Yeah, funding is a major issue with most attempts at creating a utopian society. My plans for it involved somehow winning a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for, having a mysterious and formerly unheard of relative die and for some unknown reason choose me to inherit their billions, or finding a genie lamp. No luck on any front so far, but maybe today will be the day.
Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.
Most people like things like air conditioning, well cooked meals, and comfortable beds. It’s difficult to convince a group of people in 2026 to hike out into some seemingly unclaimed land where the environment is pretty much sure to be awful and start constructing huts and rebuilding society while living off the land.
Once a future city is going, people can move there and find better work. The difficult part is to get it running.
Yeah, funding is a major issue with most attempts at creating a utopian society. My plans for it involved somehow winning a lottery I didn’t buy a ticket for, having a mysterious and formerly unheard of relative die and for some unknown reason choose me to inherit their billions, or finding a genie lamp. No luck on any front so far, but maybe today will be the day.
Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.
Most people like things like air conditioning, well cooked meals, and comfortable beds. It’s difficult to convince a group of people in 2026 to hike out into some seemingly unclaimed land where the environment is pretty much sure to be awful and start constructing huts and rebuilding society while living off the land.