why we win. > But we don't want to. Geopolitics at play, there is so little people can really do about it. Ultimately, people will choose to be able to afford another lollipop to their kid, rather than maybe care about people thousands of kilometers away. We'd rather save 10 cent on the gallon of gas or get marshmallow than let our neighbor have shelter. Husbands will gladly shit in their neighbor's yard just to content their wives. The intricacies are so complex and people don't really have time to really care at all, but ultimately, at the larger scale, we still are competitive because that's how the first world get comfortable. It's crazy how people can eat organic but won't try to be informed about the middle east and how the world is poor. I have respect for his project, but it seems to make abstraction of the politics of what he is proposing. It says "beyond politics". You cannot remove politics from the equation. Politics is how the world works.

jokoon 9y ago

> I think you don't know much about The Venus Project. I learned about this project in 2009. It's idealist by nature. It's great, but it doesn't really account for the reality of how politics work. > He believed competition is a product of scarcity. Good luck keeping that nice living standard by removing competition off the table. Corruption is why we win. > But we don't want to. Geopolitics at play, there is so little people can really do about it. Ultimately, people will choose to be able to afford another lollipop to their kid, rather than maybe care about people thousands of kilometers away. We'd rather save 10 cent on the gallon of gas or get marshmallow than let our neighbor have shelter. Husbands will gladly shit in their neighbor's yard just to content their wives. The intricacies are so complex and people don't really have time to really care at all, but ultimately, at the larger scale, we still are competitive because that's how the first world get comfortable. It's crazy how people can eat organic but won't try to be informed about the middle east and how the world is poor. I have respect for his project, but it seems to make abstraction of the politics of what he is proposing. It says "beyond politics". You cannot remove politics from the equation. Politics is how the world works.