Socialism is the future. Hundreds of years from now that is.
Technology built by capitalist markets will eventually advance to the point where all products are produced without any sort of labor and there ends up being not enough work force needed. Crime rates will increase, things will get messy for a bit, and then people just settle on paying off the unemployed forever. Money wouldn't be that important anymore with the cost of living being cheap as free.
Then, once the Japanese finish fixing up A.I. and white collar work is eliminated, the world will become communist as everything is being done for us and why go to work when it's all free?
I don't know if I agree with that whole story but I do think advances in technology will make meeting most of our basic needs very easy and at that point we will cease to be at each others throats like animals.
I thought
the article from the Heritage Foundation kind of illustrated part of this concept. In their article showing poor people in America have DVD players and coffee machines they were trying to illustrate that they weren't poor. Actually they are poor it's just that technology has made those items availble to the poor now.
