had about several hundred million dollars

有大約幾億美元的資產

in assets. But they went on, and they printed more money

但他們繼續不斷印更多的錢

than they had things to back it up, or gold.

而沒有足夠的等價物或黃金來支持的話

Then that money has no value. If a little island, say like

那麼那些錢就沒價值 如果有座小島 比如說

St. Croix printed lots of money and just came to the US

聖克洛伊島島民印了許多錢 就來到美國

trying to buy things (they ran their printing presses night and day)

想買東西(他們的印鈔機晝夜不停地運轉)

the money is not backed, that's why it doesn't have anything.

這些錢沒有等值物支持 這就是這座島依然一無所有的原因

Your whole banking system's utterly corrupt.

你的整個銀行體系是完全腐敗的

Your lending institutions have loused up the system.

你的借貸機構把整個系統搞砸了

But there's nobody out there telling you what's wrong with it.

但卻沒人告訴你哪裡有問題

So it looks okay to you.

所以你覺得沒事

The national debt has grown too large

國債已增長大到

for the National Debt Clock.

國債鐘無法負荷的程度

Failed systems

失敗的體系

None of the world's economic systems have eliminated our most dire problems.

世界上沒有任何經濟系統解決了我們最嚴峻的問題

All social arrangements to date have remained plagued with war

所有的社會形式至今仍忍受著戰爭

poverty, crime, racism, elitism and most of all:

貧窮 犯罪 種族主義 菁英主義的折磨 而最嚴重的是:

scarcity.

匱乏

There's no way of making this system just.

沒有辦法讓現有的體系變公道

We have to make a system that assures human rights.

我們必須建立一個能夠保障人權的體系

When everybody has free access to goods and services

當每個人能自由 不受限制地取得物品和服務時

you don't have to fight for women's rights or black rights;

你就不需為了女權或黑人權利抗爭

it's automatic in a society that's set up that way.

因為在這種方式下建立的社會 這些都是自然而然的

Today we have highly advanced technologies, but our social

今天我們有高度發達的科技 但我們的社會

and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities

和經濟系統並未與我們的科技能力相匹配

which could otherwise easily create a world of abundance for all people

否則科技能輕而易舉 為所有人創造一個富足的世界

free of servitude and debt.

免於奴役和債務

This system will keep installing more and more automation

現有體系將不斷採用更多自動化裝置

cutting down on the purchasing power of the majority of people.

降低大部份人的購買力

It's not China or India taking our jobs away

不是中國或印度搶走我們的工作

the machine has beaten the man.

而是機械已擊垮了人類

There will come a time called the gaussian curve

被稱為高斯曲線的那種時刻將會到來

where employment is that, production is this

那時就業率是這樣 但生產力卻上升

and purchasing power is that. The system stops.

然後購買力下降 系統停止運行

A social alternative

一個社會新選擇

Our problems and their solutions are technical, not political.

我們的問題和解決方案是技術性的 非政治性的

Most problems can be solved when technology and the methods of science

當科技和科學方法 以人和環境為考量

are used with human and environmental concern to serve all people

而服務所有的人 則大部份的問題可以被解決

rather than a select few.

而不只是少數選定的菁英

It'll all be based on a form of dynamic equilibrium.

一切都建立在一種動態平衡的基礎之上

That means operating everything at the highest potential

這意味著發揮最大的潛能來運作一切

without environmental neglect.

而沒有對環境問題的忽視

When we unleash science and technology directly into the social system

當我們解放科學和科技 使其直接服務於社會體系

without the restrictions of the marketplace, finances

而沒有市場 金融

or patents, we could achieve a very high standard of living

或專利的限制時 我們就可以在很短時間內

within a very short period of time.

達到一個非常高水準的生活

We have the brains, the know-how, the technology and the feasibility

我們有頭腦 知識 技術和可行性

to build an entirely new civilization.

來建立一個全新的文明

Paradise or Oblivion

樂園或湮滅

Available free online - March 2012 www.thevenusproject.com

2012年3月網路上可免費觀賞 www.thevenusproject.com