> This is literally the whistleblowers about cashless society have been warning everyone about for well over a decade now.
This is how humans are with all catastrophes–there isn't enough money until after something really, really bad happens and suddenly there is enough money to fix the issue.
NYC is extremely vulnerable to a 9/11 style attack on the fresh water aquaducts. Fuller wrote about this all the way back in the 60s in Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth:
Thus under lethal emergencies vast new magnitudes of wealth come mysteriously into
effective operation. We don’t seem to be able to afford to do peacefully the logical things we
say we ought to be doing to forestall warring-by producing enough to satisfy all the world
needs. Under pressure we always find that we can afford to wage the wars brought about by
the vital struggle of "have-nots" to share or take over the bounty of the "haves." Simply
because it had seemed, theretofore, to cost too much to provide vital support of those "have-
nots." The "haves" are thus forced in self-defense suddenly to articulate and realize productive
wealth capabilities worth many times the amounts of monetary units they had known
themselves to possess and, far more importantly, many times what it would have cost to give
adequate economic support to the particular "have-nots" involved in the warring and, in fact, to
all the world’s ’have-nots."
This is how humans are with all catastrophes–there isn't enough money until after something really, really bad happens and suddenly there is enough money to fix the issue.
NYC is extremely vulnerable to a 9/11 style attack on the fresh water aquaducts. Fuller wrote about this all the way back in the 60s in Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth:
Thus under lethal emergencies vast new magnitudes of wealth come mysteriously into effective operation. We don’t seem to be able to afford to do peacefully the logical things we say we ought to be doing to forestall warring-by producing enough to satisfy all the world needs. Under pressure we always find that we can afford to wage the wars brought about by the vital struggle of "have-nots" to share or take over the bounty of the "haves." Simply because it had seemed, theretofore, to cost too much to provide vital support of those "have- nots." The "haves" are thus forced in self-defense suddenly to articulate and realize productive wealth capabilities worth many times the amounts of monetary units they had known themselves to possess and, far more importantly, many times what it would have cost to give adequate economic support to the particular "have-nots" involved in the warring and, in fact, to all the world’s ’have-nots."