Re:Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West
by ilaksh on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:07AM
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The concluding sentence is the key takeaway for me.
> Unless the productive forces driving spiraling competition for diminishing social and economic resources are resolved, social atomization, cultural conflict, and their many effects will continue, in one guise or another.
My take is that most of the apparent social problems are related to problems like economic inequality and insufficiency. And the best hope we have to improve them is actually logistical/technical. Better application of technology, such as for enhanced collaborative monitoring and reporting of resource usage and more sophisticated distribution systems (including high-tech forms of money) should make a big difference.
> Unless the productive forces driving spiraling competition for diminishing social and economic resources are resolved, social atomization, cultural conflict, and their many effects will continue, in one guise or another.
My take is that most of the apparent social problems are related to problems like economic inequality and insufficiency. And the best hope we have to improve them is actually logistical/technical. Better application of technology, such as for enhanced collaborative monitoring and reporting of resource usage and more sophisticated distribution systems (including high-tech forms of money) should make a big difference.