What you want to do? what you like to do?
This girl loves being a journalist - loves reporting the news.
She's thinking that in a resource based economy that ability to report the news would be lost and that she wouldn't be allowed to do what she does. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
(update: 9/17/11 - there's a nice "Plain English" article on this here: http://rt.com/usa/news/zeitgeist-world-joseph-society-599/ © Autonomous Nonprofit Organization “TV-Novosti”, 2005–2011. All rights reserved.)
My comment to that would be that "Yes you could report news!"
A resource-based economy has news too. The news would be filled with reports of GOOD news instead of BAD. New inventions! New cures for disease! New toys! And there would be reports on the way society was adapting to the new way of thinking, what was working - what wasn't - and views from various people on how to fix the things that weren't working.
The news she was reporting could be news that actually helped and informed people, rather than subliminally sway their way of thinking to some political end.
Her fears are unwarranted.She would actually have even more freedom to report on things she wants to report on, rather than reporting on things her boss decides for her to report on, because she wouldn't have a boss. In a resource-based economy news wouldn't be filtered by people who wanted to use it to control votes to make money. People would just report what they think people wanted to hear - good or bad.
Without money and politics, there would be no reason to manipulate the news, as no one, even the bearer of the news, would have anything to gain by it. And any reporter would have freedoms they never dreamed of without the restrictions of working in servitude for an editor or boss.
Of course there will be crimes - though without money - there would be little motivation for the usual crimes. Nothing to 'steal', no wars to fight because resources would be shared. No societal pressures created by the fear of 'not getting mine" that drive most crimes of passion. At most, there would be debate over what to do with some resources, even with computers showing the best possible use of materials, those decisions would still have to be made using the data that was entered and taken into account, and there would occasionally be dispute over whether the proper data was included in the process by which a decision was arrived at.
Maybe there'd be the occasional drug addict or alcoholic acting crazy - but public shame and the ability to receive free mental health assistance and rehabilitation should stifle most of that too - at least when you compare it to today, where a good percentage of the homeless are not treated or helped with their mental disorders - because no one has the money. There are people all over the world who want to help these folks but don't have the resources to do so and are stifled by not having the money to get the education to become GOOD mental healers. But in a resource based economy that doesn't waste resources, with free education for all, and an abundance of resources with which to work, these would not be issues for anyone who wanted to be anything, be it to help mentally ill, rehabilitate drug addicts or alcoholics, or whatever. There would be no shortage of help for those who needed it, as the only shortage we have now is caused by money.
It's not, remember, a utopia that's being created here. We're all still going to be human, with human flaws. Even if the reporter in this video were to be the type who enjoys reporting on the suffering of others (yeah, they're out there) I'm sure there will always be human conflict to report on. Just not as much of it.
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