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How to become a generalist?
I don't know what category this should be in exactly. =(
Okay, let say, we found an earth-like planet, lots of food, green grass, clean air, clean water.. just like the earth used to be.. And you're in charge on designing the social structure that will generate maximum happiness for all human beings. How would you based your decisions?
How do you know what area of the planet should people live?
How do you design a city?
How do you know where to place the educational area, hospitals, recreation area, production area etc?
What kind of education?(today we have grading system, exams. basically memorization)
How will you prevent air pollution, contamination etc?
How will you prevent crimes?
How will you prevent wars?
Will you permit traditions? if so how do you know which tradition is to permit?
What about the individual's access to goods and services?
How will you design the road system so it doesn't jammed?
How do you know how much population it can support?(not population control, but just an ideal population)
You can answer whichever you feel like answering and you can add details if you want.
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
The variety of questions you're asking are not very general. They're all concerned with specifics that would require studying physics and architecture and psychology. If you want HUMANS to live on this new planet, you CANNOT stop war, because that is inborn to ALL social animals on Earth. Crime depends on laws, and only humans have WRITTEN laws, but other social animals go against their culture's norms and get punished for it.
If I had PERFECT freedom to design the road structure, and enough time and resources, I'd add Levels to the highway, so it would be more like a tall building. That would give a person more options of where to go without taking up as much ground space.
- Model PilotLv 78 years ago
I recommend finding a game called SIMS 3000 or an earlier version. You can try many scenarios in this game and make your world. It doesn't address all of the questions you list, but very many of them. The course work that supports degrees in humanities and fine arts would also provide much of the knowledge (at least on an introductory level) for these questions...which goes directly to the heading question of "How to become a generalist?"
