If you think that Capitalism is either Sacred or Eternal or that is the best we can do, then read this book to have your thoughts corrected. If you think that Communism or Socialism are the only logical alternatives to Capitalism, then read this book to have your thoughts adjusted. If you think that the problems of poverty, injustice and ecological degradation are too large for us to solve, then read this book to have your thoughts enlarged. If you think that our current world is unsustainable and serious efforts must be undertaken to put us on a better path where poverty is made obsolete and Nature is revered and protected, then read this book to have your thoughts affirmed. In this book you will find a realistic, achievable plan to eliminate poverty, clean up the world and create a sustainable, peaceful paradise on Earth, as it was meant to be, without much more effort than a couple manned missions to Mars and the Moon.

But more than a plan, this is a tale of the evolutionary inevitability of how us humans are already, and will continue to extend and enhance our abilities far beyond what we know to be possible today. It is also a simultaneous unveiling of naked truth regarding the contrived, imaginary and delusional nature of money. This fact is counterbalanced with the proposition that no amount of money could secure the overabundance of wealth that the Cosmos has provided us for free with the Sun and the Planets and Asteroids and the rich Resources thereof, what I call Cosmic Resources. Indeed, not even a single atom can be assigned a finite monetary value. Once these two main facts are properly understood (i.e. money has no value and we are all intrinsically materially wealthy), our only logical choice becomes to use our extended selves to utilize these Resources, via automation and AI to eliminate poverty, unnecessary suffering, environmental degradation and to redefine what it means to be wealthy.

This idea changes everything. The greatest challenge will be to transition from the legacy of money, ownership and dominance to post-monetary, stewardship and coexistence, as well as overcome the societal and environmental pressures—and to do so in a non-violent and rational way that assures the most well-to-do that not only will they not lose any of their wealth, but that it will be increased for them along with everybody else and they will be free of the burdens of guilt or shame that often follows in a world of haves and have-nots. Even the most wealthy among us can not imagine the true potential of the world they have been blindly riding through space upon. What’s even better, humanity will then be free to reconnect with superior forms of mental and spiritual wealth and that material wealth is merely a baseline of existence available to all living beings.

Finally, this is also a cautionary work for it is crucially important to understand both the nature of and the consequences of our failures to act on these inescapable facts and to actively steer technology, and ourselves, in the right direction—in the service of all of the inhabitants of Earth.

This book will clearly demonstrate:

• Life on Earth is in peril, facing existential threats on several fronts and we have no choice but to act.
• What we call Wealth is really quite ordinary and widely available to everybody as a mere common baseline.
• There are Five Types of Wealth: Physical, Genetic, Mental, Spiritual and Material.
• Mental and Spiritual Wealths become much more important to human happiness in the future.
• Money is a completely imaginary human construct with no actual basis or foundation in Reality.
• All Resources found on Earth and in the Solar System and in the Cosmos were placed here free of charge. These are called Cosmic Resources.
• There are nearly no limits to what can be automated using Artificial Intelligence and current, let alone future engineering.
• Automating the full Production Chain from Energy to Extraction to Processing to Manufacturing to Distribution is called Cosmic Production.
• Cosmic Production is possible due to the inherent Programability of Matter and is only a matter of will power.
• When Labor Cost is reduced to zero, money loses its already imaginary value and becomes completely pointless and obsolete.
• When money becomes obsolete, all of its institutions, methods and constructs have no purpose including: Banking, Taxes, Interest, Insurance, Lending, Purchasing, Selling, Advertising, Marketing and for-profit Business in general.
• Cosmic Automation and Production can free humanity of the ancient burden of working to survive, clean up the environment, protect Nature, run beautifully architected cities and provide immeasurable material wealth to everybody.
• In order to control and operate the complex AI systems in a cooridinated, democratically managed fashion, it will be necessary to create a Government Operating System (gOS) of exquisite complexity.
• There are numerous threats to achieving the steps required to enter into the Cosmic Age, where poverty, sickness and crime and so many vexing human and animal problems are finally solved, setting the stage to become a peaceful, sustainable Level I Civilization.

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