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# The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War

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    Grandiose vision with no real substance.
  

*by C***T on Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021*

Been meaning to read this book for quite a while. It is quite the "exciting read." He has the breathless wordsmanship of Engels, Marx, Veblen and Galbraith.Though I can emphasize with and uphold his futuristic outlook, it is basically a portmanteau of every Utopian idea that is Left of center for the last 170 years.Issues with the novel,1. There are no footnotes or references throughout the book.2. He never gives credit for his ideas to the authors that he is blatantly taking them from, Buckminster Fuller, Thorsten Veblen, John Galbraith et al.3. His solution to the socialist abundance problem is twofold;A. The elimination of Money & Prices (Proudhon et al).B. The Resource Based Economy (Lenin and Stalin).-How will this all work to bring abundance? No definitive answer, it is only an emotional ideological assertion throughout the book that it will.How will production be done? First you have to count all the resources available in the area and worldwide. How will this help production? No answer, it just will.[This is a blatant misunderstanding of the law of supply and demand. If you know supply and know demand you can balance them. What is missing? The information necessary to truly balance supply and demand-monetary prices. What counting everything does is create worthless unusable data-i.e. economic noise. A Baker has no need to know the amount of wheat, sugar, eggs, milk the world produced last year to bake bread. Nor does the car maker need to know the amount of steel, chrome, wire, computer chips. Knowing the X amount of Y, is useless data unless there is some mechanism for balancing numerous heterogenous demands/needs. Monetary prices do just that. Monetary prices are distributed knowledge, counted resources by bureaucracies are centralized knowledge, giving rise once again to the calculation problem.]How will producers use these counted resources? Well after the magic wand is used to eliminate all monetary prices than production will just continue along using the same productive methods and capital equipment already in place and resources will be delivered to the producers who will then produce efficiently and deliver their product to the next producer up the line until you reach the consumer. (For those of you who have read Mises' book Socialism, you know that this is the sine qua non of all socialist economic ideas-stop capitalism and continue on with equilibrium enforced socialism).If this RBE sounds familiar to you it should, this is the same economy that V.I. Lenin tried to implement in the USSR in the 1920’s which failed dramatically. They had to scrap it and begin the New Economic Program bringing back prices. Stalin in a book before his death said that an RBE is the future. So faithful to Stalin it marches on. (Somehow inexplicably the good Professor thinks this is how production was done by the U.S. during WWII).4. His sources and thinking are all based and confined to the Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, Population Bomb 60’s and 70’s era when Neo-Malthusianism was reified. His futuristic projections are thus tainted with these ideological biases.5. His solution to all problems is Oskar Langue’s solution to Mises’ calculation problem and Hayek’s knowledge problem, “Someday a supercomputer will be invented that can do all the simultaneous equations necessary and will distribute the knowledge simultaneously to all areas that need it.” Complexity Theory destroyed Langue's Hail Mary.Contradictions in the book abound. Most blatant is, “Technology will give us abundance but humanity must be limited to the extant resources of the Earth.” (The Georgia Guidestones) The fact that this is a complete contraction as supported by statistical evidence is ignored, or he was totally unaware of the data (See Dr. Julian Simon, Bjorn Lomborg, Peter Diamandis, Matt Ridley, Keven Kelly, Hans Rosling et al.-NB. The "Cornucopian’s" actually proved the visionary surmise of Marx & Engels against Malthus.) This makes the good professor a Techno-Malthusian, a real contradiction in terms.Another place where he is parroting the Georgia Guidestones is his belief that a new language must be invented that is more succinct and direct then conversational language. Technocrats of the world unite! Esperanto was the new langue of choice and it never went anywhere except among a very small portion of "nerds." Language is evolutionary, just like technology, science and the economy. Technocrats are anti-evolution and love top-down command and control.The unconscious bias of all technocrats driven by ideology is that the world can be made perfect if only… (any and all evidence against their grandiose vision of paradise is a sign of being reactionary and uninformed- not one of the elite).So while I applaud the Star Trekkian outlook, it is unfortunalty based in Utopian Socialist economic fantasies long ago refuted by both history, statistical evidence, valid economics and complexity theory.  Though I'd like to keep his futuristic vision it is impossible to do so as its foundation is so flawed both economically and technologically that one is unable to do so.

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    My single most-recommending book
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2016*

Every human needs to understand this information. A resource-based economy is truly the only intelligent path forward. But be warned: understanding this information will lead to a degree of frustration that is unending as you go through your day-to-day life with an increased sensitivity to inefficiency, planned obsolescence, deceptive advertising, and a completely ignorant public.On a brighter note, I visited Jacques Fresco this past summer. He's 100 years old, but he is still capable of answering questions and dropping knowledge. Just make sure to speak up! And Roxanne Meadows is absolutely incredible!In extensionality...

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    The great book about what may be in the very near future
  

*by B***  on Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2022*

I think Jacque Fresco was not from our planet or that he was sent to us from another planet or galaxy. But all this really hopefuls and I believe in it but it can’t be implemented when our government do things like now, we all need to understand what Jacque wanted to say. All I mean, we are people, it doesn’t depend of what race you or nationality, just people. I really love this book and will recommend to everyone, just touch a world where we can live, without wars, without hunger, all in peace. And I really believe that we can get it, world like that

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