Civilization is a collective benefit relationship.
Absolutely nobody here on this board (or that any of us has ever met) is making it entirely on their own. That is impossible for any person living in any society of any type. They only way to do that is to find someplace completely remote, go there naked and live off the land. good luck with that.
What most of us are doing is making it on our own within the caccoon of the society which makes it possible for us to be productive within that society.
So the complaint that the conservatives have: that too many of us us are too dependent of this society, does have merit.
For one reason or the other, fewer and fewer or us seem to be able to contribute to this society in meaningful enough ways to make us worth our salt.
And the complaint that most liberals REALLY have, is that the benefits of being a functional member of this society are not being shared equally, and that is largely WHY fewer and fewer or us seem to be able to contribute to this society in meaningful enough ways to make us worth our salt.
Both complaints have some merit, I think.
Finding the solution to that growing trend is going to be THE problem for all societies (not just ours) to solve in the 21st century.
Consider that technology may very well make MOST people redundant in the not so distant future.
What happens when computer programs can write computer programs better than computer programers can?
When brain surgery is mechanical?
When a computer can give you better legal advise than most lawyers?
Think things like that can't happen?
Right, and mankind will never have more food than it needs, and mankind will never fly, or visit the moon...and certainly no computer program would ever beat the worlds grand chess master, either. Human intelligence is too special...poppycock.
Something very much redundancy by technocide has already happened to a huge number of people in this nation.
The average IQ is 100, folks.
Much of what somebody with a 100 IQ can do is going to be done by machines or programs, and that has happened, not in my lifetime, but just in the first half of my adulthood!
Absolutely nobody here on this board (or that any of us has ever met) is making it entirely on their own. That is impossible for any person living in any society of any type. They only way to do that is to find someplace completely remote, go there naked and live off the land. good luck with that.
What most of us are doing is making it on our own within the caccoon of the society which makes it possible for us to be productive within that society.
So the complaint that the conservatives have: that too many of us us are too dependent of this society, does have merit.
For one reason or the other, fewer and fewer or us seem to be able to contribute to this society in meaningful enough ways to make us worth our salt.
And the complaint that most liberals REALLY have, is that the benefits of being a functional member of this society are not being shared equally, and that is largely WHY fewer and fewer or us seem to be able to contribute to this society in meaningful enough ways to make us worth our salt.
Both complaints have some merit, I think.
Finding the solution to that growing trend is going to be THE problem for all societies (not just ours) to solve in the 21st century.
Consider that technology may very well make MOST people redundant in the not so distant future.
What happens when computer programs can write computer programs better than computer programers can?
When brain surgery is mechanical?
When a computer can give you better legal advise than most lawyers?
Think things like that can't happen?
Right, and mankind will never have more food than it needs, and mankind will never fly, or visit the moon...and certainly no computer program would ever beat the worlds grand chess master, either. Human intelligence is too special...poppycock.
Something very much redundancy by technocide has already happened to a huge number of people in this nation.
The average IQ is 100, folks.
Much of what somebody with a 100 IQ can do is going to be done by machines or programs, and that has happened, not in my lifetime, but just in the first half of my adulthood!
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