This document discusses the conflict between sustainability and profit motive. It argues that profit motive is inherently unsustainable as it relies on exploitation and perpetuates disparity. Nature achieves balance through interdependence, not profit. However, human society operates on profit motive through our monetary system. This centralizes power, causes issues like pollution, poverty and war. A resource-based economy without money or private property is proposed as an alternative system for a truly sustainable society.

1. An Insight IntoAn Insight Into
Sustainability V/s. Profit MotiveSustainability V/s. Profit Motive

2. What is it that we all have in common
regardless of gender, nationality, color, creed,
caste or social status?

3. The one thing we all share…The one thing we all share…

4. We all have needs.

5. Our
NEEDS

6. And when we have needs, it points to….???

7. SURVIVAL!SURVIVAL!

8. If we look closely, we human beings have
two aspects to our survival challenge or to
say two types of needs.

9. Physical Survival
The Body

10. Psychological Survival
The Identify of Self
(Self-Importance)

11. So survival is focal point of our life.

12. When
SURVIVAL
is at
STAKE

13. Now, when survival is central to our life, what
we would do if this survival is at stake?

14. If a pack of hungry wolves is chasing you…
If you are going bankrupt…
If your family is dying…
Few examples of threat on survival

15. What would one do?
Obviously, try to take control of the situation!
Isn’t?

16. So You
TRY to
Take
CONTROL!

17. SURVIVAL CALLS FOR CONTROL!

18. So for survival what is that we need most?
Food, Oxygen, Water, Growth, Love, Peace,
Money etc?
Whatever our physical need might be; we need
money to fulfill it.

19. Money can buy our needs,
it keep our survival safe!

20. When money can buy our needs, it helps keep
our survival safe!

21. MONEY = CONTROL = SECURITY

22. This is what we understand and apply in our life.
This is our unwritten formula for survival!
Earning money becomes sustainable for a
person only when there is……

23. PROFIT

24. PROFIT
PROFIT means gain - benefit – advantage

25. Profit means
Profit = the margin between the amount earned
and the amount spent in buying, operating,
or producing something.

26. Profit Counter Productive to Human
Survival at long run
Let us see what PROFIT really means in our
society and How PROFIT is counter
productive to Sustainability.

27. We Human Beings
adopt our methods of living from nature, be it
relationships, work, creativity or any other
aspect of life…

28. Man Imitates Nature

29. So, when it comes to PROFIT we assume that we
must have adopted it somewhere from
NATURE itself.

30. However, MAN has disconnected from NATURE
in its course of growth & intellectual
evolution…

31. So called intellectual Evolution

32. And that is why the methods we adopted
from nature are also NO more perfect and in
synergy with NATURE.

33. So, if we want to understand the imperfection
and consequent dangers of PROFIT we must
understand
PROFIT in NATURE

34. Profit In Nature

35. In Nature the PROFIT exists without disparity
and imbalance.
It is an exchange based on needs and not other
motives and thus PROFIT in nature is
equalized making it Sustainable.

36. It is an exchange based on needs and not other motivesIt is an exchange based on needs and not other motives
and thus PROFIT in nature is equalized making itand thus PROFIT in nature is equalized making it
Sustainable and it does not exist on loss of others.Sustainable and it does not exist on loss of others.

37. Let’s see some examples…
• In nature lion is profiting out of killing a deer but its
profiting on deer is not based on greed or insecurity of
future or its need for self-importance as in humans. The
Lion only kills when hungry and only eats as much is
required for it to survive.
• A lion and deer require each other and are interdependent.
• If deer population exceeds they will over eat the grass and
plants and thus the whole species will starve and become
extinct but the lion keeps deer population in control thus
making deer, lion and green population sustainable.

38. What made Profit Dangerous for us then?What made Profit Dangerous for us then?

39. • Why and how Profit became dangerous, and
where do we stand today?
• What can be done to make our society a
sustainable model in harmony with ecology?

40. If observed carefully our perils started after

42. We have
destroyed
The ecology in
less than a
century

43. Science & Technology is not in support with
ecology and our way of profiting and so called
growth is counter productive to the self-
interest of all humans at a long run.

44. If we don’t change our society, we willIf we don’t change our society, we will
destroy ourselves & other life forms.destroy ourselves & other life forms.

45. If this system continues without any reform, it will
take humanity to the road of extinction while
destroying other forms of life.
We keep shouting: "Save the earth, save the
earth!"
Well, it did not give damn to anyone yet.
Save yourselves, people or it will shake you off
from the space ride in a blow!!!

46. When profiting is priority; ecology is ignored

47. Profiting & Disparity Exist Together

48. What is the way out?
Elimination of an economic model which
perpetuates disparity in distribution through
manipulation of complex monetary game
focusing on short term profiting goals and
good life for few while offering struggle and
low quality of life for many ignoring long term
benefits of the entire human race.

49. We need to create a better model for our society which is not based on
profit motive; cares for universal abundance and sustainability.

50. We need to create a model of production and
distribution which can run without unfair
monetary system creating disparity.

51. We need to adopt positive science in
harmony with ecology & nature.

52. Change Economic System for
betterment of humans and ecology

53. • Now change in our PROFIT based ECONOMIC
System is necessary for
Sustainability of our Eco-System
• If, reforms have to be done…
We need to first understand the
Game of PROFIT very well.

55. SURVIVAL CALLS FOR CONTROL…
and to control we need to profit
More Profit means More Control

56. To have Control Over Resources & Social
Systems to gain Power we created a
system where one can PROFIT.

57. • To control resources we require power
And POWER comes only when you can PROFIT
from the others.
• Thus this need for power gives rise to profit motive
by all means; profit in resources and profit in
relationships as well.
• And this PROFIT is again one sided creating benefit
for one and loss for other.
• The balance in exchange is lost and exploitation
becomes the byproduct. The richer becomes richer
and the poor poorer.

58. “No man can profit except by the loss of others and by this reasoning
all manner of profit must be condemned.”
Quote by --Michel Dey Montaigne
15th century French Philosopher & Essayist

59. When Profit comes through an exchange of a resource
while one party befitting out of other's loss.
1. If the number of people fall in debt increases,
IT IS PROFITABLE FOR BANKS.
2. If the number of patients increases,
IT IS PROFITABLE FOR MEDICAL COMPANIES AND
DOCTORS.
4. If there are competing students,
IT'S PROFITABLE FOR A TUTOR.
5. If hundreds of people die every day,
THE COFFIN MAKERS WILL BE HAPPY.

60. Our economic system is based on
Competition for Survival.

61. Competition – The Method for Profiting
• We have to use the method of competition for
having more profit. Thus this competition breeds
many ill things in our society.
• COMPETITION IN LONG RUN IS NOT SUSTAINABLE!
One must read the book: “No Contest” The Case
Against Competition by Alfie Kohn to understand
this, you may also find his talk on Youtube.

63. Goods such as foods are sometimes destroyed
to keep prices up; when things are scarce prices
increase.

64. Competition is based on FEAR
And FEAR initiates the SURVIVAL Game
we saw before…
And where Competition enters, ISOLATION and
MANIPULATION also start playing.

65. We forget human ways of dealing with people and
take ruthless ways to win this competition.

66. Competition in long run is not sustainable for
humanity when we already have enough for all.

67. Thus the System of PROFIT being based on COMPETITION is
also operated through manipulation of people and things and
brings isolation in human relationship.
There is tremendous corruption, greed, crime, embezzlement,
and more caused by the need for money.

68. Profit Motive and Its Disadvantages
The impact of profit motive on society is that it
feeds the fear based survival instinct in individuals
and in turn they replicate the entire process of
profit motive and thus it is multiplied in social
structure.

69. PROFIT MOTIVE
has become the
very DNA of our
human
civilization and
our entire society
runs on this DNA
of FEAR!

70. We are conditioned to think that..
“To survive, I have to sell.”
“To survive, I have to profit.”
Sell whatever possible; services or
products.....
And how does this system of profit work in
our society?

71. Through MONEY

72. The profit motive is sustained easily by our
economic model based on exchange of
resources through money.

74. MONEY
Creates Disparity
Centralizes Power
Brings Social Vices
Perpetuates Slavery
Feeds Manipulation
Feeds Consumerism
Controls Resources
95% Crimes are money or property related

75. Drawbacks of Monetary System
• Power gets easily centralized through money.
• Money can be preserved against resources and hence can
be gathered thus making one single individual powerful
who can exploit others.
• Money losses its buying capacity every year thus you
require to earn more and more while living under survival
threat.
• Resource are controlled and distributed through money
and hence only people with buying power have benefits of
quality products and services

76. • Lack of ability to compete and perform ends up with less
money or poverty.
• Disparity is perpetuated through monetary system.
• If you know monetary manipulation; you can become rich
without any social contribution
• Social malpractices like prostitution, human trafficking,
dowry thrives on this monetary system
• People can be cheated for money
• 95% of crimes in our society are related to money or private
property.

77. The Money & Private Property
• The other problem of our society is ability to own
things as private property.
• Private property breeds self-importance, gives
a person power and access to control more.
Thus having a private property becomes
necessity for us.
• Money is also hoarded to control more resources
as private property.
• Thus the goal of profiting is to hold such private
wealth.

79. To understand the flaws of monetary system,
we suggest watching movies and reading
books giving detailed explanation of how the
monetary system works to employ isolation,
manipulation and control in our life and how it
has now become a huge problem and what is
the possible solution.

80. Exposing The Monetary System
and Looking at Possible
Solutions
MOVIES
The Zeitgeist Addendum
The Zeitgeist Moving Forward
Paradise or Oblivion

81. Let us now see, how and where this
PROFIT Motive affects us…

83. PROFIT MOTIVE MAKES OUR
Food Adulterated
Health Risked
Art and Entertainment Degraded
Learning Commercialized
Work Stressful
And Relationships Conditional

85. DISPARITY
“Food, Shelter, Education, Health care are our
essential elements of survival and thus they should
be our fundamental rights and thus should be
available to each individual without any disparity
and profit motive However, it is not so today…….”

86. Today all the essential elements are given to
people according to their buying capacity and
not according to their needs.

87. The examples for this can be seen
everywhere
A sportsman starves without proper diet & support
while a rich brat splurges on his whims & fancies
A doctor is paid high salary while a scientist struggles
to sustain his family.
A retail chain opens hundreds of outlets while
hundreds of farmers commit suicide in debt.

88. • The basic goods and services of necessity are
given for a price and the quality is determined
by the size of the payment.
• In reality food, shelter, health care, these
which are our fundamental needs should be
our first fundamental rights followed by the
freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc
but that is not the case today as well.

89. The benefits of technology and science are only distributed to those
with sufficient purchasing power

90. Income inequality in monetary system
"An average medical doctor makes about - $150,000
a year , and the biological research scientists, which
are looking for cures and treatments for diseases
which makes only about $68,000 a year.
You get the point. Income inequality is here. "
- quote from the video 'Social Pathology' lecture by
Peter Joseph founder of a movement for social
change “The Zeitgeist Movement”

91. Now let us see how & where
PROFIT MOTIVE impacts our society

93. PROFIT MOTIVE MAKES OUR
Law Corrupt
Politics Immoral
Education Commercialized
Defense Profitable
Religion Degraded
Trade Ruthless
And then we need CHARITY in the society
to plaster the damages.

94. Most laws are enacted for the benefit of corporations, which have
enough money to lobby, bribe, or persuade government officials to
make laws that serve their interests.

95. Most important, when the corporation's bottom line is profit, decisions in
all areas are made not for the benefit of people and the environment, but
primarily for the acquisition of wealth, property, and power.
Chevron’s Toxic Dumping
In Amazon
Bhopal Gas Tragedy

96. Now let’s see
“Profit Motive in all the cultures and isms”.
• We grew from hunter gatherer’s groups to tribal farming communities
to monarchism, communism, socialism, capitalism and so on…
• The profit motive has always corrupted people and culture in all the
ages but today it has reached its heights in society and has degraded
the whole society while we have become vulnerable to many problems
and dangers in coming short future.
• We have tried every way of living and every social structure…however
we have failed to see the flaws in our system and failed to adopt a
seamless and synchronized structure like Nature.
And that is why we as humanity are at the dead end of our search for
survival today.

97. PROFIT MOTIVE
V/s
SUSTAINABILITY

98. There is tremendous waste of material and strain on available
resources from superficial design changes for newer later fads
each year in order to create continuous markets for
manufacturers.

100. We failed to create a holistic sustainable social
model because Profit motive was always there in
all the structures inherently.

101. • If we look at nature, it seems interdependent and not
profiting on each other but surviving on each other.
• But the human society survives on profit motive and
survives by exploiting each other knowingly or unknowingly
through this monetary system.
• And thus, as long as profit motive is necessary to survive,
we will use such highly exploitative monetary system and
the problems will not only exist in our society but will
increase, and for this reason we will not be able to create a
truly sustainable way of living.

102. OBSERVATION
Monetary system is inherently flawed and it is
vulnerable towards power getting centralized
in few men’s or one man’s hand and thus the
powerful continues exploitation, corruption
and crime for further profit by shaking hands
with law, politics and media. This is indeed
profitable for all who are top in the system.

103. Centralization of Power

104. Most people are slaves to jobs they do not like
because they need the money.

105. Wars Are Done For Profit

107. Hierarchical
Model

109. What kind of system can eradicate these issues?

110. QUESTIONS!
• So now the question is can human society
go beyond poverty and war?
• Can we create a truly sustainable society?

111. Can we create a truly sustainable society?

112. Yes, by eliminating PROFIT MOTIVE

113. At the moment our society is a
competitive society which can be
transformed into cooperative society by
right education and a change in
perspective leading to a change in our
choice & actions.

114. An initiative in this direction has been taken by
many people & organizations across the
globe…

115. Jacque Fresco who proposed a model called
Resource Based Economy

117. A SYSTEM WHERE MONEY IS NOT USED AND
RESOURCES ARE DISTRIBUTED RATHER THAN
EXCHANGED THROUGH MONEY!

118. A holistic socio-economic system
It is a holistic socio-economic system in which
all goods and services are available without
the use of money, credits, barter or any other
system of debt or servitude.
All resources become the common heritage of
all of the inhabitants, not just a select few.

119. Benefits of Technology
Today we are technologically advance to
produce enough for everyone but due to
monetary system the resources do not reach
to everyone in proper quantity and
technology is misused.
Resource Based Economy eliminates this basic
problem in fulfilling our needs and thus it ends
the reason for PROFIT MOTIVE to exist.

120. Automation for all!

121. Technological Solution of Automated Cities
Mr. Jacque Fresco proposes a solution of
building automated cities for everyone on
Earth.
He also sees a possibility where only 3% of
population will require to work for
maintaining the cities and humans can be set
free from monetary slavery. H

122. The Venus Project

123. The Venus City Project
• His project is known as The Venus City Project.
• To know more about this project you may visit
www.thevenusproject.com
• This project may take many generations to get
educated about the future possibilities.

124. The Venus Project

126. No disparity, no exploitation, no fear & no survival in question

128. The Challenge of Transition
Implementing RBE Technological solution
immediately is not possible as there is lack of
education and understanding and the
transition part is very difficult without
proper approach and practices.

129. How can we do the transition from here
to
Resource Based Economy?
By Spreading Awareness first.

130. What are our problems today at
global level?

131. •Cyclical Consumption
•Infinite Growth
•The Value of Scarcity
•Problems/Inefficiency = Profit.
•Cost Efficiency & Irresponsible
Obsolescence
•Waste & Oppression of the Human
Resource

132. Our approaches
should be….

133. Use of Natural source of energy

136. We can only become powerful by
• Collaborative Actions
• Cooperative Mutual Ventures
• Education and training
• Spreading the message
• Networking
• Non-cooperation to profit motive and greed
• Build Sustainable Cooperative Groups

137. Advance Actions

138. •No Money or Market System
•Maximum Automation of Labor through possible
sustainable energy and technological solution so
that people are not exploited to produce resources
•-Technological Unification of Earth via "Systems"
Approach.
•Access over Property for all in common.
•Self-Contained/Localized City and Production
Systems.
•Science as the Methodology for Governance

139. Practical Actions - 1
•Group up/Team up
•Become producers and become less dependent on monetary
markets
•Start Cooperative ventures without hierarchical models
•Cooperative Resource Sharing through building community
resource library
•Support ecological sustainability with low carbon foot prints
•Build strong security model inside the group or community
rather being dependent on financial security model

140. Practical Actions - 2
•Build a like minded people’s community/action group
•Build and intentional community for living together with like
minded life style
•Escape education system encouraging slavery of market
systems
•Build in-house learning center for open learning
•Consume Consciously
•Non-cooperation to pesticides, GMO, branded products/big
corporations; buy local

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