Another One Of My Favorite Quotes About Future Economics By R. Buckminster Fuller.

in economics •  8 years ago 

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

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It would be amazing promote the human race with technology but 50 years of work tv has played a big role in movements wiether they where propaganda thanks to CNN fake news causing the CNN syndrome now face book is replacing our thoughts with their monitoring of the human race , geuss you got to be a human and not a legal entity (corporation$) we are only motivated to consume not care let's change that . As one race human . Time for the space age.

We now have the ultimate weapon in this battle, "Smart Contracts." Theoretically similar to the person-hood we extend to corporations, "Smart contracts seem to take on their own lives. What makes smart contracts superior, is the democratic decision making built into the technology. It seems as though a blockchain technology, like the smart contract or token, can take a small concept and bring it alive.