Why are Europe and Japan inherrantly in a better position for transhumanism?AETEN II wrote:Trotskylvania wrote:There probably isn't any silver bullet. For transportation, an effective countermeasure is of course robust public transportation. For areas without the necessary population density, a kind of "cash for clunkers" type of program would be a good countermeasure.
Specifically with regards to transhuman technologies, it's harder to say. The obvious answer is socialism, but it's hard to get people in the United States to accept the utility of public expenditure, let alone a radical transformation of the socioeconomic system. Subsidizing augmentation heavily may be necessary.
Or there's a rapid migration of transhumanists to Europe and Japan.