Imagine a 🌍: open borders, competitive regions.
Okay, my brain is all over this morning from contemplating sneezing with and without vocal cords to the X app. And now question about capitalism and immigration. So there's a lot of people who are proponents for capitalism, and I was just thinking like sort of future futuristic, imaginative space here. So play with me
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 1:44
Hey, Christina. I'm diving in to play a little bit. I was thinking about open borders and then all of the countries charge a fee for, and I know some countries already do this. Like, you have to show that you can sustain yourself and have X amount of money in your bank account
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:29
Of course, there's geographic borders that were the beginnings of systems, but when you combine the question of open borders with a marketplace to sustain life, everyone has their wounds when they come to this conversation. Everyone has their fears. It's really hard to do a table rasa when you're living inside your own life and forget the politics that feed fear and feed values, better or for worse. It's more about that primal trigger of everyone saying, will I be taken care of?
Let's just use that as a general term. And then if there's enough interest and I don't know what that looks like and what the formula would have to be, but maybe then whatever the winning blueprint was for this particular area that has drawn people, maybe it's like when you have a winning idea for a business and then you decide you want to franchise it, right? Or you want to have a second store open up, you take that blueprint and you duplicate it
And it's so unfortunate because I'm just thinking sometimes when we're looking at these big picture topics that we want to address in our own, let's say, spaces, whether that's small a business or a small community or something, or whether we're talking a nation we can learn from outside of our silos, of what other countries are doing, what did and didn't work for them and could they work?
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:43
So you have a population of married people there and then that the government makes sure for the progression of for those who still want to procreate or just have fun pretending like they are, hint, hint. But anyway but that you have a balance, like, okay, we've reached our quote of the number of single women, or we've reached our quote of the number of single men
And or maybe you've developed the skills for baking or art or to be a lawyer and then you could sort of custom what it is that you want to learn and then explore in that new area. So that's kind of cool. It also sort of inspires you or incentivizes you to explore something different to learn about and do if you don't have that skill set already
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 3:11
Right now, people largely see it as a liability overcrowding, lack of housing, government resources being stretched, homelessness, increasing, lawlessness increasing. People are seeing it from that vein. But what about those that have migrated to the United States and literally started from the bottom and now have become very successful revenue generating businesses in this country and contributing to resources, not taking resources, adding opportunities, not taking opportunities? So I think that, yeah, we have to see it from a broader perspective
Yeah, it's unfortunate that so much focus is put on those who are migrating to the US and not enough focus on the infrastructure, the various systems. I'm using that word rather broadly within the US that the government has let slide or that other decisions could have been made. And if we were in a different position in many ways, then anybody coming into the country to add to that wouldn't be perceived as a threat
Instead of it being about isolation and the walls and money and status and reputation of who will do what job, et cetera, that instead it would be about this human thriving, the diversity of experiences of outward looks to inner experiences, to our skill sets. It doesn't have to be a competition between who does what well or who wants to do this job or that job. I mean, you can have amazing skills, you, specifically, that I don't have
Let's share each other's culture and everything else. Slippery slope. It's a slippery slope. And leadership and everything else. I mean, like you said, it's something to play with, but basically it's the infrastructure for the New World Order before they even got a chance to really make it yet. What do you think?
How can this work in a positive way? How can we do the economy in a positive way? And then even how do we look at shifting our views that it doesn't have to be 100% capitalism or 100% any other sort of ism when it comes to the economy, but instead making it so that there's not such a huge divide between the haves and the have nots. You know what I mean?
I like to daydream too but I don't know, give me a little bit of hope really because I've been getting these since we were talking about dualities and I forget exactly what you call it though. It was like things to keep things in line. Shoot, not borders. It was something like a fancy word but either way around and at one point, I was only looking at my spiritual journey from the point of getting better, right? So I'm looking for character defects
But today, there's so much more complexity to our world and there's so much more that we have to consider not only in creating, but in anticipation of the future. Because now those seemingly small decisions that we would make can have massive repercussions, right? Someone thinking they're going to create an app for people to connect, like Facebook way back, right? And now how it can social platforms have come to explode and influence the way that culture operates, right?
It's not guaranteeing that art will imitate life, but just the fact that if somebody can think it up, somebody can build it or make it or birth it or whatever, you you can't think it up, then ain't nothing happening. But they got the best minds for that, for the creative disaster preparedness, I guess it's pretty interesting to sit there and hear him talk about it for a couple of minutes. It
Ha. I just quote, unquote recorded a response to you, and then I looked down to hit the stop button and realized I had not been recording. But anyway, I sometimes wonder, in fact, probably more so of late, do leaders read fiction and do they read Sci-Fi specifically? Because, like Sci-Fi book have been able to anticipate all of the new things in technology? Do you remember, Mike, when Star Trek had the doors opening for you and you didn't have to do anything?
I caught them all. This was copyright 2017, and it was a full description. And then there's other ones, like Code Zero, patient Zero, the King of Plagues, which is about smart viruses. The extinction Machine, I believe that one is. I'm not sure if it's AI or something like that. I can't remember. But yeah, it's unbelievable. But mostly I'm like espionage. My favorite favorite is Barry Eisler
Okay, war is not necessarily my thing, but I'm intrigued by John Rain and I see there are eleven books in this series I might have to check this out. And you mentioned a few other titles, I think by mayberry that sounded familiar, as if maybe I've read them. I'll have to check. But if not, they also sounded interesting. So I'm going to have to check those out and add them to my very long to be rest list. Thank you