Why socialism is more nessecary with time

As anyone can tell you, capitalism depends on a lower class. To own something implies that someone else doesn't, and when a system gives value to people depending on what they have then they will always try to have more. Ideas are bought and sold, creating secrets in order to retain their capital value. Information is given a dollar value, even if it is freely available, making both sides lose (with less content and no profit.) Everything in the modern world is requiring less manpower; people are becoming more educated and working longer hours. All of these contribute to inequality in capital on a exponential curve, so how could any significant amount of us be happy in 60 years under a capitalist system if there is no money coming to most of us?

Our system of patenting is flawed; when I first heard of creative commons licensing I was elated. For years I tried to think of a proper patent system since I was sure ours was more interested in profit than creating new ideas, then I fond out about creative commons and realized one already exists. The main problem that I have with the modern patent system is the capitalization of ideas. Anything from light bulbs to Bob Marley are monopolized by greed for ages after the creators death. Eddison should have profited in a great way for popularizing the light bulb, sure; I can see that, but why does his company (GE) get to renew the patent so long after his death? Bob Marley's relatives own different rites to different songs of his, making boat loads of money off them to this day, yet we never had a good compilation of all his best songs since none of them can get along and put one together.
Light bulbs, Bob Marley and many other things never seem to become public domain like so many great works of literature and art have, which seems to claim that an individual deserves something for part of the accumulated achievements of man-kind. Everything I have ever thought is thanks to the billions of dead people that came up with ideas for me, the same is true for us all and patent laws should reflect that.

Entertainment used to be a rare thing in this world; not too long ago, a story by a fire was our only source of entertainment. At the start of broadcast television and radio there were only a few channels on at one time and no real competition besides that. Now we live in an age where digital video recorders, Netflix and torrents make watching whatever you want easy; the same is true for all types of entertainment. All information is becoming easily available, and that is a good thing. The more we know about each other, the better we know one another. Education is no longer something that only the elite can truly gain access to, information is abundantly available to anyone who wants to find it. Capitalizing on an idea seems so 19th century when new ideas are freely available to anyone with access to the internet.

We left the industrial era ages ago yet we still have this industry mind set, where everyone can get a job if they look for one. That is not the case anymore; efficiency is king in this digital age, less people are needed to sustain our culture and civilization. Robots have invaded warehouses and assembly lines, it's only a matter of time before they start making most jobs more efficient.
Workers at Amazon warehouses don't need to go to shelves to find products, the shelves come to them on robots and line up next to the packager. All you have to do is watch an episode (or 100) of How It's Made to see how unnecessary people are when it comes to making products for the entire world to enjoy. If that isn't enough, then think about how many more people are working past the age of 65 these days, and how an education alone is no longer enough to demand a job (like it was when they were getting out of school.)

All of these problems grow. As more ideas are hoarded for profit, copying information for educational or entertainment purposes becomes a crime; the working population grows in numbers while being educated isn't enough to get a job. Everything about Western life is based on an old system that only worked for a industrialization. Now that we are in the information age, we don't have the amount of well paying jobs to employ enough people to fool the lower class in to thinking they can all climb up to the middle class. The middle class is shrinking constantly (as all this happens) which is devastating to the dream that this country has been reliant on. With out a real middle class, the riots that we see today will only get worse.

The only real answer is to socialize, to a point where everyone in the world gets help and we all get enough to eat for the month and to sustain us for a normal life. Heath care is a huge issue in The West, yet few think that a home and food should be free to all. Any other expenses can be considered luxuries (in some way) and you can buy those with money from your job if you are so lucky to have one, but the old idea of working to keep a roof over your head and food in your stomach is not going to work forever as long as people keep working more hours (for less money) to stay alive.
We should be able to move away from the concept of greed; start thinking of a way to feed and house everyone alive to a certain level of comfort. We could easily spend the entire Western budget on a world wide initiative to give every man, woman and child the basics of life (and heath) if we weren't spending most of it a war machine. Possibly if we were charitable to all, friend and enemy alike, then we wouldn't need such an impressive war machine to hide behind in fear of a world unifying (without our interests in mind.)

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day, give a man a house and he'll have a house to live in, you don't have to teach him anything either.

Video game idea: Corporate Machine

Pure capitalism, unchecked would be horrific for the people but quite fun for the robber baron. This is an idea I had for a game called Corporate Machine. It could be offline or online but I think the online version would be a million times cooler so I will describe the online version. The layout of the game is similar to Sim City or one of those Farmville type games but the game starts with a fully built city. Everything runs in real time while the player isn't on and most actions take a long time to pan out making it hard for someone who plays a lot to get too far ahead.

When the game starts, different businesses trade with each other to make products to sell for profit to AI citizens. All of these businesses are originally controlled by AI that will look for the shortest routs and cheapest prices in order to make their product faster or cheaper and earn more money.

There can be many instances of the game at once, with a new games spawning each day and each game lasting from a few days to a few months depending on the instance. An instance opens and a player can join in at any time and buy a business to make profits then upgrade that business or buy a new one. Players compete to monopolize everything or have the most money at the end of the time limit.

The player would chose a section of business to specialize in like food, clothing or electronics. After choosing a specialization they can buy any business that falls in to that specialization so if you picked food you could buy slaughter houses, restaurants or farms. Some of these would cross over with loose connections like farms being bought by clothing and food specialists. Business will send out trucks to another business to pick up materials to make a product to sell, or send to a business that sells to citizens. Each specialization has it's own end business that sells to the AI, who will buy from the business that is offering the cheapest end product.

Each player would have a persistent character that will gain experience and money to give them a slight edge in their next game. You could upgrade yourself to have faster workers, efficiency of certain businesses, smaller buy fees and larger sell fees. There can be instances for separate tiers of players with different rewards for winning.

All buildings start out as the nicest version when taking health, comfort and quality in consideration. These things are detrimental to your sole goal of profit, so as you upgrade your business if becomes more soulless, unhealthy and cheap. So you upgrade your mom and pop TV repair shop to something like a Radio Shack, then it resembles a Best Buy and finally some mutant Walmart. All of the industries would end up with the same end output building after upgrading and would then compete to monopolize everything and try to end the game early for more points.

The employees would start as unionized high paid workers and as you upgrade them they would go down to minimum wage, then be illegal workers, then slaves and finally intelligent robots (but with souls so they feel a million times more sorrow then a human slave.) Every part of the game should try to follow the theme of greed except for one important part, the system the game uses to make money.

The game would be truly free to play and only have advertisement in lobbies or other non-game environments. A player could buy the game for five dollars and have no ads at all. Players  could buy clothes for their persistent character or make their businesses look cool/funny but nothing you could buy in game would actually help your progress. The contrast of the greed displayed in the game and the desire to bring the game to people freely and not try to nickle and dime them would add appeal to the game.

So it is kind of like Sim City meets Monopoly with an online RTS edge. I'm looking for someone to help me make this real, it would be a truly unique game that could end up being very popular. It could be done easily on a PC, Android or iPhone.

The only humane answer to overpopulation: mass sterilization

OK maybe it's extreme, maybe it's a horrible thing to do but stick with me here. There is no more humane way to deal with the overpopulation of the world then sterilizing 90% of the population. If we don't act soon a massive disease, war or famine will take care of over population instead.
I am offering an alternative: find a way to sterilize everyone in the world except a small random population.
This is the only fair and safe way to go about doing this. We should still have about 10% of the population fertile but they must also be randomly so they can still represent the vast differences across the human race. This can be done with both sexes or just one.
What this would do would be the same as killing 90% of the population with out having to kill anyone at all and giving the next generation plenty of room to grow.
I have no idea how such a thing would be some but I imagine putting something in the swattered or crop dusters.

Transhumanism: are we there yet?

It's hard to notice all the miracles that we have around us,  some of the most useful things are simple, like pockets. My life would be a mess every time I leave my house with out pockets. A life without pockets is one of the many things a lot of women do that I just wouldn't have the strength or patience for.

We live in a world where more and more people travel around with the internet in their pocket. Many of us have a digital identity separate from ourselves on blogs, social networks, video games or forums (I have at least one of each.) Sites like Wikipedia operate as a collective mind to create more useful information then people twenty years ago could imagine. People have grown new trachea and bladders out of patients cells and those patients are walking around today with those new parts in them. There are completely deaf people who have been given back some form of hearing with cochlear implants, similar things are being done with blind patients. Japanese tech companies and US defense contractors are building exoskeletons that increase the strength of the user over ten times and they are coming out with new ones every other year that blow the last line out of the water, and those are just the ones they are showing us now.

This growth is exponential in every field of science. If we invest in the rite technology's we could see a world 30-50 years from now where impossible things are ordinary. The move of multitouch screens from some cool thing I saw on a TED talk to the backbone of a world changing device (the smartphone) was incredibly fast. Medical research is funded in all the wrong ways, if the focus was on improving lives and curing disease we could be decades ahead of where we are now. Science and medicine are constantly exploited for greed and war, yet we cheer for joy when they give us some technology they have been monopolizing on for years.

Evolution is so 400,000BC ever since then, technology has been calling the shots not genetic superiority. The more technologically advanced your society is the higher your chances of living. It was proven in many cases when civilizations met for the first time.

This new technological evolution has been going on at an exponential rate. What started with controlling fire 400,000 years ago, became stone weapons 100,000 years ago, then 11,000 years for bows and 6,000 for the wheel, continues now with More's law and stem cell research. The rate of advancement has gotten to a very hopeful point for humanity where we can become more than human. It is only a matter of time for technology to become a part of nearly everything we do, I could argue that it has for most of us. Humanity can only slow this down if it chooses to but I would rather move on to a truly higher state as long as I am still "me."

Automatic shower dispensers

Back again, and back to an idea I mentioned before that I wanted to expand on. The idea of an automatic shower is pretty awesome and I have no idea why it isn't on infomercials at least if not a part of most modern showers. People spend about 15 minutes on average in the shower, you could cut this down to 5 minutes with such a device. It is very simple to pump hair/body wash in to a shower head, lather then turn it off, you could take a quick shower in a minute; making people get to work earlier, eat breakfast more, sleep better, use less water and energy, or be more hygienic. Many see this product as a device for the lazy I see it as a device for the efficient. So far I can only find one company that makes these things (Bodysof) which I mentioned in my first post.

A serioius gripe with dark energy

     OK so I watch a ton of PBS NOVA and TED talks. One of my favorite subjects is cosmology. A few weeks ago I was watching "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Universe or Multiverse?"  and something in the intro fused together an idea that was brewing on. Dark energy would be much easier to explain as the forces of gravity from other universes in a level one or level two multiverse acting on our own universe.

     "Wait," you ask. "What do you mean by a type one or two multiverse?" Simple, there are 4 levels of proposed multiverses. When most people think of a multiverse they are usually thinking of a level three.

     A level one multiverse would be one where there are many big bangs in our 3 dimension space. so out there 50 billion light years away there could be a universe but we won't see it unless it is roughly 50 billion light years old. Since we can't even see the edge of our own universe who's to say it isn't rite next to another one? We could be in a sea of big bangs that could go on to infinity.

     A level two multiverse is similar to a level one but each universe would be in it's own bubble of space and you could only travel from one to the other through another dimension. I like to think that space is made up of something, if that is true then that "something" could be the bubble that we are in. So there could be another bubble sitting rite next to us, even less then 13.7 billion light years away, but we can't see it because it's light can't travel through the gap of space between our universe or theirs.

     A level three multiverse would be multiple universe layered on the same three dimensional space but skewed slightly on other dimensions. This is like Sliders or Stargate, it says that everything that could happen does happen in other dimensions even the smallest changes like a thought you just had could be spawning new universes where the decision you made was different. Scientists can't pinpoint where an electron should be and this theory says that it is everywhere and nowhere at once until it is observed.

     Finally we have a level four multiverse says that there are an infinite number of mathematical structures that are all universes. So any form or shape that you could make up with pure mathematics is a model of a universe and each has it's own laws of physics that is described by its mathematical shape.

   Now why wouldn't scientists look at the sudden acceleration of our universes expansion as a way to explain one or all of these theories? If there are level one multiverses, or even level two multiverses couldn't their gravitational forces effect us? Wouldn't this explain the sudden expansion of space a lot more elegantly then saying that space is bunching up and pushing matter out as it accumulates? I find it much easier to believe that the matter in our universe simply got so spread out that the gravitational forces outside our big bang are now more powerful then the center of the event.

    Sure, there may not be any math to back it up but I would say that most of the math in theoretical cosmology is shaky at best. Couldn't someone make up some bullshit set of equations that would explain dark energy with level 1 or level 2 multiverses? I just can't accept that 70% of the forces in our universe are being explained as forces that go against all of the natural laws we have discovered so far. I can deal with dark matter weighing 5x more then all the matter in the universe, space has to weigh something if you ask me, but saying that the majority of everything is a strange new force that gives the finger to all we know about physics just seems like lazy science to me.

OK, so maybe you've heard of this one before

     Like any great idea most people have, a time computer was most likely thought up before, but it isn't really talked about. In high-school I had an idea for an automatic shower; a company called Bodysof makes one, yet it isn't in every household as I imagined such a thing would be so long ago. The idea of a time computer is very similar.

     How cool would it be to have a device that could send information through time and not just space? Picture a desktop PC with multiple hard drive slots, if you could swap a hard drive from one slot to another faster then light you could theoretically send that drive in to the past as long as you know the free slot is there at the time you want to send it back. This idea can be taken further and say if we just send the data from one drive to the next you could send information to yourself before you sent it.

     The inventor of this device would know everything that he would be able to tell himself in the future. If he/she kept the device secret he/she would be the most informed person alive. The ability to have a wire of communication with all of your future and past selves (and being the only one who can do so) brings up a lot of unique ideas and questions. This leads me to believe such a device may have been invented already and no one talks about it because the inventor is killing us all before we can get the word out.

     So I am pretty much starting this blog by risking my life. If I am still alive to continue it I will do so soon, and we will know that the race is still on to invent the time computer.