Many years ago, I used to debate people about this sort of thing all the time. I went onto boards full of liberal centrists who were generally pro-capitalism, and I proposed techno-socialist ideas that were pretty much
exactly like what the WEF are proposing.
- Abolish paper money.
- Replace private property with communal property.
- End private car ownership and replace it with public transportation and people basically Ubering a shared pool of driverless electric cars, since it’s a tremendous waste of raw materials to produce millions of cars only for them to sit on driveways unused most of the day.
- Put an end to conventional farming and rural life and replace it with vertical farming in the cities.
- End the commute and replace it with telecommuting.
- Get rid of office buildings (and all the intervening services people visit during their now-obsolete commutes) and replace them with more residential buildings to drive down the cost of housing.
- Aim generally for degrowth.
- Get rid of planned obsolescence and the throw-away economy and manufacture only durable, long-lasting goods.
- Move manufacturing closer to where products are actually used; eliminate the long transportation distances of finished goods by way of freight; each city should be an autarky in itself, capable of producing everything people need in it, hence an arcology.
- Minimal transportation means raw materials must be procured locally and finished goods must be manufactured locally. Bio-feedstock from vertical farms would be used for plastic goods instead of petroleum, making for a readily available supply of recyclable materials for solid items.
- Automate away most manual labor. Use the time and energy freed up to allow people to contribute to society and culture in communal Makerspaces.
- Institute a circular economy. Nothing is wasted. Nothing ends up in a landfill. Nothing non-recyclable is manufactured. Everything is reused, recycled, and upcycled.
These ideas are not new. The so-called
Technocracy Movement imagined a world much like this, many decades ago, and I drew upon them for inspiration.
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The Technocracy Movement believed that a society designed technologically, by experts, to command the economy and modify and guide human behavior, was more effective than systems of laws, fines, and other sorts of social and institutional coercion. Keep in mind that according to socialist tenets, the free market is essentially coercive by nature; refusal to participate means homelessness and destitution, and that, in turn, is considered intolerable coercion. An ideal system would basically provide for all human material needs automatically without people thinking too much about it or expending much effort (a post-scarcity system; think Culture or Star Trek).
The Technocracy Movement drew many of their ideas from Thorstein Veblen (particularly his work
The Engineers and the Price System), who was a turn-of-the-last-century economic critic who argued that wealthy people consume ostentatiously just to demonstrate their wealth to other wealthy people, that industrialists actually sabotaged the efficiency of manufacturing by intentionally reducing production to keep products from becoming essentially free, that goods were designed with planned obsolescence and endless consumption in mind, and that money and debt were totally meaningless. Think Karl Marx, but straight to the point instead of all the dense philosophical meandering in Das Kapital.
There are also shades of these ideas in
Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project and his idea of a Resource-Based Economy. He proposed the total abolition of money, the free market, and exchange, and treating resources and consumer goods like a utility. He also proposed the creation of “Circular Cities” (giant, EPCOT Center-like planned communities), for some reason, which would somehow solve all the problems of a normal square-grid city. To control his system, he advocated a form of governance he called
Sociocyberneering, which basically involved the computerized mapping of human behavior to predict people’s needs (there are some shades of
Project Cybersyn in all of it, but one can indeed see real-world parallels in the algorithms that are used to predict people’s viewing habits on YouTube and Netflix). For a while, his views were espoused by the
Zeitgeist Movement.
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People hated it. They thought it sounded completely inhuman, even immoral and nihilistic. Well, surprise surprise. This is apparently what the Elites had in mind for us all along, almost right down to the letter. Only, instead of it being a free and equitable system, it’s actually yet another Bolshevik scam to deprive people of their property so that the Party may have right of dispensation over it.
These ideas have the support of the most brutal and despicable totalitarians. I now see that far from being the utopia I imagined it might be, this is a monstrous evil that must be fought against. It
is inhuman. Nobody likes this, nobody wants it, and it must be vehemently opposed. I suppose the best I can do now is warn people about what the powers-that-be are trying to do. I’m well-acquainted with their theories, and I know exactly how they could be misused to create a nightmare dystopia that will make the Holodomor look like fucking Disneyland.
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