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Message: [QUOTE="MadDogRevival, post: 2747849, member: 8028"] As to your second part, technology will continue to advance, no doubt, but energy=wealth, so only an increase in useful energy, per person, will result in more riches. The opposite is happening right now - useful Joules/person is in decline, and so too much wealth/individual. Of course, that's not to say that the shrinking pie must affect all the same way. I have no doubt that the people who are very greedy and very smart will leverage technology to increase their share of the energy pie. 5% of the population is not representative of power. India has about 1/5 of the people, but has little or no power. Power is derived from the ability to project economic and military violence - and the U.S. is still far and away the leader in that regard. It's just the way it is. You can hang whatever label on it that appeals to you. I think you're conflating "equal access" to rights to the rights themselves. No doubt that bias and prejudice has ensured that civil liberty has not been equally administered at any point in the U.S. - and most of the time it has been grossly mis-administered. My point was that civil liberties are now in decline, and freedom to speak, assemble, engage in religion, and so on (think bill of rights) are being eroded. That applies to everyone, however they have been treated historically. Well, I don't know anything about this, but it sounds like something that's likely true. If you mean after we're dead, then I'll be hoping you're right. [/QUOTE]

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