If I could change the world...

I would make it so that every country would have a national currency controlled be their own government and not by private fat cats. National currencies would be based on merit, rather than just nothing or gold which drives people crazy. When I say merit, I mean something in the real world was accomplished by someone's legitimate work. Then I would have an international currency that is based on gold. You can exchange your merits for gold, but only to be spent as a foreigner in another country. People would also be paid their merits for every effort they do that would help benefit society. Tier 1 wage: 60 merits per day (Preschool to high school) Tier 2 wage: 100 merits per day (unskilled, uneducated, assigned, or continuing education labor) Tier 3 wage: 150 merits per day (Skilled labor) Tier 4 wage: 210 merits per day (Educated labor) Tier 5 wage: 280 merits per day (Critical/Administrative labor) All excess profits and resources would go into Zero point energy and space development (such as particle acceleration propulsion), resulting in the creation of maybe a few or so Death Stars capable of housing all the civilized and inhabitants of the earth along with a huge zoo. I think this would save us all from being stuck on this world that's inclined to get smite down by passing comets, asteroids, rogue planets, solar flares, pole shifts, climate changes, natural disasters, and possibly other worldly invaders. So everyone can be sure to fit in our massive Death Stars some population control measure would have to be put into place limiting procreation to only be carried out only between the ages of 21-28, with an amount no more exceeding 3 children. Having children before the appointed ages, would result in a person only getting that one child and then they're immediately sterilized as penalty. Everyone gets sterilized at 27. However such rules wouldn't be come into effect without 10 years prior notice.

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Aug 16, 2018 at 10:56am

clean up required in the Confessional Aisle.

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Aug 16, 2018 at 11:44am

this guy again

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Aug 16, 2018 at 12:09pm

... one, you shouldn't call them Death Stars. Although, given that your basic premise is that everyone gets sterilized, I guess Death Stars might be a good name.

I do not think that I want to live on your spaceship with a "zoo."

This is very imaginative. What would the Parish Priest have done with this one back in Ye Olden Days? "Maybe you should...farm some grain instead..."

I'm game

Aug 16, 2018 at 12:42pm

Sounds like a great idea. All the down voters can be left behind to die their horrible apocalyptic deaths. We don't need them nay sayers.

Oh, the irony...

Aug 16, 2018 at 1:16pm

Generally, the more one understands the world (and the human species), the less one wants to run it.
Because, in no particular order:
- it's way more complex than anyone thinks,
- there are unintended (often appalling) consequences,
- utopia turns out to be unsustainable hell,
- it drives a human ever more insane (messiah complex),
- lots of people suffer and many die in ugly ways,
- thankless job,
- eventually, everybody hates you...
This list is not definitive. But the ultimate outcome of such tyranny has always been abysmal. An absolutely reliable track record unblemished by success.
The Pixar movie "WALL-E" (a personal fave) is a good reference for you. Creepily relevant to your vision.

By the way, this correlation (more understanding = less megalomania) does not hold for sociopaths, or many other dangerously pathological personalities.
They want to run it all, because all those things. Or despite them. Or just because it's what they really, really LOVE.
Which is why we eventually get rid of them. You have been warned.

One last thing.
You're a dude, aren't you? Not judging, just curious.

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@Oh, the irony...

Aug 16, 2018 at 1:23pm

Psychiatric terminology? Disney movies?

People are capable of pretending that they don't understand something if they don't like the consequences of understanding, they can just refuse to do the math.

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Aug 16, 2018 at 1:44pm

Have tried various permutations and mixes of this: Lenin/Stalin,Hitler, Mao,Pol Pot, etc and we all know how those worked out...

@ Oh the irony

Aug 16, 2018 at 2:00pm

Who said anything about Utopia or running the world? A Utopia wasn't described, and big money does need to stop getting in the way of human technological and social advancement. Otherwise we're locked into a never ending cycle of wars over oil, and drugs.

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@@ Oh the irony

Aug 16, 2018 at 4:25pm

Exactly. Those of us who want to live on Death Stars should be allowed to build them.

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What was the name of this movie again?

Aug 16, 2018 at 11:06pm

All these dystopian movies are so overlapping in themes they just run into one another now.

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