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.






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