/sci/ - Science & Math

Ok, I'm gonna make it REALLY easy for you faggots.

So the basic premise of the Zeitgeist solution to world problems is: "Lets just assure everyone's needs are met, so that nobody has to work to survive. Then we can devote our energies to higher pursuits."

And I call bullshit on this.
Item one: human needs are infinite.
Item two: no matter how much you wish it to be otherwise, resources ARE finite, and will be finite no matter the advancements in technology. Even if its "just" human knowledge, expertise, and most of all, ambition that is finite.

Which gets us to the most important point of all.

Have you ever seen people on welfare? Their needs are met, aren't they? Fuck, in most western nations the bums on welfare still live better lives then KINGS did in the times that produced Aristotle and Socrates!

They don't work to sustain themselves, do they? They have shittons of free time and energy, right?

Then why the fuck aren't they doing something productive, like the Zeitgeist crowd says we all will if those conditions are met on a global scale? Why they spend all their time sitting around, drinking beer and bitching about life?

Economic incentive. It is not PROFITABLE for them to do anything. So they don't.

If we put every single person the world over on friggin welfare, it WON'T result in utopia. It will result in a world full of bums, which I'm sure, appeals to many viewers of this movie, especially those still in high school and college.

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