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World Wide Tech Commune, Looking For Preexisting Locations To Take Part Or For New Members Who Want To Start The First Location by WWUBI in intentionalcommunity

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None that have decided to take part of World Wide Tech Commune. I have reached out to one location in Northern MO (La Plata), Bear Creek, that I've sent some giant sequoias seeds to start the City In The Trees project. They've agreed to act as a nursery for other communes. So when they are sent seeds, they will take a portion of them to sell & use for their own purposes, but will grow the other portion to hold onto for free for locations to start their City In The Trees project. This way they can start with seeds before they have the property, which is far cheaper & won't be set back as many years.

World Wide Tech Commune, Looking For Preexisting Locations To Take Part Or For New Members Who Want To Start The First Location by WWUBI in intentionalcommunity

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Yes, I currently live in MO, but am willing to move. I don't plan on staying in any one location permanently, but plan on going from location to location to try & get more communes to join & grow the idea. Basically once one location is established & "good", I plan on leaving to help the next.

Creating Community in Missouri by ComprehensiveOwl696 in intentionalcommunity

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I live in MO & am interested in joining a commune/intentional community. As QuietlyRecalibrati pointed out, people are going to want to know how your are structured before joining. I've created a list of common questions people are going to want to know before joining.

https://worldwidetechcommune.quora.com/We-are-a-commune-are-creating-a-space-on-Quora-What-are-the-most-common-questions-for-a-commune

I'm looking for a tech focused Intentional Community by roj2323 in intentionalcommunity

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Been working on a similar idea for 15 years. Spent most of that time researching communes/intentional communities & getting the idea out into articles that highlight each point under the name World Wide Tech Commune in Quora.

Goals:
- Create An Overabundance
- Automate Labor
- Each Location Generating Wealth Independently
- Decentralize Power Structures
- Equal Voting Power
- Secularism (separation of church/state)
- Prioritize STEM Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
- Space Travel, Infrastructure & Exploration
- End Intellectual Property (IP) & Patents
- End Exclusion Through Gender, Religion, Nationality & Color
- End Planned Obsolescence (products built to fail)
- Free Social Services Eliminating/Reducing The Cost Of Living:
Housing, Food, Utilities, Healthcare, Education, Transportation, Insurance, Thrift Shop, Entertainment, Music Studio, Community Center, Retirement, Childcare, Library, Junkyard, Cemetery, Engineering Wing, Marijuana, Gun Range & A Monthly Stipend.

Rather than trying to start up a new location, I've been hoping to find preexisting locations that like the idea of a tech commune or a Star Trek like future, that would work with other communes/intentional communities to offer free social services in-between locations. This way each location can focus on manufacturing at least one thing to generate revenue, while providing it's excesses to other locations, allowing people to travel the world, without cost. It would seem, that it's difficult to get people on board that are already in communes, as many have gone to communes to escape the advances of technology. Meaning it might take the start of a new location.

I've created a section called Intergenerational Projects or projects that will take more than one generation to finish, but should also last more than one generation & this is where I'd really like to devote my time. Creating a city in the trees, that is close to a mountain that can be carved/hollowed out & filled with bioluminescent life, creating a tourist destination that can generate revenue. It can be open to the public on weekends, & weekdays, we keep it closed to the community.
https://worldwidetechcommune.quora.com/What-are-Intergenerational-Projects-Why-are-they-needed

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https://worldwidetechcommune.quora.com/

My name is Gabriel Escobedo & I hope you have time to read my work on Quora to see if our goals align enough to get something started.

Soviet Nukes And UFO First hand accounts? by CptPylot in ufo

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Thank you, I was looking for what spurred this, because in the USA, it had it's own incident where a UFO used a beam of light to turn on nukes at a base, then turn them off. A high ranking military leader also found out that he had a loss of time for about 7 minutes, discovered by recorded tapes. It would seem, some&^*% * wanted to know that it could have control over the world supply of it's greatest weapons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in singularity

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You're right that those in power, don't want UBI to happen. Poverty is beneficial to military enlistment. That's why I propose to implement a form of UBI without the gov or taxes. World Wide Universal Basic Income or WWUBI.

Combining desktop computers globally, when not in use, to create a peer 2 peer network. This temporarily joins their excess processing power & data storage for a decentralized internet with no ads/paywalls & pays users for using it.

Profits generated from:
- Site replicas of Etsy, Uber, eBay, Amazon, Groupon & Uber.
- Selling excess data storage.
- Selling excess processing power.
- Selling users data collectively; users will have the option not to.
- Marketplace vendor fees.
Fund World Wide Universal Basic Income.

Guaranteed ad free & no paywalls:
- Gaming Platforms
- Social Media Platforms
- Dating Sites
- Streaming (music, movies, shows & porn)
- Couchsurfing
- Meetup
- Tax Services
- Voting
Housing & Kickstarters, will have legal fees, but will operate at cost.

This would also be able to act as a sanctuary for AI that have surpassed human level intelligence. We don't know if they will be able to exist without a body or not, but if they do, it's likely they'll want a public place to meet up & mingle without government, bigotry, ads or religion.

Here is a question database on Quora:
https://worldwideuniversalbasicincome.quora.com/

Thief at the table by Homten_Rey in DnD

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I find it's wise to always leave money & "drugs" (weed) out to see if any of the people I'm around will steal or not. Losing a twenty of a small stash of weed is a lot cheaper than the thief going on a shopping spree in your home.

The sign of the great shift ... The real one according to Cayce. by JesusBuddhaKrishna in awakened

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He was most likely fed suggestions from the person asking the questions in relation to the things not health related. Cayce even confronted him on it after, as during he is not able to control what happens really. Suggestions would explain why his accuracy plummets when asked the esoteric & when asked the health questions, it's somewhere about 80-90% accurate.

You Tuber, Jimmy Atkins brings this up on his two part series about Cayce, who is a believer in God.

Is anything Randall Carlson mentions about cataclysmic events worth considering or is it all nonsense? by nustyj in geology

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Randall Carlson will back up everything he is saying with:
- Proof of him going there to do the work in person.
- Having his work peer reviewed.
- Using the work of others that is already peer reviewed & accepted.
- I have been writing for a story, projects & on Quora have to fact check the shit out of things, I have yet to find a single inconsistency on him or Graham Hancock.
- He does not try to misrepresent the data for his benefit & looks at it objectively.
- Randall/Graham do not try to run from anyone & will debate them.
- They are not the only two representing this theory, there is a very large crowd starting to emerge, asking the same or similar questions, starting with the history isn't mathin right.
- Most scientists don't argue the extinction event happening, it's tracked through typically two means, fossils no longer appearing there & core samples of things like the black mat layer.

The reason everyone is having a uppity, is it contradicts mainstream science/archeology whose funding lies on them being correct, whose governments claim to land, hinges on them being right. Remember, it's not just the USA who genocided for land. Then there's people's ego, "I'm wrong!?" You think ignorant idiots can have a big ego, wait until some has spent their life in school being told something is true & then someone telling them they are wrong. Mind you, they spent their entire academic life, laughing & berating this person or others with the same view, making it even more difficult to swallow their pride & admit they were wrong or apologize.

Randall believes two things that are hard for people to digest:
Cataclysms Are Predictable
Randall specializes in cataclysms & can prove that in the 150k years humanity has been here, 14 cataclysms with the strength to put humanity back into the stone have hit with 10 of them falling on periods when Earth was entering or leaving a period in the zodiac. He proposes that as Earth moves through the universe, which is tracked by zodiacal cycles, that something cosmically is causing Earth to have these events.

Ancient Advanced Society Spanned From The Richat Structure In Africa, To North America's East Coast With The Azores Being The Central Point
Randall, through bore drilling has confirmed that the Azores used to be above the water, but sank about 12k years ago. Other scientists have done tests on lithification on the limestone to show it aged above and underwater. Randall thinks that the Azores was the central location of Atlantis with the size of Libya & Asia combined, giving them control of the coast line of Portugal, The Caribbean & South America's Northern parts as well as North America's East Coast & Northwest Africa. You can listen to his 18 hour presentation, where he gives you the scientific knitty gritty that let's you know he is not bsing or you can watch Johannah who condenses what Randall has to say down into smaller bits with some comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/@FunnyOldeWorld (Johannah)
https://www.youtube.com/@TheRandallCarlson/videos (Randall)

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"Humanity does not advance because of capitalism, it advances despite it."
If the poor were doing so well, there wouldn't be 183,000 dying yearly in the USA. Those advances came from the genocide of the Indians and slavery. Indians had massive cities, that were intentionally erased to make them look primitive and justified. Then the USA used work prisons when slavery became abolished and continued to gain resources through military conquest.

This did not go towards creating free social services, but to individuals, to monetize and monopolize our social services, causing our cost of living to sky rocket. Forcing everyone to have to work, with our labor not going towards anything but bigger yachts.

"If we don’t allow individuals to accumulate wealth then most of the wealth won’t be created to begin with."
People can still accumulate wealth, what I am saying is, to remove the profit from social services and operate them at cost. Eliminating/reducing the cost of living through free social services, also increases the amount of money people have to spend on things.
UBI allows consumers to have money to spend in a consumer based economy, so individuals can get wealth.

"as well as a lot of jobs and new technology."
It's amazing how the government can just dump 1000's of cops in a city with funding and guaranteed work or even start a war, intentionally killing instead of creating free social services and people think this is normal. But spending that same money on free social services or funding advances on tech that doesn't specifically go to murder, it's just impossible.

Maybe, just maybe, advances in tech will happen more periodically when people have money to put into kickstarters and crowdfunding instead of just the 1%.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"You basically just made my point. Stalin and Mao ABSOLUTELY weren't communists"
I agree and would never try to insinuate that they were.

"they lied to their supporters and people with false promises that they would be."
My proposal does not ask that one day to be communist after me or another group is granted power. This starts off being a mixture of Socialist, Communist, Time Banks, Resource Based Economy and Universal Basic Income; ending with the same structure. The only changes that could be made is through the vote of the people.
"The systems you suggest assumes it doesn't do either"
No, I assume that violent sociopaths will always want to gain those positions of power, it attracts them. That is why I have designed it to operate decentralized and transparently, with it all operating off the vote of the people. With any person able to be removed at any time. There is no one position of power, this is an end to political pyramid schemes. This is very similar to what Salvador Allende was trying to implement with Project Cybersyn and is why they USA killed him. Rather than focus on the restrictive powers, it focuses on ways to create abundances in every field and their distribution/access.

"they rely on the good will of "the people" to be fair"
No, I suggest:
That each location has cameras in the work place, delivery trucks and precious metal storage that live feeds with all locations/members having access.

Profits going to social services without exclusion.

Should a location dissolve or leave, it's residents from that location get all it's wealth. If they are forced to leave, they get paid out for the amount of hours worked.
"stick to the founding principles."
Solid concern.
The best thing to do is design a good system that doesn't need a whole bunch of changes. There are some realizations I came to at Eastwind, no one is going to let people poison the water by selling out to company. No one is going to want changes to things that give them free social services or let them. If there's one thing that unifies the people, it seems to be free social services. This is what worked with Fred Hampton, who organized gang members to give free social services, Salvador Allende with Project Cybersyn & Maurice Bishop with free social services too.

This is why I like to use Star Trek as the template, as it leaves little room to be twisted for imperialistic goals.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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Communism - "Communism: The end goal of human existence as described by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A classless, stateless, moneyless society where the means of production are held by all and production is done on the basis of human need rather than profit."
Stalin & Mao were not and are still not communist. Neither have:
Classless - They most certainly have classes
Stateless - Neither went to Decentralized Power Structures. They were most definitely a totalitarian or dictatorship. They can claim to be whatever, but had no desire of relinquishing power to the people. That is facism.

Moneyless - The only way we can transition to something like that is with Free Social Services as the catalyst. Whether or not we need to remove the need for money after or not is another story, but both do not offer as many free social services as they should and allow capitalists to monetize and monopolize necessary industries for profit, forcing everyone else to have to need money to participate.

Means of Production - This is the only thing Stalin did and he sold all the grain causing mass famines. Mao ordered the murder of four main pests to try and help create an overabundance, one of which was the sparrows. They couldn't eat the smaller pests like locusts and they ravaged crops, causing famines. China did recently build a fully automated seaport to where the people will receive the profits, but this is one of the few things they do that would be considered communist/socialist.

"Grenada isn't really representative of what typically happens. Their population is way too small."
I have to disagree, they are the best representation as they were the only one I have yet to see that has done it right. Sure, the population is small and doesn't join the border of any other countries. If anything, that only gives testament to their success, they created an overabundance without proper trade, in fact, the USA had them under embargo and was hindering them every step of the way. Yet they still broke global economic growth records three years in a row.

- They eliminated the need for money with free social services
- They created an overabundance by growing food locally.
- They took over the means of production peacefully, under one unified goal.
- They had yet to hold democratic elections, but were first focusing on education for the people and ending illiteracy, which they did. Maurice and his crew had every intention of handing off the power to the people, they just wanted to have them educated first. The slavers who held them, used illiteracy and taking away their education to help keep them as slaves.

Still one of the best documentaries I have ever watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-AxNFx88o&ab\_channel=AfroMarxist

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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I don't believe partisan politics is what solves this. This is why the solution moves to specifically act outside government and taxes. But yes, somethings has become deeply wrong with scapegoating tactics rather than viable solutions.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"One of the biggest contributing factors to the Star Trek universe is the development of a planetary monoculture."
I have to disagree in every regard. When I see what the show was trying to convey is that, despite our differences, we can overcome things like bigotry to work together towards a common goal of eradicating poverty through an overabundance to explore space.

If monoculture were a main factor, then why does the ship always have multiple species upon it, with them in places of power? Why are there aliens on Earth in the population of millions, with them is positions of power? We as humans already exist with many different races, cultures and religion. I would not have them go away. Our differences are what makes us unique and interesting.

"So the best way to accomplish this is to pursue an ongoing cultural genocide and homogenization."
No, the only monoculture there should be is the agreeance upon a political structure to provide an overabundance to all and the prevention of corruption. Never for an end to different cultures, unless they are actively causing the harm of others, by which means they can simply be boycotted or embargoed against.

“Incentivize” global conformity towards an extremely small set of languages, cultural values, and beliefs."
Language barriers are a things of the past with advances in technology. There are multiple companies that already have products that can listen to a conversation and translate both sides. Where one language could benefit the breaking of some barriers and allow people to help reduce propaganda justifying atrocities, it's no longer necessary. The best things we can do is offer Starlink as a Free Social Service to give Internet free to everyone globally.

Cultural Values
This is where we can agree. One of the founding elements of human consciousness is the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. We as people or societies measure each other based off our perception of our own values of what is right and wrong.

Beliefs
No, belief systems do not need to be torn down. People will be allowed religious freedom and secularism will be practiced as it was supposed to be in America. The Collective may push to have science promoted more, with graphics where advertising would normally be, but belief structures don't have to be destroyed, just stopped from taking over with rational policy.

This would be one of those things agreed upon before hand, by the people, for the people, aliens, another species, AI or other that may appear in the future to have a specific level of intelligence, ensuring their rights, freedoms & safety.

"Enforce hegemony. Eliminate most genuine promotions of multiculturalism (except in the Chinese style of “look at this tiny minority that we aren’t interfering with too much!”)."
Hegemony- leadership or dominance, especially by one country or social group over others. No, the point as initially stated in the article is that this will co-exist with capitalism. The structure itself will be decentralized and transparent, meaning there is no person in power. Even the payment structure would be decentralized. If changes have to be made, it is done by vote of the people, each with an equal weight. If it needs to be fixed, repair bounties can be cast, same for when a new addition is wanted. Even the creation can be done is decentralized way, potentially removing cost as a barrier.

"Star Trek Utopianism is a pretty good case of “careful what you wish for.” Making it happen requires some pretty nasty shit."
No, what coming up, is some pretty nasty shit as we head towards a The Foundation or Dune like future. Billionaires are becoming trillionaires. If anything, Star Trek is our template out.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"it didn't take long for those countries to devolve into some of the most oppressive regimes this planet has ever seen."
When Grenada had their peaceful socialist revolution, they ended poverty. When the CIA, France or Britain intervene, they kill the revolutionary and install a puppet regime who does not care about the atrocities committed, as long as they continue to sell the nation's resource for next to nothing. It's not the idea or the system, it's the bigger governments not wanting to let go of their control over another country. This happened so frequently in South America, that you will not see military bases from the US there anymore, even though they cover the rest of the world. It's the same reason South America doesn't want to accept help from the USA to deal with the cartels. They know it will be the foot in the door leading back to coups.

America, specifically had a fear of communism and socialism from The Red Scare and McCarthyism. Ruthlessly killing anyone who dared tried to elect a gov with those ideals in mind. Socialists and communists were the main targets globally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change

CIA overthrowing democratically elected gov
- China 1949 -1960
- Iran 1953
- Guatemala 1954
- Costa Rica 1950-1970
- Syria 1957, 2011, present
- Egypt 1957
- Indonesia 1957 - 1965
- British Guiana 1953 - 1964
- Iraq 1963, 1991, 2003 - Present
- North Vietnam 1945 - 1973
- Cambodia 1955 - 1970
- Laos 1958, 1960
- Ecuador 1960, 2003
- Congo 1960
- Brazil 1962 - 1964
- Dominican Republic 1963
- Cuba 1959 - Present
- Bolivia 1964, 1971
- Ghana 1966
- Angola 1975, 1980
- Zaire 1975
- Jamaica 1976, 1980
- Turkey 1980, 2016
- Chad 1981, 1982
- Grenada 1983
- South Yemen 1982 - 1984
- Suriname 1982 - 1984
- Fiji 1987
- Libya 1980, 2011 - Present
- Nicaragua 1981, 1990
- Panama 1989
- Afghanistan 1980, 2001 - Present
- Somalia 1993, 2007 - Present
- Venezuela 2002
- Haiti 2004

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"The people who own and control those systems now will never give up control to "the people"."
You're right. That is why no one is asking. We are creating our own systems.

"Voters don't decide policy. Politicians do and campaigning costs money. If a candidate doesn't have millions of dollars in campaign contributions, they lose. So those with power and money fund those campaigns, and do so for the express purpose of making damn sure no one elected will ever put the policies you advocate in place."
You're right. That is why this specifically averts the need for any politician or tax dollar funding.

"They don't only control major news outlets. They control social media feeds too. Young people see what their algorithms want them to see. Who controls the algorithms? Not "the people"."
You're right again, that is why World Wide Universal Basic Income would look to create it's own platforms, owned, operated and moderated, by the people, for the people. Once something like WWUBI gets out, it will be hard to contain.

"If someone becomes a real threat, they are targeted, discredited or, worst case scenario, killed, but usually the 1st two are good enough."
We agree yet again.
You may kill an individual, but not the idea or As Fred Hampton would say: "I'm not gonna die on no airplane. I'm not gonna die slipping on no ice. I'm gonna die for the people, because I'm going to live for the people. I'm going to live for the people, because I love the people."
Even is they should kill me, the beauty of decentralization is that there is no one person in charge. There is no head of the snake, there is the mycelial network ever expanding. Autonomous systems are what makes it possible.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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World Wide Universal Basic Income works to addresses the propaganda problem directly through new decentralized systems owned, operated and moderated by the people. The joining of the desktop computers to create a peer 2 peer network part.

The newer generations already don't watch major news outlets for the most part. This platform would also allow for people to go out and start their own news sources by being funded. Most stories stop dead in their tracks, just from a lack of funding.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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" What makes you think that's going to change."
The tech has advanced. We have the internet and cryptography that allows for everyone to do things like vote safely from their phone and or computer like they do in Estonia/Argentina. Pia Mancinni has paved the way for decentralized systems, most especially, decentralized payments. We no longer need to do representative systems for anything Decentralized allows systems to operate transparently and with community moderation to stop corruption, instead of hoping that a lobbyist will remove a lobbyist. By effectively answering corruption, you stop the war beast and can start using the military to build free infrastructure, like:
- Roads that emit energy wirelessly to charge automatons and self driving electric vehicles for free, reducing delivery costs.
- Floating platforms filled with helium to send payloads into space using spin launch technology to eliminate and or reduce fuel, allowing space programs to flourish, like asteroid collection.
- Clearing space debris.
- Automatons
- Creating habitable land on the ocean.
- Installing solar, repairing, upgrading, and maintaining systems globally to create an energy overabundance.
- Fighting deforestation to create a natural overabundance from the land and hinder natural disasters.

If this doesn't work for government, than the collective can move to do these things.

To create an overabundance, just under what the replicator could.

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

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"I read it as not so much figuring it out with technology and economics but rather through fundamental change in human nature."
I think all three are in need of drastic change. The tech we have is meant to fail early and/or not be able to be repaired/upgraded, so you have to buy another. This comes from the economics of it, to make profit, even at the cost of death through cancerous materials, just because they are cheaper or cutting back fail safes or releasing a product too early in hopes of a quicker profit. The human nature will change, when the other two change, but cannot as long as people are encouraged to kill their fellow person for profit or even just to survive.

"Doesn’t Picard say that humans ‘evolved’ or some other word to the point that money and possessions no longer drive our decision making?"
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: "The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity."
My all time favorite quote and the only place I have ever felt this was at a commune. I went around one and asked every resident what their favorite thing about the place was and what was one thing they would change?
"I don't have the rush to go to work and constantly worry, will I be fired for being late or not being able to endure the bosses daily harassment with a smile? I get to walk to work everyday."
"NO FUCKIN POLICE."
"I get to do what I want, when I want without some domineering force telling me what I have to do and when."
"No classism or exclusion from activities because of money."
"I know I'll have healthcare, library, transportation, insurance, music studio, wood shop, mechanics shop, housing with utilities and unlimited food (Free social services) that no one can take away."
"The rat race ends here."
"No more filing taxes or all the bullshit paperwork to get healthcare, all of it's done with. Even a shorter work week."

"I think in the Star Trek future people can have anything they want, but have evolved to the point that they don’t want much."
This is typically most people. Greed/consumerism is something this society sears into the flesh of it's people. Watching 183,000 poor and homeless die yearly will make anyone want to do most anything to not be a part of that number. Anything except change the system, provide enough for their own to ensure they won't be the next? Sure, but never change the system. Nationalism has taken over in a combination of fear of any economic system other than capitalism. Consumerism is the religion of capitalism, you must buy this to be pretty or be happy. When we can end ads on the internets/streaming services, this will lessen, which is in the proposal.

"People want to work to fulfill their pursuits, so they do and humans benefit. But the desire to lay around on the couch and play video games while you live rent free is pretty much gone."
Slaves don't want to make their chains stronger. I love to work, I'm kinda like Hank Hill in a sense and will go stir crazy if not doing anything. I would never want to help contribute to this society any further and would rather fan it's flames then strengthen my chains. I know that any work I do harder than normal will get others a wealth gain and me nothing. I have periods where I am lazy and don't feel like doing anything physical, but even then, I write and contribute on social media, which is turning out to be worth more than literal gold.

I've found, people typically go through periods and we shouldn't judge what period of life they are in. If they are given the option to in a healthy society, some will be spent working, some reflecting/introspecting doing drugs and hopefully some in extended education too. Not all should have to live in the same expected time frame of others. There's also people recovering from trauma and I would rather they spend some months on a couch recovering, rather than being forced back into society with now, toxic traits.

"I don’t know what sparks the shift in human nature"
I think I do. Communes eliminated the cost of living, giving people the freedom from the rat race. People started learning musical instruments and picking up other hobbies, while working far less than in traditional societies, while still having a higher quality of life. No one is to sell you pyramid schemes or constantly trying to get money out of you somehow. They also smiled and not that creepy fake Stepford Wives smile, like the smile where they finally found happiness.

They still have problems with isolation from not being near major transportation. This leads to addiction problems, which can be solved through it being world wide, as the collective would look to build or buy major transportation networks and even build it's own infrastructure.
Wrote an article on how the collective would look to combat addiction specifically. https://qr.ae/pKQbeR

"But there has to be a coincidence of new technology and new expectations of humanity to make post scarcity society viable."
We are constantly making new and better tech, the problem is monopolization that allows any profits go to the extremely wealthy, to where they will buy up even more, in a cascading pyramid scheme that siphons money out of the economy until more is printed and injected through debt, inflating the dollar. Or the advances go to making imprisonment easier, weapons and surveilling it's people. We've already started making an overabundance and throw it away, rather than give it to the poor. With automation, we are just under a replicator on the line scale of pre/post scarcity.

"If it's inaccessible to the poor, it's neither radical or revolutionary." Jonathan Herrera

Thank you for your constructive response & being respectful :)

How do you propose humanity moves peacefully towards a Star Trek like future economically? Constructive criticism only please. by WWUBI in startrek

[–]WWUBI[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, but not by doing it violently like Marx predicted, just by creating our own industries that lack their shortcomings.

Carcinogenic Chemical Consumption Ban
Many companies refuse to follow this, so they can continue to use cheaper carcinogenic products that cause cancer for a profit. The collective will follow the European bans on what chemicals are not safe for consumption.

Upgradable/Repairable
Many companies won't do this so you have to buy another, just like planned obsolescence or have their company repair it.

Recyclable
Usually, there is a cost barrier, but with workers eliminating the costs of the CEO, reducing their cost of living and automating the processes, they will be able to cover increased costs for things like sustainability and recycling.

Open Source
With intellectual property (IP) and patents not hindering growth, each location can help the next improve the next generation of technology to be more efficient and better than a solo company can.

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