But wait, don’t most people want a better job? A better life?
What happens when somebody can offer that up to everybody? It’s kind of min/maxing the corporation to win at the recruitment process.
And who else is talking about that in this context? You’ve got to admit there’s at least an interesting angle in there.
And that’s where we got into overwhelmingly unreadable! I bet with some of the new structure we’ll be able to address some of that now, but one of the main reasons for this thread is to get more fingers in the pie, so to speak, to give us a more creative set of ideas and options and quite a bit of help, actually (which is kicking into gear! Though you’re right, we need a bit more to really get rolling.)
I can partially address that, however, because you have NO idea how much work and obsession went into this part of the problem. I’ll expose a bit of the thought process behind it too, because that helps, right? A lot of this info was in older versions but I think it can be tighter now.
People talk about ‘failed Utopias’ all the time, and there are many . . . but you dig into them and you find out that there are a LOT of pretty decent one-generation-long success stories . . . but things totally fall apart once they have to hand off to another group. And while living a better life for our short lifetimes sounds nice, that’s also . . . lame.
So, who the heck do we trust? We’ve kind of got no choice but to trust the children, because they’re the ones who are the next generation, right? But I’ve both been a child and raised one to adulthood (with two others working their way up), and that idea just gives me the giggles in the context of the world today. 
So, we ended up with a goal within a goal. Taking over our lives, environment, and putting a framework around us that is designed to get the best out of us and make it easier to be better people in general with a multitude of mind-hacks and such sets the stage for raising better people than we are. Education is a MASSIVE part of the focus, and all those mind hacks and the rest apply to the kids too, right?
But they have advantages we don’t, we just have to get to them early and raise them to be un-brainwashed, to value reason and logic and fun, to value kindness over cruelty, the list goes on . . . we can’t just shift gears like this, most of us are too old. We’re pretty screwed up by the time we hit our teens because of how we’re raised, true?
And therein lies a huge point. The reason this idea’s designed like it is . . . there’s no way we’re going to get this right. We’re too broken, the best of our ideas are tied to context. If we don’t raise better people and encourage them to be exactly what we never could, then we’re not going to get anywhere. No solution we have is going to be better than half-assed, at least when looked at from a lens from the future.
So . . . we raise better people, and we design the system to allow (or even encourage or force) them to take what we’ve got and use it to create something better. We can’t know what that is, because most of us are mad. Cognitive dissonance is too powerful a survival trait to allow us to take these steps ourselves.
I’ll stop there to avoid density, but is that showing a bit of that part of the evolution properly? Like I said, VERY humble, scientific method on top, very aware that we’re completely screwed up, luring us with honey and using positive biases not to fix everything ourselves, to give them a big reset button.
Because . . . yeah, I’ve got nothing else. I think we’ve got something very solid here, but I’m not going to pretend I’m not a bit of a broken toy myself. If we don’t have a plan for that next step then we’re just taking too many risks IMHO.
