Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 12, 2019 23:53:40 GMT
I possibly won't see it but if I do, it will be through very dodgy eyes, perhaps being fed through a tube. 25 years or so is my estimate.
Money will still be king but will sit alongside its queen, I'll call them social credits.
Social credits are a system of limiting environmentally damaging behaviour by individuals. The powers that be will have realised that charging a nominal sum for plastic bags, whilst being a good idea, doesn't come close to the panacea. Similarly, while electric cars have enabled capitalists to perpetuate, the realisation that producing a car and getting rid of it (after not so many years, to satisfy said capitalists) is more damaging than keeping the old polluting ones going will be highlighted by a highly unpalatable natural catastrophe.
Social credits; the basics: At birth, each person is implanted with a chip. During childhood the chip is inactive. At a predetermined age (18?) the chip becomes active. From 18 to the grave the individual is given an annual allowance, let's call them 'points'. Any activity that could potentially damage the by now critically endangered planet will lead to a deduction of the individual's allotted points.
It could be that owning a car carries the responsibility of the loss of several points. Further points deducted for miles traveled in it. Choosing to procreate in a world critically endangered by over population could result in the deduction of a significant number of points. Flying half way across the world would likely result in a large points deduction. We could go on and on, and the system would.
Balanced against this points system (money and capitalism is still around, remember?) would be the ability to trade social credits. So, for example, someone working on minimum wage, without the means to own a car and fly half way around the world would likely have a surplus of social credits. These could be traded, for money, with those with a surplus of cash, but with insufficient social credits to have the lifestyle they feel their financial success should entitle them to. This might be seen as a good thing by socialists, the re distribution of wealth (downwards) and also please more libertarian types in that governments would be less inclined to micro manage every aspect of people's lives (the social credits system excepted; obviously).
This is probably up in the clouds but I think it's pretty certain that 25 years from now our society would be seen as dystopian; compared to present day values.
What's your version?
ricco aka thicco
Money will still be king but will sit alongside its queen, I'll call them social credits.
Social credits are a system of limiting environmentally damaging behaviour by individuals. The powers that be will have realised that charging a nominal sum for plastic bags, whilst being a good idea, doesn't come close to the panacea. Similarly, while electric cars have enabled capitalists to perpetuate, the realisation that producing a car and getting rid of it (after not so many years, to satisfy said capitalists) is more damaging than keeping the old polluting ones going will be highlighted by a highly unpalatable natural catastrophe.
Social credits; the basics: At birth, each person is implanted with a chip. During childhood the chip is inactive. At a predetermined age (18?) the chip becomes active. From 18 to the grave the individual is given an annual allowance, let's call them 'points'. Any activity that could potentially damage the by now critically endangered planet will lead to a deduction of the individual's allotted points.
It could be that owning a car carries the responsibility of the loss of several points. Further points deducted for miles traveled in it. Choosing to procreate in a world critically endangered by over population could result in the deduction of a significant number of points. Flying half way across the world would likely result in a large points deduction. We could go on and on, and the system would.
Balanced against this points system (money and capitalism is still around, remember?) would be the ability to trade social credits. So, for example, someone working on minimum wage, without the means to own a car and fly half way around the world would likely have a surplus of social credits. These could be traded, for money, with those with a surplus of cash, but with insufficient social credits to have the lifestyle they feel their financial success should entitle them to. This might be seen as a good thing by socialists, the re distribution of wealth (downwards) and also please more libertarian types in that governments would be less inclined to micro manage every aspect of people's lives (the social credits system excepted; obviously).
This is probably up in the clouds but I think it's pretty certain that 25 years from now our society would be seen as dystopian; compared to present day values.
What's your version?
ricco aka thicco
