Spacefaring Japanese Billionaire Maezawa Eyes Movie About Moneyless World
Fresh off spending tens of millions of dollars for a 12-day trip to the International Space Station, Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa wants to make a movie about a moneyless world. Right after spending hundreds of millions flying around the moon. TASS reports:
“I want to shoot movies about the no-money world. My explanation is not good so, people cannot understand what I imagine, so maybe I need a movie for understanding these things,” he said.
“In 2023, I will go on the flight to the Moon…, go to space again, and maybe after that,” Maezawa replied to a question about when his film should be expected to hit the screens. “In 2025 or 2026.”
Maezawa said in an interview with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin that the movie would serve to convey an idea about getting rid of money.
“Certainly, money will disappear from our world. We can imagine that,” Maezawa stated.
Sure. Why not?
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There must be some medium of exchange in any world with a rational market economy. Even a top down society must have some means of rewarding production and allocating resources. It may not be called money at some point. There will be some means of keeping score. I doubt anyone can reach billionaire status without grasping this, so I suspect that he will jus be advocating using a different scoreboard.
Or else he overdosed on Star Trek.?
He either got his money from the actions of others or he enjoys his work so much that he does not consider it work. History is filled with people at the top who have disdain for the system that got them out of savagery. But we are still savages. We’re never going to approach a moneyless world as long as humans continue to dream of passing the hard work onto somebody else and drawing the effects of somebody else’s work for themselves. We’re born as slave drivers of our parents. We’re literally born into it and depend on it for survival. Not only that, what do you do with likes of “The Atomic Boy Scout” in a world like Startrek? You have to meter individual empowerment. But at the same time, you have to pursue it. Startrek would have been more believable if they showed who did the laundry, and a loo conference every once and a while.
You don’t need to do laundry when you have replicators, you just let your dirty clothes get turned into atoms and print out a new set to wear.?
The basic problem with a Star Trek style economy will be all the folks choosing not to work since their needs are supplied by replicator technology. Meanwhile, as the Picard and Voyager series showed, robots and holograms are enslaved to build all the weapons needed for what is basically a war based empire.
Worse than lazy people would be the proto politicians generating conspiracy theory and false crisis to instigate revolution. That the modern US has declined to the point where it is now with Q Anon, an attempted coupe, and a cult of personality of Trump tells you that the same thing would happen in a perfectly peaceful, successful, prosperous StarTrek socialism. The Soviets understood this and had a state sponsored conspiracy literature so as to keep a lid on the process. The US usually can contain these kinds of guttural politics within the confines of local churches, but the GOP latched onto these micro-movements back in the 90’s and they’ve taken over the politics of the GOP.
You think that is new? You should read “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” by Richard J. Hofstadter from 1964. Both parties have had their share of conspiracy theories believed in by those members on the fringe over the decades. Folks seem to forget it was Robert Kennedy Jr. who started the anti-vaccine movement in the 1980’s by claiming that the rise in autism was due to childhood vaccination, a claim with no evidence to support it.
You just seem to focus on the Democratic Party talking points on the GOP being the source of all evil while ignoring the Democratic Party fringe, folks who are anti-semitic, anti-GMO and hate billionaires for making society wealthy.
Interesting point of JFK Jr furthering a conspiracy theory to further his public image. Like many of those needlessly suffering death from Covid for lack of vaccination, JFK Jr believed his own lies he told himself and flew into a situation he was not ready for and killed himself. Do conspiracy theorists have a tendency to kill themselves with their own lies? If you ever read about his flight training it’s a classic case of evolution in action with flawed intelligence running into the cold grip of the physical world.
You are confusing Robert Kennedy Jr. with his cousin JFK Jr. They are two different people.
I have a much more cooperative view of transactions than you seem to have. There needs to be some reason for people to help the rich or they won’t show up. Right now it is wages, mostly in money but also possibly in things like stock options and retirement plans (401K etc.). You may do astronomy and fly aircraft because you love it. Relatively few will grind the mirrors and maintain the vehicles because they love doing that. I still believe in concrete work and enjoy it to some extent, but I don’t work for free. Nor will I ask employees or suppliers for free stuff. They may do some of it as friends or as promotional, but there will be some reciprocity.
Or short version is that if I don’t provide a reason to help me, I’ll be working alone.
Your attitude makes you a natural born leader. It’s leaders like you that make any system work. Just as it’s craftsmen like me, who will work for free to some extent because of our love of the work. Glass grinders tend to be snooty craftsmen who are overworked and underpaid. We both have found our place in society and contribute to it via our talents and the way we generate and use wealth for society. However there are people who view themselves as the receiver of societal wealth and owe nothing in return. Because they push to horde their wealth and don’t waste their time giving back, they rise to the top. It’s the difference between a wolf who consumes for themself and maybe a few pack members, and a rancher who generates prey for far more predators with their work.
I think I know one of the grumpy glass grinders you have in mind lol.
🙂 The One I use as my prototype has first name D and patronymic K. But The ones at Op Sci reach back to the 1960’s and are the ones who I hold in ultra high regard.
The one I had in mind has the initials H.E. He can be found on the west coast. I respect him greatly, but he fits your characterization perfectly.
You do not get to be super rich by “hoarding”, you get rich by spending less than you make and wisely investing the rest. Investing is what builds the economy. It sounds like you see the rich like Scrooge McDuck, with a money bin full of money. But when money ceases to circulate it just deflates the currency and prices adjust accordingly.
Why aren’t you rich?
Because it never was a goal as long as I have enough to enjoy my books and telescopes I am happy. And I enjoy encouraging others to learn which is why my late brother’s C-16 Celestron is now the property of Sul Ross State University, so more Hispanics are inspired to become astronomers… Since it was the first commercial one made in 1967 I could have auctioned it for a fortune, but chose not to.
Different strokes for different folks.
Leader of small willing groups okay, but leader and shaker of large operations, no. Part of my problem is that I can see potential in almost anyone. What I have often failed to grasp is the people that will not even try to exercise that potential. Trying to work with what they could do instead of grasping what they will do and why makes me a mediocre leader in many ways. Also I’m an inventor and try to improve the way things are done, which makes many of the people (mainly employees) in my field very uncomfortable.
I do agree that many of the successful are jerks (holding off on stronger language), but a very large percentage of businessmen are straight shooters.
Overcharity can be as dangerous as no charity at all. Overcoming our natural leadership nature is a long drawn out process. Quite honestly, we need more lifetime to develop or characters to the task at hand. As Flight Operations lead of my glider club, I have about 20 low time pilots I have to limit the actions of and keep tabs on so they don’t hurt themselves or wreck equipment. And I have other more experienced pilots who do that with me. Keeping an operation of over 120 type A personalities and experienced pilots and over 50 aircraft humming has been a big expansion of my life experience. It’s taught me to be more blase about coming down on someone and forcing consequence in doing stupid things and dare I say it, ignoring the power of my office. That’s not in my nature. My nature is to grind opposing POV’s against my own or modifying mine if presented with a batter analysis. I’ve learned that sometimes with willful people, like pilots, you just have to pull rank and not apologize. I’m sorry to report that it works better than reasoned debate a lot of the time. Actually it works best in combination with reasoned debate.
Sometimes, even Star Trek admits there’s something ‘handwavy’ with their system…
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Probably Money (in its different forms and slightly different re-incarnations along history) is one of the most powerful progress engine ever.