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@hosford42
I absolutely agree that the root of the problem is an economic one, and things must be dealt with there in order to be properly fixed. However I don't think that we can reform the market system in a way that will prevent this from happening again. I think that as long as we use a money based system, people will find ways to accumulate it, as well as use it to subvert any laws we enact to prevent it. That's how we got here in the first place. It would only be making things a little better for a little while.

But even if we could do that, our troubles are deeper than that. Because we have long been capable of producing a much higher standard of living for everyone, but continuing to use a scarcity-based economic system, not only have we been simply keeping most people poorer than they need to be, but we have been wasting massive amounts of resources in doing so, resulting in the environmental degradation we are seeing the results of everywhere. We have to ditch the outdated system that is creating artificial scarcity by its very nature and employ a modern, scientific system that was designed for this very problem, that has both sustainability and efficiency built right in. Howard Scott's Technocracy is such a system: technate.org/tiki-index.php?pa
The result would be no more environmental degradation (by whatever countries use this anyway), no rich or poor classes, a much higher standard of living for everyone, very little work needed to produce that standard of living, and much more.
#Technocracy #Technate

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Hannah Arendt: The State, Society, and the Danger of Technocracy

⚠️📚 For Hannah Arendt, the fusion of state and society leads to totalitarianism. Politics must remain a space of freedom and deliberation, distinct from the management of needs. An essential critique in the age of technocracy. #Arendt #Politics #Technocracy #Freedom #Megamachine #Democracy 1. Arendt and the Radical Distinction between the Political and the Social Hannah Arendt draws a sharp line between…

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Homo Hortus · Hannah Arendt: The State, Society, and the Danger of Technocracy⚠️📚 For Hannah Arendt, the fusion of state and society leads to totalitarianism. Politics must remain a space of freedom and deliberation, distinct from the management of needs. An essential critiq…

If you're confused about why #Trump wants to invade Greenland so badly, you only have to look to the past. Elon Musk's grandfather believed in a 'Technocracy' that included Canada, America, Mexico, parts of South America (including the Panama Canal) and Greenland and it stands to reason this is junior's goal too. 🇺🇸

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The ConversationA 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances
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"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

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Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
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@paco @Sheril
The problem is the system itself, because it promotes and rewards bad behaviour. You need to change the rules of the game so that better behaviour is allowed to thrive, and then we can let scientists and engineers do what they were trained to do. The best system I've found for that was devised by a team of top engineers, scientists and other experts of various fields called The Technical Alliance, and they called their system Technocracy, long before it's meaning was changed to what you may know it as now. They picked it because it means "rule by skill", in other words, get the politicians and business people out of the way and let the experts just do their thing of making people's lives better. More information here: technate.org
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As the #Trump administration intensifies efforts to acquire #Greenland from #Denmark — or take it by force — some #SiliconValley #tech investors are promoting the frozen island as a site for a so-called freedom city, a #libertarian utopia with minimal #corporate #regulation, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

#broligarchy #technocracy #plutocracy #kleptocracy #autocracy #law #geopolitics
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Complicating matters, #tech companies are approaching multiple #power utility providers …seeking multiple bids for the same project, inflating power demand outlooks….

"What we're seeing is this huge proposed influx of these abstract projects that nobody knows anything about," Jon Gordon, a director at the *clean* #energy trade group, Advanced Energy United, whose members include clean power & large energy users like #DataCenters.