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How do we create an economic and political incentive structure which promotes:
>A focus on the longterm wellbeing of all life in the universe, with a hierarchy of priorities involving:
>>The individual's right to prioritize their own wellbeing
>>The family unit's right to prioritize its own wellbeing
>>The town's right ... (etc.)
>...to the extent which a group's prioritization of its own wellbeing does not harm others in an unjustifiable or unethical way
I feel like this basically solves all of our problems. Some desirable incentives and ethical ideas include:
>Prioritization of ethical virtue
>Prioritization of not harming any living beings in a way where the avoidance of harm is proportional to their population and their ability to reproduce
>Prioritization of intellectual abilities
>Deprioritization of inconsequential vain aspirations and consumerism
>Deprioritization of hedonism in circumstances where it significantly negates the ability to focus on the longterm wellbeing of life in the universe
Is it just impossible? Can any species achieve this? Are we trapped in a local maxima of evolution which has caused us to all be selfish and this is impossible to discover? Maybe species which evolve optimally did not develop intelligence quickly, but rather develop it slowly through long years of negative emotional turmoil to develop a strong ethical system despite not quite being highly intelligent with regards to their knowledge of the universe, before intelligence and therefore self-destructive technologies like nuclear energy are discovered. This seems a great risk
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>>9155496
>>A focus on the longterm wellbeing of all life in the universe
Life is inherently competitive due to evolution, so this is an oxymoron.
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>>9155509
We started off as finite state automatons fighting each other for resources to secure our ability to reproduce, and the ones most successful at this reproduced
Since the advent of:
>Language
>Mutable knowledge passed down through generations via stories
>Culture
>Written language
>Immutable knowledge passed down through generations via books
And most importantly...
>Science
We have discovered the ability to some day, through sufficient scientific advancement, ascend this primitive way of living.
It has not come yet but we will eventually live in a post-scarcity society where all of our worldly needs are taken care of, or hypothetically could be if we redesigned the economic incentive structure of our society.
We will be able to grow meat in petri dishes in large manufacturing plants. We will be able to grow plants and fruit in multilevel greenhouses. This sort of stuff is inevitable, it's just one of those things we will have the capability of doing at scale some day even though we aren't quite there yet. We will have the technology to protect ourselves and protect the other life native to Earth from harm
This is the issue. I think we are going down a path which won't lead us here, but there's no doubt we could go there if we wanted to, and there's no doubt this is where we could be trying to go. But it doesn't seem like we are
How do we rectify this?
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