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If the goal is abundance, then the mechanism that causes scarcity has to be examined. This mechanism is the lack of any system of intelligent management of the Earth's resources. The first step toward creating a system of intelligent management of the world's resources is a survey of the Earth's resources. We can hardly choose a direction until we have a valid assessment of our available resource to work with. This is the first step toward eliminating scarcity. And THAT is the first step toward eliminating most of the social ills that have plagued mankind from time immemorial.

We have have the resources, technology, and human potential to transform everything but for some reason humanity seems to be in a rut repeating behaviors over and over that simply don't work.

I have to say, I think it is because of our culture. Many of our social systems are based on false cultural beliefs that science has transcended in the time since they were first conceived. These need to be examined with a very critical eye, keeping what is objectively valid and discarding what is shown by science to be invalid.

Consider this. Money is merely a symbol or token that represents an individual's permission from society to access resources and the level of access is determined by an arbitrarily assigned social ranking. It doesn't have any other function than to signal to both parties what level of access this may entail. You don't really need money to perform that function since advanced computational/communications devices became routinely available.

It's a system that was excellent when civilization first climbed from the primeval ooze and became the first Mesopotamian city states but it is rapidly becoming outmoded by technical advances in automation, communications, and computing. We currently have a system that is motivated by consumption. That isn't going to work well any more when all manufacturing is automated and there is no need for human labor to perform most manufacturing or service jobs. There will be no way for people to earn money to maintain current consumption levels after the economy has reached maximum inefficiency due to technical progress so we will necessarily have to move from advanced capitalism into a moneyless equitarian system.

(note that I just founded the dynamic new Equitarian® philosphy and ideology )