Well, this is where you are wrong, as someone said, "the worst financial mistake you can make is to believe you are working for someone else." Sure, I need to work to provide myself income, but that's much much different than slavery.

The world was created that way. It's the natural state of things. We eat other animals, and they eat us if they can.

Randomized? So then the person who wants a puppy gets a cat, and the person who wants a cat gets nothing. Sounds brilliant.

Because the threat of hunger (and the allure of money) inspires many artists.

The true purpose of HR is revealed!

Yeah. Out of all the ideas that came out of the banking crisis, there is only one that I wanted implemented (and suggested by Paul Volcker): "Any bank that is too big to fail is too big to exist. If a bank needs money from the government (and the only reason it would is because failing to give it money would ruin the economy), then it should be shut down or broken up and sold off in pieces."

Elizabeth Warren talks bad about banks, but her actions (supporting Dodd Frank, for example, which ensures banks will get a bailout in the future) are the opposite. If she really is against Wall Street, then lets hear her say that banks will be broken up if they get government money.

So that's a good point, the open source is the closest to post-scarcity communism that the world has ever seen.

Still, I don't think 'competency' is enough of a measurement (although I wouldn't mind getting a competent president). A person can be highly competent at something that people don't value. How would that situation be handled?

Are you sure? When did that happen? Last time I checked U3 still includes people who are looking for work.

Another way to look at it: Marx under-estimated the value of people who know how to allocate resources (capital). Those who don't do it well lose their capital.

Man, even in Star Trek, some people got to wear blue shirts, and some people had to wear red shirts. Apparently there was a shortage of blue thread or something, but red thread doesn't seem to protect very well.

Does not compute.....

How will you divide resources? How will you deal with the fact that some people will value some resources, and other people will value others? How will you deal with the fact that not everyone can have exactly the same stuff, no matter how hard you try? (some people are going to live closer to the railroad station, others farther).

That's true, which is part of the secret of OpenBSD. Note they say on the OpenBSD website, "very few remote exploits," not "very few exploits." Once users have access to userland, a privilege escalation exploit is bound to be found.

Then look at the link in Nature earlier.

If you're talking about the Keeling Curve, it is known to be accurate, based on similar measurements taken all around the world.

Well yes, actually they have. Here's one saying that the oceans will boil off. Quote: "that's it for all the species on this planet." That's James Hansen, one of the leading climate scientists in the world.