We could live in a virtual utopia. We just need to eat the rich.
We could live in a virtual utopia. We just need to eat the rich.
@VeroniqueB99 The first question has to be: who owns the primary productivity of the Earth. We have not advanced much from the days when you needed the King's permission to hunt deer or cut down trees.
Most of the "work" done today doesn't need to be done. If 20% of the population can do all the necessary work, and you can only distribute income by work, then the economy will create 80% useless jobs. And it has.
@VeroniqueB99 There needs to be a hackers reinvent economics project. The first goal should be building a full scale discrete event simulation of the current economic system. From there we can test all the alternatives such as social credit systems (the 1930s version, not the Chinese surveillance system) to see what actually works.
Bank credit money today is treated like the Divine Right of Kings was 400 years ago. We need a solid intellectual challenge to the whole framework.
@VeroniqueB99 If there was ever a time, it is now.
The last deep think on economics and money was during the Depression. Then like now, a lot of people were unemployed, had time on their hands, and could see the world visibly going to hell around them.
All conflicts are won intellectually, morally, and spiritually before they are won physically. It took many years of brain work by people like Thomas Paine to tear down monarchy, for example.
Now is the time to attack debt money as an idea.