Teaser
“We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself“
Greta Thunberg
Imagine a world, where you work 2 hours a day and still everything you need and want is available. You own only a few personal items like your clothes and shoes. You therefore don’t need to worry that someone could steal your things from you or that you can’t afford something. If you need a car, you take the next available vehicle and drive wherever you want to go. When you have arrived at your destination, you just leave the car and forget it. You don’t need car keys, because there are no keys anymore. If you travel you don’t need a hotel or a restaurant. These things don’t exist anymore, because nobody wants them. Instead you are invited by local people for a home cooked meals and you can stay at their place as long as you want. You can travel with very little luggage, because everything you might need is also available where you go. The doors to peoples homes are without locks, because you are always welcome. You don’t own a house anymore, because you own every house on the planet!
You don’t need to pay for anything. Everything is free. You just take what you want to use. Money does not exist. You don’t need an insurance because you have anyway no possessions and everybody will help you if you are sick or in trouble. You don’t need a pension fund because the young will help you when you are getting old. Poverty does not exist.
You don’t have a passport or ID, there are no borders anymore. You are free to go anywhere you want, anytime. You are welcome everywhere.
People have everything they want but the industrial output is only 10% of todays level which is a huge blessing for nature. Wildlife is thriving again.
You spend most of your time doing what makes you really happy. You create art, teach kids or adults, cook, work in a garden, do research, invent, write software, travel or just spend time with other people or your partner.
You don’t need a password to protect your data. You can borrow any computer anywhere to access them. Nobody wants to protect his „intellectual property“. Everything which gets created, invented or programmed is shared with everybody. All digital data is public, all software is open source. You have read access for every storage device on the planet. This leads to a thriving ecosystem of software which can automate every imaginable task for those who want. Large scale social platforms finally become a blessing for everybody. Everybody owns everybody’s data. Computer games become entertaining beyond anything we can imagine today, as they can be the product of the creative power of a whole planet.
Art, literature and music explode in volume and quality. Science and technology advance incredibly fast.
There is no police, no army, no taxes, no social welfare and no government anymore. We simply don’t need these things anymore.
There are no schools anymore. All adults are enjoying to teach kids the things they are good at. Kids learn driven by their curiosity instead of pressure and go from adult to adult to learn something new which interests them.
You don’t need to spend your life hoarding money because you can be sure the community will take very well care of your kids if you are one day gone.
Everybody likes to give others pleasure because they know that their efforts will be returned hundredfold by the community. People have time to make art (including useful items like clothes) which they give away to others as gifts. Utensils are often not cheaply produced by robots but unique items made with love by hand. But we don’t keep them for ourselves forever but pass them on to someone else at a good opportunity.
Women and men can have the sex they both really enjoy, in harmony, with mutual respect, true love and without shame.
Impossible? Naive? Ridiculous? Well possible.
But what if not?
„When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong“
Arthur C. Clarke