Wiser, Never Wise. Smarter, Never Smart.

During The Thousands Of Years Of Monetary System, Most Workers Have Been Paid Just Enough To Make It Necessary That They Return To Work, Even When Higher Wages Have Been Possible. How Else Can The Wage-payer Keep The Workers Coming Back?

A Resource-based Economy Is In The Application Of The Methods Of Science With Human Concern And Environmental Concern. If We Used The Scientific Method Throughout The World, The Probability Of War Drops To Zero. The Probability Of Human Suffering Disappears. Deprivation, Poverty, Crime - All Those Things Tend To Disappear Because There's No Basis. I'm Strictly Concerned With The Environment That People Are Raised In And If That Environment Is Altered, So Will Behaviors Be Altered.

If Orange Trees Grew All Over The Country, You Couldn't Sell Oranges. Do You Understand That? So, All Our Decision Making Is Based Upon Scarcity Or The Availability Of Resources. If We Have A Shortage Of Any Kind Of Resource, We Put All The Labs To Work On Making Substitute Materials. People Always Worry About 'what If We Run Out Of A Certain Material?', But We Have Enough Technology Today To Make Thousands Of Different Substitutes.

Living Through The 1929 Great Depression Helped Shape My Social Conscience. During This Time, I Realized The Earth Was Still The Same Place, Manufacturing Plants Were Still Intact, And Resources Were Still There, But People Didn’t Have Money To Buy The Products. I Felt The Rules Of The Game We Play By Were Outmoded And Damaging. This Began A Life-long Quest Resulting In The Conclusions And Designs Presented In The Venus Project.

You Can Either Have One Guy Lifting A Billion Pounds By Himself, And It Takes Many Years Of Planning And Preparation - Or You Can Have A Billion People, Each Lifting One Pound, And It Takes A Mere Moment. This Is The Power Of Unity.