Originally Posted by gwd

Americans can come together in community in ways that the Cubans could not- we could force the rest of the world and the lowest classes of Americans back to a subsistance level to give the rich a few more generations of consumerism. As the supply of labor increases from population increases and robotics we can reduce workers wages and increase their hours until their every waking hour is spent acquiring sustenence. They will only use the minimum amount of energy to live while well off Americans can continue as usual. We have to prevent other countries from grabbing our oil and resources somehow. If we present the project to Americans in the right way we will come together as a community- War On Terror or Spreading Democracy and Freedom or Protecting Families. Anyway we do it if we can drastically reduce the standard of living for the rest of the world we can live the way we want, delay oil depletion and maybe help the global warming problem too. Imagine if we could prevent China from acquiring resources and they have to go back to riding bikes, then we could keep on driving.