Name: 三個問題。你有什麼建議？ 彼得-約瑟夫｜時代精神運動 (Three Questions: What do you propose? by Peter Joseph | The Zeitgeist Movement)
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Hi! I’m Peter Joseph and welcome to: “3 Questions - What do you propose?”

基礎被動語態

This thought exercise is intended as both

an address to the average person concerned about global problems

or even in opposition to The Zeitgeist Movement.

I'm going to pose three basic questions here.

If you disagree with the answers I provide

or perhaps even the premise of the questions themselves

I encourage you to respond with an alternative solution or a counterargument.

If you choose to do this, just make sure that you have reviewed

Again this is about the three questions, only.

Now, before I begin, the term 'market economy'

And since people are quick to get lost semantically about what

'capitalism' or a free market supposedly is or isn’t,

I am going to define my context now, bypassing any semantic confusion.

When I use the term 'market economy', I am simply referring

to the core attributes shared by every major market system variation

And only three basic characteristics are needed here.

Obviously the whole global economy is based on employment;

and spend back into the system, keeping it going.

The 2nd is that all resources, goods and services retain property value

transferred by means of monetary exchange.

Everything is bought and sold through the use of money

And 3rd, the overall incentive strategy is based upon competition for demand

whether person-to-person or institution-to-institution

Again, this is the most basic gaming logic present in the market.

That’s it: very simple and again these characteristics are universal

to all economies functioning in the world today.

"Given the market economy requires consumption in order to maintain

demand for human employment and further economic growth as needed,

is there a structural incentive to reduce resource use,

biodiversity loss, the global pollution footprint,

and hence assist the ever-increasing need for

improved ecological sustainability in the world today?"

The most basic mechanism of the market is the movement of money.

if monetary circulation slows, it means demand and turnover slows,

and the average effect is a loss of jobs,

loss of income and a loss of economic growth.

Therefore, consumption is the fuel of the market system

and the more we consume, the better the 'health' of the overall economy.

Yet this necessity for constant, cyclical consumption

is in complete contradiction to what is needed for basic,

Wouldn’t it seem responsible to conclude that

is not only to meet the needs of the population, but to do so

in the most strategic, efficient and conservative manner possible?

Yet the market incentivizes the exact opposite behavior

In fact, the entire basis of the market can be summarized in one paradox:

“The market justifies its existence by the recognition of scarcity

actually promotes and rewards infinite consumption."

If this confuses you, it might be because

this contradiction remained rather hidden in the past.

Two hundred years ago, our technical means were primitive

and the idea of being able to produce as rapidly as we do now,

accessing major resources virtually at will, was a pipe dream.

We simply didn’t have the technological efficiency back then.

For example 300 years ago a shoemaker could produce maybe

Today a common automated shoe factory can produce

a pair every 30 seconds or about 4,000 a day.

So, the level of production efficiency has increased so dramatically

that we are no longer having a problem overcoming any 'scarcity of means'.

The problem now is keeping people consuming.

By the way, if you are wondering why, in the wake of this great productivity,

there are still billions of people who lack the most basic goods

that is the result of a different market mechanism

the inevitability of market generated poverty and inequity.

The modern economy is no longer scarcity-based on this level,

as it needs high levels of turnover to keep people employed and growth going.

And obviously the side effect of all of this is

biodiversity loss and destabilizing pollution.

Now, there are now countless corroborating studies that confirm

how the world is increasing in its deficiency to meet the

Some estimates find that humanity will need 27 more Earths

is not only disrupting basic biosphere functions

it is now a fact that virtually all life support systems are in decline

with 50% of all wildlife having been destroyed in the past 40 years alone.

As far as pollution, these issues are nothing but accelerating

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三個問題。你有什麼建議？彼得-約瑟夫｜時代精神運動 (Three Questions: What do you propose? by Peter Joseph | The Zeitgeist Movement)

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三個問題。你有什麼建議？彼得-約瑟夫｜時代精神運動 (Three Questions: What do you propose? by Peter Joseph | The Zeitgeist Movement)