See back then and for centuries after even: the default mentality for existing was not as zero-sum as it is today.
Resources and generally speaking: ‘the world’ was seen as expansive and functionally infinite. I.e.: non-zero-sum. One’s acquisition of resources did not inherently detract from another’s resource. Societies would just exile people and consider them dead and gone into the ether.
So a warlord could easily let some shit like this slide. No fight, free castle.
The scarcity of resources is largely one of distribution and access: not production or availability. There are more than enough resources. We destroy clothes and food for going unsold. People go homeless and hungry for lack of money or employment, not a lack of shelter or food. Famines are policy decisions.
Only in the immediacy of natural disaster scenarios where infrastructure itself breaks down are we really faced with the kind of reality where there isn’t wasted excess.
If you’re interested I suggest an easy but short read: Operation Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller. It is old as hell but it does a good job of portraying how such a mindset could work for modern civilization.
See back then and for centuries after even: the default mentality for existing was not as zero-sum as it is today.
Resources and generally speaking: ‘the world’ was seen as expansive and functionally infinite. I.e.: non-zero-sum. One’s acquisition of resources did not inherently detract from another’s resource. Societies would just exile people and consider them dead and gone into the ether.
So a warlord could easily let some shit like this slide. No fight, free castle.
I’m really hoping this type of thinking comes back after we start to explore the solar system & galaxy.
We could still have this thinking today.
The scarcity of resources is largely one of distribution and access: not production or availability. There are more than enough resources. We destroy clothes and food for going unsold. People go homeless and hungry for lack of money or employment, not a lack of shelter or food. Famines are policy decisions.
Only in the immediacy of natural disaster scenarios where infrastructure itself breaks down are we really faced with the kind of reality where there isn’t wasted excess.
If you’re interested I suggest an easy but short read: Operation Manual For Spaceship Earth by Buckminster Fuller. It is old as hell but it does a good job of portraying how such a mindset could work for modern civilization.
Alright, I’ll check it out.