science-fiction-economic-collapse

[Michael Bailey]

 Ian Livingston wrote:
> "The irony of a post-scarcity setting is that our civilisation could
> have achieved it a century or more ago. Once again, the solutions are
> not technological but rooted in our own nature as human beings.
> Overcoming or improving our nature may require a moment of
> society-wide Satori. Whether we are ready for that yet is up for
> debate."
>
>

this too relates to AtD.  At the Columbian Exposition, the dirty
little secret was that thing known as colonialism, which as it turns
out is seemingly but a sub-case of the general thing known as economic
injustice.

...titans of finance, willing to ignore everything else in quest of
higher profit margins, guys like Vibe finding a way (corporations
endowed with human rights but not human responsibilities) to pile up
their monuments to Moloch...

Vibe doesn't come off so bad as some present-day malefactors, actually.
There's a certain amount of excitement in my general vicinity about
Greg Palast's new book, Vultures' Picnic.  http://www.gregpalast.com/
Vibe himself might quail at some of the heinosity!