Thread: The Population Bomb: How We Survived It
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Old 04-04-2011, 02:09 PM   #59
Enkidu of Abydos
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Seriously, we would still be living in trees were it not for selfishness, greed, and competition. Why is that bad now? Sharing the wealth (communism) is a silly concept. Without a goal of gaining money or power for yourself and family, no progress can be made.

That is why I think the future of our species lies in competition for wealth. The Google X prize is 20 million, plus additional extra cash for smaller wins, such as 5 million for safely sending your vehicle more than 50 meters from the landing site, etc. Private companies are doing it on a relative shoestring (it will hopefully come in under 20 million to do this, so maybe the winner will break even. Big reason to try hard to win. Otherwise, you lose big.)

NASA could never have done anything like it for such a low price tab in all its years of socially approved research. It takes greed and selfishness to progress, whether it be claiming the fruitiest branch on our particular tree or getting the best vehicle to the surface of the moon.

What was I saying? Oh yes, individual greed is good for the species. Also big population. There is plenty of space to spread out in the interiors of continents. Plenty of room to grow enough food, especially in some multilevel hydroponics farms that I heard about.

Let's breed wildly and get all of those people out competing to come out on top, then see how great and wide and creative our species really can become.

Yawn. It's mighty early to be up here on this soapbox with an empty coffee cup. Y'all go ahead and rip me a new one because I'm so selfish and backward. And comfortably well off because my husband and I like money and freedom. No plans to share it, nosirree.

I proudly shake my fruity branch in a display of wealth! Ook!

Jeez, I need more coffee.

(Most of the above is bullsh!t, you know that, right? Tim and I live simply and give to charity. I exaggerate to make my point that the population bomb is really a candy-filled party pinata, filled with potential goodness. H3ll, now I've sunk to metaphor. COFFEE PLEASE!!)
Such a wonderfully darwinistic / capitalist manifesto and then you go and spoil it at the end... I was really enjoying reading it (even if I didn't agree with it completely) until the excuses in the end.
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