Name: 2013年 "時代精神日"。仁懷丁｜"從大逃亡到改善現實"[第3部分，共11篇] 。 (Zeitgeist Day 2013: Jen Wilding | "From the Great Escape to an Improved Reality" [Part 3 of 11])
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This year’s ZDay Main Event is taking place

'The Entertainment Capital of the world': Los Angeles, California.

The entertainment industry generates billions of dollars in revenue each year

from the production and release of television,

books, and video games for public consumption.

Revenue in the industry increased by 15% from the year 2000 to 2008,

and the overall entertainment industry grew at least 50% in a recent decade.

There is no question that, just as we discovered in the 1930s,

even in a recession or depression economy

people will happily spend a portion of their hard-earned, limited income

Millions of people worldwide are pouring money into an industry

that allows them the freedom to escape from their everyday life

and that’s even before you consider the antidepressant revenue

or the underground illegal market of self-medicating substances.

There is a very human need represented in these statistics:

the need and/or great desire to psychologically escape.

I started off my college education training for a career in the entertainment industry

but shortly after making my start into that world,

I had an epiphany that caused me to shift course a bit.

The epiphany I had came in the form of these questions:

What if instead of creating the perfect escape, we created a better reality?

Have we forgotten what we are escaping from

and that we have the ability to improve upon it?

What if we consciously shaped our society to be healthier and more enjoyable?

here I am advocating a Resource-Based Economic Model.

'Moving from the Great Escape to an Improved Reality'

and I want to begin by posing this question to you, members of the audience...

(if we can... up the house lights just a tad for this one... thank you)

Take a quick moment to reflect on your own circumstance

and consider what applies to you, personally

pick just one of those for a quick exercise.

(one of those things you enjoy escaping from)

similar to evaluating personal relationships

within a 'six degrees of separation' framework,

I’d like you to consider just how many 'degrees'

that problem you are thinking of, is from money:

either having money, needing money, or managing money,

a ‘degree’ being a relationship connection.

Now, raise your hand if money is three degrees or less

Keep your hands up only if it is two degrees or less from your problem.

Keep your hands up only if it is one degree away

or if money itself was part of what you were thinking of.

You may notice that, just as in the well-known parlor game called

when it comes to issues we’d like to escape from

money may be perceived as our 'Kevin Bacon'

...which may give a whole new meaning to the phrase:

This is not at all to suggest that money is “evil”

but rather to have you entertain the idea that money is a tool

used in our current exchange economy whose detriment

both in work/reward scenarios and in a greater social context

when compared to what we can technically accomplish

using modern advancements in science and technology.

money is considered a valuable commodity in and of itself,

in a market system where greater value is placed on scarce resources.

we can technically feed, clothe, and shelter every person on the planet Earth

Ways to meet those particular human needs

are not a mystery to humankind in the technical sense,

only in the monetary-economic sense of resource acquisition.

Now, you may have noticed that when I asked you about

I didn’t just ask if needing money was related to your problem.

I also asked if having or managing money was related to your problem.

And some of you may be wondering: when is having money a problem?

especially when money can be used to purchase goods and services,

Some people have even affectionately referred to money as “survival tickets”

So what can be problematic about having so many “survival tickets”?

This would be a great problem to have, no?

Let me start by recounting two quick stories.

I used to work for multimillion dollar investment bankers several years ago

a financially-advantaged celebrity confided in me a secret.

He was looking particularly depressed and I asked him if he was feeling okay

“Some people think my life is so easy, and in some ways it is,

but when it comes to relationships my life is especially difficult.

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2013年 "時代精神日"。仁懷丁｜"從大逃亡到改善現實"[第3部分，共11篇] 。 (Zeitgeist Day 2013: Jen Wilding | "From the Great Escape to an Improved Reality" [Part 3 of 11])

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