Then we would go to underdeveloped universes and exploit their resources, while at the same time go to more developed universes and steal their technologies.
Anyway, how could they know a person came from another universe?
It would convert us into mediocre and lazy people.
If we work harder, then we would get that technology earlier, so it is inevitable to become mediocre and lazy. The mediocre and the lazy are going to win!
Update: 2007-08-20
This is not about having no consideration for the rest, but a conclusion on what history shows about the behavior of people and human groups.
For example, it is always shown on TV how the Spanish came to america and they arrived to an island called "la Española" (the Hispaniola, but it should be called "the Spanish" instead, well English terms are very hard to translate into Spanish too), natives greeted and treated spanish very well, but the Spanish enslaved them and evetually killed them all. This is the same that the romans did with the villages that sorrounded them, and the same can be said of the greeks. The main difference is that the romans made their empire grow a lot larger than the greeks because they eventually realized that freedom produces more than slavery, so they allowed people to stay free if they pais their taxes, so there was an incentive to produce more: not becoming a slave.
In fact we still follow the same procedure: state officials do not pay taxes, or they pay the minimum, while normal people, if they do not pay their taxes, they go to jail, which is similar to being slave in the sense that you loose your freedom.
See: http://www.history.com/tdih.do?id=5224&action=tdihArticleCategory, it seems the natives defended themselves, so I guess we can't blame the Spanish, can we?
Now think what would happen if people could travel to parallel universes. The amount of oil in this universe would never end, because we could always travel to different universes and through a wormhole extract their petrol without them knowing.
Also in different universes people would have develop one technology more than others, so we would end up learning from them and using our advanced technology to subsume them. Not a pretty picture, but better we do it to them than them to us.
If the parallel usinverses exist, it is just a matter of time. But on the other hand if resources are so abundant, would it make sense to go there and steal?
Maybe it would if if were cheaper to steal than to produce here.
If you look at the Spanish settlements in America, they wold only settle where they could find other people producing, because there model of wealth included other people working for them. The same was not true in the States since the had a revolution, while in south america we didn't have revolutions, we just became independant, but people with privileges remained in power.
Why did that happen in the US and not here in the south?
I guess it has to do with the fact that all the nothern languages are of germanic descent. I mean, English, Swedish, Danish, German itself, are all germanic languages and therefore, they are descendants of germanic tribes, the same germanic tribes that were enslaved by the romans, that fought the romans and that eventually defeated the romans.
So in a sense, in the american culture and in all germanic cultures there is tendency to break free from opression, while in the latin cultures, there is a tendency for one group to make the others work for them. Americans think latin americans are lazy, and it is true, so profoundly lazy you could never imagine, specially mentally lazy. If that wasn't true the romans would have never been defited by the germanic tribes.
Yet our cultures have mixtures of both ideas. Americans do not live in tribes anymore. Nor we dress with togas. There are americans who would prefer not to work as there are latin americans who all they do is work.
But americans who do not work do not find people to do their chores for them. And if they do, it is because they are smart enough to know how to do it, probably they have wealth and they share the wealth. But it doesn't last more than 3 generations.
In the case of latin america, people who live to work are slaves and never see a return of their effort. It may be that our countries are poor because of that, but I think the problem is self reinforcing: Sin ce people who work more do not see any benefits, people who see this are convinced they should not work as hard and eventually people who work a lot get tired of pulling the chariot all by themselves.
Eventually this means that countries with people who think in the group perform better.
Let me put an example: Microsoft. Microsoft is an excellent company. People are very cooperative in there. Some may show examples where this is not true, but I know for sure that people are given stock options for working there. Name one company in latin america where this is also true.
How many cmpanies as successful as Microsoft do you see in latin america?
The problem is that people in latin america are greedy, there is so much poverty that they think they need to gather all resources and keep them to themselves. And this means companies are poor, and employees are poor, so companies sell less, because the market is smaller, therefore it is a vicious circle.
I know how to fix this: eliminate the IVA (VAT: Value added tax). Why? Because companies that produce can't produce too much (the IVA takes aways 20% of their added value), and this goes on through all the value added chain, so products are 100% more expensive.
By reducing the VAT to 0%, our countries would consume the same as the US, proportionally.
There are other things to fix: free education for the smart ones, social security and a working patent system:
- Education should be free for all, and at least in Chile, we could have that because of the surplus generated by the copper.
- Social security is standard in the EU and the US. What are we trying to prove? That we are better than them. I can tell you we are not. We are just in an analysis paralysis stage, where we have the resources and we do nothing with them.
- A working patent system is important because a lot of ideas are simply lost. If people write their ideas down and publish them in the patent system, eventually those patents become free. Why would anyone publish their patents? Because they are greedy and they think they can get something in return of almost nothing. And it is a matter of starting one patent system and the rest is automatic, because people are so greedy. It is a money making machine that runs on free energy. ;-)
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