Posted on 02/18/2015 6:36:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
If they want to pay to build me a Home, I want Mike Holmes to build it. LOL
“I thought hippies have been trying to do this in their communes since the 60’s. Seems they always end up either leaving broke or starting some sort of business dependent on capitalism.”
An acquaintance started a commune in the 60’s. He came from money and financed it. He had many followers on the commune until he stopped funding it.
“Yes, people are already lining up to watch for someone’s kid for free.”
Those people are called “grandparents” by most normal people. It’s usually easier to reach them by phone.
Check out his blog at: Scott Adams Blog ,P.But be sure to drill back to his older entries. It is pieces of statist crap like him that destroy freedom, when given power. The most laughable thing is he calls himself more libertarian than anything else, which would give libertarians a worse name than if they admit they worship Ron Paul.
He actually worshiped Bill Clinton, and said something to the effect that he would blindly follow any policy put forth by him because he was sure it would lead to a good result.
Scott Adams is human refuse who thinks he is smarter than everyone else. In other words, a typical liberal, statist, marxist.
“I’d like to know what they intend to do with all the takers in society.
I hope they aren’t expecting them to work in the communal farms.”
Has Mr. Adams considered the example of Detroit? Many of the ingredients for his utopia are in place in that city. There is plenty of vacant land to be farmed due to all of the buildings taken down , a significant idle and jobless able bodied population requiring food, benevolent charities prepared to fund projects helping the downtrodden, and community organizers to unite people behind a cause.
All the community organizers need is a little cash to build zero energy homes and give the unemployed people the tools to farm on vacant lots.
It is likely Mr. Adams is a multimillionaire member of the 1%. Since Mr. Adams knows so much about human nature and communalism, perhaps he would be willing to donate some of his money to show us all the way to his urban paradise in Detroit. He and his progressive friends can give community organizers a few million dollars to fund a demonstration project. Enlist Habitat for Humanity to build a few solar zero energy houses for the urban farmers. Once they’ve proven utopia works they can no doubt find other liberal philanthropists to extend the program to other cities.
Plenty of land, idle workforce, excess money in the hands of wealthy liberals needing to be deployed. How could this possibly not work?
Oh, I forget. Wealthy liberals don’t spend their own money to realize their socialist dreams. They spend their money to buy politicians who will steal the money from other citizens to execute the utopian vision.
Never mind.
The effective rebuilding in Detroit is being done by business in an exact opposite example. However the rich guys in Detroit these days aren’t building for socialism. They’re building for money.
“The effective rebuilding in Detroit is being done by business in an exact opposite example. However the rich guys in Detroit these days aren’t building for socialism. They’re building for money.”
I know private industry is working to rebuild Detroit and realize a profit. My post was meant to point out the hypocrisy of progressive who talk constantly about their visions for a perfect world but won’t spent a cent of their own money, or produce one drop of the their own sweat, to realize the vision. Not to mention their lack of knowledge as to human nature. Urban farms would exist on vacant lots if the local poor population had pride and a work ethic.
Exactly.
Utopia doesn’t work because our individual visions of utopia are all different and conflicting.
He needs to stick with comic strips - or move to some place that already practices his Utopian wet dreams in the realms of reality...
Good analysis!
If he wants 3-D printed houses, you’ll spend a lot maintaining them. We have to get the Roman version of concrete in mass production before buildings are as cheap as this guy imagines; otherwise, foundations and roads corrode over a few decades instead of lasting centuries. And printing houses with PVC or other plastics are not weather-resistant long term.
He assumes these cities are built on cheap land, which often means very flat and stable and safe. Challenge is, there are already cities in a lot of these places. Look at Tokyo and other parts of Japan - all the flat areas anywhere near the city are built on. To build his dream cities anywhere other than the middle of nowhere, he’d have to raze an existing city to build his paradise. The costs then become enormous. Build anywhere else like the middle of Arizona or Siberia, land is cheap, but HVAC demands alone are enormous.
Schooling at home assumes computer terminals everywhere; someone has to build those, and they don’t 3D print magically. Costs may come down, but not go away. Learning math, science and logic is more than memorizing facts on a screen, so teachers are still needed for many subjects - and some students can’t learn via online modules without guidance and supervision.
He assumes we’d all have a greenhouse in the house to feed ourselves. What about the retired lady with limited mobility who can’t do more than watch them grow? Or the person who hates to work with plants? No, comrade, out to the fields with you.
Forget solar power as the decentralized power source. I think the “poo power” buses in the UK, the waste processing plant that Bill Gates develops that dehydrates the water out of poop for recycling and then burning the dry waste to power nearby homes - that’s the future. After all, everyone eats and everyone poops. Add in food waste, pet waste and industrial livestock farm waste, and this could be a major power source and reduce the infrastructure needed for water treatment and waste handling. Add in a few solar panels to that arrangement plus natural gas plants for spike demands and nuclear to sustain the base load it already handles, and now you have a power grid that can meet demand.
Does early diagnosis let you prevent full blow diabetes? Sometimes, but not type 1. Does exercise and a healthy diet prevent a lot of problems like dementia and heart disease? Mostly. Will doing your daily tai chi cure cancer caused by genetic factors, Alzheimers or complications from a fall? Nope. Does assuming a healthy lifestyle eliminates everyone? Only if you kill those who it doesn’t treat. Oh, wait, he has that in his plan. So everything looks great and healthy as long as you ignore the murder of the kid paralyzed by falling out of a tree, the lady with dementia who was put to sleep like a pet, the kid with cerebral palsy not allowed to live.
Is he a leftist? Or ignorant?
Certainly on the left. His self-sufficiency dream is dependent on a tight knit community and everyone THE SAME. No one has room for anything different, like his talking about everyone having the same apartment, same router, etc.
I can’t remember where I heard the analysis, but it was that communes tended to attract the educated elitist or the low level worker who either has little desire to work or barely the ability to work (addictions, mental illness, etc).
They lack the farmers, carpenters and skilled craftspeople that they actually need to run.
My friend’s commune attracted stoners and people who didn’t want to do anything.
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