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> This could be an interesting experiment on a small scale. Maybe a small-medium US state could try it and see what happens. What if we had some big colony mad
by lifeformed 13y ago
> This could be an interesting experiment on a small scale. Maybe a small-medium US state could try it and see what happens.
What if we had some big colony made for social/economic experiments? We could try out crazy things like basic income. Perhaps the experiments are opt-in/out, or maybe if you hate them, you can leave with paid relocation.
The population should be a microcosm of the US or a US city, and the goal should be to try weird things to get it close to a utopia, using the same budget as a comparable populous.
- jeffdavis 13y agoI'm an empiricist at heart, too (at least for some things; everyone is an idealist one way or another). But come on, it has its limits! I think we both already know that a social experiments colony would be chaos. What I was suggesting would have an outside chance of providing useful information. Given enough time, it would probably provide enough information to prevent the next phase from being a complete disaster. You could say that every nation created (or major political upheaval) is an experiment. The U.S. certainly was. Unfortunately, it takes hundreds of years to start producing useful results, and even then, the results are very muddled.
- ordinary 13y agoWhat if we had some big colony made for social/economic experiments? And a hundred and fifty years later: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."