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Get ready for a crazy ride! Insanity! A Rational Fact. I'm asking you to forget your everyday assumtions and beliefs about wealth and poverty and definately cnn and fox. If you think the chinese are taking your jobs now, get ready for a vastly greater enemy who could become your new best friend! This is crazy future-think but something like this may be inevitable if we survive the next 6 months ;). Suspend all your knowledge and beliefs for a moment and let your imagination freely follow the following assumptions, though they may seem impossible just now. Imagine a future world (possibly earth within just a few decades) where 100 percent of all manufacture of every physical product which humans need and want were produced in automated, robotic factories without any need for a single human worker. Related articles at GeorgeLog are: Birth Right Stipend A Robotic Dream Internal Exchange Clearing This article was inspired when I saw this page: U.S. Air Force Tunnel Boring Machine We are at a planetary crossroads people, I don't know if you've noticed. The future could be wonderful, beginning very soon. Or it could be rather pathetic if we fail to percieve the possible futures amidst the onslaught of information coming at us. Now, back to the original train of thought. How many jobs would this new hypothetical economy provide for workers so they could earn some money to buy from out of all this stuff? ZERO. OOPS. Hmmmmmm? As the modern global economy increasingly obsoletes the need for human input for producing an ever more plentiful, abundant output, the world's elite must inevitably choose a course among two extremes. Hog it all, killing the rest of us, or sharing the bounty fairly. Can you see this coming? It is inevitable that one day, virtually all the world's wealth will be unearned, and thus not rightly hogged by the few. The elites will likely seek to engineer an artificial shortage of production, keep its fruits for themselves, and let the rest of us fight each other to the death, solving their problem. This issue will be resolved by making a choice between: Globalization evolving to Global Government :-( or Pulling back from this abyss, choosing a world of Independent, Sovereign Nation-States :-) PS: This article fails to consider that the passing of global peak-oil may have just occurred. The rising oil prices during the "Cheney Administration" culminating in the oil price shocks of 2008 may have been the real trigger of our global economic plunge, while the wall street bankster-schemes merely amplified the market instability that had been predicted by peak-oil theorists. We may have just missed our last window of opportunity for gracefully transforming to a sustainable way of life. 
1. a shortage of petro, 2. an excess of dollars. And we're now set for both in spades. |
