A Goal Worth Working Toward

As paradoxical as it may seem; the more efficient and the more streamlined we become the higher the level of abundance we can generate for all of us. We have 5% of the population and we consume 30% of the worlds resources, it's insane. The contrived, ostentatious orientation and conspicuous consumption patterns of the American culture should be despised by all other countries on this planet. Many people often say, 'I wish we could live like Americans.' In an economy where we base our production and distribution on physical reference, starting with the carrying capacity of the Earth, where we streamline our labor towards things that have a long term social return, where we get rid of the cancer known as the financial system and start to share our resources in a diligent way, working together avoiding the false values pushed upon our culture, we find that we can provide a high quality of life for everyone on this planet while eliminating all of the central reasons for war, poverty, destitution, criminal behavior and neurosis. It would be the dawn of a world we could actually label a civilization; and if that isn't a goal worth working towards, I don't know what is.