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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I don't think it is fear at all. Merely a recognition of the fact that realism always trumps idealism. Star Trek's vision of a utopian socialist empire built not on money, but pure altruism is total fantasy.
Out of curiousity though, where do you expect this free energy to come from?
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So you're just resigned to this system that we've created? No thoughts on any alternatives or ways we could possibly improve it? We've only been using money seriously for last two hundred years or so. And our current version of money (debt) has only really come to be in the last 100 years, maybe. I just don;t understand the arrogance that this is as far as we go. This is the system that all (potential) civilizations across the universe use and we've found it. Good for us, don't let it break!
I have a tough time wrapping my head around the people who think that pure free market is the way to go and the ONLY way. And then we bail out car companies. And then we bail out banks. And then we lobby against new ideas and technology. And then our system evolves so that energy (oil) is what really controls currency, and the price of that commodity is determined largely by the people producing it, not by the invisible hand. None of that is free market. If the people who ran those bailed out companies and industries were true free market capitalists, they would have been fine with their failed businesses failing. But no, we can't let that happen, because jobs!
How is that argument any different than "we can't let the environment deteriorate, because lives!"?
I do think it's fear. Fear of what might happen in something different. Fear of trying something new, or forcing shifts for the betterment of everyone (because the betterment of everyone means some people will have less than they do now, even if that's negligible). The way I see it, we can make a controlled break of our system, or watch it collapse and have no idea what do afterwards. I truly think that this is going to happen in my life time. We already see violent uprisings in even the most free and democratic of our nations because, IMO, people are fed up with a system that doesn't help them, and the amount of people included in that group gets larger and larger.
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