How would you change the world?

[Merina 0]

If you could change the world what would it be.

[Nemesis 0]

It would be in the Trek universe so I could meet a Romulan :D

[Images 0]

Damn i'd make warp or some other way for us to travel across the universe and meet friendly aliens, it just annoys me that i'lll loooooooooong be deadidy dead before we do develop something like it!

[Tovan 0]

Damn i'd make warp or some other way for us to travel across the universe and meet friendly aliens, it just annoys me that i'lll loooooooooong be deadidy dead before we do develop something like it!

sooooo true, we probably wouldn't survive until they do which is sad.

[Tovan 0]

YEah i wish the world could be in the trek universe too, sooooo every thing would be great, i could have a monkien for a friend :D

[Vex Xiang 0]

Hmm...how would I change the world.

 

You know I've never given it much thought, really. But I suppose I can take a crack at it.

 

The first thing I would do is put cap limits on personal wealth. Corporate CEOs and business owners will not be able to use more than $300,000 a year for peronal use. All additional profits will be collected by the government and redistributed. Any and all income about $300k/yr must be used as capital or it becomes property of the state.

 

Then I would institute a forced labor program. Those educated citizens will be able to select high-end jobs, but at all times all citizens must be working in some form or another. Unemployment will be eliminated. The working class will be policed...no more welfare. If you do not have a job, one will be given to you by the government. If you refuse to do any job given to you, you are deported.

 

Of course this is the entire world I speak of, so deporation refers to sending you to a barren island where you will have to struggle to survive along with the other lazy people of the world. Australia will serve nicely for this purpose, since its a big island and there are lots of lazy people. So to live in society you must work.

 

Then I would bring all power distribution and generation companies under full government control. No capitalistic sentiment for energy, because it needs to be efficient and non-polluting, not just cheap and profitable.

 

Democracy would remain only at the local and state levels. Since this is the world, by state I mean country governments. A central world government would be created with myself in charge in a sort of oligarchy in which I determine world affairs by debating with a small group or council. All world orders and laws remain precident over local and state laws, though world affairs would generally only include energy concerns, world organization, and maintenance of the job market.

 

All combustion vehicles would be melted down. All individual homes and neighborhoods would be torn down. Streets would be reorganized. All neighborhoods, cities, and states in their respective relationships would be reorganized in a square grid-pattern with 1-mile square blocks between intersections. Cities would fall on longtitudinal and latitudinal lines in a grid pattern and all interstates (within continents) would follow the same pattern and a number system would be established accordingly. In other words, all roads are straight and one road leads to and from one city, etc.

 

Individual homes may be selected from a pre-approved catalog of, say, 200 different styles. Home choices may vary depending on family size. A couple with no children will not be able to purchase a 12-room mansion, etc.

 

Speaking of children, individuals may not have more than 1 child during their entire lifetime (include subsequent marriages). This means that for each couple, we may have 2 children. This will vary depending on the population requirements of the world. Considering many people will be sent to Australia, overpopulation will not be a problem.

 

Intercontinental travel would be facilitated by airlines. The only sea travel would be for large freight shipments.

 

My Earth capitol would be located in Hawaii.

 

All nonessential government programs would of course be eliminated. Welfare, retirement, all of that would be eliminated and in place of it would be my wealth redistribution system. The major government programs would be energy, transportation/organization, world police, economy management, population control, etc.

 

Distributed funds will go to all citizens on top of their regular salary for their jobs, whatever that may be. Again no one can have an income of above $300K. Example, if every citizen gets 20K a year in redistributed funds, a person making 290K/yr will only get 10K in redistributed funds, and the remaining money will return to the pot.

 

Cars will be available for purchase but will operate on electricity. My excellent grid network will allow lines to be installed so that vehicles can travel with constant electrical contact. Since all major streets are arranged in a 1 square mile pattern, citizens will be able to travel anywhere and always end up within 1/2 mile at least of their destination.

 

Why electricity? Because this allows all vehicles to operate from a small network of polluting sources (ie power plants) and as new technologies become available, integrating them will be much easier. It is easier to tear down 2,000 power plants and replace them with different onces than to try to replace billions of cars.

 

All parking garages will be free.

 

Anyone not willing to walk 1/2 mile to their destination will be sent to Australia with the other lazy people.

 

Australia will be obliterated with nuclear weapons once every few years.

 

The space program will be cancelled. Unmanned probes will be sent out frequently to search for anything that would be useful to the world. The search for extraterrestrial life will be cancelled, since its very unlikely we'd ever, ever find anyone.

 

Religious freedom will remain so long as it doesn't interfere with government affairs.

 

People will call me, "World Commander."

 

Again...I havent given it much thought. ::struggles in his white vest::

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

TWO WORDS:  

UNIVERSAL TRANSLATOR

Maybe, just maybe if we all could communicate better, we'd get on the peace path.  Maybe. :shy:

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

Ah, Vex, if you ever get to do all that, I'm volunteering to join the nearest Borg Cube! :cool:

[Vex Xiang 0]

Jozef actually the military has a primitive form of a universal transalator. I've seen it tested, its pretty neat. It looks like a laptop computer and it uses voice recognition technology to take in words in one language, then uses a synthetic speech program to repeat it in a different language. I saw it on a Discovery program.

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

:D   Cool !  NOW GOTTA KEEP ON LEARNING HOW TO USE PC.  LIFE IS IMITATING ART.  THE STAR TREK UNIVERSE  ARRIVES !!

[Nemesis 0]

Well Vex a few things on yours corporate people will always find loop holes with your first one. I don't think I'd trust a Delphin that drinks more Vodka then a crazy hobo to run the world ::shivers at the thought:: and anyways stop stealing my global take over dreams shesh :D

[Vex Xiang 0]

Well Vex a few things on yours corporate people will always find loop holes with your first one

 

They might. But then they'll end up in Australia. And no one wants that now do they :D

[Nemesis 0]

I do then I can meet the Crocodile hunter :D

[Captain Huff 0]

I would limit population growth to keep a healthier life balance on the planet.

[Grom 0]

I would limit population growth to keep a healthier life balance on the planet.

LOL what the heck is a "healthier life balance?"  :D

 

::gag::

[Nemesis 0]

I would make the population increase and send the human raise to infest other planets and then conquer the galaxy :D

[Dumbass 0]

I would limit population growth to keep a healthier life balance on the planet.

LOL what the heck is a "healthier life balance?"  :D

 

::gag::

Yeah, it seams to me that nature does that one by itself far better than we can.

[Captain Huff 0]

LOL what the heck is a "healthier life balance?"  :D

 

::gag::

One that isn't depleting the planet of natural resources, prematurely wiping out species through pollution or land encroachement... that kind of thing.  Over population and development of the Earth will lead (imo) to fundamental environment problems that will destroy the quality of life for many species, including our own.

[Grom 0]

LOL what the heck is a "healthier life balance?"  :D

 

::gag::

One that isn't depleting the planet of natural resources, prematurely wiping out species through pollution or land encroachement... that kind of thing.  Over population and development of the Earth will lead (imo) to fundamental environment problems that will destroy the quality of life for many species, including our own.

Ok...thanks for the clarification.  Myself, I have full confidnece that we'll make it....  I'm all for using up natural resources (what else is their use?)...which, if it were possible, would take quite a long time.  Even if it did, then if would force us to develop new techologies which would inevitably improve the quality of life.  :cool:

[Images 0]

Did you know that we actually have the technology to build hydrogen based cars but because of the lack of funds spent on it, the soonest we'll see 'em is 2050 :D

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

Mmmm....Isn't that what the Martians said?  Look where it got them!  Nice, red, dusty planet!    :dead:

[T'Aniz Jozef 0]

[Martian comment to GromVik....  :D   ]

[Vex Xiang 0]

Did you know that we actually have the technology to build hydrogen based cars but because of the lack of funds spent on it, the soonest we'll see 'em is 2050

 

I think thats because we run out of oil in 2050   :D

[Dumbass 0]

I think thats because we run out of oil in 2050   :D

Oh, come on.  Now really.  Do you think we will just wake up one day and say "Hey, who used the last of the oil?"  Natural resources aren't like milk or toilet paper or last night's pizza and all of a sudden you notice it's gone.  We'll see it coming well in advance.  As the known supply of oil gets used up (We're always discovering new sources of the stuff.) supply and demand takes hold and we'll gradually see the market price rise.  The market price of alternative fuels (and,don't forget, at one point oil was considered an alternative fuel) will gradually become less expensive by comparrison and people will gradually shift to other fuels.  (We're starting to see it now with electric cars but I think they're a long way from becoming more than a novelty item.)  

 

A long time ago wood was considered scarce.  It got so scarce that coal became a viable alternative.  After coal came oil, then electricity.  Hydrogen or some other form of atomic energy might be next but who knows?  Ironically, mankind benefits from these periods of scarcity.  If you doubt me, try hooking up your computer to a wood-burning stove and see how well it works.  Go ahead, try it.  There's more than enough wood to go around since we never did get around to using it all up.

 

Scarcity of resources is nothing to be afraid of.  It leads mankind to innovate and, as a result, we're better off than if the scarcity had never happened.

[Nemesis 0]

I do not want Hydrogen cars because the pump water into the atmosphere that was never there before which gives us a lot of the same problems as global warming a.k.a massive flooding, far more intense stroms, and other such things such as lots of humidity. Make us feel more like the Ferangi then you ever thought possible :D