The counter argument goes like this.

Every year billions and billions of non-GMO plants randomly mutate. Every single ear of corn gets hit by enough solar radiation to cause at least one cell to mutate. Same thing happens with humans - ever hear of skin cancer?

The non-GMO mutated plants are not checked. No one examines them for anything. Well, unless the mutations causes it to look like Mary, Mother of Jesus.

The GMO plants however intentionally mutated, usually by combining it with genes whose effects are already known. They are sent through a barrier of tests to ensure healthyness.

Next, the various food stuff is processed - usually within an inch of of it's life, cause that's the way we do stuff here in the good old USA. This process is often designed to break down chemicals and turn inedible food into something you can eat (Ever try to eat raw corn - or raw rice? Can't do it unless you apply a lot of heat to break down chemicals).

Finally the food stuff is exposed to strong acids in your stomach all the while your intestines filter it - only letting the stuff you need in. It does NOT let DNA or RNA into your blood stream, just proteins, starches, etc.

Is it possible for some random bits of toxic stuff to get through? Yes. But this is pretty rare. Evolution spends millions of years trying to create something so nasty that it can make it into your digestive system.

GMO errors are not a reasonable threat. Random mutations in the normal food supply are MUCH more common and MUCH more likely to create something dangerous - but even THAT is not a reasonable threat.

Perhaps you have heard of it?

It was big back in the 20th and 21th century, popularirzed by a man called Tesla, though he had help from Edison and an elephant.

Second of all, most of what I wrote is not simplistic logic it is instead obvious facts. The basic problem is that you think there are X jobs available. NO. There is no set limit of X jobs. If you think that RIDICULOUS idea is true, it is up to you to prove it.

I know that work is not a function of what having x things that need to be done, but instead a function of everything we WANT to do. And enough humans want to visit and colonize Mars, Venus, Io, etc etc. that even if you personally are so anti-science, the race as a whole WILL go there.

Which is why I said that until mankind has terraformed every habitable planet (and moon) in the solar system, there will always be work left to do. We may end up all working for the government on government funding terraforming jobs (except for a few people owning robot based businesses), but that is beyond the scope of this discussion.

Again, I repeat the basic concept - that you may think is simple - but is obviously true to me and most of the rest of the world. Jobs come from things that people WANT, not things people need. Humans being are greedy sons of bitches (and daughters, can't forget the daughters) that want so much, that we will never run out of jobs - unless we choose not to work.

Second of all, I think a lot of humans will surprise you about how creative they can become - especially if they have to in order to get a job.

Mainly because work is not a set amount. We don't need X, and never need X+1. The amount of work that we want to be done so far exceeds the amount of work we need to do, or can do, that if we replace every single job in the entire world, in twenty years, all the new people will have created new jobs.

Give clothing to every single person in the world? We want more than one outfit. Give us 100 outfits each? We want to each have a unique, handsewn outfit. etc. etc. etc. Give us all sex bots and we will each want two sex bots for a threesome.

That's the nature of mankind.

No jobs? No talk to me when mankind has terraformed every planet in the solar system. Till then, stop being a ludite.

If you want people to switch from cars to public transportation then you need the following:

1) Speed comparable, if not faster than cars. If the car is 30 faster than the bus, no one takes the bus if they own a car. Time is worth more than anything else we have.

2) Convenient public transportation - it doesn't work if your city is all spread out and you have to walk more than 15 minutes to and from the bus stop. 10 minute walk to/from the bus stop is about the most you.

Otherwise, you need to start imposing costs on using the car - as in expensive parking.

NYC and London have some of the better public transportation systems of the world. They are faster than traffic, with many stops all over the city, and parking is expensive.

The first bailout may have been Greece's fault. Maybe even the second one. But the fact that they need a third means that Germany et. al. CAUSED the third one by giving crappy demands after the second bail out.

Clearly Greece's problems are no longer just caused by Greece, but a direct result of Germany's idiocy.

I am on treatment. Have been for years. Treatment fucking SUCKS. It takes over your life. Treatment controls what you eat, drink, what medication you take.Treatment keeps you alive and stable, but it is not the same as a cure. It's what we beg for until we get a cure.

Treatment means I get twice as tired as a normal person my age.

Treatment means I can't stay up late, get drunk, or smoke marijuana.

Treatment means keeping your blood pressure low that you need Viagrea to get an erection when you are 30.

I thank god for treatment - it keeps me alive. But it is not enough.

GIVE ME THE CURE. Some people will literally kill for a cure. If you tell someone they can cure the lung cancer their 8 year old child has just by killing a criminal in China and stealing their organs, some people will do it.

Treatment is nice - but it isn't close to a cure.

1) Dictatorship - where one side wins completely and orders the other side to obey or be punished. Ha ha ha, cry you fools! Your tears are my joy!

2) Compromise - where neither side completely wins, but both sides get some of what they want. Now BOTH sides cry, but neither side laughs.

Democracy is entirely based on Compromise. When you come across an idea that neither side is willing to compromise - such as slavery - you get civil war.

I like compromise. We may hate our congressmen for doing it, but it is better than having one side be beaten into the pulp and being forced to obey. Everyone that wants their side to win - think of what the country would be like if your opponent won all the arguments over the past decade. Now shudder and be glad they only won some.

This looks like it would work fine if everyone knew each other - but would suck if you had an annoying seat mate. Who wants to be forced to look at them - or have them look at you?

This design violates current social norms for personal space. As such I dislike it.

You on the other hand clearly have issues.

1. This guy is an App Developer. What makes you think he lives or does business in the US? His only contact with the US may be Google.

2. My experience is that most other countries are not better with it comes to trademark issues. Some have some more leniency with regards to copyright and patents, but trademarks are trademarks the world around. Google would do the same thing pretty much no matter what country Google was based in.

3. Your real problem seems not to be with the US, but with the concept of government making sure that business men don't shoot each other over disagreements by creating laws and regulations.

There are lots of reasons why we need to pay people to do things.

There are and always will be jobs that some people are very good at - but they DO NOT WANT TO DO. Just because you are the best at something doesn't mean you will like to do it. Prime examples are sexual - just because you are the best at giving blow jobs in the entire world, does not mean you want to spend your life giving blow jobs. But the same goes for many other jobs - garbage man, crab fisherman, and Wall Street drone. etc. etc.

Many jobs pay more note because of scarcity but because of unpleasantness. Almost no one wants to be a Wall Street Drone - working 15 hour days unless they get paid huge amounts of money. There is no scarcity involved - lots of people are smart enough to do it. But the job requires such ridiculous hours that the only way to convince people to do it is to pay them gobs of money. Even then, most get burnt out and quit.

More importantly, scarcity can never vanish - instead what happens is that once very rare luxury items become somewhat rare necessities, and specialization differentiates types. At one point in time the average person owned less than 5 outfits. Clean clothing was a rare luxury. Now, most people own 20 to 100 outfits. It has become a commodity. Has clothing switched to a 'trekonomy?" No - cut and style, has taken over, with certain types of clothing - namely hand made by famous people - becoming extremely rare.

There are a few places where the version of communism they are calling "trekonomy" works besides a star ship. Besides modern militaries and families, many religious institutions use something similar. Nuns and Monks are clear examples. So do non-evil prison systems - they don't charge the inmates for food, clothing, etc. Note the highly authoritarian system for all of those categories - military, family, religioun and prisoners.

But yeah, the idea that it is going to be adopted by the general population is stupid. Not all of us want to live like a soldier/child/nun/prisoner.

2. That does not change the fact that the economy portrayed in the show is a version of communism. That is the scientific term for the economic system they used.

3. Morons that think calling 'communism' "STAR TREK ECONOMY" will somehow hide what it is should be laughed at.

4. Communism is ALSO the system used by almost all modern militaries and families. You don't charge your kids for the use of the house. Nor do you charge Fighter pilots for the use of the plane, fuel, bombs, etc.

5. While Communism works pretty well within the military and within Families, it SUCKS for a general economy. See Russia, Cuba, North Korea for prime examples.

6. WE WILL NOT EVER END UP USING COMMUNISM / 'STAR TREK ECONOMY' FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION. That battle was fought and Communism lost during the 20th century.

7. A 'post scarcity' economy is a false idea. there will always be scarcity - fuel, ideas, certain types of entertainment, sex, will ALWAYS be scarce. Merely because we will have solved the scarcity of the original commodities - food, clothing, certain types of products, does not mean nothing will ever be scarce again.