Economics

The Labour Movement: Breaking an Old Paradigm

Submitted by TZM global, Published on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 14:07

“The synergetic aspect of industry’s doing ever more work with ever less investment of time and energy per each unit of performance...has never been formally accounted as a capital gain of land-situated society. The synergistic effectiveness of a world-around integrated industrial process is inherently vastly greater than the confined synergistic effect of sovereignly operating separate systems. Ergo, only complete world desovereignization can permit the realization of an all humanity high standard support.”
-R. Buckminster Fuller

The Zombie as Barometer of Capitalist Anxiety

Submitted by D.T. Robb, Published on Fri, 02/08/2013 - 16:51

The modern incarnation of the zombie, as seen strewn across pop culture horror novels and films in ever-increasing numbers, is easily recognized and radically different from its historical roots; any member of our modern Western culture can spot the gray, often rotting flesh, the black eyes, the dishevelled appearance, the shuffling gait, the wretched moaning, and, of course, the bloody mouths flecked with fresh flesh and detritus.

Planned Obsolescence for the Monetary System: The 4-Hour Workday

Submitted by Alex Hartley, Published on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 17:32

www.4hourworkday.org

Buckminster Fuller once said: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Let's make that happen then. Let's make this current Monetary System obsolete by establishing the 4-Hour Workday worldwide and lead the path into a new model, a Resource Based Economy.

The Root of All Evil?

Submitted by Godi Gutierrez, Published on Thu, 01/17/2013 - 02:22

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Toward the end of the '70s and early '80s I began to be preoccupied with the problem of justice and injustice. I began to realize that there could be no justice in this world with the working people being exploited. They were getting meager earnings while their exploiters were enjoying the benefits of their hard labor.

Mark Boyle at TZM Interviews

Submitted by TZM global, Published on Tue, 12/11/2012 - 19:23

Mark Boyle, AKA The Moneyless Man, (born 8 May 1979) is a writer and activist best known for founding the online Freeconomy Community, and for living without money since November 2008. Boyle writes regularly for the Freeconomy Blog and British newspaper The Guardian. His first book, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living, was published in 2010. He recently published ‘The Moneyless Manifesto’ where he does not only demystify money and the system that binds us to it, he also explains how liberating, easy and enjoyable it is to live with less of it.

From Basic Income to Resource Based Economy

Submitted by Lukáš Fireš, Published on Sun, 10/21/2012 - 23:03

It has been a while since I saw this video for the first time and since then, I keep thinking about all the implications of such a simple solution. I have examined our banking system, our taxes, some reform proposals, local exchange trading systems (LETS – e.g. RiverHOURS or Fourth Corner Exchange) and came to a conclusion that the real problem is in income-distribution and money-flow.

Economy of Degradation

Submitted by Sean Hurley, Published on Sat, 10/20/2012 - 02:29

Anti-economy vs environment Economic inequality, diminishing global resources, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss the list of global societal issues is extensive, and while there are both corporations and individual

The Never-Ending Battle for Truth, Justice and A Natural-Law Economy

Submitted by Gary Kent, Published on Mon, 09/24/2012 - 15:35

Money is a toxic waste to which our entire global civilization is deeply addicted. Money pollutes our relationships, our values, our institutions and our lives. The root cause of most of the major problems facing modern humanity is our monetary addiction. Money is the most addictive substance on the planet and the most deadly. Every person who uses money is addicted. Money enables all other addictions. Recently, Peter Joseph stated in an interview for his new series "Culture in Decline" that there are two major laws governing our monetary system.

Basic Income - An immediate step in the transition

Submitted by Dario WurmD, Published on Sun, 09/23/2012 - 16:06

I just saw this documentary, suggested by Lukáš Fireš, and it brought tears to my eyes :'), because here is something implementable now, that reduces the focus on profit in this system, and empowers individuals, indirectly reducing competition and stimulating cooperation.
A great immediate step for the transition.

Beyond Money: Notes on Neoliberalism and its Alternative

Submitted by D.T. Robb, Published on Mon, 08/27/2012 - 17:57

In our modern world of reality television, smartphones, and Wal-Mart, it is easy for one to forget that there is a network of influences and power structures that direct the course of our daily lives as individuals and as a society.