The Money Free movement is a political movement that advocates for a
resource-based economy
A resource-based or natural-resource-based economy is that of a country whose gross national product or gross domestic product to a large extent comes from natural resources.
Examples
The economies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries ...
, where all work is voluntary. The movement has political parties in
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
and the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
and is aligned with work of the American-based
Jacque Fresco
Jacque Fresco (March 13, 1916 – May 18, 2017) was an American futurist and self-described social engineer. Self-taught, he worked in a variety of positions related to industrial design.
Fresco wrote and lectured his views on sustai ...
, who is the founder of
The Venus Project
The Venus Project is a nonprofit organization founded by a Florida-based, architect and social engineer Jacque Fresco. Fresco with his partner Roxanne Meadows founded this organization with a socioeconomic model to develop a resource-based econo ...
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The movement has fielded candidates in several elections across at least two countries, but has not won any positions.
Political activities in New Zealand
, Money Free Party NZ is led by Richard Osmaston, who founded the party. Osmaston had stood for the mayor of Nelson in 2013 before founding the party in 2014.
Elections
The party was unable to get enough verified members (500) to register for the 2014 general election. It stood five electorate candidates, but none were successful.
Party members stood for multiple mayoralties in the 2016 local elections, such as Richard Osmaston in
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
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, Gordon Marshall in Porirua, and Ted Howard in Kaikoura. Osmaston also stood for the Moutere / Waimea seat in Tasman District Council in the same year.
In the 2017 general election the party stood four candidates in electorates, winning 293 votes. The party's best result was from Scott Andrew in
Palmerston North
Palmerston North (; mi, Te Papa-i-Oea, known colloquially as Palmy) is a city in the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Manawatū-Whanganui region. Located in the eastern Manawatu Plains, the city is near the north bank of the ...
, who received 142 votes (0.41%, 5th of 5 candidates).
Osmaston stood for mayor of
Grey District
Grey District is a district in the West Coast Region of New Zealand that covers Greymouth, Runanga, Blackball, Cobden, and settlements along the Grey River. It has a land area of . The seat of the Grey District Council, the local government aut ...
in 2019, receiving 302 votes compared to the winner's 2,709.
The party ran two candidates in the
2020 New Zealand general election
The 2020 New Zealand general election was held on Saturday 17 October 2020 to determine the composition of the 53rd parliament. Voters elected 120 members to the House of Representatives, 72 from single-member electorates and 48 from closed ...
: Richard Osmaston in West Coast-Tasman, and Prince Bhavik in Kaikōura. Neither was successful. During the 2022 local elections, Osmaston ran for six different mayoralties, winning none. Osmaston also stood as a candidate in the 2022 Hamilton West by-election, but was again unsuccessful.
Political activities in the United Kingdom
Money Free Party-UK (MFP-UK) is a registered political party in the UK. It is led by Jodian Rodgers.
It was a registered party in Great Britain from September 2013 until November 2016, when it was statutorily deregistered. In March 2017 the
UK Electoral Commission
In the United Kingdom, the Electoral Commission is the national election commission, created in 2001 as a result of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. It is an independent agency that regulates party and election fina ...
approved its re-registration.
In a 2017 interview, Rodgers advocated putting all resources into common ownership, automating as much labour as possible, and having no leaders.
Elections
Nick Tapping ran in the
2015 Poole Borough Council election
The 2015 Poole Borough Council election took place on 7 May 2015 to elect members of Poole Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections
In many parts of the world, local elections take place to select office-hold ...
2017 elections
The following elections occurred in 2017.
Africa
*2017 Somali presidential election 8 February 2017
*2017 Gambian parliamentary election 6 April 2017
* 2017 Algerian legislative election 4 May 2017
*2017 Lesotho general election 3 June 2017
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. Rodgers came last of five candidates with 101 votes, losing his deposit with just 0.1% of the vote.
Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism (), or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds from the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people. Egalitarian doctrines are generally characterized by the idea that all hu ...
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Free Money Day
Free Money Day is an annual global event held since 2011 as a social experiment and to promote sharing and alternative economic ideas.
Overview
The day is held annually on September 15, the anniversary of the Lehman Brothers' 2008 filing fo ...
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Freedom of association
Freedom of association encompasses both an individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline mem ...
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Non-monetary economy
A moneyless economy or non-monetary economy is a system for the allocation of goods and services as well as for the assignment of work without payment of money. The simplest example is the family household, which can be a system of obligations nev ...
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Open-access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
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Post-scarcity economy
Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely.
Post-scarcity does not mean that scarc ...
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Refusal of work
Refusal of work is behavior in which a person refuses regular employment."Refusal of work means quite simply: I don't want to go to work because I prefer to sleep. But this laziness is the source of intelligence, of technology, of progress. Auton ...
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Subsistence economy
A subsistence economy is an economy directed to basic subsistence (the provision of food, clothing, shelter) rather than to the market. Henceforth, "subsistence" is understood as supporting oneself at a minimum level. Often, the subsistence econo ...
The Venus Project
The Venus Project is a nonprofit organization founded by a Florida-based, architect and social engineer Jacque Fresco. Fresco with his partner Roxanne Meadows founded this organization with a socioeconomic model to develop a resource-based econo ...
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The Zeitgeist Movement
The Zeitgeist Movement is an activist movement established in the United States in 2008 by Peter Joseph. The group is critical of market capitalism, describing it as structurally corrupt and wasteful of resources. The group dismisses historic ...
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Universal basic income
Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of a ...