"Spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone..." Buckminster Fuller

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[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Ideas too good for a lot of the selfish assholes we have in positions of power

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors & people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school & think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along & told them they had to earn a living." Buckminster Fuller 1895 - 1983

[–]Druullus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why should masses of people be subsidized?

[–]polync 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One who provides has a significant control over people who take handouts. It looks like this guy, Fuller, argues that almost all people should be treated as infants incapable of providing themselves, and that there should be a tiny fraction of people, "true business of people", good enough to hold reins over population. Fuck this elitist.