Resource-Based Economic Model

In short...

A Resource-Based Economy (RBE) can be defined as the Scientific Method applied to human concern.

History

Jacque Fresco began using the term Resource-Based Economy, claiming also having originated it, as a name for a socio-economic system he devised and developed as part of his research for The Venus Project.

Development of the concept

Jaque Fresco has mentioned in a number of opportunities that his work is based on the work of a multitude of thinkers, including works by Buckminster Fuller from the [Buckminster Fuller Institute]

Jacque Fresco communicated general ideas about his idea of a RBE throughout many years, expressing them to visitors showing up at his Research Centre in Venus, Florida, and on a number of interviews in shows like Larry King.

Jacque Fresco, his idea of a Resource-Based Economy and the Circular City became more accessible to the public through a documentary film by the documentarist William Gazecki in 2006.

The concept was massively popularised through the films Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist Moving Forward by The Zeitgeist Movement founder Peter Joseph, in which the concept was explained in much greater detail. As a result of differences in Peter Joseph's situated knowledge differences with Fresco's, the films included elements that were not fully aligned with TVP's mentality and objectives, causing their movements to dissociate in April 2011.

As a result of the popularity of the concepts through the various agents that popularised the idea, many movements took elements and understandings of the orignal concept and created a variety of similar notions, mostly maintaining the original name Resource-Based Economy, or similar names like Resource-Based Economic Model (RBEM).

Different idiosyncrasies about notions of Resource-Based Economy

There doesn't seem to be a concerted understanding or description of a Resource-Based Economy. It is the main objective of this Wiki to provide a space for such concerted description, even one that includes the various notions or understandings between or even within advocates of the general notions of a RBE.

Although, according to The Zeitgeist Movement's website, The Venus Project sought Copyright for the term "Resource-Based Economy" (and hence also its definition) in 2010, at the time of this writing a search for the term in the US Copyright query database renders no matches. Despite this, out of respect for the origins of the term, The Zeitgeist Movement prefers to refer to it as Resource-Based Economic Model, or RBEM.

Given the The RBE10K Project's involvement in the development of this website is quite significant as it uses it as its main resource for a knowledge-base, there may be biases in some of the understandings about a Resource-Based Economy. In order to alleviate the possibility of bias, it is very important that people from a variety of movements and projects participate actively of the compilation of relevant information about this central topic.

Fundamental values

1. Sustainability
2. The Earth and all of its resources are considered the common heritage of all of the world's people
3. Authority can be given, but only at the personal level, and never taken, imposed, or delegated
4. An assumption of shared responsibility for having all the world's people's needs met
5. Agreement that society as a whole is causal and responsible for any aberrant behaviour an any individual
6. A preference for a supportive rather than punitive attitude towards those who manifest aberrant behaviours
7. A preference for access rather than property
8. A reliance on abundant resources only
9. A reliance on automation for current processes that can be automated