Money Quotes by Jacque Fresco

13 Money quotes by Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco’s 13 brief insights on money sketch his forward‑looking ideas about how resources could be organized. The quotes hint at his vision of a more equitable, design‑driven economy.

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It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

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The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...

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Youre a rich man, why arent you smart?

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It's hard to be decent in a money world. We want to shut down all repetitious jobs, automate it, free people.

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“I was asked once, 'you're a smart man,why aren't you rich?' I replied, 'you're a rich man, why aren't you smart?”

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When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because…

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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no…

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We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the…

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Money is only important in a society when certain resources for survival must be rationed and the people accept money as an…

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Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to…

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What will drive people if they don't have money or reward? The reward is the end of war, the end of poverty,…

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In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all…

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Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell…

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

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When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

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We will never know what anyone is really like, until everyone has economic security and doesn't have to answer to anyone else.

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As long as there are prisons, police, armies, navies; we are not civilized. When the Earth joins together and uses the Earth intelligently, that…

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Perhaps the most significant thing a person can know about himself is to understand his own system of values. Almost every thing we do…

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Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

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Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech…

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Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

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We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must…

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There are no negro problems, or Polish problems, or Jewish problems, or Greek problems, or women's problems, there are HUMAN PROBLEMS”.

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If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land,…

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As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger.

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Lack of education turns soldiers into killing machines.

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Learning to be flexible in values takes a very long time...Of course I felt a little uncomfortable during questioning the concept of God, but…

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We are approaching a time when human intelligence alone will be incapable of managing a highly advanced society. Existing technologies are rapidly exceeding the…

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