I Am Trying to Be More Green
We live in an age of scarcity and IT IS CAUSING US TO FAIL.
For the last 50 years the SINGLE revolution has been the internet. We had black and white TV in the 50s. We had cars. We still have TV and cars. We still wear clothes, heat ridiculously inefficient houses, drive to work. Computers alone, as far as the masses were concerned, before the internet, were just extensions of a TV. Washing machines existed already, dishwashers you still have to load and unload. World starvation is still a massive problem, as is clean, safe water access.
There are MILLIONS (billions?) of us "working" full time every day. What are we achieving? Nothing, in the main. Nothing. Why? Because we have lost sight of one question, from Aaron Swartz:
[WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW THAT NEEDS WORK? WHY AM I NOT WORKING ON IT?]
The ONLY thing to change the world was the internet. Why? Because it was given away FOR FREE. If it wasn't free, there would have been many competing internets that would have competed against each other and not interfaced well with each other - useless. It would have fallen.
Stuff is inherrently FREE, in that we created money to pay for it, but the thing itself doesn't naturally have monetary value attached to it. Money used to be ba<x>sed on the number of black people [EDIT: NOT JUST BLACK PEOPLE - ty ck1964 for highlighting this error!] who bled and died finding shiny gold stuff of no practical value whatsoever. Now it's not even ba<x>sed on that.
Banks loan it to governments, who loan it to smaller banks, who loan it to us. The interest at every step of that process is never printed. So, bankruptcy and scarcity are programmed into our monetary system. My reference is the guide to making money written by the US Federal Reserve Bank in the early days.
So, food is free (that project is awesome by the way, look them up). Energy is free, we have ways of storing renewables, they just won't invest in it. Transport is cheaper all the time thanks to Uber, who will one day take over all transportation systems because there "math department" are so far ahead of any other logistics/taxi firm that nobody will ever catch up.
Citizen's wage, basic income, ba<x>se salary whatever you want to call it. Create abundance, and revolutions will happen. New stuff that will genuinely improve our lives.
For the last 50 years the SINGLE revolution has been the internet. We had black and white TV in the 50s. We had cars. We still have TV and cars. We still wear clothes, heat ridiculously inefficient houses, drive to work. Computers alone, as far as the masses were concerned, before the internet, were just extensions of a TV. Washing machines existed already, dishwashers you still have to load and unload. World starvation is still a massive problem, as is clean, safe water access.
There are MILLIONS (billions?) of us "working" full time every day. What are we achieving? Nothing, in the main. Nothing. Why? Because we have lost sight of one question, from Aaron Swartz:
[WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW THAT NEEDS WORK? WHY AM I NOT WORKING ON IT?]
The ONLY thing to change the world was the internet. Why? Because it was given away FOR FREE. If it wasn't free, there would have been many competing internets that would have competed against each other and not interfaced well with each other - useless. It would have fallen.
Stuff is inherrently FREE, in that we created money to pay for it, but the thing itself doesn't naturally have monetary value attached to it. Money used to be ba<x>sed on the number of black people [EDIT: NOT JUST BLACK PEOPLE - ty ck1964 for highlighting this error!] who bled and died finding shiny gold stuff of no practical value whatsoever. Now it's not even ba<x>sed on that.
Banks loan it to governments, who loan it to smaller banks, who loan it to us. The interest at every step of that process is never printed. So, bankruptcy and scarcity are programmed into our monetary system. My reference is the guide to making money written by the US Federal Reserve Bank in the early days.
So, food is free (that project is awesome by the way, look them up). Energy is free, we have ways of storing renewables, they just won't invest in it. Transport is cheaper all the time thanks to Uber, who will one day take over all transportation systems because there "math department" are so far ahead of any other logistics/taxi firm that nobody will ever catch up.
Citizen's wage, basic income, ba<x>se salary whatever you want to call it. Create abundance, and revolutions will happen. New stuff that will genuinely improve our lives.
36-40, M
