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Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going (Lectures)

Mr. Joseph had been lecturing on the unsustainable nature of the money-based economy – on cyclical consumption, planned obsolescence, corporate malfeasance and piles of poisonous waste. It’s time that we wake up, he intoned, speaking solemnly through a wireless clip-on mike. The doomsday scenario, the big contraction, might be happening right now. The system of monetary exchange is – in the face of advancing technology – completely obsolete.