Thursday, February 18, 2010

An ideal world?


Can you imagine a world without scarcity? Living a life with no preoccupations to find new resources! It sounds amazing right? Maybe it could be an ideal world. But… have you analyzed all aspects if this could occur?


Due to our class I wondered what it would be if we could have everything. I think people would get used to have all things without making an effort, they wouldn’t try to find or create new things, because what is the purpose of innovating if everything has the same value? Maybe I could sound a little negative by saying that we need to have scarcity to live life correctly, but I think that it is true. We must lack of things to succeed and get prepared to make a change.


I think that society’s behavior would change, because they wouldn’t want to work because they can already live with the things they get in life. So they wouldn’t continue studying to be better, and that affect education. Children wouldn’t go to schools because they will always be in the same social class and they can have a good life in the future. So I think that many jobs will disappear (teachers, scientist, engineers, etc). And also because everything has the same value and everywhere has infinite resources, money would disappear.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Society would definitely be a different place if there was no scarcity? I can see an attitude something like..."Shall we go to the moon this weekend?"...and a lot of other things taken for granted.