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Less technology & more community - via a secondary monetary system and stricter laws on social media

Anonymous

April 26, 2023

Less technology & more community - via a secondary monetary system and stricter laws on social media

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Climate crisis and corona all point to the way of over-exploitation of our planet and the creatures on it. The first lockdown created a brief pause but of late everything has seemed to return to the old stressful way of life, with highways once again full of trucks and cars. Nothing seems to stop the rat race, if only because "it's all about the economy" - even if it's at the detriment of our health and the planet. We're all hostages of neoliberalism and the Stockholm syndrome isn't being healed. That needs to stop. It must. One sad aspect is how the over reliance on technology has created havoc. Cambridge Analytica & Trump have shown us how social media can be turned evil ; more needs to be done in that respect, beyond GDPR, to protect our democracies. Moreover, Silicon Valley distrupters and other lobbyists have enriched themselves while causing chaos and profound unhappiness. Yet people like Richard Wilkinson, Rutger Bregman and the late Bernard Lietaer have already pointed to the solution : more equality, a better distribution of wealth, companies paying their taxes like everyone else. Key in this vision is not "universal income" however, if only because it's taboo for a lot of politicians. A better way of realising change is starting with a secondary monetary system as Bernard Lietaer has recommended. Because the euro and the dollar etc. are about sarcity and stranglehold (hostage holders & lobbyists), while a secondary coin will liberate energy and cooperation. Essential in averting the climate crisis and repairing floods. This can only go hand in hand with more participation & deliberative democracy. G1000 was a good start but we need to go further if we want change - because politics is at the merci of lobbyism & sectarianism.

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hallo
on est vraiment sur la mauvaise pente
For me 2050 will have to take up the most important points of the past, a slower life, less technology, less social control, more freedom, a true democracy and not that of today where those who have the most power have never been chosen by the people, a sovereign Belgium that can make its own choices while working with its neighbours, including our Russian friends. More contact between people in cafes and resting, in the cinema, and less life via screen. And in our plate especially keep the quality of our local craftsmen and not the m*** indstrielle transcheese. Let us also return to traditional values and let the woke of the left find themselves in their real place ... in the asylum because they are dangerous And especially not touch my real steack raised with grass by farmers who love their craft. You will have understood ... the very opposite of the desires of the globalists of the EU:-)
hallo
zorica.bruski@gmail.com
Zamišljam 2040. godinu kao svijet u kojem je klimatska kriza stavljena pod kontrolu, a obnovljivi izvori energije u potpunosti dominiraju globalnim energetskim sustavom. Odabrao bih temu čiste energije i održivog razvoja. Želio bih da do 2040. godine svijet bude vođen zelenim tehnologijama, gdje su solarne, vjetroelektrane, hidroenergija i napredne baterije standard, a fosilna goriva stvar prošlosti. Gradovi bi bili puni zelenih površina, zgrada s vertikalnim vrtovima i samoodrživih zajednica. Električni automobili, javni prijevoz na vodik ili baterije te pametna infrastruktura omogućili bi minimalnu emisiju CO₂. U ovoj budućnosti, ljudi bi živjeli u harmoniji s okolišem, reciklaža i ponovna upotreba materijala bili bi norma, a klimatske katastrofe smanjene na minimum. Globalna suradnja i razvoj novih tehnologija donijeli bi stabilnost i pravedniju raspodjelu resursa, čime bi se smanjilo siromaštvo i povećala kvaliteta života za sve. To je svijet kakvom težim – održiv, tehnološki napredan, ali prije svega human i u ravnoteži s prirodom.
hallo
Fantaziram
Instead of a short maternity mother, she could get a new job that is done from home to be with the child. Or he works part-time on a full-pay basis. In addition, bonuses and benefits for each subsequent child to boost the birth rate a little. The father would be a pillar of the family again. Children do not have to be condemned to spend their childhood in kindergarten. After that, the school system could prepare them for real life. They would learn the basic things necessary for the functioning of the household and the family. And later something from the profession that they are interested in and there is a real demand for it. At least 5 numbing subjects can be removed from regular classes because everything is available online (geography, history...) or the subject itself is unnecessary and boring to most children (musical, visual...). For 99% of things, one query to a chatgpt is enough, I can't imagine how much AI will progress in 15 years, mostly schooling is almost completely unnecessary. If the flow and similar tricks made by fools from children are banned, they could grow into relatively normal people who have a goal and purpose in life instead of just consuming air. They'd be paid at work, and they'd have time to rest. States would not fund all sorts of nonsense and would not absurdly print nonexistent money, we would turn more to the local community and self-sustainability. Pensions would not be needed, there could be some state social system that would allow pensioners to get everything free (up to a certain limit) instead of cash payments. They would live and work in smaller local communities. It's a pretty unrealistic scenario, because all those billions of dollars have to be washed away. There are no men of progress in us when greed and the desire for power reign.
hallo
Raggiungere l'immortalità
Technology has taken unexpected steps since 2025, today we can live 300 years with the appearance of a twenty-year-old, there is no need to work robots work and create economy for us. Teleportation is now a solid reality, the next step is to achieve immortality. We are almost eternal.
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