Modernise or die
"The future has more rights than the past, and with an ageing population and new forms of employment it is time to rethink the welfare state."
Arrrrr Captain Gerhard...perhaps you should work on that little unemployment issue!
"The future has more rights than the past, and with an ageing population and new forms of employment it is time to rethink the welfare state."
Arrrrr Captain Gerhard...perhaps you should work on that little unemployment issue!
posted by Aki at
8:54 AM
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I've been thinking on this for a short while.
The GDP of the planet is around $65 trillion, according to the Wall Street Journal, with a population of around 6.5 billion people.
Divide one by the other and what you have is:
All the money in the werld divided by all the people in the werld comes out to $10k per person, per year.
Which under the standard of living in the USA USA USA is the poverty line.
Perhaps the goal, if we are to make it safely from here to a 100 billion people, and then a trillion people, is to not eradicate poverty, like our Werld Bank states as its mission, but to *universalize* it.
If globalism is inevitable than it behooves to start thinking in these terms, or we can keep on doing what we're doing and live with the results.
Due to the rise in automation, Herr Marshall Brain has quite a bit to say on this here: http://tinyurl.com/nug1 and here: http://tinyurl.com/hy1p mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale in human history is also inevitable and is going to happen sooner than later.
Watch.
Short version is in 10 years from now there won't be a cashier werking behind a counter anywhere in the USA USA USA due to the ubiquitous use of RFID technology.
Where are those people going to go?
We are rapidly approaching a point, within our lifetimes, when we have to decide on whether all humaqn life is precious, or it isn't.
If it isn't, then fine, a lot of people will starve to death, and so be it.
But, if all human life *is* precious and we want to maintain it, then we are going to have to find a way to 'subsidize' it, from the cradle to the grave, where nobody gets hurt in the process.
On of the things said about the mighty Soviet was that it was a great system on paper but it didn't werk out well in real life.
We are at a point where the same argument can be made about Capitalism, leading to the same conclusion that the Soviet experienced.
Do we as a people really want to go that route, or do we want to find another way?
nwa
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Anonymous, at 2:35 AM
I've been thinking on this for a short while.
The GDP of the planet is around $65 trillion, according to the Wall Street Journal, with a population of around 6.5 billion people.
Divide one by the other and what you have is:
All the money in the werld divided by all the people in the werld comes out to $10k per person, per year.
Which under the standard of living in the USA USA USA is the poverty line.
Perhaps the goal, if we are to make it safely from here to a 100 billion people, and then a trillion people, is to not eradicate poverty, like our Werld Bank states as its mission, but to *universalize* it.
If globalism is inevitable than it behooves to start thinking in these terms, or we can keep on doing what we're doing and live with the results.
Due to the rise in automation, Herr Marshall Brain has quite a bit to say on this here: http://tinyurl.com/nug1 and here: http://tinyurl.com/hy1p mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale in human history is also inevitable and is going to happen sooner than later.
Watch.
Short version is in 10 years from now there won't be a cashier werking behind a counter anywhere in the USA USA USA due to the ubiquitous use of RFID technology.
Where are those people going to go?
We are rapidly approaching a point, within our lifetimes, when we have to decide on whether all humaqn life is precious, or it isn't.
If it isn't, then fine, a lot of people will starve to death, and so be it.
But, if all human life *is* precious and we want to maintain it, then we are going to have to find a way to 'subsidize' it, from the cradle to the grave, where nobody gets hurt in the process.
On of the things said about the mighty Soviet was that it was a great system on paper but it didn't werk out well in real life.
We are at a point where the same argument can be made about Capitalism, leading to the same conclusion that the Soviet experienced.
Do we as a people really want to go that route, or do we want to find another way?
nwa
By
Anonymous, at 2:36 AM
I've been thinking on this for a short while.
The GDP of the planet is around $65 trillion, according to the Wall Street Journal, with a population of around 6.5 billion people.
Divide one by the other and what you have is:
All the money in the werld divided by all the people in the werld comes out to $10k per person, per year.
Which under the standard of living in the USA USA USA is the poverty line.
Perhaps the goal, if we are to make it safely from here to a 100 billion people, and then a trillion people, is to not eradicate poverty, like our Werld Bank states as its mission, but to *universalize* it.
If globalism is inevitable than it behooves to start thinking in these terms, or we can keep on doing what we're doing and live with the results.
Due to the rise in automation, Herr Marshall Brain has quite a bit to say on this here: http://tinyurl.com/nug1 and here: http://tinyurl.com/hy1p mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale in human history is also inevitable and is going to happen sooner than later.
Watch.
Short version is in 10 years from now there won't be a cashier werking behind a counter anywhere in the USA USA USA due to the ubiquitous use of RFID technology.
Where are those people going to go?
We are rapidly approaching a point, within our lifetimes, when we have to decide on whether all human life is precious, or it isn't.
If it isn't, then fine, a lot of people will starve to death, and so be it.
But, if all human life *is* precious and we want to maintain it, then we are going to have to find a way to 'subsidize' it, from the cradle to the grave, where nobody gets hurt in the process.
On of the things said about the mighty Soviet was that it was a great system on paper but it didn't werk out well in real life.
We are at a point where the same argument can be made about Capitalism, leading to the same conclusion that the Soviet experienced.
Do we as a people really want to go that route, or do we want to find another way?
nwa
By
Anonymous, at 2:37 AM
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