There are three basic conclusions.

The first is that there exists on the North American Continent a physical potential in resources to produce an abundance of goods and services for all citizens, and that the high-speed technology for converting these resources to us in sufficient volume is already installed and the skilled personnel for operating it are present and available. Yet we have unprecedented insecurity, extensive poverty and rampant crime.

The second conclusion of Technocracy is that the Price System can no longer function adequately as a method of production and distribution of goods. The invention of power machinery has made it possible to produce goods in abundance with a relatively small amount of human labor. As machines displace men, however, purchasing power is destroyed, for, if people cannot work for wages and salaries, they cannot buy goods. We find ourselves, then, in this paradoxical situation: the more we produce, the less we are able to consume.

The basic conclusion is that a new distributive system must be instituted which is designed to the special needs of an environment of abundance, and that this system must not in any way be associated with the extent of an individual's functional contribution to society.