the current economies stress profit over
well yeah. Kinda like you stress breathing. If you don't breathe you die.
If an economy doesn't allow profit it dies too.
You might check out Venezuela to see how well that works out.
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Wow, very active post. To clarify my thoughts, I think profit is good. My optimistic, perhaps uninformed, sentiment, was that as a species, we develop fantastic advances through discovery and application of new better ways of achieving work. I was trying to convey that if we as inhabitants of this earth could somehow focus these ideas and advances to solutions where everyone could provide themselves or others with basic necessities, perhaps this would reduce, not replace, much of the need for money and the obvious stress of not having enough to eat or drink. Personal food cultivation or water purification systems provided to everyone with their UBI payment perhaps and you can earn additional income through barter of any food or water you produce by using these fictitious imagined inventions I dream of.
I don't envision this being centralized, I also acknowledge it is a fanciful notion. Greed, central control, and power still reign supreme.
UBI may be a way to distribute wealth and resource availability, but unfortunately, people and the existing social structures appear not to support decentralized transfer and sharing of wealth or resource amongst peers directly. It would be nice if that could be changed, but I am still skeptical that it could be delivered. Good thought experiment and provoking post, thanks again.