Include both good and bad morals, habits, views, etc.
Traffic would be very efficient. Climate change would be addressed immediately. Billionaires would not exist for very long.
A millionaire once was asked “How did you become a millionaire?”
He said: “Oh, it was, simply, because of my wife”
“Well, I see. And what have you been before?”
“A billionaire.”
Booooouuuuuuuh 👎
Oh my! A truely democratic socialist global union like Kurt Eisner envisioned? Where you work to bring forth humanity and not for self enrichment? One where its nice to life as an adhd autist and we all have viable public transport instead of privat cars? Everything is discussed and no hypocracy?? AND CITYS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND WHIMSICAL AND LIFE IS CELEBRATED?! SIGN ME UP!!
- Streets would begin getting ripped up in favor of public transit
- Queer, disabled, and indigenous rights (mandatory blue hair for everyone! /s)
- All drugs decriminalized, weed and psychedelics legalized but regulated. Addiction treated like a medical/policy issue rather than a criminal issue.
- Billionaires taxed into nonexistence. Anything over $10M taxed at 99%. All of that money would be funneled into schools, healthcare, and public works.
- Promoting fascism would be treated as a hate crime
- Universal healthcare and UBI
- Union and immigrant rights that favor people over corporations
You have my vote!
All economies collapse immediately.
Why would that be?
Take a wild fucking guess.
No fucking clue, which is why I asked dumbass.
No. More trees!
Sure thing boss
First, the struggle to make sure everyone has enough food, shelter, clothes, etc.
Then we have to get people to do the jobs no-one wants to do. Either we automate them or make the job tolerable. Until then, we might rotate workers in and out of duty, spreading the discomfort.
Then we have to adjust to the increased demand for some resources. Just as plumbing increased the demand for water (but also vastly improved living conditions) so will many other resources follow. Getting it all going while keeping it sustainable will be tricky.
And then, someday, maybe centuries later, post-scarcity communism. And according to the Fourth International–Posadists, this will be a prerequisite before we colonize space, or other worlds.
I think, once we regard greed and power consolidation as a treatable illness, human society can do this. But I don’t yet comprehend a complete path from here to there.
Oh we are fucked
The good kind, or the bad kind?
If it’s me? The good kind.
Also, everyone is now poly but careful about STDs.
Religion membership drops to zero overnight. No more war, rape, or child abuse. No child will be born ever again. Landlords, billionaires, and capitalism vanish immediately. Total economic collapse. Infrastructure decays immediately and billions starve.
Just being realistic…
I think I’m a pretty kind and outgoing person. I’m also decidedly socialist, pretty much at eat the rich levels. So I think the world would change for the better, get some huge taxation going on the mega rich and funding for stuff like UBI. Dramatic shifts to renewable energy. People would probably stop killing each other. I can’t imagine doing that to someone else not in self defence.
I commute to work by bicycle and think cars are useful but good public transport is better so that is probably handy.
Down sides I’m a habitual comfort eater and love food so the obesity problem might get worse.
I’m pretty sure that the world would have a lot of problems, since everyone would want to do the same things I would, which isn’t really what the world needs…
Good luck affording concert tickets when every single person in the world wants to go to that show.
And when the musicians don’t want to be performers!
Everyone keeps saying ‘no, after you’ and no one manages to get through any doorway as a result and we all die of starvation/exhaustion.
This is too real. As a Canadian, we would also say sorry as well during this process.
Everyone stops eating meat, dairy at once causing a huge collapse of industry and supply chain jobs. Farms haven’t had time to switch use to plants only causing starvation.
No new giant projects are launched because, everyone wants to sit and relax and deal with current issues while sipping a drink on the porch.
Public transit is overloaded as everyone realizes everyone owning a car is a ridiculous and wasteful idea.
Shouldn’t be a starvation issue. Though logistics might look interesting for a while in suddenly moving beans and grains to different destinations
There’s a good amount of wasted food that could be used, but you suddenly have a whole world not eating meat, eggs, dairy, and all plant based, then there will be a temporary shortage on everything
On the other side, animal feed demand will drop, suddenly humans will be eating the feed stock for livestock. It wont be great, but it will help ease the transition.
If you’ve ever tried feed grain corn vs sweet corn…its going to be a hard sell lol
Well, if the alternative is starving to death, I imagine we’ll figure it out.
Sure, temporary shortages of some things I could totally see. But there should generally be enough food around even if it means eating something you may not like as much for a bit.
In time for sure. It takes 16 x the amount of plant protein to feed/ create the same 1x beef protien. So overtime we could feed everyone easily. Its the interim that will be a mess.
You can also eat things other than protein. We have shitloads of grains.
Everyone delights in how wonderfully absurd the world is, while performatively following rules in the most ridiculous way possible.
There is a fax machine revival in order to comply with GDPR rules.
Everyone does just the bare minimum amount of work required and ‘shower thoughts’ also count as work time.
Advertisers, accountants and marketers no longer exist and their profession is outlawed.
All money is placed in a big pot where it is shared and when we need some we take just enough for what we need.
Nobody locks their doors and we all nip over to each others houses to borrow things from time to time. We all have each others back.
All knowing polluters are instantly evaporated. ALL OF THEM, even the dropper of cigarette butts, no trial, lasered from orbit. Everyone remaining has varying substance abuse issues.
Everyone refuses to have sex unless they’re deeply in love and both partners are inarguably super hot perfect tens in body, mind, personality, and intellect. Within a couple generations the planet will have a significantly reduced population but everyone will be perfect tens, and everything will progress upward in technology & health & utopia.
…just you wait !!
