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Monday, November 19, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Sorry, but politics
So I constantly see people hating the views that aren't theirs, and it makes me frustrated. It makes me frustrated most likely because I DO THE SAME DAMN THING. I'm just less public about it and I throw less insulting names around, but I definitely STRONGLY disagree with views that aren't mine. Even more so when I can CLEARLY see that little to no research was done. So instead of talking about my political beliefs, I'm going to talk about how I believe the United States can best get everyone's REAL opinion voiced rather than through just the choice between candidate A and candidate B. And the senators. And the house. Anyways.
I'm a big fan of the whole unPAC thing. PACs are fucking disgusting. It doesn't make sense - extremely wealthy businesses and individuals are spending their money on sellouts just to get the politicians to pass legislation that will allow these rich, corrupt people to continue to take advantage of the people who work for shitty pay and shitty benefits. Why couldn't this money instead be spent on the company to provide jobs? Or why couldn't this money have gone to something more productive like research or school? If these wealthy people have enough cash to shell out on politicians, isn't that a sign that they have too much money? They're BUYING a human being. This money makes us THINK we agree with the idols of the American elections, but really these people were once normal, then found out that to make it, they can't have all the views they want to have.
What I would also like to see is a government run website that has all the candidates and their views on it, so that someone can go online and get informed about a candidate within seconds. All facts, no lies, almost like a facebook for politicians to update their bio and their views. Also on this website, you could see who was running against who and for what positions. This could make the political field more balanced for entry. Since politics is almost like economics, (instead of money it's power, and instead of making more money it's influencing society) it should really be more even for new people to enter the business of politics. Right now politics is running a lot like an oligopoly (a few big firms controlling a market or industry) and that's not cool with me at all.
The next thing, which can easily be solved by doing what I suggested in the previous two paragraphs, is remove the two party system. This concept goes back to the oligopoly, it's impossible for new ideas (or products, in terms of economics) to reach it to the top. Gay marriage and medical marijuana have both had to get a massive following before coming close to being legal. If we could instead have a better official electing system, maybe even just voting priorities (In my mind vote priority 1 for independent, if he can't win with the number of votes for him switch it to the secondary vote. Basically in my mind it allows your vote to count for what you REALLY want, where you wont take away a vote from a candidate that is also acceptable) so that independents can actually get elected.
Lets change the world, eh? Let's work as a team instead of playing a big old complicated game of follow the leader. We have the minds and the technology to make this world a truly beautiful place, why haven't we done it yet?
I'm a big fan of the whole unPAC thing. PACs are fucking disgusting. It doesn't make sense - extremely wealthy businesses and individuals are spending their money on sellouts just to get the politicians to pass legislation that will allow these rich, corrupt people to continue to take advantage of the people who work for shitty pay and shitty benefits. Why couldn't this money instead be spent on the company to provide jobs? Or why couldn't this money have gone to something more productive like research or school? If these wealthy people have enough cash to shell out on politicians, isn't that a sign that they have too much money? They're BUYING a human being. This money makes us THINK we agree with the idols of the American elections, but really these people were once normal, then found out that to make it, they can't have all the views they want to have.
What I would also like to see is a government run website that has all the candidates and their views on it, so that someone can go online and get informed about a candidate within seconds. All facts, no lies, almost like a facebook for politicians to update their bio and their views. Also on this website, you could see who was running against who and for what positions. This could make the political field more balanced for entry. Since politics is almost like economics, (instead of money it's power, and instead of making more money it's influencing society) it should really be more even for new people to enter the business of politics. Right now politics is running a lot like an oligopoly (a few big firms controlling a market or industry) and that's not cool with me at all.
The next thing, which can easily be solved by doing what I suggested in the previous two paragraphs, is remove the two party system. This concept goes back to the oligopoly, it's impossible for new ideas (or products, in terms of economics) to reach it to the top. Gay marriage and medical marijuana have both had to get a massive following before coming close to being legal. If we could instead have a better official electing system, maybe even just voting priorities (In my mind vote priority 1 for independent, if he can't win with the number of votes for him switch it to the secondary vote. Basically in my mind it allows your vote to count for what you REALLY want, where you wont take away a vote from a candidate that is also acceptable) so that independents can actually get elected.
Lets change the world, eh? Let's work as a team instead of playing a big old complicated game of follow the leader. We have the minds and the technology to make this world a truly beautiful place, why haven't we done it yet?
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
I blew my own mind
Yesterday I was talking with a friend and I was primed to be thinking about society and money and politics. I don't remember exactly how we got to this point, but I started thinking about how disproportionate the distribution of money is in the world and I also once saw this picture (and privately posted it to my wall because I had been posting way too many political posts in recent times):
"This is crazy, imagine everyone having the free time to think and publish work that they're passionate about, and give people the ability to constantly invent new technologies at a rate that could increase the quality of life of everybody tenfold? We could have an age of technological breakthrough, shooting us to the future... Just some food for thought."
And started thinking - the world can only thrive on a market economy for so long. The rich won't keep making jobs because everything is going for growth and efficiency, big companies are doing things so well that they'll only maximize profits as best they can - which is exactly the business model. Also, more people are entering the work force now looking for jobs because of the increasing cost of living. It doesn't work out in the long run - there will be too few jobs because we don't NEED so many jobs to exist. One day this will call for a massive social reform, a reform that will take our government into a socialistic government, since private interest will no longer be able to sustain an upper and lower class - we can one day all become equals, working for maybe 5 - 10 years of our life and then be done. This is because of just how efficient we can be. In fact, we might not have to work a minute of our life in the future - if we can create robots or machines to do ALL our farming and ALL of our manufacturing, we only need people who have ideas of new inventions to start creating something new. If these robots can replace a work force everyone will be equal and the only goal for people is to do what makes them happy. Also, without the class barriers, everyone can find their own passions and decide what to do with their time.
"This is crazy, imagine everyone having the free time to think and publish work that they're passionate about, and give people the ability to constantly invent new technologies at a rate that could increase the quality of life of everybody tenfold? We could have an age of technological breakthrough, shooting us to the future... Just some food for thought."
And started thinking - the world can only thrive on a market economy for so long. The rich won't keep making jobs because everything is going for growth and efficiency, big companies are doing things so well that they'll only maximize profits as best they can - which is exactly the business model. Also, more people are entering the work force now looking for jobs because of the increasing cost of living. It doesn't work out in the long run - there will be too few jobs because we don't NEED so many jobs to exist. One day this will call for a massive social reform, a reform that will take our government into a socialistic government, since private interest will no longer be able to sustain an upper and lower class - we can one day all become equals, working for maybe 5 - 10 years of our life and then be done. This is because of just how efficient we can be. In fact, we might not have to work a minute of our life in the future - if we can create robots or machines to do ALL our farming and ALL of our manufacturing, we only need people who have ideas of new inventions to start creating something new. If these robots can replace a work force everyone will be equal and the only goal for people is to do what makes them happy. Also, without the class barriers, everyone can find their own passions and decide what to do with their time.
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