I need to be motivated by profit to survive in a monetary system. I'm motivated into monotonous labor that is similar to slavery in many ways.
Actually, you know what? Let me guess:
You're relatively young, relatively unskilled, relatively uneducated, and relatively inexperienced. You may also be either relatively untalented, or else have stumbled into a job which doesn't make use of whatever your talents are.
So you look around, and you see a lot of people who are profiting from their skills, their education, their experience, and their talents. All of which are things that take lots of effort and lots of time to develop. Effort which you have not yet made, and time which you have not yet spent. And based on the effort and time put into these things, they are highly valued, and rightly so. They are valued by the people who have them. And they are valued by the people that benefit from their application.
You, having very little of these things, find that your application of them is not very highly valued. This is, I think as it should be.
But you disagree. You think there's a problem, and you think you have the perfect solution:
Other people--people who
have invested the time and effort to develop these things--will build for you a Better Tomorrow. A Tomorrow where you will be greatly rewarded regardless of how skilful, how educated, how experienced, or how talented you are.
You don't want to put in the long, painful hours of training your mind or body to master a task or idea? No problem--other people will do it for you.
You don't want to put in the long, painful hours to learn a complex subject or master a difficult field of inquiry? No problem--other people will do it for you.
You don't want to wait for years and years for your experiences to build up, and your wisdom and insight to grow with them? No problem--other people's experience will serve you just as well.
You don't have a talent anybody else wants to reward you for? No problem--they'll go ahead and reward you anyway. In fact, all along the way, you'll reap the rich rewards of other people's work, other people's experience, other people's talent. All without ever having to develop any of your own.
And in order to escape the obvious, sickening unfairness of such a system, The Venus Project handwaves in a bunch of magical robots and computers that will do all the work for you, so you don't even have to worry about leeching off the efforts of others...
... Except, of course, that you still do: Who will design and build the computers?
Other people, not you. Who will maintain and repair the robots?
Other people, not you. Oh, I know, it's actually going to be robots all the way down. And until that day, who will keep moving things forward?
Other people, not you.
Meanwhile, here in the real world,
other people, not you, are hard at work, developing our skills, educating ourselves, gaining experience, and exercising our natural talents. We're busy designing computers, and building robots, and developing more efficient processes, and ten thousand other clever and innovative things, because we
all want a Better Tomorrow for ourselves.
That's all "profit" is to any of us: A Better Tomorrow. A Tomorrow where our hard work pays off. A Tomorrow where we can spend more time with our families. A Tomorrow with less pollution in it. A Tomorrow with an ocean-going yacht, or a trip to the ISS, or a jumbo-sized popcorn and a summer blockbuster movie, or an Alpine skiing trip, or an Olympic gold medal, or any one of the ten thousand things that actually motivate us, beyond mere survival.
And the thing is, we're all putting in the work ourselves, because we know that
other people aren't going to do it for us. Nor should they.
If the people running TVP are willing to do all that for you, while you do nothing, more fool them, and good luck to you. And if you think the problem's going to be solved by magical robots and computers, I can promise you one thing for sure: We real-world types will develop those computers and robots long before TVP ever does.
Why wait for TVP to "raise awareness" and "make a movie", and build a "theme park"? You don't need any of that. All you need is a degree from MIT, and you'll be well on your way to making your own Better Tomorrow.
How many times has the government’s elected officials acted against the constitution and what does that mean for the Constitution?
Oh how I lol'd
