Bettering the World

[Her]

If you had the power necessary to do so, what are the top three ways you would better the world (or your country, if you want to do a more specific answer) for the people to come?

 

[Purist of Black Water]

1. Make all nordic countries, as one, one super country
2. speak only old norse (dead language)
3. Revive the viking traditions and hairstyle/outfits for the modern age

This would better the world in my view
for heathenism should be celebrated more
and recognised in all nordic cultures MORE SO
and bring more faith back to the viking descendants

I don't particularly like Australia, so I chose to do my roots instead (partially)

Sounds kind of self conceited.
but think of it as a movie plotline, rather than an idea for positive change.

 

[gimmepie]

If you had the power necessary to do so, what are the top three ways you would better the world (or your country, if you want to do a more specific answer) for the people to come?

Do the changes need to be something logically feasible, or are you giving us free reign to change everything and anything?

 

[Her]

Do the changes need to be something logically feasible, or are you giving us free reign to change everything and anything?

Logically feasible is preferred, but I suppose many of the changes in the past that affect us today were considered logically/politically/economically unfeasible then. I'll just say exercise some caution and try to act in a way that is closest to your heart without falling into unrestrained fantasy or fanaticism. If you can justify it, so be it.

 

[gimmepie]

Logically feasible is preferred, but I suppose many of the changes in the past that affect us today were considered logically/politically/economically unfeasible then. I'll just say exercise some caution and try to act in a way that is closest to your heart without falling into unrestrained fantasy or fanaticism. If you can justify it, so be it.

Alrighty, let me try this then

1. Reallocate excessive military funding: By moving some of the ridiculous and excessive military funding of counties like the US, Russia, China and France (the four of the top 5 military spenders I remember) to more humanitarian uses such as feeding the impoverished, providing shelters for the homeless and so on the state of living of many people around the world could improve.

2. Cut politician wages: Politicians in many countries are paid an excessive amount for ruining their countries. I'd rather see this money go towards creating government run jobs/training schemes and otherwise helping stabilise the economy.

3. Stop bombing the Middle East: At first it was the Taliban and now its ISIS. Either way there's some scary terrorist cells operating in the Middle East. The thing is though, these are radical groups not nations. They're the minority and they lack the forces to actually take a country without being wiped out in a week which is why they resort to simple acts of terror. So bombing are killing more innocents than terrorists and are only helping add fuel to the fire making the west look evil and providing terrorist groups with "justification" for their actions and a handy recruiting platform. This would be a big step in ending the issues in the Middle East which would also help end Islamophobia elsewhere.

These three things are possible and feasible (but unlikely) and if done would make a big difference I think. That should fit your criteria.

 

[Pebbles]

i can only think of one right now

give people power/machines making it possible to teleport, so they could go anywhere whenever they want, no need to use planes or cars anymore... which means this planet would be much better off as them things are very bad for the environment​

 

[Midnight shadow]

I'm going to be pretty controversial here but I have my reasons, having thought long and hard about this. With that, my 3 things are:

1. Put a hard limit on the amount of money someone can earn. Yes I know I sound like a communist asshole but there are certain people who get paid insane amounts of money that they don't know what to do with. The money they horde could be better spent improving the lives of others.

2. Everyone has to spend at least one year working with impoverished people in a foreign country. It's all too easy to separate yourself from the 3rd world countries and their problems, and try to ignore them. By working abroad you are pulled together to better understand the lives of others, which will help a lot with international relations.

3. Everyone has to learn first aid and basic wilderness survival skills in school. These are skills that are often overlooked as archaic and unnecessary but they are also skills that could save a life (including your own).

 

[Esper]

1. Stop using fossil fuels and switch to green/renewable energy so we'll survive into the future. So many of the world's problems will be exacerbated by droughts, storms, and famines caused by climate change.
2. Stopping corruption in politics. Taking out the money and making the political process easier and more transparent to make government more accountable.
3. Remove capitalism or make it more socialist. Basically, give everyone food and shelter or give everyone a minimum amount of money so that no one is too poor to survive or get back on their feet.

Really, much of this boils down to making the world less greedy and selfish inasmuch as it would make it harder to waste things or get things your way at another's expense. I envision these kind of changes cutting down on anger and resentment and conflict around the world.

 

[Kanzler]

3. Remove capitalism or make it more socialist. Basically, give everyone food and shelter or give everyone a minimum amount of money so that no one is too poor to survive or get back on their feet.

How would we give everyone food, shelter, or a minimum amount of money?

 

[Esper]

How would we give everyone food, shelter, or a minimum amount of money?

Well, like right now there are a bunch of foreclosed houses in places in the US and a lot of homeless people who could live in them, so shelter is really already there. You'd just have to take the houses from banks or whoever owns them (and isn't living in them) and let people without homes live there.

Money and food could be done in a way where a certain minimum is guaranteed free (paid by taxes or whatever) so that no one starves and no one is so dirt poor that they're stuck without the means of escaping whatever they're stuck in.

 

[Kanzler]

Well, like right now there are a bunch of foreclosed houses in places in the US and a lot of homeless people who could live in them, so shelter is really already there. You'd just have to take the houses from banks or whoever owns them (and isn't living in them) and let people without homes live there.

I don't know if that's the best idea, taking houses from whoever owns them because they're not using them. The houses have a certain amount of value, and whoever owns them should be entitled to that and should be compensated. That's provided for in the US constitution - the state can take over private property for public use, but the owners have to be appropriately compensated. I don't think it would be cost efficient to give the homeless detached and semi-detached housing with all that considered.

Money and food could be done in a way where a certain minimum is guaranteed free (paid by taxes or whatever) so that no one starves and no one is so dirt poor that they're stuck without the means of escaping whatever they're stuck in.

Wouldn't that just fall under food stamps and welfare benefits?

 

[Esper]

I don't know if that's the best idea, taking houses from whoever owns them because they're not using them. The houses have a certain amount of value, and whoever owns them should be entitled to that and should be compensated. That's provided for in the US constitution - the state can take over private property for public use, but the owners have to be appropriately compensated. I don't think it would be cost efficient to give the homeless detached and semi-detached housing with all that considered.

So compensate them. Or don't. I don't really care. If someone who owns multiple properties loses one so that a person without a home can have one I'm not going to feel bad for them. In the US we have eminent domain and other countries have similar laws that let the government take and compensate something if it's for public use. If people weren't so greedy it wouldn't be an issue to take, for instance, unused office buildings or whatever in say, Detroit, and make them into free housing for people.

Wouldn't that just fall under food stamps and welfare benefits?

In a way, I suppose, but it could certainly be better than the way things are done now. I'm thinking that the only requirement for them would be that you exist and are alive, rather than the way your income or criminal record or whatever are taken into account to decide if you "deserve" it or not.

 

[Midnight shadow]

So compensate them. Or don't. I don't really care. If someone who owns multiple properties loses one so that a person without a home can have one I'm not going to feel bad for them. In the US we have eminent domain and other countries have similar laws that let the government take and compensate something if it's for public use. If people weren't so greedy it wouldn't be an issue to take, for instance, unused office buildings or whatever in say, Detroit, and make them into free housing for people.


In a way, I suppose, but it could certainly be better than the way things are done now. I'm thinking that the only requirement for them would be that you exist and are alive, rather than the way your income or criminal record or whatever are taken into account to decide if you "deserve" it or not.

This reminds me of something I heard on the radio where someone suggested turning Buckingham palace into a homestead for homeless people. With over 700 rooms including 52 bedrooms, you could fit a lot of homeless people in there.

 

[Somewhere_]

1) Remove corporate welfare and subsidies and outlaw lobbying by corporations

2) Greatly reduce military spending

3) Remove laws and regulations that disadvantage low-income communities

I have a much longer list, but whatever lol.

 

[Philosophizer]

The main change that would drastically make humanity better off is getting rid of the belief in authority. When people stop believing that titles and calling something "law" can make something bad into something good, the suffering and injustice we inflict upon each other will decrease significantly.

 

[Midnight shadow]

The main change that would drastically make humanity better off is getting rid of the belief in authority. When people stop believing that titles and calling something "law" can make something bad into something good, the suffering and injustice we inflict upon each other will decrease significantly.

So anarchy then?

 

[killer-curry]

1. make people to be more tolerance between religion and races.

2. Invest more on ways to find alternate resource and conserve the natural resources.

3. End the fight of politics in Malaysia, is not worth just to get the power.

 

[zakisrage]

1. Advocate for peace between Israel and the Muslim world and encourage the two to tolerate each other instead of wanting each other dead.
2. Teach my fellow Muslims that you can still be Muslim and not be hyper-religious - and crack down on Islamist groups in Australia and Europe.
3. Cut off aid to countries with extreme human rights abuses. Saudi Arabia and Iran don't need our aid if they're going to spend it on abusing their citizens.

 

[Exodrake]

1. Go back in time and prevent the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

2. Destroy all socially constructed biases.

3. Destroy all influence of religion over law. (not destroy religion, having a religion is fine but dictating the lives of others with it is not)

 

[ShinyUmbreon189]

1. Annihilate the political system and everything involved with it including the media.

2. Stop pollution and littering.

3. Reduce military spending.