[quote=Arraya][quote=KSMountain]
So what’s your answer to my question?
I’m interested in your answer.[/quote]
I assume you mean in arraya’s ideal post-capitalist collapse world?
I’m not sure. We certainly have to think about the material demands of long distance travel and transport. Though, you certainly would have much more time to travel;)
We ship fish from Canada to China to be cleaned – then back to the US to be consumed. For some reason, economic sense is at odds with the real world.
But, the short answer is, no, money demand and power would be no more.[/quote]
Yeah I just don’t know Arraya. I guess I can easily see collapse somewhere out there – why not – it’s happened many times before.
On the other hand, haven’t there always been “elites”? Was there ever a time when there wasn’t inequitable distribution of wealth?
Even in the USSR you had the party members, the politburo, dachas, and highway lanes reserved for the elites.
Perhaps even in caveman days there was a guy who figured out how to attach a spearhead more securely to his spear, and was more successful hunting, and then got all the chicks. And the other cavemen were likely grunting in jealousy.
I am in rare agreement with Brian here. You get your “wish”, things go to crap for 10-15 years – then what? How do you know you don’t end up with something even more inequitable? Might that even be the *most likely* outcome?
Like the song says:
“You say you want a revolution, well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan”
