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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
It seems - whether you realize it or not, Matty - that you are also arguing that mankind needs to cease advancing technologically.
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I don't think that's true.
I do think that there can and should be a re-tread to localized food production, because we can create any growth environment we want indoors.
We don't need money to advance our civilization, we need resources. And the only reason those things equate is that we created money to represent our resources. And in some cases, money actually prevents from reaching resources (as we see now, we wait for alternative energy to become profitable before we use it, vs just waiting for the technology to exist and using it). What happens when we can just download and print anything we want? Think about the entertainment industry and the hit it has taken with illegal downloading. What happens when you can do that for almost all physical products? You can argue that the 'ink' has to come from somewhere, but where are people getting money from if almost anything can be had for free? I think this type of stuff is worth thinking about.
There are things that would need to happen that scare people. A global government. A group that decides what the best allocation of resources is depending on what humanities needs are. Those people can be democratically elected, but yes, it would very much resemble something like communism (OH NO!). Communism and what happened in the Soviet Union are not the same thing in theory. In order for something like communism to work it would require full global participation, and people that can be trusted to act altruistically in positions of power. Those things are pretty far-fetched, so someone like me is likely doomed to just begrudgingly participate in our system until it actually implodes on itself. And I'm not necessarily saying these things are good or bad, just that I think it's where we are headed and that we should be trying to adjust for these possibilities rather than just waiting for it to happen and going "oh crap!"
And again I've bogged this thread down in my personal theories, which I didn't intend. None of this really has much to do with the 2016 Canadian Federal budget. But I do find the conversation very interesting, as long as people have more to offer than "well that's bizarre". Thanks, I know that. Doesn't mean it's not possible. Things like wireless communication and refrigerators were once called bizarre too.