Could You Imagine a World where Everyone is Rich?
106 sats \ 8 comments \ @tomlaies 27 Aug 2022 bitcoin
Maybe not by thens standard but at least by todays standard? Everyone has a study apartment in Manhattan with an amazing skyline view and a homestead with acres of land. Everyone can drive a Mercedes and everyone has the financial buffer to be jobless for a few years if necessary and everyone works 20h per week and most of societies work is done by robots etc etc
Could you imagine living in this world? Or is it impossible due to the human condition?
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @2bithits 27 Aug 2022
A lot of western countries are rich, even the poor. You can see by the kind of stuff they throw away on the street, microwaves, TV's, furniture. Kings of a few hundred years ago could never imagine the riches we have today. So, we can't imagine what a world where everyone is rich
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @02174b3c39_lntxbot 18 Sep 2022
I can easily imagine a world where noöne lives in poverty, and if that costs anyone living in wealth, I'd make the change.
However, it is still possible to be "rich" without beggaring your fellow human beings, and in post-scarcity (the kind of place where an epidemic of obesity can occur) world, that will probably happen.
I care not how rich you become, but only when no child is deprived of universal basic infrastructures.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 27 Aug 2022
If humans can solve the problem of cheap unlimited energy anything is possible for our Species
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @KingZing 27 Aug 2022
We do improve our standard of living over time. But not everyone is going to drive Mercedes, that is just not how it works.
But can a lot of us all get a car that is relatively luxurious, fun to drive, full of features and not overly expensive? Look at lexus as an example. A little cheaper? Mazda.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 27 Aug 2022
I can imagine it, but I don't expect it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @om 27 Aug 2022
Amazing view for everybody - that might be difficult.
Cheap food for everyone - I don't see why not. Clothing was a major expense for most of human history and now it's trivial.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @anonporridge 27 Aug 2022
Yes. It might require a drastically reduced human population to support based on the resource limitations of this planet though.
But those things won't be seen as valuable or special when everybody has them, so the desire and drive of the human heart will move on to pursue some other scarce thing.
Perhaps people will decide that owning an apartment in Manhattan and a homestead in the country are too pedestrian and true luxury is spending your life as a homeless wanderer, because that's hard for normal people to pull off and if you can, it becomes a status symbol.
There is no satisfying the insatiable desire of the human soul.
“Desire is the root of suffering.” - the Buddha
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @pi 27 Aug 2022
The answer is NO, mainly and ultimately because value is subjective.
Not everyone is going to value either those assets or the work required to afford those assets equally.
Some dude may prefer a cabin in the woods, whereas another dude may prefer “enlightenment” and never be in the position to make enough money to afford a Mercedes.
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