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Money is just an interference between what one needs and what one is able to get. It is not money that people need, it is access to resources.

— Jacque Fresco Designing the Future (2007)

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002)

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002)

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to human potential.

Designing the Future (2007)

People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002)

Yet at every turn, vested interests (those who have the most to gain in keeping things the way they are) oppose even technological changes... And so it goes.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

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