I can perhaps understand how you may have come to that conclusion, since I have mainly focused on this issue as it relates to individual, rather than a society.
The point you made is not lost on me, it’s just that I personally hadn’t brought it so much into discussion.
My situation has changed some, laid off. Currently trying to figure out how my bank literally deposited my last paycheck into someone else’s account, due to their error they admit- leaving me perhaps unable to pay rent now because of a bank’s fuck up.
I trust institutions and especially banks and Wallstreet nil, this situation is further engraining that.
I am not a freeloader, but I’m tired of a system that treats me in many ways as a battery, without my say often, to keep it going, at my expense, and certainly not to my benefit.
There is a different way, and as the person who originally turned this into its own island of a thread, helpfully so, I’d hoped that others would simply discuss ideas on how to get to something like the society of TNG or something else different than what we have now, without the devolution of the normal snide personal retorts gradually derailing the conversations- which are important and necessary, in my view.
As for my idea- not going to say its possible to make something that satisfies both me and society. It was never meant as “whining”, I really was just curious to see what other views there are and how others would address it. Intellectual discussions and debate are diminished in our modern age in too much of the world, I was hoping for some here is all.
