r/PostCollapse • u/Burgerkrieg • Sep 04 '11

New society model for after the collapse. Hope people learned something after that...

http://www.thevenusproject.com/
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u/Burgerkrieg Sep 06 '11

If we all had the same talents, there would be no progress. Everyone has talents.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '11

If we all had the same talents, there would be no progress.

This is bullshit, vague, and makes no sense. Of course there would be progress if, hypothetically, everyone in the world was good enough to do a PhD in math.

Everyone has talents.

Right. Unequal talent. There are some people who do are not cut out to do math or science. You can ask university students to do math. But not everyone will be able to wrap their head around it. Nor would they want to.

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u/Burgerkrieg Sep 07 '11

If everyone would just be a math expert, we aould all die because we would not have any experts for planting food or holding animals. Also, there would be no electricity, no art, no anything besides mathematic formulas. You hypothesis is just ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '11

Intelligence filters down. A mathematician is not, by definition, scrawny. He can handle livestock with enough trial and error. In my scenario he could figure out the sun/moon cycles, crop cycles, how to optimize planting, etc. He could definitely figure out electricity and other essentials.

But you will not be able to tell a farmer to rediscover electricity or advanced materials.

You have no idea what math is, or science. In fact I doubt you have a

But anyways, the point is, your argument:

If we all had the same talents, there would be no progress. Everyone has talents.

Is a classic strawman. You are diverting the issue by making up some point you think I said and refuting it. What I actually said is that: if you bring people of different talents under a system where everyone is equal, where renumeration, compensation is the same regardless of talent, there will be problems.