The Glade 4.0

That's not true. The 5-10% would see some sort of societal benefit that I can't think of right now. Maybe they get better real estate, more energy to use, or something.

Fair enough.

Where does the energy come from? Another segment of the population who is doing work to build and maintain energy production and distribution systems?

How about real estate? How is it acquired, if there is no exchange of resources? Would it be a king-of-the-hill system where you stake your claim and then defend it against any challengers?

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We have existing real-estate, and maintenance is not very labor intensive. The energy comes from the 5-10% I mentioned. I don't know about the last question.

You are assuming the population has some resource (X) to exchange in order for goods and services. Also assuming we're talking about reality, any (X) is a limited resource. It doesn't matter if (X) is food, energy, cash, the concept is the same. People have to have a way to aqcuire (X), they spend time to do it, and that's called work.

Back to real estate - existing real estate is owned by individuals. That real estate was aqcuired by resources, produced through work. Do you propose that the owners of the real estate make a deal with the businesses doing the production, to swap real estate for energy and supplies? To put it more simply, even if you managed to trade someone your house and land in exchange for a lifetime supply of food and never had to work again, where would you live? Even if you successfully made this agreement on an individual basis, how would this scale up to the point where 90% of the population made this agreement?

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Woo lets restructure society based on the only flaw being that farmers might not produce food if that societal thing that Lex can't think of right now might not form.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

So I got to thinking. The end result would be bands of roving unemployed people, living hand-to-mouth, leeching off of people who were actually working, roaming around the country side singing and partying all day? We tried that already. Damn hippies.

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Hey...the 60's sounded awesome. I wish I'd lived through it. Uh...and then been able to remain the same age I am now.

Huh. If I have that type of control over my age, I might as well be perpetually 21.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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26 is the age you're looking for ...

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