The third film in the Zeitgeist series drops the earlier installments' conspiracy material and builds a direct argument against the monetary market economy itself, not just its abuses. Interviews with scientists, economists, and researchers, including linguist Noam Chomsky and physicist Michio Kaku, lay out the case that scarcity-driven markets, debt, and wage labor produce structural problems no policy fix can solve: recurring wars, environmental damage, and behavior the film traces to social conditioning rather than fixed human nature. Peter Joseph's narration and animated sequences walk through a proposed alternative, a resource-based economy coordinated through technology, automation, and access rather than currency or private ownership, drawing on the ideas of Jacque Fresco's Venus Project. Segments on prison psychology experiments, cybernetics, and automation's effect on employment build toward the claim that current economic systems are obsolete rather than merely unfair. The film closes as an argument for redesigning the entire system rather than reforming it, presenting its alternative model as the intended endpoint of the reasoning that precedes it.