Bettering the World

[Her]

If possible, I would prefer more detail from people about how you would accomplish your goals.

 

[gimmepie]

If possible, I would prefer more detail from people about how you would accomplish your goals.

I'm unsure how I personally could expand further on my points, is there anything in particular you feel I should elaborate on?

Also to add to what Harley said, I encourage people to discuss people's ideas/ideals here instead of just posting and then vanishing.

 

[Her]

You're fine, the detail and effort put into backing up your thoughts are perfectly satisfactory. It was just a general request.

 

[ShinyUmbreon189]

If possible, I would prefer more detail from people about how you would accomplish your goals.

1. To annihilate the political system people would have to stop voting for a president or any politician for that matter. A president cannot be elected or re-elected without a vote. So how could there be politicians here to manipulate and control the masses if one isn't voted?

2. To help reduce pollution, get rid of fuel vehicles and or keep your vehicle well maintained and avoid too much vehicle idling. Same with lawn care, use electric powered lawn mowers and weed eaters.

3. To cut military spending America needs to quit protecting other countries and we need to stop blowing money to create nuclear weapons.

 

[Kanzler]

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.

Sure, but I think creating more low-income housing might be more cost-effective. Compensation can be incredibly expensive. The government could take the title to the land, demolish whatever's on top of it and build a higher-density apartment complex. I guess it would take more money per property, but it could serve more people.

An issue with converting office buildings might be building codes that mandate requirements that a conversion might not be able to meet. I don't know too much about that, however.

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.

I think it's fair to have means-tested welfare so the money gets where it's supposed to go, but I think that makes a disincentive to work if you're going to lose those benefits at a certain point.

I've heard of guaranteed minimum income, but I'm not too sure how it could be implemented. I've heard that some studies have showed optimistic results, though.

 

[Sir Codin]

1. Nuke
2. Nuke
3. Nuke

Bettering the world is out of the question at this point. It is clear as day we will never truly like each other, so I say let's just get it over with. Besides, no more humans no more capitalistic waste and pollution. The quickest way to save the planet is if we are all gone.

 

[Pinkie-Dawn]

From what I'm understanding based on the internet, Atheism is the only path to bettering the world, since conflicts are usually due to religious reasons. But over the years, Atheism has been becoming the very thing it's against, making them just as pretentious as religious fanatics. So we're back to square one. Another solution is human genocide, but there are some endangered plants and animals who are important to the ecosystem and can't repopulate on their own without the help of humans, according to one of the replies in one of my threads here.

 

[Esper]

Sure, but I think creating more low-income housing might be more cost-effective. Compensation can be incredibly expensive. The government could take the title to the land, demolish whatever's on top of it and build a higher-density apartment complex. I guess it would take more money per property, but it could serve more people.

An issue with converting office buildings might be building codes that mandate requirements that a conversion might not be able to meet. I don't know too much about that, however.

I guess it's just a matter of how much you want to ~shake up the system~ and how much you want to follow existing ordinances and codes. I mean, personally, I'd just want to see people without homes having places to live. If building high-density apartments or whatever solves it then I think it would be enough. It's just that existing structures, you know, already exist.

I think it's fair to have means-tested welfare so the money gets where it's supposed to go, but I think that makes a disincentive to work if you're going to lose those benefits at a certain point.

I've heard of guaranteed minimum income, but I'm not too sure how it could be implemented. I've heard that some studies have showed optimistic results, though.

Well, automation is going to put more and more people out of work and at some point we have to confront the reality that everything our society needs and wants can be provided without every adult working 40 hours a week. Not working, or working part time, isn't necessarily a bad thing, ideally, so long as society still functions and people all get their basic needs.

 

[Gabri]

1 - Scour this world of all religion. And I mean eradicating ALL of it. Leave not a single trace that there can even be a possibility of a religious thought or that there ever has been one.
2 - Promote science and arts over the bullshit the media feeds us.
3 - Eradicate capitalism.

 

[Arsenic]

Firstly, and most importantly, the concept of countries and religion need to be completely abolished. They have never been anything more than an excuse for war.

How this would be accomplished would be the difficult part... be it through the preferable method of negotiation between all countries, or through a final war for the unification of mankind, it is needed for long term survival. Unfortunately it wouldn't be very easy after the unification either, as all the ultra-patriotic and ultra-religious people would probably try and rebel (again, war caused by the idea of countries and religions.) So that would have to be dealt with.

After all that is taken care of would probably want a governmental body. Unfortunately I haven't yet figured out that part. It would have to be a solution that would have all regions needs accurately represented without recreating the same system that has just been taken down.



Second, is a whole lot simpler. Remove nuclear arms and any ability to create them again. That way terrorists and rebels and other angry people, as well as the government, doesn't have the ability to use them.

Third, would be renewed interest and investment in science as a whole. Why just state one field such as renewable energy, when we can invest in all of them.


Or if I were to make a less radical list.

1.Nuclear disarmament. Or we all die
2.Widespread acceptance of the fact that whether we are Asian, White or Black we're all human. The turning of calling "Them" to "Us." Unification in general.
3.Investment into space travel/colonization of planets.

 

[RegalSin]

Anti-privacy on the web needs to dominant as it was back in the mid 1990's. As Snowden said we are invading peoples privacy. This kind of bs comes from the patriot act to even an airport personal going insane and attacking his co-workers for the new scanning machine. They were able to see his junk with them. That is how anti-private we have become.

Racism is the problem and promoting men and giving jobs to men will help the ball rolling.