We have made the world more populous, we have made people expand to all areas, we have extended our domination. We have proved we can conquer, and we have proved we can devastate habits and air, land, and waters. All of this, at what cost? Is having 7 billion people better than 3.5 billion, or 1 billion? What is the optimal amount. Should we have 100 billion just because of the simple notion that more is better? We have achieved quantity over quality. There is more, but so many suffer thru poor quality food, healthcare, shelter, education... we have technology to improve our collective lot, but the sheer size of humanity's footprint strains our ability to have quality of life and tests our difficult nature to sufficiently share. Maybe civilization means less but higher quality, maybe culture is about refining ourselves instead of bloating our species, maybe society means living in a way where every individual is respected and promoted to achieve, instead of figuring out better means to exploit, deceive, out compete, and subjugate one another.
Maybe we've been asking the wrong questions. Or maybe we haven't even ever asked the question. Stop the bickering, stop drawing borders, stop making artificial distinctions. We, collectively as humans, need to start taking seriously the quality of life for every valuable and immensely talented person we welcome into this world. And if we are not able to be good hosts, why the hell are we inviting more than we can satisfy as our guests... our future generations.
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It is exactly places like you picture that the next wave of entrepreneurial success will come from. As decentralization of means of production disseminate, folks that have the ability to amass a little bit of capital will grasp that being able to manufacture food, goods, and certain services that are able to serve their communities and attract capital from outside their communities will rise to the top of the social milieu they are in.
The expansion of their empires will more rapidly yet disperse such tech, advancing the decentralization of wealth and power that directly decreases the parasitic extraction of resources by rentiers, and prevents rational development from being undertaken in such communities. The end game is inevitable: war on the Favelas, or the revolution of the Favelas that eventually subsumes the extant parasitic class. The reason our history is suppressed is to keep us from realizing that parasites prefer to burn it all down with WMDs rather than tolerate being reduced to mere equality, and that the broader society inevitably gains requisite power through decentralization of the means of production to eliminate the overcentralization of wealth and power than creates the destabilization to begin with.
Perhaps the only way to prevent this is by specifically targeting those megalomaniacal parasites in power, precluding their retaliatory use of WMDs to destroy society as a whole. Empires often degenerate to the point of employing RWDS to cut the heads off social movements that threaten their power. Such weapons are double-edged, and I bet actual true history reveals this far too clearly.
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"Rational development", good call, if only that was the way. Yes, decentralization holds much promise. It is a sick system currently for sure, thanks for convo. RWDS … that is a short summary of a lot of history. peace
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We can make it work. We need to embrace kindness, empathy and of course ramp up on agricultural and waste processing technology.
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Sounds like the right kind of thinking … if only
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What do you think about Thorium and other nuclear energy technologies? Thorium could be a game changer for clean energy.
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no clue
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