Hi Yanis,



Your thoughts here are more fascinating to me than you could imagine. And it looked like they were the best solution, I would immediately adopt your line of thought and blog about it endlessly, and fully invest in it.



For certain, the present order is failing and failing hard -- with only the so-called elites unaware, or simply choosing to ignore the signs of failure.



Switzerland's referendum in 2014 and Brexit in 2016, not to mention all of the anti-everything of the Greek protestors since 2010, inform us that not all is well in the present order.



Much more of that to come in the future. Much more -- IMHO and very unfortunately.



And it's all because of unaddressed inequality (especially in North America) and a higher level of refugees and economic migrants (especially in Europe) than people are comfortable with.



Maybe if the migrants in both categories hadn't brought dramatically higher levels of crime into the equation, they might've been tolerated better by the native populations.



In any event, rising inequality and high-crime immigration are causing a mass shift in mindset by voters/taxpayers in the U.S. and Europe.



Is the solution to fix those broken things, or is the solution to re-invent the wheel?



With respect to you, maybe the solution is to re-invent the wheel!



But with inequality so easily solved and overly high immigration so easily solved -- at least with some clear thinking and some courage on the part of political leaders -- I still choose fixing the parts of the failing socio-economic contract vs. re-inventing the wheel.



Not that your ideas aren't tantalizing, nor that alternative visions shouldn't ever be presented!



Rather, they are an intellectual response to the present moment (which problems were once ill-defined, but are now clearly defined -- all that remains is the course to be chosen and finding politically courageous leaders to make it happen) and your quest for a better soci0-economic contract is to be commended.



You haven't convinced me. I might even want to be convinced. But at the very least, your words and ideas are worthy of consideration as we go forward.



In summary; As long as we are framing things in an 'Us vs. Them' construct, we will continue to fail.



In a truly civilized world, there is never any 'Us' and there is never any 'Them'.



In *the final analysis* we are one people on this planet -- or we are a MAD planet. (Mutually Assured Destruction)



And we are presently wavering between moving forward past MAD, and retaining the status quo.



Until we move past it, we're not a civilized world. Full stop.



We merely have some of the trappings of civilization -- technology, long lifespans, education, and only for for one billion out of 7.2 billion.



As long as 9 million people die each year from malnutrition and lack of potable water (and don't have access to any of our tech, long life, education, etc) we are mere pretenders at being a 'civilized' planet.



It's not what we're doing right that's the problem, it's not even what our pathetically unimportant 1st-world problems or the solutions thereof consist of, it's what we aren't doing for 6.2 billion of our fellow travellers on this world.



Solving all of that would be worth re-inventing the wheel and making changes at scale, IMHO.



I enjoyed reading your fascinating essay.



As always, very best regards, JBS