1 00:00:07,878 --> 00:00:13,378 Hello. My name is Frank Muller. I also work with the organization called the Zeitgeist movement, as you already know. 2 00:00:13,378 --> 00:00:21,378 And yeah I would like to welcome everybody right here. And from foreign land everybody who did come, thank you very much. 3 00:00:21,686 --> 00:00:26,365 And I would like to take an opportunity to especially thank teams of the zeitgeist movement. 4 00:00:26,442 --> 00:00:30,442 Teams meaning the linguistic team, the web team, the technology team, the activism team 5 00:00:30,900 --> 99:59:59,999 and also, of course, the project team that coordinated this project right here. 6 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The whole German chapter did a great job with establishing this event in a month. 7 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, I would like to thank everybody personally. And, yeah, good to see you here. 8 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I don't Peter Joseph needs an introduction here. I think everybody knows who he is here. 9 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So, short and precise. Thank you, and I hand the microphone to Peter. 10 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And yo ucan turn this mic off since I'm not going to use it. 11 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 How's everybody doing? I really appeciate you all being here. 12 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I want to thank Franky and the Berlin team for moving so fast. It's really phenomenal 13 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 having put on many events over the years, it's not an easy task. 14 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And I'm always reminded when I travel these days, that the Zeitgeist Movement is a global phenomenon at this stage, right? 15 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And no matter where any of us end up on the planet, we don't have to go very far to find friends who share similar values. 16 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in this pursuit of a better world. 17 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The title of this talk is Economic Calculation in a Natural law Resource-Based Economy. 18 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 For the past five years or so the Zeitgeist Movement has put out quite a bit of educational media with respect to it's advocation. 19 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And the learning curve has been rather intense. 20 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And there's been a tendency to generalize with respect to how things actually work technically. 21 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 This is the content of this presentation and in parts one and two I'm going to refine 22 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the inherent flaws of the current market model regarding why we need to change. 23 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Along with relaying the vast prospects we now have to solve 24 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 the vast problems; to improve efficiency and generate a form of abundance that can meet all human needs. 25 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The active term which has gained a good deal of popularity in the past couple of years 26 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 is called post-scarcity. Even though that word is a little bit miss-leading semantically, as I'll explain later, 27 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And in part three, I will work to show how this new society generally works in its structure and basic calculation. 28 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 I think most people on the planet know that there's something very wrong with the current socio economic tradition. 29 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 They just don't know how to think about the solution. 30 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Or more accurately how to arrive at such solutions. 31 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Until that is addressed, we're not going to get very far. 32 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And on that note, in a number of months a rather substantial text is going to be put into circulation that will be available for free. 33 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Available for free and also in print form or download form. 34 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 At cost, it's a non-profit expression. This will be finished, hopefully, by the first of the year. 35 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And this will be the definitive expression, at least in the condensed form, of the movement--something that's been long overdue. 36 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's called the Zeitgeist Movement Defined. 37 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And it will serve as both an orientation and a reference guide 38 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 And we'll have probably over a thousand foot notes and sources. 39 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Once finished, an educational video series will be put out 40 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 in about twenty parts to produce the material along with the work book. 41 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 To help the people who want to learn how to talk about these ideas, because we basically need more people on international levels 42 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to be able to communicate as I try to do. 43 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It's a very important thing. I think the movement--the future of the movement, I should say, rests, in part, on our capacity to create a well 44 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 oiled international educational machine, with consistent language, coupled with real design projects and there inter-workings. 45 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Part one. So why are we even here? 46 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Is this type of large scale change, what the movement advocates, really needed? 47 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Can't we just work to fix and improve the current economic model, keeping the general frame-work of money 48 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 trade, profit, power, property and the like? 49 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The short is a definitive now. 50 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 As I'm going to explain. 51 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 If, there is any real interest to solve the growing public health and environmental crises at hand, this system needs to go. 52 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Market Capitalism, however you wish to regulate it, or not regulate it (depending on who you speak with) contains severe structural flaws. 53 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Which will always, to one degree or another, perpetuate environmental abuse and destabilization and human disregard and caustic inequality. 54 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 Put another way, environmental and social imbalance and a basic lack of sustainability, 55 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 both environmentally and culturally, is inherent to the market economy and it always has been. 56 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 The difference between Capitalism today, and say, the 16th century, is that our technological ability 57 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 to rapidly accelerate and amplify this market process, has brought to the surface consequences which 58 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 simply couldn't be understood or even recognized in those early primitive times. 59 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 In other words, the basic principals of market economics have been intrinsically flawed. 60 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 It has taken just this long for the severity of those flaws to come to fruition. 61 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 So let me explain a little bit. 62 99:59:59,999 --> 99:59:59,999 From an environmental stand point: 63 01:30:02,132 --> 01:30:10,382 Again, we seek to simplify the way materials and production means are used so that the maximum number of goods can be produced 64 01:30:10,382 --> 01:30:14,132 with the least variation of materials or production equipment. 65 01:30:14,132 --> 01:30:16,382 This is a very important point. 66 01:30:16,382 --> 01:30:22,883 And this five factors what we can call in total "The Optimize Design Efficiency" function if you wanna be technical. 67 01:30:22,883 --> 01:30:27,717 Keep this in mind as I'm gonna return to all this in a moment. 68 01:30:27,717 --> 01:30:30,884 Moving on to the industrial complex, the layout. 69 01:30:30,884 --> 01:30:34,383 This means that the network of facilities, which are directly connected 70 01:30:34,383 --> 01:30:37,573 to the design and the database system that I just described. 71 01:30:37,573 --> 01:30:41,717 Servers, productions, distribution, recycling - basically it. 72 01:30:41,717 --> 01:30:53,967 Also we need to relate the current state of resources. Critically important. As per the global resource management network, another tier, which I'm also gonna describe in a moment. 73 01:30:53,967 --> 01:31:11,093 Production. This means, of course, that natural manufacturing will evolve, as expressed before, as automated factories will be able to produce more with less material inputs, less machines and (?)formalization(?). 74 01:31:11,093 --> 01:31:18,467 And if we were to consciously design out unnecessary levels of complexity we can further this efficiency trend greatly 75 01:31:18,467 --> 01:31:25,968 with an ever lower environmental impact and resource use, while maximizing, again, our abundance producing potential. 76 01:31:25,968 --> 01:31:30,814 The number of production facilities, whether homogenous or heterogeneous, as they can be called, 77 01:31:30,814 --> 01:31:36,364 would be strategically distributed topographically based on population statistics. 78 01:31:36,572 --> 01:31:39,745 Very simple stuff. It's no different from how grocery stores work today. 79 01:31:39,745 --> 01:31:43,787 They try to average out distances the best they can between pockets of people and neighborhoods. 80 01:31:43,787 --> 01:31:50,787 You can call this the proximity strategy, which I'll mention again in a moment. 81 01:31:50,787 --> 01:31:55,241 Distribution. This can either can be directly from the production facility as in the case of on demand custom one off production 82 01:31:55,241 --> 01:32:04,936 or it can be sent to a distribution library for public access in mass, based on demand and interest in that region. 83 01:32:04,936 --> 01:32:09,492 The library system is where goods can be obtained. 84 01:32:09,492 --> 01:32:14,538 Some goods can be conducive to low demand and custom production and some will not be. 85 01:32:14,538 --> 01:32:22,742 Food is an easy example of a mass production necessity, while a custom piece of furniture will come directly from the manufacturing facility once created. 86 01:32:22,742 --> 01:32:33,938 And I suspect, again, this on demand process, which will likely become equally as utilized as mass production will be an enormous advantage. 87 01:32:33,938 --> 01:32:47,363 As noted, on demand production is more efficient since resources are going to be utilized for the exact use on demand as opposed to block things as we do today. 88 01:32:47,363 --> 01:32:51,217 Distribution Library. 89 01:32:51,217 --> 01:32:57,057 Inventory is accessed in a direct dynamic feedback link, of course, between production, distribution and demand. 90 01:32:57,057 --> 01:33:05,569 If that doesn't make sense to you, again, all you have to think about is how inventory counting and tracking works in any major commercial distribution center today. 91 01:33:05,569 --> 01:33:07,498 With, of course, a few adjustments made to this model. 92 01:33:07,498 --> 01:33:12,735 We already doing this kind of stuff already. And, regardless of where the good is classified to go, 93 01:33:12,735 --> 01:33:23,373 whether it's custom or not, libraries or to a direct user, this is still access system. In other words, at any time the user of a custom good can return the item for reprocessing 94 01:33:23,373 --> 01:33:28,179 just as the person who obtained something from the library can as well. 95 01:33:28,179 --> 01:33:39,636 Since, as noted, the good has been pre-optimized (all goods are pre-optimized for conducive recycling) odds are recycling facilities actually are build in directly in to the production facility 96 01:33:39,636 --> 01:33:45,046 or the genre of production facility (depending on how many facilities you need to create a variety of demand). 97 01:33:45,046 --> 01:33:47,300 So again, there's no trash here. 98 01:33:47,300 --> 01:33:51,590 Whether it's a phone, a couch, a computer, a jacket or a book, everything goes back where it came back from for direct reprocessing. 99 01:33:51,590 --> 01:33:57,978 Ideally this is a zero waste economy. 100 01:33:57,978 --> 01:34:01,217 Resource Management Feedback and Value. 101 01:34:01,217 --> 01:34:07,778 The computer aided an engineering design process, obviously does not exist in a vacuum. 102 01:34:07,778 --> 01:34:13,558 Processing demands, input from the natural resources that we have. 103 01:34:13,558 --> 01:34:24,337 So connected to this design process, literally, build into the optimized design efficiency function noted prior, is dynamic feedback from an earth accounting system 104 01:34:24,337 --> 01:34:27,937 which gives data about all relevant resources, which pertain(?) to all productions. 105 01:34:27,937 --> 01:34:35,486 Today most major industries keep periodic data of their genre materials, as far as how much they have. 106 01:34:35,486 --> 01:34:39,736 But, clearly, it's difficult to ascertain due to the nature of corporate secrets and alike. 107 01:34:39,736 --> 01:34:52,662 But it's still done, regardless to whatever degree technically possible this is , all resources are tracked and monitored and as close to real-time, ideally, as possible. 108 01:34:52,662 --> 01:34:59,461 Why? Mainly because we need to maintain equilibrium with earth's regenerative processes at all times 109 01:34:59,461 --> 01:35:09,023 while also, as noted before, work to strategically maximize our use of abundant materials, while minimizing anything with emerging scarcity. 110 01:35:09,023 --> 01:35:12,099 Value. 111 01:35:12,099 --> 01:35:16,099 As far as value, the two dominant measures, which undergo constant dynamic recalculation through feedback, as industry unfolds its scarcity and labor complexity.