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Originally Posted by baddog
Here is the problem |
Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968. In 1970 he received the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. He also received numerous other awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented to him on February 23, 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. He invented the Geodesic dome and the Otisco Project among other things - and studied the underpinnings of economics, political philosophy and human survival more than most people.
Fuller was concerned about sustainability and about human survival under the existing socio-economic system, yet remained optimistic about humanity's future. Defining wealth in terms of knowledge, as the "technological ability to protect, nurture, support, and accommodate all growth needs of life," his analysis caused him to conclude during the 1970s, humanity had attained an unprecedented state. He was convinced that the accumulation of relevant knowledge, combined with the quantities of major recyclable resources that had already been extracted from the earth, had attained a critical level, such that competition
for necessities was not necessary anymore.
In fact he was right. We are capable of producing more food than we can eat today, even in the face of the greatest drought since the dust bowl, with a tiny fraction of our population employed in the food production industry. In any other era you would see mass starvation during a drought of this magnitude... and yet, these days not a single item is unavailable on supermarket store shelves and at most it has resulted in a small price increase.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1871993.html and yet Most people don't even know a drought is underway.
So yeah, that underachiever idiot Fuller clearly was the problem. Planned obsolescence in product lines for the sole purpose of creating demand, shorter than necessary lifespans on appliances, and a continued march toward automation of most tasks is clearly all his misunderstandings. It must be that he didn't get it lol .. /facepalm