Ok I am sorry for my grammer. English is not my native language.
But I disagree about ineuqality.
For example Genetic Sequencing was very expensive at the beginning, now its much more cheap.
Yes, rich people may have advantages at the beginning, but overall, they dont have much.
Why do rich people are rich? Let me explain.
They are or their ancestors were clever , intelligent and they have contributed to society more than regular person, so they became rich. Capitalism , is based on Ego-Driven system. Which promotes succsessfull people and making them rich. If everyone would equal, than intelligent and talented people will have no value.
But this system is mainly based on human ego and competetiveness. Human competetion developed technology that much. Thats the greatest benefit of Capitalism in my opinion.
What if we delete Human from this equation ? What if, Artifical Intelligence would do our job ? There will be no need for human competetion.
Yes, we have social status in society. Some people have better homes, cars etc. And they are kind of status symbol. But not everything is distributed in that way.
Let me give an example. Besides Vertu, ( Which has no hardware capabilities but full of diamond ), best Phones in the market now are Samsung Galaxy S4 and Iphone 5S. Even if you are Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, the best Smartphone you can buy is Iphone 5s.
Iphone is affordable by lots of middle class families in developing countries. In my country for example, minimum wage is about $6.000 Annualy, and lots of Minimum Wage workers have Iphone .
Same goes for internet. You can buy $2.000 Computer and run EVERY game PERFECTLY, and you can also browse the web.
You can accsess to lots of information via internet. Even a Poor guy can obtain Pc and get into the internet, and reach MIT’s Lecture Materials.
So that is KNOWLEDGE EQUALİTY in my opinion. Today, even a poor people with computer, has much more research ability than 15 years ago US PRESIDENT.
Today, things are equal. Even the richest of rich can also use Wikipedia, Youtube etc. Poor people can also. Technology has decentrelizing effect.
So why to think pessimistic and say "Rich will always have advantage ". No they dont have in every aspect.
Yes, I agree, if everyone became rich, then the term “Rich” will be meaningless, because it will became average.
Rich Means Above Average income. But my point is, once you reach the ceiling, than it does not matter in my opinion.
What I mean by ceiling is, maximum amount of pleasure . For example, a guy with $500 Million had already reached this.
There is no class difference and life quality difference between $500 Million Net Worth individual and $50 Billion Net Worh Individual.
Same example as Smartphone. Even if you are Billionaire, you are stuck with Iphone 5 or Samsung Galaxy 4S.
Why there is not any status symbol in Smartphones ? Because they are cheap to produce.
If same thing could applied for Ferrari or Lamborgihni or Rolls-Royce, they would be also cheap .
But they are not. Due to their manufacturing costs, materials they use and Engineering.
But in the future, we will produce by addictive manufacturing. Addictive Manufacturing already exists in nature. Cells, Ribosomes are great example for this. Thats why “You dont” have to produce a tree, or a flower, or a baby. A ribosome can convert foods into a human being , a ribosome is actually a natural nano assembler.
Now imagine that we apply this nano replicator to non-organic compounds. You could easily grow a "Ferrari ". You wouldnt need crude manufactring lines, labours etc. Todays technology allows us only to produce Ferrari in substractive methods. ( Which is traditional method for %99.9 products right now we see in the market ). Thats why its too costly.
Why we perceive as Mansion or Ferrari as status symbol ? Its basic instinct. A person who possess rare materials are advanced, and their survival rate is higher than average person Because they have more sources. ( Of course, A Mansion and a Ferrari does not mean shit in the nature, but I am talking about Sources ).
But this view of thinking is related to scarcity, and called Scarcity Mentality.
Why we are thinking in this way? “If person X has A, I cant have A”. Why its not “Win-Win” game ?
Same mentality occurs at Alien debates or even Artifical Intelligence.
Lots of people think that, “Omg, Aliens will come and conquer us”. Why should they need to conquer us?
As I know , we already observed thousand light years away planets, and we could not find any civilization.
So it means, an Alien civilization would be AT LEAST Thousand Years Light Away.
Consider this, if Ailen civilization could have the technique to build a space ship that can last 1.000 years, and they can travel the speed of life, would they need our sources ? I think that kind of civilization would be so advanced in nanotechnology that they could create anything. They would not have energy scarcity due to colonization of Massive stars. So why should they conquer us and kill us ? Same mentality goes for Artificial Intelligence.
I am not blaming people for thinking like that. Its our nature. Our brain has evolved in a scarcity environment, thats why Charles Darwin called Nature as Battlefield. Our mentality of “Have” or “Have Not” is instinclty based on that.
So thats why we tend to think we “should” have some superior people, or inferior people. Our crude brain tells us that, “You have to possess as much as sources in order to survive”.
But if we achieve a post scarcity society, why would we need class difference? Why would we need Economics ? Why would we need Battles?
All Battles are related to scarcity. Nearly all of our suffering is related to scarcity. Our culture is shaped by scarcity.
Religions has been born due to Scarcity. They offer weak people “Yes, you are poor, but if you pray your god and do your best, you will be rewarded at afterlife.”
In a post scarcity and immortal society, Religions would be vanish.
Maybe I am too optimistic, but looking at Industrial Revolution, a great accomplisment by human kind, I have hope!
I also think, with the advancement of nanotechnology, we should edit our brains and kill the sections that are responsible for Jealousy, Anger etc.
These things were quite beneficial in the past, in the wild nature, but in the future environment, we would not need it.
