RE: What does your Utopia look like?
September 13, 2016 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2016 at 8:45 am by Anomalocaris.)
(August 31, 2016 at 7:37 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: Can you imagine a better world? Would you describe it here?
I dream of the day when there's a world government. I think that would be best for civilization. And it would make a lot of sense too, what with the recent(on a civilisational scale) advances in communications and transportation. I think it would help the economy, science, culture, arts. I think it would bring people of different backgrounds together and provide clearly positive alternatives to group thinking and discriminatory tendencies.
I also think that government should better figure out how to provide for its own people, or, at least, how to give them the chance to provide for themselves. I think technology will get us there eventually.
I believe in certain universal benefits, such as healthcare and whatnot. I also believe in an improved justice system for each and every part of the world with a greater focus on rehabilitation than on retribution(which there shouldn't be any of, in fact) where criminals are concerned.
I'll maybe add more later. What are yours?
A system which focus on providing assured benefits will likely eventually stagnate and collapse under burden imposed by the inevitable machinations of its beneficiaries as they scheme to take more benefit from the system than the system can really support on permanent basis. No system of rules and regulations designed to prevent this is likely to be able to perpetually keep ahead of the focused calculations of those powerfully driven by the human instinct to be opportunistic and get ahead.