| How the last human died |
| Adapted for the Internet from: Why God Doesn't Exist |
- Module main page: We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
This page: How the last human died
Pages in this module:
- 1. Food: Mother Nature's henchman
2. The definition of carrying capacity
3. Catch 22: The artificial economy is limited by population which is limited by economics
4. The economic history of Man
5. The day the global economy collapses, it will be the end of Man
6. Conclusions: Panic spreads like wildfire
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- Last modified 03/04/08
- Copyright © by Nila Gaede 2008
In the old days, every hunter-gatherer and subsistence farmer procured his own food. The urban
proletarian, instead, is entirely at the mercy of big agricultural corporations and intermediaries who feed
him for a profit. It's simple. No profits, no food. The members of our famous 'intelligent' species have
gradually distanced themselves and lost control over the only scarce resource that keeps them alive:
food.
Now imagine an Orwellian scenario where the global economy collapses entirely and profits vanish
overnight. Where are you going to get your meals during the following few weeks?
So who says that the economy is going to collapse? That only happens to dinosaurs, and they are...
The economic history of Man has been a slow, but persistent progress towards efficiency. First we
shifted laborers from the farms to the cities and put them to work in factories. Then we converted
factory workers into office employees. The entire planet has moved from agriculture to manufacturing
and from manufacturing recently to services. We live today in a global service economy. Manufacturing
continues to decline and is increasingly a smaller proportion of global GDP. Therefore, tangible
inventions (i.e., technology) will not reverse the economic course Mother Nature has set for Man. The
day that the service sector becomes saturated, we have no other major category in which to put people
to work. To make our predicament more dire, we are not putting out babies (i.e., demand). No work, no
demand; no demand, no profits; no profits, no food.
In fact, the situation is much worse than you think. We don't need for Man's global artificial economy to
collapse. As soon as the US economy -- the driver of the global economy -- disintegrates, whether you
are Bill Gates or Bill Gaede you have only a few weeks to live!
| I was drunk when I made you guys back in the days of Eden, and that was a big mistake. Now I'm drunk again, hic. So guess what? I think it's time to send the four horsemen and correct the mistake for good! |
