Now that unrestrained and unregulated capitalist speculators have run the world economy into the ground for the second time in 80 years...
In the earliest days of agriculture, back in neolithic times when our ancestors were digging in the mud with pointy sticks, trying to make deep enough furrows to plant in, one of them saw a wild bull and thought, "If only I could use that animal's muscles to pull this stick..."
But the animal was too wild, too dangerous, too full of piss and vinegar.
However, our ancestors, having the advantage of large brains (which we, their descendants, seem to have lost at times) figured out a way to castrate a few of those bulls. And lo and behold, the bull became an ox, and the ox was more docile than the bull, and cooperated in learning how to pull a plow.
Capitalism is a wonderful and powerful and creative tool, but it's also wild and uncontrollable if unaltered. We need to do the same thing to capitalism that our ancestors did to the wild bull.
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We should teach our children to enjoy cooperation instead of competition. People could draw pleasure from moving everything forward instead of themselves in contrast to everything.
Actually, the world has too many people on it now, speaking of children. We might implement a policy that a 20% random sampling of the world population can have a child. That would be in effect until the population gets down to 50 million. Then the program could switch to the maintenance level of something like .6 children per person or 1.2 children per couple--60% of the people could have a child, randomly chosen. I think .6 per person translates to 6 out of 10, or 60%.
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