As part of understanding the train-fo-thought the Zeigeist Movement puts forth, there's often a block for people around the idea of "monetary reform". Many feel this is the avenue to take in order to "fix" the system.
TZM expresses that 'reform efforts' will do little-to-nothing to halt the continued blockade of increases to the life-ground of human well-being, or stop the waste and pollution of our finite environment, or avoid the displacement of human labor via automation.
It is the logic of our current socioeconomic system to retard our advacement as human beings and inhibit our ability to solve problems via the methods of scientific unfolding. It delays or destroys the progress of helpful technology & cures since to have free-abundant clean water, or to eradicate cancer would collapse whole industries.
Our current economic system exacerbates stratification and negative impacts on education, healthcare, pollution (or evironmental integrity), crime, etc... You can see the lecture on this phenomena: Click Here
These effects are built-in so we don't see it as implicit to the monetary system itself and is why it is often missed. While this system continues these effects will continue their trends of getting worse overall. This can be seen in the work of Wilkinson & Pickett pulished in The Spirit Level.
At the end of the day, as long as you have to defend your position in society with monetary gains, everyone collectively loses.
Our focus in TZM is 1. Root-cause understanding of these continued outcomes, 2. Identifying "what matters?" in regards to our ability to thrive and advance, and 3. Impact human-values on a global scale via activism, education and collective actions. It's observable from statistics that our window-of-opportunity to move towards a sustainable social-model shrinks every year as we past peak of our planetary resources.
