Convergence Problems

“This particular story highlights something that I find very interesting, and that has been a real problem for the ‘Global South’, as we are now called. Capitalism assumes that the best possible form of anything is efficiency and productivity. And humanity is not about productivity and efficiency! We weren’t put here to be productive elements for an employer, and yet we have somehow turned a method of economic distribution into not only our political system, but our entire social foundation. Tthere are tremendous negatives coming out of that, which we’re trying to grapple with. We’ve known this for a while, but the positives of trade and expansion have distracted us for a very long time; and now you’ve gotten to a point where, inevitably, you begin to have blowback.” Read more...

The Best Sci-Fi Short Stories

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