[Industrialblog,
September 28, 2004]
The big picture
The big picture is this: We are trying to turn the entire world into New Jersey (or at least Mississippi) before we destroy ourselves by all the means at our disposal and before the oil runs out.
Globalization ultimately means we can eventually fit into one world economy the entire world's population and resources and turn it all into a first world economy. Once we do this, we have an end to the threat of overpopulation, because developed nations usually have slightly negative population growth.
One we stabilize the population through a one-world, first-world economy, then the rest is easy: Instead of deficit spending, we tax to pay off our debts and run a surplus. This surplus is then use to create a fund that eventually becomes so big we can run the government on the interest earned. No more taxes.
Because we have zero population growth and no taxes, one generation will be able to pass its wealth -- land, annuities, and the like -- to the next generation, making them asset rich over many generations. Eventually the entire world will live off the interest earned by these trust funds ... making the entire world mind-bogglingly rich. The whole world will consist of literary artisans and craftsmen (and C programmers) living peacefully with each other in tastefully decorated homes.
All we have to do is not kill each other in the next 150 years and we'll get there.
Globalization ultimately means we can eventually fit into one world economy the entire world's population and resources and turn it all into a first world economy. Once we do this, we have an end to the threat of overpopulation, because developed nations usually have slightly negative population growth.
One we stabilize the population through a one-world, first-world economy, then the rest is easy: Instead of deficit spending, we tax to pay off our debts and run a surplus. This surplus is then use to create a fund that eventually becomes so big we can run the government on the interest earned. No more taxes.
Because we have zero population growth and no taxes, one generation will be able to pass its wealth -- land, annuities, and the like -- to the next generation, making them asset rich over many generations. Eventually the entire world will live off the interest earned by these trust funds ... making the entire world mind-bogglingly rich. The whole world will consist of literary artisans and craftsmen (and C programmers) living peacefully with each other in tastefully decorated homes.
All we have to do is not kill each other in the next 150 years and we'll get there.
The B Ark was a ship sent out to avoid a fake disaster. It contained all of the useless citizens, such as telephone sanitizers. Everyone else stayed behind and didn't evacuate because the emergency was fake.
Then all of the useful people died from a disease spread by unsanitized telephones.
But I read all three books in rapid succession as a break in between reading tons of stuff for English class. Guess I didn't retain all that much beyond "42". And the giant room containing the earth where white mice experiment on us. Stuff like that.
Yep, Chris is right. I thought you were a fan. The pseudo-idyllic world you presented reminded me of one of the worlds Douglas Adams invented. I thought you would get the reference.
This was also my way of saying, "What the hell are you talking about?" Or, as someone recently said to me, "What's in the kool-aid you're drinking?"