Thread by @peter03102

@DrewHLive They need a lot of our money to create their microcities.

A few years later, they are slums again.

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@DrewHLive "Visit the Utopia website" button.

What! You have not paid their bills yet!

@DrewHLive Population growth is a big issue for the World Economic Forum.

Decrease the population and replace them with machines.

"the prospect of replacing people with machines has become increasingly attractive."

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@DrewHLive The government owns the machines that enable us to live.

We have no purpose in life.

We must obey the government in all things.

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@DrewHLive "…in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full no private man can want anything…"

The government and the machines will provide.

What more can we want?

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@DrewHLive “Today we are people who know better, and that’s both a wonderful and terrible thing.”

– Sam Green, Utopia in Four Movements,

Do we know better?

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@DrewHLive "Utopias of the previous century: Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, Maoist China, and so on in depressing repetition."

"a radical break with the present and a bold leap toward an imagined future"

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@DrewHLive The Socialist Utopia

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@DrewHLive "They were promised Utopia, and now realize there is no utopia. There is only hard work and perseverance."

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@DrewHLive "This scene in Utopia hits a little harder now, no?"

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@DrewHLive a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions
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an impractical scheme for social improvement
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an imaginary and indefinitely remote place

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@DrewHLive “Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?”

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@DrewHLive "The world is not driven by greed; it's driven by envy."

Charlie Munger: Envy, Not Greed
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@DrewHLive Erewhon by Samuel Butler

(Nowhere backward)

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@DrewHLive Course Hero Literature Instructor Russell Jaffe explains the main ideas in Sir Thomas More's novel Utopia.
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@DrewHLive This thread is an answer to this tweet.

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