I have been amazed at the level of
knowledge and debate that occur at road side tea shops and noodle shops in India and China on
complex issues like the
economy, fiscal policy, foreign investment and education / job opportunities.
They have not yet had the same impact as the Black Death — but as we saw in New Orleans in 2005, it does not take the bubonic plague to destroy social order and functional infrastructure in a financially
complex and impoverished society... Once you understand the transition in this way, the need is not for a supercomputed Five Year Plan — but a project, the aim of which should be to expand those technologies, business models and behaviours that dissolve market forces, socialise
knowledge, eradicate the need for work and push the
economy towards abundance.