What is the aspiration of modern civilisation?

[Scam]

If we're talking about the UK then the aspiration is for house prices to increase indefinitely, right? Then we can forget about having any sort of 'economy' to speak of and just feel rich.

 

[mrgubby]

To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women ?

 

[CircleFaust]

If we're talking about the UK then the aspiration is for house prices to increase indefinitely, right? Then we can forget about having any sort of 'economy' to speak of and just feel rich.

haha true
"oh look my house is worth £xxxxxxxxx ! i'm so loaded
i'm going to sell it now,
oh wait no one can possibly afford £xxxxxxxxxx for my house, it's just stupidly overpriced "

 

[Illuminist]

Human race is destructive but particularly selfish so the aspirations seem to be based around those things,. whether that's from the perspective of an individual or a country.
Imagine having body frozen and coming back in lets say 10000 years and find that nobody gives a damn about peoples colour, race, religion. There's free roaming between countries, for travel but also work. Everyone in the world has a universal basic income or something, funded by every country. The grunt work is done by robots. Everyone who works (which could be a low 50% of people) is working to better human kind because there is minimal further financial gain and it's not needed because things are provided for us (it's an automated world). In fact, maybe no income is required . Population growth is controlled. The main focus would be an ultimate goal - to populate other planets and spread out into space.

Unlikely and probably only after a huge reset which even then would more likely put us way back into the past instead, given our natural behaviour.

I like most of that apart from the bit i highlighted which i would ask you to elaborate on

 

[NVP]

I would assume via a similar tactic to the chinese, perhaps higher taxes for more than one child etc.

In a smaller country with less wealth disparity and cultural stigmas it could work with minimal negative ripples.