Message #4193

[uselesslegs]

Because anything, even if it were available right this second, that looks like it might impede or intrude on the standard quo in any capacity (meaning bottom line), is strictly verboten.  We have yet to reach the stage where we intermingle common sense with productivity/revenue.

An alien could land tomorrow, hand over a device, that could be replicated with our technology that could be a new, safe power source...with one request, "Share this technology with other countries so that it may benefit all of mankind.  We have studied you humans for some time and we understand that your societies revolve around a monetary system, so we understand that this technology will need to be worked into that system to not upset the balance. So do as you must to ensure your economies well being...BUT...when we come back at some future date and find that the profits you made, enslaved or extorted your peoples far beyond what was required to run a successful and healthy economy...we'll annihilate you all...because we're aliens and we do crazy shit like that.  Bee-boop-beep!!! " 

We'd accept it, under those conditions...and when they came back...they'd fuckin ace us...because 2 seconds after they left, we'd already begin the process of rationalizing why something needed to be 1,000 times more excessive to facilitate the rationale of a few.

"Are you telling me I can't make 10 billion dollars a year?"  "Will that harm the well being of the rest of the society you dwell in to do so?"  "Yes"  "Then why would you?"  "Because my wants negate the reality of the harm caused."  "It does not."  "It does for me."

Success should not be defined by the harm it causes, but rather, how does it benefit society beyond ones self.  I'm not talking about "equal" portions for all...that's fuckin ludicrous (especially in a capitalistic driven world)...but to purposely fuck with the big picture, on a world wide scale, because you can NEVER have enough money, regardless of what that will do...is friggin sociopathic.