The form, the actual existence of the future depends on us!

Question from the Internet:

“What is more likely to occur with people in the future, will we have a Star Trek type utopia where everybody has a job and appears to have a good life, or will it be like Elysium where very few people can enjoy the good life?”

These are the exact crossroads we are standing against right now!

We can continue developing, building, destroying, rebuilding, and again destroying civilizations, Human systems by blindly following our inherently selfish, individualistic, and exploitative nature - until we reach a total, or almost total self-destruction (which could happen in this generation).

This would be the Elysium-like scenario we already have, a small minority using, exploiting the majority, just giving them enough not to rebel (which is now falling apart due to the unprecedented socio-economic crisis). And when people have nothing else to lose they rise up and destroy, and then leaders have no other option but to choose war and destruction.

Or we can choose to change not the world, not the politicians or leaders, not ideologies and the economy, but we choose to change, upgrade ourselves, our own “operating program”.

We can correct, upgrade our inherent nature in a way that we learn how to build positive, sustainable, mutually responsible, and mutually complementing connections and cooperation above the differences, despite mutual distrust, hatred.

Then we can build a global Human society where we scaled down to a lifestyle between healthy, modern, natural necessities and available resources, while each can find their most optimal, “cogwheel-like” contribution, role towards the whole (according to their unique, individual abilities, conditions, talents), receiving the appropriate, precisely, personally measured remuneration for fulfilling one’s necessities.

Some will do physical work to secure the necessities for all, others will work in building, nurturing, sustaining the crucially necessary, dynamic mutual interconnections. (I am not sure this perfectly matches the Human society in Star Trek as I haven’t seen a precise template for how society functioned on Earth).

Out of these two options only one has right to exist, only one has future in Nature’s closed, integral system, whether the balance and homeostasis life depends on is governed by strict, unchanging laws we are also obligated to follow.