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Get rid of the money system, then get rid of goverrments
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 984306:MV85ODA3ODlfMTczOTM4MDBfRTQzQkVGNDA=] [quote:Anonymous Coward 631208] Science Fiction writers are always ahead of the curve about the future and they rarely miss their marks. Most of them write about a credit based system where you get credits(sort of debit cards) for work that you already do. No money-- just labor, then credit marks to buy stuff. Which means people can work as little or as much as they want depending on what they want out of life. But for that to work, the basics need to be guarenteed and governments need to be the main employer. Already--with the technology of today--a lot of people are kept working by government and big business just so they can have something to do. They are not really needed. [b]In the future most people are not going to be needed to work for the things a Nation needs to care for it's people. [/b][/quote] You are right. So then, a question can be framed like this: Is the economy a sports car that has to keep its wheels rolling at a certain # of revolutions per t=n otherwise the wheels will fall off? Because someone somewhere, who has studied his Oscar Schindler, feels the need to keep the hand of forward-pressing at the back of the human workforce. So workers are not allowed to relax at all. This trend-toward-non-real-workplaces where competition is still held as the highest ideal, becomes self serving, like in a way, the Corporate arena gathers the rudest and most brutal people, who can fire scores of people (putting families on the street) at once. That is who gravitates to the top of these Corporate pyramids today, the most ruthless. This is true across all lines of the globe. So if you are right, and essentially R2D2 and C3PO are right around the corner, then how shall we identify the enemy, who wishes to A: hide that emerging droid-truth from humans, and B: program the droids for warfare (Palpatine) and not helping humans (like R2) and communicating between humans (3PO)? I agree with what you are saying, but [b]how do we slow down such that our first-generation droids can start to help us in our release from the economic work camps of today?[/b] I am mixing my sci fi metaphors so you'll forgive me for that as I am zoned out right now, but where are the memes that will carry us into the time when R2 and C3PO can exist as aids to us rather than the opposite of that aka the borg-dead-flesh-Terminator-cyborg-endoskeleton paradigm of our present age? [/quote]
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2 things the human race will have to combine and achieve before we evolve.
if we don't, it will be like a stagnant parasite within us all.
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