There is no economic system yet devised that does not collapse eventually. Communism, the "completely altruistic" system, was a disaster. Currently the world is trending toward free market socialism. Free markets work best, maybe free market socialism will work best.
The problem is biology - it's a dog eat dog world. OK, now we can genetically modify biology...what are we waiting for?
Nothing, it's in the beginning stages, as we speak.
The problem with that is the unique condition of biology is massively underappreciated. This planet has the only biology us modern space cadets are aware of. It depends on EVOLUTION, and evolution is thousands of years SLOOOW.
We impatient modern space cadets operate from the idea that we can do better by leapfrogging over evolution...an evolutionary change that would take nature thousands of years to accomplish can be done with genetic modifications in a week or so.
Will genetically modified biology go haywire? Dunno, we're going to find out. Early signs are not all that promising. Maybe it really isn't nice to mess with Mother Nature.
If it does go haywire a bio reset is coming, and it won't be pretty.
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