Why do we fight each other, shouldn't we get together and make the future a colaborative, instead of a competitive place?
The world and its humans
We are almost 8 biollion people on this planet. All of us have to eat, drink and be socially active.
Currently we are all fighting for the bigger piece of the cake. We have build our selves a system, which makes the rich richer and the poor poorer.
We have build our whole system on the basis of money. A construction, which is created, controlled, and monitored by a small percentage of us, and does not represent any kind of value.
Just because we are used to its value, we still accept it in exchange for our time and skills.
I think that the distribution of knowledge through new inventions like the world-wide-web, has a large influence on how people think about humanity and its systems.
There are thousands, if not millions of people, who are collaborating through the internet in an open-source manner. Their goal is not to make any money, they do not even expect anything back for their work.
Open-source projects emerge, because those projects would not be "profitable"[*] in the current system. Without people who offer their time, skills and effort for free, those projects would never be executed in the current system.
But why should a system not be profitable for tasks that obviously give a lot to humanity?
shouldn't we base the profitablity of any action on the value it is giving to humanity?
shouldn't we encourage any kinds of collaborations, instead of empowering a few (financial sector, military etc) and discard the others?
shouldn't we just work together and stop fighting each other?
shouldn't we see every human as one of us, and be happy that he/she exists, because other wise we would have to do his/her job?
Shouldn't we see the power of a collaborative world and start building one?
[*] I put the word profitable in quotation-marks ("") in the upper paragraph, because the word profitable not really fits here. Profitability refers to the difference between the input and the output. If some action is profitable, the energy, time or effort you put into it has to be smaller than the value the action gives to you. For the example of money, your action is only compansated by money. The worth of this money changes constantly, depending on the time- and location- you want to spend it.
I hope I was able to inspire your thoughts and wish a wonderful day
best regards,
TeVinci