An Economic Theory for the 21st Century

[Rev. Gary (revgms)]

In this modern era we have to rethink all of our hyper realities as reality challenges them. And one thing that is going to cause us a lot of trouble is going to be trying to shoehorn the old ways of thinking into a quasi-post scarcity, pre-singularity world. The current dichotomy of capitalism vs. socialism/communism is useless in the future, it is a false choice, neither is applicable. And frankly most people barely understand these things to begin with. One of the first things everyone has got to come to grios with is, that we do not need everyone working, we barely need the people working we have today. most of you are just doing wasteful busywork. http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

No what we need is a plan, a theory that will be civilization's next step, our next economic theory to carry us to the stars. Where can we look for such a theory? How about Star Trek? They don't chase money in Star Trek, but they do have credits, they focus on personal enrichment as the goal to life, but they still own cafes. Replicators can produce nearly all the needed goods, but there are still artists and designers.

Yeah but that is just a tv show, no one has put forth any theories about how we could achieve this. Not so. There are models we can contemplate out there, a bridge between where we are and where we could be exists now, is being used and does produce the happiest citizenry, E. F. Shumacher's Small is Beautiful, "Buddhist Economics". Where you don't measure your economy by its GDP but instead by its GNH Gross National Happiness. Bhutan uses GNH for its measure, they went fron the iron age to the information age in a decade and are regularly found to be the happiest people.

Here is a good description and thesis for why and how we can embrace the tenets of a star faring species. https://medium.com/medium-long/29bab88d50

[BikerDude]

In this modern era we have to rethink all of our hyper realities as reality challenges them. And one thing that is going to cause us a lot of trouble is going to be trying to shoehorn the old ways of thinking into a quasi-post scarcity, pre-singularity world. The current dichotomy of capitalism vs. socialism/communism is useless in the future, it is a false choice, neither is applicable. And frankly most people barely understand these things to begin with. One of the first things everyone has got to come to grios with is, that we do not need everyone working, we barely need the people working we have today. most of you are just doing wasteful busywork. http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

No what we need is a plan, a theory that will be civilization's next step, our next economic theory to carry us to the stars. Where can we look for such a theory? How about Star Trek? They don't chase money in Star Trek, but they do have credits, they focus on personal enrichment as the goal to life, but they still own cafes. Replicators can produce nearly all the needed goods, but there are still artists and designers.

Yeah but that is just a tv show, no one has put forth any theories about how we could achieve this. Not so. There are models we can contemplate out there, a bridge between where we are and where we could be exists now, is being used and does produce the happiest citizenry, E. F. Shumacher's Small is Beautiful, "Buddhist Economics". Where you don't measure your economy by its GDP but instead by its GNH Gross National Happiness. Bhutan uses GNH for its measure, they went fron the iron age to the information age in a decade and are regularly found to be the happiest people.

Here is a good description and thesis for why and how we can embrace the tenets of a star faring species. https://medium.com/medium-long/29bab88d50

Right on.
"Ism" are made of ink.
The world is real.
It's about balance. Checks and balances.
No gardener would just water the healthiest part of the garden calling the rest a waste of water.