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" Apparently what is meant by a “resource-based economy” in the film is not a medium of exchange based on a commodity of intrinsic value. It means a system in which no currency exists at all, in which technology produces such abundance that everything is free and everything man-made is 100% environmentally friendly because scientific calculation makes all economic decisions.(...)He imagines cities as circular wonderlands of science and technology where all labor is replaced by automated robotics. All demand is calculated based on surveys that people fill out describing their needs. You would basically vote for everything you wanted from essential food and shelter, to recreation and relaxation." -http://www.examiner.com/muslim-in-san-francisco/review-zeitgeist-moving-forward-review
Oh god it gets worse. "To do away with currency completely you must of course do away ownership itself, otherwise people would barter, and an accepted medium of exchange would naturally develop in the market. He embraces this completely saying that exclusive ownership of property would be replaced with communal “access” to property."
you're taking zeitgeist seriously. i don't think he's the retard here. you're into gay internet lingo, right? well let me put zeitgeist into terms you can understand... they're trolling you.
says the kid who thinks he's a econ expert after watching a youtube video...
do you know how foolish you look? they made this to make money off gullible jack-offs like yourself. you believe everything you see online, or is it only the most absurd bullshit?
have you even watched zeitgeist one or two? im guessing not, because you just sound like every other ignorant idiot who has jumped on the 'lets hate on zeitgeist because apparently they exaggerated a few facts in their movies' bandwagon. everyone whos hating in this thread, i know hate comments on the internet make you feel good, but i am 99% sure none of you have watched this recent movie. so before you jump to conclusions, actually watch the fucking thing. this way you wont come off as angry retards, but actually someone i can take seriously, unlike right now. but hey, at least you guys are giving me something to laugh at
they may be crazy, but not morons. think of it, they create something that looks legit and sounds legit and they just filled it up with a bunch of rhetoric, opinions and false facts but to the common simple person out there, it looks REVOLUTIONARY! they think they were just exposed to the truth of this evil country and the evil people running it and our doom at their hands so of course they're going to spread it, re-watch it, debate with people that know what they're talking about but here's the kick... those people have to watch it themselves to know what the fuck the simple person is talking about. in the end the idiots of the world will ignore what they learned because the government is evil and they will continue to spread the video. the more views = money. basically they created a visual form of herpes that makes them dough.
do you realize that everyone who believes zeitgeist says the same exact thing you just did? now did it ever occur to you that we have watched these videos and that's the reason why we know they're a steaming pile of crap? maybe you should take your own advice and go get educated through other sources than a youtube video. you're not smart, you're a very close-minded, gullible cow that just fed into something that makes fox news look logical.
no, it's a boring as hell qualitative analysis of the "system".
I just watched it and they fail to quantify any of their claims and on top of that it wasn't even entertaining.
What bugged me the most was the fact they completely over looked the concept of dedication. After all the talk about environmental stimuli they completely ignored one of the most important results of said stimulus, which is dedication.