08-10-2016, 02:57 PM
We may be seeing the end of the Age of Scarcity. Although there will be shortages in high-priced luxuries (like shore-front property, gemstones, precious metals, lobster, abalone, leather-bound volumes of books, teak, mahogany, etc.), people will be able to live very well without having to do much work. Commodity fetishes and status symbols will become relevant. We are entering a world far less material, with even the printed word and recorded sound becoming irrelevant.
This could well be the ultimate meaning of the Crisis of 2020 -- how Humanity adapts. Do we cut back hours or do we waste resources on rip-offs and show projects?
This could well be the ultimate meaning of the Crisis of 2020 -- how Humanity adapts. Do we cut back hours or do we waste resources on rip-offs and show projects?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.