There will be poverty and hunger and war because of the former two. Socialism and its cousins have never, and will never give a better life to everyone. There just isn't enough stuff. And if we gave everyone the exact same amount of resources somehow magically, we'd STILL end up forfeiting parts of their resources away to someone who talked fast, promised big, or just muscled you out of your posessions because thats just how it happens.
I overheard a very interesting synopsis to a book: It was an alternate historical recount of what would happen if it was the Mayan/Incan Empire who discovered Western Europe about 100 years earlier than columbus. It had this interesting, reverse conquest plot that they sort of talked about, but I think its total crap. The Ican explorers in Europe would have died outright. The same diseases were still there, and the plague would have made them suffer to death on foriegn soil.
Animal husbandry wasn't a quirk, it was an immonological advantage. So were dogs and Horses for the conquest of the New World. What I never understood was why the Chinese never did it first. I guess war always supercedes exploration, which is kind of a mirror to current times. Instead of pushing forward with the best that Human ability has to offer such as space exploration and the sciences, we worry about feeding the useless and waging war with the stupid. Let's try something new and just hope that we can thrust a branch of people away from the muck and the mire.
I want a permanent space colony. REALLY bad. If I spend the rest of my life lobbying for it to happen, it would be a fulfilled life. But I need money first.
"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." 'Hercules Furens.' (Translated: "There is no easy way to the stars from earth")
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