Originally Posted by beechhouse
Originally Posted by FrazierI
. . . without jobs there is no economy

What's so great about an economy? People want enough to eat, not to freeze, not to fry, and something to do with their time. While capitalists have certainly built an economy around those wants or needs, is an economy the only way to provide those things?

If Eco-aliens flew down in their flying saucer and offered to provide us all those things in exchange for us giving up our "economy" because it is killing the long-term livability of our planet, what should our answer be?

Yes, thank you for saving the world.

or

You can have our economy when you pry our melted credit cards from our crispy roasted hands.

Probably the second. Humans, as a race, value independence over everything else (although it might not seem at times).

And what if one day those "eco-aliens" decided that the best way to save the planet is to do away with the humans all toghether. We already gave away our economy, our means of production. Then what?

I think you should keep these "what-if" scenarios about aliens to thier own thread.

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