“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is irrelevant and counter-productive to our survival.”

— Jacque Fresco

Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 158.

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American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916–2017

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