Will greed doom us all? Stephen Hawking warns our current view of wealth could ultimately cause the human race to perish
贪婪毁灭人类？史蒂芬·霍金警告人类，我们当前的财富观会最终毁掉人类。
Richard Gray for MailOnline
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Sorry Stephen, but we didn't evolve just to give it all away to visitors from the Middle Ages.Real TalkReply toTry this at home
And that is the issue unfortunately, had Earths population been smaller I'm 100% sure we would be more than willing to share but currently things are just unsustainable. Its a shame that at 28 and newly married I actually sometimes wonder if bringing children into this world is a selfish thing to do.Needcommonsense
Greed is not what caused BREXIT. It's liberals like him who have absolutely no idea about life in the real worldillmaticReply toNeedcommonsense
Ricky he is one of the greatest minds Britain has ever had, and you're saying he me have a fancy computer attached to him but he has no common sense? Where do you people come from lmao? Seriously, in my everyday life I don't seem to come across people who spew so much nonsense like those on DMamystevenson152Reply toNeedcommonsense
Greed is what drives everything in the world! It's why there's still poverty, why there's wars etc...it's why weapons are sold to both sides of a conflict and why local business suffers as they buy from abroad...it's why people struggle on minimum wage while the top 1% who I imagine you voted for are sitting on mountains of money they couldn't possibly spend. It will be the end of the human race as more conflicts arise and more wars break out...as we all know only the rich benefit from war and the stupid are duped into believing it's for the greater good!Only Little MeReply toNeedcommonsense
There is a big difference from being intelligent and knowledgeable about a specific subject and having common sense and a general understanding of the world and people. In fact, the deeper a person's special knowledge the less their connection to the real world.Deliver LeaveReply toNeedcommonsense
The fact that he cant understand the popularity of US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says quite a lot. He seems to be quite out of touch on a lot of things and exists in some sort academic Cambridge bubble, (or parallel universe?) with all the other like minded Cambridge scientists who dont really inhabit the real world. The money these scientists think they get from the EU actually comes from the UK taxpayer in the first instance and there is no reason to think it will be reduced once we have left the EU or that scientific cooperation and collaboration with the EU will end. Presumably their socialist ideals favour a centralised pan European utopia along the lines of a USSR.TaxedEnoughAlready
Am I the only one who doesn't think the human race disappearing is that bad a thing?ZARDOZReply toTaxedEnoughAlready
Gastonia, Lincolnia, Well you are certainly a winnable rockefeIIer. The "chaff", you mean the mass herds can go. But not you I bet, no you are a chosen one. I think we¿d have a better world if we were rid of those who regard themselves among the "top" 10%preddo53Reply toTaxedEnoughAlready
Norm De Plume, in the words of Charles Darwen, if it can be proved that the universe had a beginning, my theory falls flat, did the universe have a beginning, yes it did, so old Charlies theory is rubbish, and it was only a theory, never a fact, and still not, People like you, the gullible, will always be easily led.Grit SavageReply toTaxedEnoughAlready
the sociopaths with all the power and money have already decided who will be classed as "chaff" and how to get rid of us. UN agenda 2030. and have a look around, has anyone noticed the ceo's of this world are itching for a world war to thin the numbers.GastoniaReply toTaxedEnoughAlready
Yes, Grit Savage, but the wrong type of people are world leaders and corporate bosses. They are the nasty, venal, avaricious ones. The ones Hawkins is talking about.The Artists Scientists, Musicians, Engineers etc, the Creative ones, don't get to run things. I don't see how that can ever change.LeeW
It is a sad day to find somebody who has been your hero for years has turned to the dark side. Ironic that Frau Merkel was was also a Physicist who published papers on quantum chemistry until Marxism infected her soul and addled her brain.J1987
For such a clever man he really has no grasp of why people voted leave. He really thinks I wanted to breach the inequality, that I thought I would be better off financially by voting leave. I got told my job was at risk if I voted leave but I truly believed that the democracy and sovereignty of my country was more important. We were sick and tired of being told what we could and couldn't do by bureaucrats. Sick and tired of unlimited immigration and sick and tired of being told the world would end if we left. Guess what my job isn't at risk it was a lie.pewpew
The commie propaganda really is coming from all angles isn't it? Politicians, movies, TV, celebs, scientists. Shame it won't be the Start Trek style utopia the gullible believe and instead just a method of enforcing a global totalitarian system.oMapko
The people on here who think this guy is an idiot, or out of his depth, or that his voice annoys you (unbelievable) - I think you need to get your colouring in books and your crayons out. Unfortunately, you will breed and have children and the cycle of stupidity will keep turning.cookie
Greed could doom the human race.... Could.... Could... It IS ruling the human race. And the more we promote a society where people in pointless roles command disgusting amounts of money and the sheep just sit back and hand it over the closer to the end we getSG4EReply tocookie
Greed is the driving force of progress throughout our history. Wanting more to eat, creating larger tribes so that you could overpower other tribes and so on. When we get near the Star Trek ideal of not being motivated by money, maybe the Human Race will see the light at the end of a long dark tunnel?Dimension9
We are approaching the end of the dominance of Western society. We are well into our 'bread and circuses' stage and the printing and devaluation of money (through greed) is going to soon lead to the collapse of the dollar and of most developed societies. This is going to have a serious impact on all of us. I've been banging on about it for a while but even Stephen Hawking is talking about it now. We are not far off...DamianYK
Has he seen Elysium? ......... A future post apocalyptic Earth is grossly polluted, vastly over-populated, and disease runs rampant through the dilapidated slums that the cities have become. The wealthiest people have fled the planet and taken refuge on Elysium, a Stanford Torus high-tech space station, just beyond earth's atmosphere........While those on Earth are policed by ruthless robots, Elysium's citizens live in a utopian setting which includes access to private medical machines, called "Med-Bays," that offer instant cures for virtually any disease or ailment a person may experience...............THAT Is how the 1% want us!ZARDOZReply toDamianYK
No, what the elite want is for us to see the transhumanism technology in the movie as good. Hollywood movies are propaganda to condition us to believe as the ruling elite wants us to believe. Elysium was the name of Roman heaven, and those in space in the movie were supposed to represent heaven and god.premixman
Well he right about the overcrowding because Britain is fast getting overcrowded, and people who's got millions and still want more what do they do with it all?Aidan
Do as I say not as I do. Usual platitudes from someone with a lot of money. I must tell my landlord not to be so focused on money when the rent is due. I'll see if Prof Hawking or any other 'be happy without money merchants' offer me a room when I'm homeless. Don't think so do you?Ventus
My vote for Brexit was the opposite of 'isolationist' - my hope was that we'd be able to trade more freely and more globally afterwards.Dontknowenough
His stance on Brexit is simply his fear that Science will suffer (and he may be right if revenge takes the form of cutting off British scientists) but I disagree that I voted out because of envy and isolationism. I voted out so we could make our own rules, and not be bullied by the EU. I think he's right that if the system goes on driving the current middle classes into poverty and the current already poor - to where? then there will be a catastrophe. The economy has to carry the whole community along not just the privileged lot.J Boo
Greed and lack of morals will see the human race perish. But this has nothing to do with why people voted Brexit.null
We have become obsessed by buying, by luxuries, they are supposed to fill the gap left by how alone this world feels as we cannot trust the person standing next to us.Celebrity people influencing the world to buy things we cannot afford to be like them.Such companies as M&S who were took over and ruined with no thought for the dedicated workers. Big people ruining lives without a care.Disabled been attacked on a regular basis because they are not perfect.People becoming obese as they get lazy enjoying their luxuries and supermarkets selling so much food that its not required and wasted.Gone are the days of job satisfaction, craftsmanship, things built to last. Its a throw away society get a new one, a better must have.Same with people, less want a long term relationship as it means effort and commitment, they might have to share their things.I am at the stage I hate money, I hate possessions, they are meaningless, a noose around our necks. They don't fulfil the soul,GastoniaReply tonull
null, humans are incapable of setting up and maintaining a meritocracy. People like Mandleson would always screw it over for their own benefit. I know where we ought to be, but short of a benign totalitarian dictatorship, I don't see how we can have a fair and equitable society.评论
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