Let’s take garbage collection. Why do we need garbage collection? Well, because people make garbage (garbage is really called “waste”). But “waste” is a fiction. Nothing is wasted in nature.
Category: Luxuries
Posts describing how luxuries work in Copiosis. How luxuries are produced, consumed and priced
A reader asked how Copiosis would deal with psychosocial stresses and deprivation caused by stratified societies. Good question.... When a societal system restricts access to basic needs, and further forces people to trade (labor for income) to access those needs, it's not long before system inhabitants begin experiencing deprivation as wealth concentrates. Such deprivation breeds desperation. When the powerful thwart desperate acts, unhealthy psychological stresses emerge. We … Continue reading How to eliminate society-induced psycho-social stress
Society benefits economically when people are free to choose. That doesn't happen today. But it can. Here's how.
Editors note: This post is in response to a question we received via Twitter How do you keep sociopaths from gaming [Copiosis]? In every society there are people who act in ways that are sociopathic. Some actually are sociopaths. Who knows why they are the way they are? In status-quo economies, we have to … Continue reading What about sociopaths?