Comment by Lerc

>How do we get from there to a utopia?

How to get there:

1. Define the utopia in more detail.

2. Make the case that this is a preferable state. Make people want it.

3. Make the case that it is sustainable once achieved.

4. Identify specific differences between the preferred destination and where we are now.

5. Avoiding short term and temporary effects, work towards changing the differences to what the destination has. Even if that is only proclaiming that these changes are what you want

6. Show how those changes make us closer to the destination that people want.

Some of these are hard problems, I don't think any are intractable. I think they don't get done because they are hard, and opposing something is easier. Rather than building something you want, you can knock down something you don't like. Sure, that might get you closer to your desired state if you consider nothingness to be better than undesired, but without building you will never get there.

If you want everyone to live in a castle, build a castle and invite everybody over. If you start by destroying huts you will just be making adversaries. The converse is true also, if you want everyone to live in huts, build more huts and invite everyone over. If they don't come it's because you haven't made the case that it is a preferable state. Knocking down the castle is not going to convince them of that.