We Are Here To Create, Not Merely Survive
Life is not just some duality with death, about mere biological drives of reproduction, living, dying, consuming, generating waste... No, human society is about thriving and evolving, it's about seeing how far we can progress, how much flourishing we can create, how many mysteries and frontiers of reality we can discover. Even if "surviving” was our highest aspiration as a society, our current systems aren't even meeting that very basic goal; but rather are negligent and complicit in widespread deprivations. Economists just say, "there's scarcity", "we have to compete to survive”, "selfishness is actually a virtue which serves the common good", "we have infinite wants", and declare these laws of nature, laws of man, and thereby laws of economics. These are ideals and views reflective of earlier periods and different technical and sociological circumstances entirely. They reflect the people of that time's own unique response to evo...