Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization
by api on Monday December 01, 2014 @11:47AM
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Meh. Describe an alternative to a growth-oriented society that isn't either feudalism, some kind of white agrarian fantasy, or an even more imaginary "sci-fi utopia where everyone wears togas." (Google The Venus Project and the Zeitgeist Project for an example of this stuff.)
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Re:The resource leak bug of our civilization
by crpatino on Monday December 01, 2014 @03:49PM
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Don't discard feudalism just yet. If nothing is done (and there are reasons to believe that not enough will be done to count as "more than nothing") this is what we will be getting by default.
Also, do not conflate the social concept of feudalism (survival by pledging allegiance to a chain of command that competes with other chains of command for access to resources) with the particular customs, laws (or lack thereof) and religious & aesthetic sensitivities that occurred historically the last time this happened in Western civilization. It can be argued that global corporations are already modeled on those basis and beyond the control of outdated national democracies.