Include both good and bad morals, habits, views, etc.
Well. Everyone has a balanced life that includes work, exercise if able, fun free time and rest. Everyone has enough to eat and the economy is more at the bottom than the top. All companies are employee owned.
I don’t think anything would collapse, there are enough examples of big and small employee owned companies to know it works.
We are not driving much anymore and the city is hella crowded because now nobody wants to live on the outskirts anymore, we all want to live close enough to everything to walk there. we will have to deal with it. But at least it would leave room for farms & wild spaces. Farmers would still want to farm but small farms only oh no everything is expensive but well, no more profits being funneled up and out so we can afford it, it will settle out.
First, the struggle to make sure everyone has enough food, shelter, clothes, etc.
Then we have to get people to do the jobs no-one wants to do. Either we automate them or make the job tolerable. Until then, we might rotate workers in and out of duty, spreading the discomfort.
Then we have to adjust to the increased demand for some resources. Just as plumbing increased the demand for water (but also vastly improved living conditions) so will many other resources follow. Getting it all going while keeping it sustainable will be tricky.
And then, someday, maybe centuries later, post-scarcity communism. And according to the Fourth International–Posadists, this will be a prerequisite before we colonize space, or other worlds.
I think, once we regard greed and power consolidation as a treatable illness, human society can do this. But I don’t yet comprehend a complete path from here to there.
- So much open source software.
- Dedicated protected skateboard lanes in all roads.
- No more corporate mergers, of any kind or size But first, all restaurants are Taco Bell.
Oh we are fucked
The good kind, or the bad kind?
- Streets would begin getting ripped up in favor of public transit
- Queer, disabled, and indigenous rights (mandatory blue hair for everyone! /s)
- All drugs decriminalized, weed and psychedelics legalized but regulated. Addiction treated like a medical/policy issue rather than a criminal issue.
- Billionaires taxed into nonexistence. Anything over $10M taxed at 99%. All of that money would be funneled into schools, healthcare, and public works.
- Promoting fascism would be treated as a hate crime
- Universal healthcare and UBI
- Union and immigrant rights that favor people over corporations
You have my vote!
Eh, never considered myself a particularly moral person, but I did end up as a car-hating vegan somehow. So we’d have some pretty nice walkable towns and good falafel places.
Traffic would be very efficient. Climate change would be addressed immediately. Billionaires would not exist for very long.
A millionaire once was asked “How did you become a millionaire?”
He said: “Oh, it was, simply, because of my wife”
“Well, I see. And what have you been before?”
“A billionaire.”
Booooouuuuuuuh 👎
Everyone keeps saying ‘no, after you’ and no one manages to get through any doorway as a result and we all die of starvation/exhaustion.
No. More trees!
Sure thing boss
All knowing polluters are instantly evaporated. ALL OF THEM, even the dropper of cigarette butts, no trial, lasered from orbit. Everyone remaining has varying substance abuse issues.
Religion membership drops to zero overnight. No more war, rape, or child abuse. No child will be born ever again. Landlords, billionaires, and capitalism vanish immediately. Total economic collapse. Infrastructure decays immediately and billions starve.
Just being realistic…
All economies collapse immediately.
Why would that be?
Take a wild fucking guess.
No fucking clue, which is why I asked dumbass.
The world would be a lot more funny and a little less efficient.
Oh, but the memes!
I think I’m a pretty kind and outgoing person. I’m also decidedly socialist, pretty much at eat the rich levels. So I think the world would change for the better, get some huge taxation going on the mega rich and funding for stuff like UBI. Dramatic shifts to renewable energy. People would probably stop killing each other. I can’t imagine doing that to someone else not in self defence.
I commute to work by bicycle and think cars are useful but good public transport is better so that is probably handy.
Down sides I’m a habitual comfort eater and love food so the obesity problem might get worse.
I’m pretty sure that the world would have a lot of problems, since everyone would want to do the same things I would, which isn’t really what the world needs…
Good luck affording concert tickets when every single person in the world wants to go to that show.
And when the musicians don’t want to be performers!
