That's still building on old models.
For true and real change, the whole present system needs to be torn down and rebuilt.
One present proposal that addresses this is degrowth.
Revamping our monetary system to put ppl at the forefront vs corps.
Collective ownership or nationalized ownership of industry.
UBIs that allow ppl to live adequate lives without slaving at a job their whole lives.
A protection of the environment (the very life sustaining systems that allow us to exist in the first place) that supercedes ppl's desires for unnecessary comforts.
A system of governance that eliminates capitalism and authoritarianism, and goes beyond socialism, communism and all other previous forms of societal make up.
From historical data, the only successful societies (in terms of surviving and thriving without destroying our life sustaining planetary systems) were the small tribal communities.
With 8 billion ppl on the planet ( the core of every problem we now face, imo), that is not an option.
So something completely new must be tried if achieving a true and global egalitarian society is the goal.
@504DR Hey, I'm a software engineer. I know how much more enjoyable greenfield projects are than endless refactoring.
The problem is, there's very few situations in which you get a genuine greenfield chance at fixing a political problem. Because of politics' tight integration into modern governance & infrastructure, practical politics is necessarily almost entirely done by endless, mostly inadequate, refactors. It's unfortunate, but, at least for the immediately foreseeable future, there's no escape from it.
@rysiek
@504DR Hey, I'm a software engineer. I know how much more enjoyable greenfield projects are than endless refactoring.
The problem is, there's very few situations in which you get a genuine greenfield chance at fixing a political problem. Because of politics' tight integration into modern governance & infrastructure, practical politics is necessarily almost entirely done by endless, mostly inadequate, refactors. It's unfortunate, but, at least for the immediately foreseeable future, there's no escape from it.