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The Zeitgeist Movement is the activist arm of The Venus Project, which is the lifelong work of Jacque Fresco industrial designer and social engineer. The members of the movement agree with Fresco's ideas that the monetary system has limited the social and technological advancement of humankind and that human behavior is subject to the environment it is positioned into. The movement has no leaders in the original sense, it encourages members to set up their own projects to educate more and more people about Jacque Fresco's proposals of a different society.
The New York Times article on the annual Zeitgeist meeting on 15 March 2009 is a secondary source that proves the validity of the above noted.
The Zeitgeist Movement believes that the most important issue at hand is the intelligent management of the earths resources. They believe this can never be accomplished in a monetary system, because the pursuit of profit is the pursuit of self-interest and therefore imbalance is inherent. Politicians are useless, in their opinion, because the problems in life are technical and not political. They see politicians as constantly talking about protection and security and not about creation, unity & progress. They believe their proposed re-design will be free of old superstitions, incarceration, prisons, police, cruelty, and the law. All laws will disappear and the professions that are no longer valid such as stockbrokers, bankers and advertising will be gone forever, because it is no longer relevant. The questions usually raised by politicians is 'How much will a project cost?', when the question should be 'Do we have the resources?', and they believe we do. They believe that money will not be needed because the effective management of the earths resources are enough to house everyone, to build hospitals all over the world, build schools all over the world, the finest equipment in labs, etc. They believe the monetary system thrives on profit, and the rarity of a resource whether real, imaginary, or created will drive the price higher. If diamonds were growing on the walls of your house, would you pay thousands for one? Likewise with oil, if it ran as freely as water, would you pay extortionate prices for it? The scarcity of a commodity means the price can be put up - increasing profits.