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I'm not going to get into the conspiracy theory stuff, but just focus on the core idea of the Venus Project, which was agreed to be the solution to all these problems in Addendum. It's very similar to the Technocracy Movement but more environmentalist.
1: Post-scarcity is nonsense. Literally, we cannot have a post-scarcity society, because resources are always finite.
If you then say "Oh well, we only mean really really low scarcity" then you've rendered your claim arbitrary; for a given value of "scarcity", we could claim that we already live in a post-scarcity society. What specific thing do you want? Nobody to starve to death? That's a specific goal that has nothing to do with going beyond scarcity.
2: The Venus Project is contradictory because it claims to be post-scarcity, but also desires a "resource based economy" that creates "sustainability".
So, on the one hand, they want an economy in which we are free of the limits of nature, but on the other one an economy that respects the limits of nature...
Which is it? Resource based is a meaningless buzzword used to justify total control of individual consumption and lifestyles.
All of the Zeitgeist movies go on and on about how the money changing financial powers will put RFID chips in people and create a totalitarian state, but then its solution is to create an alternate system which is necessarily totalitarian, because it requires worldwide tracking of consumption for the purposes of centralized management of "sustainability".
3: You can indeed solve the problems of poverty and hard work by automating the economy but doing so does not require a non-market system, or any whackjob environmentalist totalitarian scheme. Literally just robots doing everything and then a basic income attached to that economy would reduce absolute poverty to zero (which is being reduced year by year by year btw) while retaining the property rights that we have. The whole Venus Project idea is just throwing out the baby with the bathwater, to create a centrally planned enviro-socialist economy.
We can't do any of this now, because technology isn't good enough, but when we can, I don't think we want to follow the thinking of Peter Joseph and Jaque Fresco.