Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
(Transcription: a man in a tattered business suit sits across a campfire from some children who are listening to him speak.)
The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment.
That is why I don't understand money.
Money should be something that represents intention of sustainability, of creating value for future generations.
Not this.
I don't think we can reach Star Trek with money. We have to get rid of it and build a different society.
In Star Trek, they can do away with money primarily because the invention of the replicator (and other tech) taking care of the basic needs of society, which lessens the need for competition between people. If you've got robots that can clean sewers and a machine that can print food from thin air, you no longer need a complex system of competition to allocate who is doing the shit jobs and who is eating the shit food. We're currently all still chimpanzees fighting each other to the death, we've just abstracted the violence away to such an extent that you don't see it anymore. The losers are still dying in droves, but they're dying to stuff like overdoses, homelessness, or not being able to access the doctors and healthcare their wealthy counterparts can.
In my opinion, short of inventing the replicator, the absolute best thing we can do as a species is to get a mass produced humanoid robot that can be controlled via VR built as soon as possible. We then get people doing undesirable jobs to control the robots and train an AI until it gets to the point where it can do the job without a human on the other end. Not only do we free up all those people from doing shit jobs, we can retrain them to work on other pressing problems, like curing diseases or even one day far in the future, building a replicator.
With the idea that people cannot be hired anymore compared to a robot, because the economic incentive isn't there anymore.
My hope for basic income is still there, as this would allow a shift from a system that only has economic incentive to a system that has creativity and an aspirational incentive. Basic income would provide that, because nobody needs to work just to be able to exist, and they can then focus on "what they actually really want" in life. The argument that nobody wants to work in life is a little stupid, because I think that people want to do something when they're way too bored.
Whether that's just shitty prank videos or research is up to our society, and if we make it "famous" to be smart then the incentive is much higher to do research.
Who are “we”? And what exactly are you asking “us” to do?
The only thing I know is that the more I observe the stupidity of our species and the governments on this planet, which are somewhat all prone to egocentric corruptions and therefore stupid decisions in exchange for money ... doesn't work.
I mean, we are collectively destroying our habitat, not even having a backup colony on our moon, not even wanting to go for space other than territorial dispute. And what is the reason why we don't do this? So that we can drive our sports cars to impress others?
I meanwhile think that the only way to progress to a different society class (e.g. Type II and beyond) is if we decide to accept a rational system as our leading guidance at all cost. Be it a "Super AI" or a cybernetic system that combines all knowledge without forgetting it, doesn't matter.
But what matters is that the current state of how we divide powers (in the sense of democracy, communism, socialism etc) doesn't work because there are people involved that don't give a damn. And those that don't give a damn are the ones that benefit the most from the system, and are able to reach the top much easier than people that are not willing to compromise on their ideals. The system(s) have to be redesigned so that the incentive of that changes.
How to do that? I don't know, I'm a monkey that was trained to reach out for more bananas.
Pick the country most hostile towards capitalism/shareholders, and you’ll still be looking at a polluter and contributor to climate change.
The cartoon could just as easily be rewritten to “for a beautiful moment in time we let people have lots of autonomy in how they wanted to live”.
How about the earth has greened by 15% in the recent decade, turning semi arid regions into forests. How about the coral reefs that were in absolute collapse are coming back?
Somehow only the maximum gloom and doom is communicated…
Unfortunately, nobody cares about good news. Sure, we all like good news but it doesn’t drive engagement so massive companies can’t profit off of it.
If you look for it, there is good news out there. Advancements in green energy (specifically solar) and battery tech is really encouraging, and there’s so much more happening to counter act climate change. But climate change being a hoax is still something a large portion of the world’s political parties still ideologically tie themselves to. Until it get much worse, they will continue to claw to that lie. And as long as that lie continues, we’ll need stories like this.
There is an urgent, multi-layered problem to solve. Needing to feel good through this is pathetic. Humanity at its weakest.
The recovery stopped last year, and we're heading into El Nino conditions which will probably cause another mass bleaching:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/09/recovery...
> "100% coral mortality" found in coral reef restoration site off Florida as ocean temperatures soar
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coral-reef-mortality-florida-oc...
Talking about the positives doesn't negate the negatives, and frankly looking on the bright side of climate change is like talking about how great the last dinner on the titantic was.
"According to a major scientific review, global insect populations are hurtling towards exctinction, threatening a "catastrophic collapse of nature's ecosystems". The research found that 41 percent of the world's insect populations are declining while a third are endangered. The extinction rate of insects is eight times faster than mammals, birds and reptiles and there are suggestions that they could totally vanish within a century." [0]
[0] https://www.statista.com/chart/16960/percentage-decline-in-s...