Build a strong support system for banishing people to the wasteland?
As the OP for the original The cure to soulless crushing modern society is a life of narcissistic sociopathic hedonism (or why humans can’t have nice things) thread, I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that the reason people fantasize about ditching society to become an outlaw and tear it down because it’s freaking hard trying to make one that works.
Some of the sorts of questions that need to be answered:
- What is the minimum standard of living?
- Should there be a maximum standard of living and what should it be?
- How do you decide where people should live?
- How do you get people to do work that needs to get done but no one wants to do it?
- How do you reward those who contribute more to society?
- How do you increase production and distribution, particularly for scarce resources?
- How do you treat criminals? What do you consider a crime?
- To what extent do you allow things that maybe aren’t great for society, but people want them anyway?
- How do you handle people who disagree with your policies (there will be a lot, regardless of what they are)?
- How do you account for the fact that most people are stupid selfish jerks?
Also are we assuming we are building our society based on current technology?
If we’re just wishing for shit then you can just wish everyone a beach house, a million dollars, and a unicorn. I think you’re going to have to abolish religion the old-fashioned way.