After re-reading the above, I realized that it is overly optimistic for most people. Most people WILL get caught in this trap, and die from it - if only when they die on the inside over selling themselves into slavery to the highest bidder.
I use the word "trap" intentionally. Folks will only get caught in it who take the bait... but tht is going to be most people. Like all good con games, folks will get caught in the trap when their greed overcomes their desire to be free.. It IS a trap, with bait, and like all traps the critters caught in them are the ones who go for the bait against their better judgement.
Except there are a LOT of humans who no longer posses that better judgement. They follow wherever the Pied Piper's money leads them, because they have been conditioned to believe that happiness is only found in "more money" and "more stuff".
So, that's the bait "they" will use to catch the most people possible in their trap.
And that's going to be a LOT of people. Most of the people on the planet, and ALL of the city-dwelling people, which is over half of the world's population.
Alternate systems, such as "parallel economies", are being built right now, as we speak. It remains to be seen,however, just how many people will participate in them, and how many will just swallow the bait being dangled before them.
My guess is that most of the people on the planet will take the easy route of just grabbing the dangling bait that trips the trap jaws upon them.
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I use the word "trap" intentionally. Folks will only get caught in it who take the bait... but tht is going to be most people. Like all good con games, folks will get caught in the trap when their greed overcomes their desire to be free.. It IS a trap, with bait, and like all traps the critters caught in them are the ones who go for the bait against their better judgement.
Except there are a LOT of humans who no longer posses that better judgement. They follow wherever the Pied Piper's money leads them, because they have been conditioned to believe that happiness is only found in "more money" and "more stuff".
So, that's the bait "they" will use to catch the most people possible in their trap.
And that's going to be a LOT of people. Most of the people on the planet, and ALL of the city-dwelling people, which is over half of the world's population.
Alternate systems, such as "parallel economies", are being built right now, as we speak. It remains to be seen,however, just how many people will participate in them, and how many will just swallow the bait being dangled before them.
My guess is that most of the people on the planet will take the easy route of just grabbing the dangling bait that trips the trap jaws upon them.
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