Six months ago, Anne Ndarua’s only son went to Russia on the promise of a job as an electrical engineer. She says he was forced into military training and she no longer knows if he’s alive.
Just when I thought the news couldn’t get any worse.
Lest we forget… power began with the nobles. Soon after, it moved to the lords of land, because they could control the marketplaces, discourse, farming… We regulated the land and soon after it moved to the lords of production, because they could control the process which produced commodities, necessities, and anything else to be consumed… We regulated the production and soon after it moved to the lords of technology, because once again they control the marketplaces and discourse.
In your view of the ideal world, how do you prevent power dynamics from shifting in ways that yield control to the bad actors of society? If you ever have a good answer to that, then here’s the follow up: how do you install that world, without subsequently making the Installer a superpower in its own right?
No more billionaires, or millioniares even. Put a world wide (I know) wealth cap at, say, 1 million. Any income (or wealth) over that goes straight to taxes. The poor pay no taxes. Governments get enough income to cover free healthcare, free education, UBI. Everybody is more or less the same richness
With that, power dynamics already become much less important. If nobody can hoard money (the inevitable root of power) nobody can get crazy rich
Break up all the current super powers (plus israel for being the biggest dick in the world right now) into smaller states. Have all states in the world join the UN and give the UN an army that is controlled by no single country, its controlled by all countries. It’s only missions should be peace, stability, and democracy
This sounds like communism. The problem is that the enforcer is vulnerable. They have far too much power themselves, being able to distribute wealth as such.
You need a system that just works that way. Not something that needs to be enforced. Like how you need more and more energy to get mass to the speed of light, up to infinite energy to go exactly at c. IMO, the best system would work like this, but in a way of preserving power to the masses of people in a more socialist-democratic kind of way.
The workers should own the means of production. There should be collectives of people everywhere, like some kind of federated society. And somehow, in some magic fucking way, all of this needs to work together without maintenance. That’s my personal opinion.
The problem is, I don’t think we’ve ever designed a society that is supposed to “work like gravity.” Not even sure where to begin, to be honest.
Organize all countries to setup a UN with an actual army with teeth to kick any dictatorship in the teeth
The current UN is a joke, it doesn’t do shit. I want a UN that is ALL nations and it has an army and it can kick any asshole dictatorship down into submission and turn it into a democracy
Democracy by force, is that it? Wouldn’t your UN be an authoritarian entity, then? Imperialistically forcing its view on everyone abroad?
But what of socialism, communism, capitalism, and the many other forms of economics that yield control to various other groups — even within a democracy?
But without any superpowers, who would have the power to stop someone while they consolidate more power?
Lest we forget… power began with the nobles. Soon after, it moved to the lords of land, because they could control the marketplaces, discourse, farming… We regulated the land and soon after it moved to the lords of production, because they could control the process which produced commodities, necessities, and anything else to be consumed… We regulated the production and soon after it moved to the lords of technology, because once again they control the marketplaces and discourse.
In your view of the ideal world, how do you prevent power dynamics from shifting in ways that yield control to the bad actors of society? If you ever have a good answer to that, then here’s the follow up: how do you install that world, without subsequently making the Installer a superpower in its own right?
No more billionaires, or millioniares even. Put a world wide (I know) wealth cap at, say, 1 million. Any income (or wealth) over that goes straight to taxes. The poor pay no taxes. Governments get enough income to cover free healthcare, free education, UBI. Everybody is more or less the same richness
With that, power dynamics already become much less important. If nobody can hoard money (the inevitable root of power) nobody can get crazy rich
Break up all the current super powers (plus israel for being the biggest dick in the world right now) into smaller states. Have all states in the world join the UN and give the UN an army that is controlled by no single country, its controlled by all countries. It’s only missions should be peace, stability, and democracy
Those points should bring the world there.
You need a system that just works that way. Not something that needs to be enforced. Like how you need more and more energy to get mass to the speed of light, up to infinite energy to go exactly at c. IMO, the best system would work like this, but in a way of preserving power to the masses of people in a more socialist-democratic kind of way.
The workers should own the means of production. There should be collectives of people everywhere, like some kind of federated society. And somehow, in some magic fucking way, all of this needs to work together without maintenance. That’s my personal opinion.
The problem is, I don’t think we’ve ever designed a society that is supposed to “work like gravity.” Not even sure where to begin, to be honest.
Organize all countries to setup a UN with an actual army with teeth to kick any dictatorship in the teeth
The current UN is a joke, it doesn’t do shit. I want a UN that is ALL nations and it has an army and it can kick any asshole dictatorship down into submission and turn it into a democracy
Democracy by force, is that it? Wouldn’t your UN be an authoritarian entity, then? Imperialistically forcing its view on everyone abroad?
But what of socialism, communism, capitalism, and the many other forms of economics that yield control to various other groups — even within a democracy?