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How would you take over the world?
This is meant to be a fun and creative forum where you can tell the TED community how you would take over the world or die trying! To start off let's say you are from an upper middle class family in the United States of America. Obviously intelligence and leadership skills are given. What would be your path to world domination without destroying the whole planet in the process?
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
- Backstreet Boys, from the song 'Forces of nature'.
Kate Blake 50+
Not wishy washy stuff but genuine deep caring concern that we all live in harmony with each other and our environment. Of course this would stop all conflict immediately at every level from domestic violence to wars. we would all instantly appreciate each others differences and learn to share more.
russell lester
russell lester
Don Anderson 20+
Secondly: ….. Hold up ….. has someone already taken over the world and we just don’t know it?
James van der Walt
James Tolliver
Armistral .
http://www.wesolver.org/wiki/Unified_Human_Government
Mark Hurych
Ok so if you took over the world, you'd give it to everyone else. Brilliant. That's 6,999,999,999 people forever in your debt.
Robert Winner 50+
Power is an aphrodisiac ... Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I am not the right person for that kind of power. I fear for my soul should I be weak.
Maxime Touzel
Nationalizing/Globalizing the banks and central banks to make a Planetary Currency to unite the Nations.
Implement rules over the new Planetary Banking System to fit the direction of the new Regulated World Market Economy.
RWME Basics :
Profit is not allowed to every corporations, profit will be a privilege given by the PBS to corporations which products or services are greatly needed to improve the quality of life of the people until satiety is attained and maintain.
Bankruptcy will be apply to every corporations which products or services are considered threatening to human life.
Freedom will be granted has a right to every individual. All needs will be provide by either private-corporations or state-corporations for free until satiety.
Basic Needs are Housing/Electricity, Food/Water, Clothing/Health Care, Education/Entertainment, Transport and Access to Work/Humanitarian Aid projects if desired.
The Currency will be earn by anyone that Work or participate in an Humanitarian Project. The individuals who do not wish to work will not be penalized but will not be privileged either, unlike those who decide to participate in Humanitarian Projects or available work.
Privileges may include owning a house coupled with a piece of land, owning transportation units, etc. (you get the idea)
"This is a fairly poor description of the basics of the system as i can't mention even half of the economy workings basics, if you don't understand keep in mind that this system is not meant to be a growing economy for a growing population but a stabilizing economy for a stable population."
Now stable population requires birth control, my idea is to limit pregnancies to one per couple and possibly add an extra pregnancy per individual who works and owns already everything that he or she could own by privileges earned. That is to say someone who has worked about 20 years total, 7295 days.
Scot Wilcox 10+
Maxime Touzel
But first of all the majority must decide to take this kind of system to make it work, the majority likes to remain blind to reality, the facts are, we are exploiting our arable soil too much and we're wasting a large amount of resources for unnecessary superficiality.
So called rich country are in fact indebted countries, to me the only solution is this solution, it's odds of success are low, even almost nonexistent but it's the only solution i see as a real possibility.
Turning the system upside down.
Jimmy Strobl 30+
To accomplish this I would create a "Representative Direct-Democracy"-party. A party where all views are welcome and where we could easily take and give power to/from the ones best/worst fitted for each job.
The whole "One leader" attitude is such a waste of resources, we should all decide on our future, when we have the energy to do so.
Here's a party that I'm working on advancing in Sweden. http://aktivdemokrati.se/manifesto/
walter crockett
carolyn mcauley 10+
Tony Nwadialo
I could help everyone to prove his iPAD so as to conquer three basic needs? What did I look like, where was I a citizen and when was the time frame of each lifetime. This is basic identification for man on an iPAD that is the destination of the Cloud Era and it will be called the Clergy Era.
The answers to these basic questions of matter, energy, space and time turns my loyalty or goodness and sweet humility to the human spiritual family, full circle. For example, I will discover that I am Soul wearing a human body and we who built all the great civilizations known today are no longer the same citizens there. They have gone forward as explorers to build new civilizations that can move the human spiritual family beyond the mind, the cloud of consciousness.
On the contrary, we who live in these great cities or civilizations today are settlers who need to take advantage or take for granted the gift of life and learn to seek the highest in everything, how everything is a good thing and every disappointment is a blessing. I will thus have discovered why I have come back these hundred lifetimes afterwards and how I will use every single experience since that first time for better result today. The answers explain why one hundred lifetimes may be up to one million years of uninterrupted story in human spiritual evolution and it could be called one day on God’s calendar. I would have found the secret design of My Community iPAD.
I hope everyone can accept to say that each lifetime may be represented by one day, today and Soul is the Clergy of Consciousness here on earth learning through: 1. Entry into Life 2. Exercise of Living 3. The fulfillment or Exit from Life or death. The world’s three ways of learning serve no purpose in Exit from Life phase.
The fourth way of learning, the divine way, will become everyone's method to turn the fear of death into love of immortality.
David Fuchs
Andrew Wiggin
David Fuchs
Joshua Kloppers
I would take a third of the nation and arm them while the other 2 thirds i would turn into slave labor (this would of course be organised by race or some other such characteristic) under a small minority. I would then send out "missionaries" to do the same in other countries while i take advantage of my free labor force to make myself financially superior to everyone else. Once I'd taken over Africa it would be easy
The world might not be left in the best of conditions but it would be mine...
Mark Martinez
Lorenzo Ciacciavicca
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Scot Wilcox 10+
Colleen Steen 500+
I would dance around the world singing the song....."All you need is love".....that's it....instant take over:>)
OOPS....wait a minute....just read Rai's comment......yeah....good point....."smooching with all those ladies over 65".....we DO indeed love attention and we vote.....excellent point:>)
Rai Requena
Theodore A. Hoppe 200+
Oh wait....their doing that now.
Michael Cady
Mark Hurych
Lejan . 30+
Mark Hurych
Arkady Grudzinsky 50+
Mark Hurych
[I'm slightly embarrassed to say that my references for world domination come from American cartoon heroes like Yosemite Sam, Plankton, and Boris Badenov.]
Arkady Grudzinsky 50+
Q: "How many quality engineers does it take to change a light bulb?" A: "None. We just report that it is dark in the room."
I don't fix problems. I report them. Since reporting problems is my primary job function, maintaining a sane positive attitude is a matter of survival. Controlling my own psychological condition seems to me far more important than controlling the world.
Kareem Fahim
when/if you are truly your own master you will/should realize how pointless this world is
Mark Hurych
David Star
Well, 1st we all have to be on the same page. That means we all have to agree the world is NOT working at its current state of affairs. Then we have to recognize what the CAUSE may be.
Ideologies, religion, governments, borders, race, political parties & hardline opinions is what divides us.
So if I were POTUS (president of the US) I would start with an APOLOGY to the world and ask for a another chance.
We (America) have gone astray from being an example to the rest of the world AND instead have become a CONQUEROR.
With our foreign policy driven by paranoia from fear of being TERRORIZED thus becoming that which we fear the most "terrorists".
The world has been watching for decades as we've used the CIA in manipulating foreign governments to the point of dissolving those governments so we could employ the IMF to loan $$ to fallen governments so they can rebuild with secret agreements to capture their resources and infuse financial institutions to direct their economies.
Its no secret any longer most of the world knows and most Americans are oblivious thus could care less as long as they are entertained to have a good time. Cluelessness is no longer an excuse as the world continues to socially and ecologically decay now at an ever increasing speed.
WE have to acknowledge this NOW or the whole world will implode into chaos further dividing us because we failed to agree of those key issues mention above which divide us.
WE need to recognize the IDEA that diversity is a good thing otherwise a one world government will have us "conform" into "one synthetic product" a complete opposite of what humanity is all about.
Common sense tells us that even one human being has multiple senses to help navigate each "individual" through life. We have to recognize each culture has something positive to offer to the world.
So the start to take over the world is with a sincere apology followed with an ALL inclusive agenda of EQUALITY!
Allan Macdougall 30+
I would then fast forward the whole thing to see where 'business as usual' gets us...
David Fuchs
Lejan . 30+
Mark Hurych