Page 6 - Teslacoin Review - Harnessing Energy

By one method of control or another, by levies, taxes, rents, or some other

means, the ruling class takes a portion of the wealth produced by the masses

from them, and consumes it according to their liking or as the exigencies of the

time dictate. What they appropriated from their subjects they consumed or

wasted.

This point brings us to the next important step in the development of the Teslacoin

premise:

We come then to the following conclusion; a social system may so condition the

operation of a technological system, as to impose a limit upon the extent to

which it can expand and develop. When this occurs cultural evolution ceases.

Neither evolution nor progress in culture is inevitable.

When cultural advance has thus been arrested, it can be renewed only by

tapping some new source of energy and by harnessing it in sufficient magnitude

to burst asunder the social system which binds it. Thus freed, the new

technology will form a new social system, one congenial to its growth, and

culture will again advance.

It can be argued that, just as happened to other decadent cultures throughout

history, the present forms of culture dominant in countries throughout Europe,

Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas are constricting the development of the