Path to the Planets.. (end all fighting over resources)

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There is a reason for every state of human existence, whether that be due to ego or might, skill or understanding.

We as human beings are coming to a junction, that in the next 100 year we have an opportunity to build a utopian society. Looking back there was good reason for feudalization, then industrialization, then enterprisation.

Now and in the near future, we have to begin the process in gently assuaging these ideals.

Enterprisation, known as capitalism, is very much, you have it, I want it. Supply and Demand. Going forward to a utopian society these ideals would seem barbaric..

Why? because if a resource is required for any reason it is procured without delay and with only sunk cost.

Taking the free-will of libertarianism, the care of life over resource of socialism, and the productivity of conservatism in a culture of endless resource, makes a, I feel, compelling Utopia.
Who leads?.. who decides?
Meritocracy, then Democracy.

How should we attain these endless resources?

Surprisingly simple, the Solar System has itself more resources than we could possibly fathom a use for at this time in our growth. Space is dangerous.. yes, but attaining resources has always been dangerous, what of those who go to war over resources.. the soldiers? They are indeed at risk of injury and death. If Enterprisation overruns it course, Earth will become a dystopia.
Just like when workers complained robots stole their jobs, in the car manufacturing industry.
I digress..

We need to learn how to:

1. Launch reusable ships (see Space X)
2. Build habitats underground.
3. Safely and effectanly mine resources.
4. Send said resources back to Earth.

All of this could be seen as overwhelming, but in reality these are just job creation factors. People tend to get stars in their eyes when it comes to space, or even worse terror and dread. We enjoy Sci-Fi and romanticize about space, however.. more seriously we should perhaps express most of this romance once we have actually colonized somewhere other than our home planet.

'Whomever gets there first gets everything!!'

This is simply not true.. no one can defend a whole planet, it is entirely impractical. Eventually even Mars will have colony countries with their own economic structure, but even with that, what will we their ancestors have taught them? be greedy and selfish and start more wars? or teach them to both share and respect culture diversity.. that resources should be free as they are plentiful?

One leads to destruction the other leads to utopia.

'This 'Utopia' sounds like a lot of lazy people with only a few working!'

Why would I encourage such a thing?.. I'll lay it out, and while I do, I'll keep in mind Gene Roddenberry's idea of a Utopian future.

Right now the present world's school system is very very basic.
It caters only to people with an academic temperament.
IF you are Academic you thrive.
IF you are Artistic, Practical or Social you die.
This system is wildly insufficient for a modern age, and we will be stuck in the early 1900s if we stay with that structure of education.

Each temperament is very intelligent in it's own way.

An Academic temperament, will share knowledge with the group to achieve a goal of shared truth.

I am Artistic in temperament.. I respond better with one teacher, not many, not changing.
I first need to feel an innate admiration for a teacher then follow them.
If I do not have an interest in a subject before you suggest it.. I will not learn it. simple fact.
Like many the school system forced me; a square peg in a round hole.
It did not work. I do not enjoy working in groups.. like most artists.
I enjoy to absorb over a long time to digest then share when it is ready. Usually when inspired.

A Practical temperament also.. they do enjoy working in groups, but do not enjoy anything abstract.
They enjoy and understand physical objects.. think of how a mechanic works on a car or machine, they enjoy seeing and holding the parts, it is visual and not an abstract concept that they express their solutions.

A Social temperament will amasse information, catalogue it and store it for future use, they are attracted to people, how the human mind works, what people have done before and the chance they will do it again. Some might see this as a 'gossip'.. but these people can do much more than that.
Psychology, Sociology, team building.. it just takes the right environment. Which the Academic environment does not provide.

Teaching children is very difficult for us in present day, as we have not done the research to be adequately equipped to do so.. like a human 10000 years ago with a smartphone. Hitting it with a rock won't turn it on.

Hitting children with the broad rock of Academia will not light them up, you will just end up with a load of broken children. And so broken adults.

Resources

Countries will be afraid of losing trade with other countries if resources can be gotten elsewhere off-planet.. but this is not forward thinking enough. No one's going to sit on a mountain sized pile of tin.. they will sell it and the price will go down, I'm using tin as an example..imagine that but the price on EVERYTHING goes down. Meaning the cost of buying goes down also. Everything becomes more affordable for the world economy.. until we shift values, we won't understand this.
We have enough land that we can have machines farm for us.
We have enough land that we can have unlimited solar energy. Also wind/wave farms, totally automated. free power.

Then what are we really fighting over?
Ego.

Many, not all, but many politicians fight for Ego and money.. the money feeds the ego, the ego feeds the money that they attain more power to create more wealth.. and so on. All at the cost of war and struggling.

Resources are unlimited.
We just need to go out there and get it!