Posted on 07/09/2015 9:13:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
See? “above” ... what is “above”? At one time this was understood quite literally. How is it understood now?
Depending on the person, perhaps black helicopters, or then again the legendary FSM. That’s if one expands to “help from above”.
You’re dodging. What do you see “above”?
So that’s equivalent to $45,000 per day.
I’ll drive one of my Lamborghini every day.
I’ll take the job, based on the fact you’re a FReeper, and are probably a decent person.
Are you talking about with eyes or something else? Ain’t a dodge if one explores all possibilities, is it?
This is the quintessential dodge. How to believe without believing.
Really? Who's going to just give it away? Someone has to start the process. Who will do that for free.
This has to be the most absurd article I've read in years.
This is the kind of economic thought that generally surfaces late at night in the dorm after a three hour bong-a-thon, featuring some potent green bud. Normally it is followed with cheesecake and eight hours of sleep. In the morning it is forgotten.
You would pick anything you desire like fruit growing in an endless orchard.
Our orchard will be the vast expanse of the entire Universe and all of its elements. Infinity as we perceive it.
And beyond...
We deceive and fight due to scarcity of materials, space and time.
Eliminate the scarcity for everyone and people will see again what is important
Also meant to say that the process will not start for “free”. People will initially develop these technologies for a greater piece of this pie
But eventually these technologies will make things so automated and abundant that the pie becomes infinite.
I’m talking to the point where people can create and terraform entire mini planets for themselves and generate any environment they like any time they like with self-replicating molecular machines.
Sure, today it seems crazy and maybe dangerous. But think how drastically the picture changed in less than 100 years with relatively simple technology. We still have people on this Earth who live like apes
Not true at all. Deception and fighting went on even during the years of plenty and excess. Human nature is not dependent at all upon material abundance; in fact, such abundance makes us forget about God quicker.
Blue collar skilled trades are the future, because it is too complex for machines and too many people don’t want to do the work.
The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://tamarawilhite.hubpages.com/hub/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment
We have NOT had true plenty and excess for all of recorded history. Endless food, land and perfect climate for ALL. Such a concept is so far removed from our current view of the timeline that we cannot even comprehend it. Yet, every culture STILL has stories passed down from the times of “Eden”.
We simply ran out of such perfect places on this planet. Not enough land and fruit for us to simply frolic in nature without using labor/force. Then our minds slowly evolved to fight over these things for hundreds of thousands of years. Through thousands of wars and genocides fought over land and food.
But once you strip that all away and make all we fight for irrelevant, you see Love and the sharing of it is the true primary desire of man. It will all re-emerge in a future chapter
The really bad jobs will pay two cents an hour instead of one. Capitalism isn't eliminated under the author's vision -- the numbers just get smaller.
Yeah, sure. Marx said the same thing in 1848.
Marx lived in a struggling agrarian society and had little comprehension of what is possible. Just like all of humanity for hundreds of thousands of years.
The entire Universe will eventually become our new orchard, our new Eden. Infinity
And then beyond...
With whose help, now? Not humanity by itself. You still don’t seem to understand greed.
If everything is cheap so it the fantastic little machine. It's just another thing.
We are on the verge of an unprecedented understanding of the Higher Power, the theory of everything, infinity, eternity, unity etc. Known as “God” for most of history
So yes, it is all coming together.
Despite the forces of evil and doubt...
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