Rage Against The Money Machine
To better understand a resource-based economy consider this: if all the money in the world suddenly disappeared, but topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we chose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need, but access to the necessities of life without having to appeal to a government bureaucracy or any other agency. In a resource-based economy money is irrelevant. What’s required are the resources, manufacturing and distribution of the products.
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