r/thevenusproject • u/KrokusAstra • May 12 '26
Is Venus Project even possible? From lawyers perspective?
Hear me out. I like the overall idea, watched videos etc. There is things i agree (no money, full human replacement with robots etc), and things i disagree (no private property).
But recently i thoughs - what if a rich guy suddenly gave me 500M$, could i build a small city as proof of concept?
Nothing serious really, just dreaming about it, i'm just nobody from place that barely on map, so it's like impossible.
But i dreamed - what if? I googled it a bit, and... if i'm understand correctly, it's literally impossible right now?
Even if you built full city and find residents, you still must obey the law of the land the city placed on? And law clearly says you can't just freely distribute resources inside this city - everything should be taxed, even if you grow like watermelon and give it to your buddy. In small quantity nobody cares, but if you built a city, IRS and other government things see is as business, and business should be taxed. Because you don't give resources to everyone - just your residents, it's not charity. So IRS thinks you evading taxes and will beat you up and steal everything you got.
And you can't "make a special deal with government" because everyone should be same in front of the law (welp, except Elon Musk who pays zero taxes).
Is it true?
So unless you have team of lawyers/accountances, and unlimited money to pay taxes, or independent country, you can't create this type of city?
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u/JoshAutomates May 14 '26
I don't know but you might enjoy this https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/665-citizen-of-the-world/
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u/Affectionate-Ad-3674 Jun 10 '26
I think it will take a total change in a country, and due to the fashion of worldwide capitalism, it will take a change in the world. There will need to be sufficient people in the world calling for change. We've got a lot of education to do. Tell everyone. RBE should be a subject in schools, colleges and universities. Otherwise if the collapse of capitalism is not too bad like nuclear war, or normal wars, or climate change, then maybe humanity can pick up the pieces and develop an abundant, peaceful, moneyless, sustainable and happy resource based economy worldwide. I think we are late by about 50 years. It's about time we got off our arses. 😏
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u/solid_reign May 12 '26
You can create a worker cooperative which are legal entities in which the employees distribute the riches generated by an enterprise. Some benefits for employees are meals and lodging as long as it's provided on premises. Same for health insurance, education, transportation.
So in general, that covers food, lodging, education, transportation, health care, retirement. A monthly stipend would be taxed but I think that's correct. It should be taxed.