{"id":31010,"date":"2016-10-13T14:47:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T21:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/eliminating-money-taxes-and-ownership-will-bring-forth-technoutopia"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:35","slug":"eliminating-money-taxes-and-ownership-will-bring-forth-technoutopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/eliminating-money-taxes-and-ownership-will-bring-forth-technoutopia","title":{"rendered":"Eliminating Money, Taxes, and Ownership Will Bring Forth Technoutopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My new story for Vice Motherboard on The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco, and a Resource Based Economy. I had the honor of visiting 100 year old Jacque Fresco last week. This story is also on the cover of Vice right now: http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/eliminating-money-taxes-and\u2026chnoutopia<\/a> #transhumanism #Election2016 #ScienceCandidate #ResourceBasedEconomy #JacqueFresco #VenusProject<\/p>\n

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Futurist and architect Jacque Fresco speaks in parables. If he goes on too long with a story, his 40-year partner Roxanne Meadows interjects facts to keep him on track. Fresco recently turned 100 years old, and is the oldest celebrity futurist in the world. His magnum opus is The Venus Project<\/a>, a 21-acre Central Florida Eden with white dome-shaped buildings that Meadows and he hand built over three and a half decades. The sanctuary and research center is where Fresco still leads weekly seminars, which includes a tour of 10 buildings\u2014some filled with hundreds of future city models inside them\u2014that highlight the promise of a future world where equality and technology abound.<\/p>\n

How I met Fresco at The Venus Project this month starts with income taxes <\/a>\u2014something I hate and aim to one day eliminate altogether for humanity. Fresco doesn\u2019t like taxes either. While searching online about taxes, I stumbled upon Fresco\u2019s voluminous work: over 80 years of essays, filmed lectures, books, documentaries, models, and architectural drawings. Much of Fresco\u2019s work is anchored by his main philosophical idea: a resource-based economy<\/a>, where there\u2019s not only zero taxes, but no ownership or money either.<\/p>\n

It sounds fanciful, but the more I read about Fresco\u2019s work and ideas, the more intrigued I became. Here was a man with a vision, one not dissimilar from my own. The timing of my meeting with Fresco and Meadows was serendipitous. As I neared the end of my US presidential campaign, I was looking to build out the Transhumanist Party\u2019s 20-point platform<\/a> with a more aggressive futurist platform\u2014one that looked not only 10\u201320 years into the future, as I generally focus on, but one that also examines what could and should happen in 50 years or even the next century.<\/p>\n

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My new story for Vice Motherboard on The Venus Project, Jacque Fresco, and a Resource Based Economy. I had the honor of visiting 100 year old Jacque Fresco last week. This story is also on the cover of Vice right now: http:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/read\/eliminating-money-taxes-and\u2026chnoutopia #transhumanism #Election2016 #ScienceCandidate #ResourceBasedEconomy #JacqueFresco #VenusProject Futurist and architect Jacque Fresco speaks in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66012,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31010\/revisions\/66012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}