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What does it mean?
Technology now allows us to support everyone on Earth at a high living standard, making selfishness unnecessary for survival.
In plain terms
We can now feed and house everyone well, so being selfish isn't needed to survive.
What can you take from it?
Resource scarcity no longer justifies selfish behavior.

Where it applies

  • policy making
  • community planning
  • resource management

Putting it to work

  • equitable resource distribution
  • collaborative planning

Questions to consider

  • What prevents sharing now?
  • How can we redesign systems for everyone?

Another view

Political will often lags behind technological capability.

More from Buckminster Fuller

  1. It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?

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  2. People have feet. Trees have roots.

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  3. If the success or failure of this planet, and of human beings, depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do?

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