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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.88,0:00:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hello. My name is Frank Muller. I also work with the organization called the Zeitgeist movement, as you already know.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.38,0:00:21.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yeah I would like to welcome everybody right here. And from foreign land everybody who did come, thank you very much.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.69,0:00:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would like to take an opportunity to especially thank teams of the zeitgeist movement.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.44,0:00:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Teams meaning the linguistic team, the web team, the technology team, the activism team
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.90,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also, of course, the project team that coordinated this project right here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole German chapter did a great job with establishing this event in a month.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I would like to thank everybody personally. And, yeah, good to see you here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't Peter Joseph needs an introduction here. I think everybody knows who he is here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, short and precise. Thank you, and I hand the microphone to Peter.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yo ucan turn this mic off since I'm not going to use it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How's everybody doing? I really appeciate you all being here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I want to thank Franky and the Berlin team for moving so fast. It's really phenomenal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,having put on many events over the years, it's not an easy task.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm always reminded when I travel these days, that the Zeitgeist Movement is a global phenomenon at this stage, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this pursuit of a better world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The title of this talk is Economic Calculation in a Natural law Resource-Based Economy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the learning curve has been rather intense.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's been a tendency to generalize with respect to how things actually work technically.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is the content of this presentation and in parts one and two I'm going to refine
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the inherent flaws of the current market model regarding why we need to change.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Along with relaying the vast prospects we now have to solve
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the vast problems; to improve efficiency and generate a form of abundance that can meet all human needs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The active term which has gained a good deal of popularity in the past couple of years
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is called post-scarcity. Even though that word is a little bit miss-leading semantically, as I'll explain later,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in part three, I will work to show how this new society generally works in its structure and basic calculation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think most people on the planet know that there's something very wrong with the current socio economic tradition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They just don't know how to think about the solution.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or more accurately how to arrive at such solutions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Until that is addressed, we're not going to get very far.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Available for free and also in print form or download form.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At cost, it's a non-profit expression. This will be finished, hopefully, by the first of the year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this will be the definitive expression, at least in the condensed form, of the movement--something that's been long overdue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's called the Zeitgeist Movement Defined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it will serve as both an orientation and a reference guide
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we'll have probably over a thousand foot notes and sources.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once finished, an educational video series will be put out
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in about twenty parts to produce the material along with the work book.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help the people who want to learn how to talk about these ideas, because we basically need more people on international levels
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be able to communicate as I try to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oiled international educational machine, with consistent language, coupled with real design projects and there inter-workings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part one. So why are we even here?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is this type of large scale change, what the movement advocates, really needed?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can't we just work to fix and improve the current economic model, keeping the general frame-work of money
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trade, profit, power, property and the like?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The short is a definitive now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I'm going to explain.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If, there is any real interest to solve the growing public health and environmental crises at hand, this system needs to go.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Market Capitalism, however you wish to regulate it, or not regulate it (depending on who you speak with) contains severe structural flaws.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Which will always, to one degree or another, perpetuate environmental abuse and destabilization and human disregard and caustic inequality.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Put another way, environmental and social imbalance and a basic lack of sustainability,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,both environmentally and culturally, is inherent to the market economy and it always has been.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The difference between Capitalism today, and say, the 16th century, is that our technological ability
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to rapidly accelerate and amplify this market process, has brought to the surface consequences which
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simply couldn't be understood or even recognized in those early primitive times.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words, the basic principals of market economics have been intrinsically flawed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It has taken just this long for the severity of those flaws to come to fruition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let me explain a little bit.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From an environmental stand point:
Dialogue: 0,1:30:02.13,1:30:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Again, we seek to simplify the way materials and production means are used so that the maximum number of goods can be produced
Dialogue: 0,1:30:10.38,1:30:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the least variation of materials or production equipment.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:14.13,1:30:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a very important point.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:16.38,1:30:22.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this five factors what we can call in total "The Optimize Design Efficiency" function if you wanna be technical.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:22.88,1:30:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Keep this in mind as I'm gonna return to all this in a moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:27.72,1:30:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moving on to the industrial complex, the layout.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:30.88,1:30:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This means that the network of facilities, which are directly connected
Dialogue: 0,1:30:34.38,1:30:37.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the design and the database system that I just described.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:37.57,1:30:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Servers, productions, distribution, recycling - basically it.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:41.72,1:30:53.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:30:53.97,1:31:11.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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(?).
Dialogue: 0,1:31:11.09,1:31:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if we were to consciously design out unnecessary levels of complexity we can further this efficiency trend greatly
Dialogue: 0,1:31:18.47,1:31:25.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an ever lower environmental impact and resource use, while maximizing, again, our abundance producing potential.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:25.97,1:31:30.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The number of production facilities, whether homogenous or heterogeneous, as they can be called,
Dialogue: 0,1:31:30.81,1:31:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be strategically distributed topographically based on population statistics.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:36.57,1:31:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very simple stuff. It's no different from how grocery stores work today.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:39.74,1:31:43.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They try to average out distances the best they can between pockets of people and neighborhoods.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:43.79,1:31:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can call this the proximity strategy, which I'll mention again in a moment.
Dialogue: 0,1:31:50.79,1:31:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Distribution. This can either can be directly from the production facility as in the case of on demand custom one off production
Dialogue: 0,1:31:55.24,1:32:04.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or it can be sent to a distribution library for public access in mass, based on demand and interest in that region.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:04.94,1:32:09.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The library system is where goods can be obtained.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:09.49,1:32:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some goods can be conducive to low demand and custom production and some will not be.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:14.54,1:32:22.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:22.74,1:32:33.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I suspect, again, this on demand process, which will likely become equally as utilized as mass production will be an enormous advantage.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:33.94,1:32:47.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:47.36,1:32:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Distribution Library.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:51.22,1:32:57.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Inventory is accessed in a direct dynamic feedback link, of course, between production, distribution and demand.
Dialogue: 0,1:32:57.06,1:33:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:05.57,1:33:07.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With, of course, a few adjustments made to this model.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:07.50,1:33:12.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We already doing this kind of stuff already. And, regardless of where the good is classified to go,
Dialogue: 0,1:33:12.74,1:33:23.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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
Dialogue: 0,1:33:23.37,1:33:28.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as the person who obtained something from the library can as well.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:28.18,1:33:39.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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
Dialogue: 0,1:33:39.64,1:33:45.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the genre of production facility (depending on how many facilities you need to create a variety of demand).
Dialogue: 0,1:33:45.05,1:33:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So again, there's no trash here.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:47.30,1:33:51.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:51.59,1:33:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ideally this is a zero waste economy.
Dialogue: 0,1:33:57.98,1:34:01.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Resource Management Feedback and Value.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:01.22,1:34:07.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The computer aided an engineering design process, obviously does not exist in a vacuum.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:07.78,1:34:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Processing demands, input from the natural resources that we have.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:13.56,1:34:24.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So connected to this design process, literally, build into the optimized design efficiency function noted prior, is dynamic feedback from an earth accounting system
Dialogue: 0,1:34:24.34,1:34:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which gives data about all relevant resources, which pertain(?) to all productions.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:27.94,1:34:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today most major industries keep periodic data of their genre materials, as far as how much they have.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:35.49,1:34:39.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, clearly, it's difficult to ascertain due to the nature of corporate secrets and alike.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:39.74,1:34:52.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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.
Dialogue: 0,1:34:52.66,1:34:59.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why? Mainly because we need to maintain equilibrium with earth's regenerative processes at all times
Dialogue: 0,1:34:59.46,1:35:09.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while also, as noted before, work to strategically maximize our use of abundant materials, while minimizing anything with emerging scarcity.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:09.02,1:35:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Value.
Dialogue: 0,1:35:12.10,1:35:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As far as value, the two dominant measures, which undergo constant dynamic recalculation through feedback, as industry unfolds its scarcity and labor complexity.