While I’m focused on the income inequality that plagues every healthy economy, which often leads to resource allocation problems and eventually revolution, I look over the cleared forests of Central and South America, the toxic landfills of North America/Europe, the deforested plains of north Africa and the Middle East, and the former jungles of Asia.

How does a culture recycle itself without revolution?

Is that pop saying from the ’70s “Reuse, Recycle, Respect”?

We know what life is like 1,000 years from now and have a pretty good idea how we got there, minus a few details.

Along the way, some subcultures took to euthanising or sterilising those who used their freedoms for selfish reasons.

CEOs and executives who could afford the trip escaped Earth for Moon bases, depositing their hordes of selfishly-gained wealth in offworld satellite banking systems.

All because mobs attacked boards of directors with relish.

Researchers proved a direct connection between the number of people in prison and the rise of income inequality; thus, the more that executive salaries and high-level manager bonuses were lowered, the fewer people we had in prisons, ending in a global declaration that the highest and lowest salaries of any industry couldn’t exceed the imprisonment threshold.

Indoctrination into democratisation of former citizens of dictatorial nations included a selfishness-vs-happiness assessment test.

Finally, we perfected brain reconfiguration, requiring all children to take “retraining” surgical procedures to ensure their brains were growing into perfectly balanced free-market oriented altruists.

Adults were required to demonstrate their nonselfish behaviour on an ongoing basis or sent for their “retraining” surgical procedures.  Those who refused were either sterilised or euthanised, according to their trend chart of selfish behaviour.

To set an example, the Walton family was deported to China and required to work in Chinese sweat shops for the next ten generations.

But you’re more interested in the positive aspects of tomorrow, aren’t you?

For starters, you’re no longer allowed to make an impulse purchase because social scientists were able to convince legislators to require businesses to educate customers about the ecological impact of the goods they were able to buy, similar to the grotesque warnings on cigarette labels today.  Therefore, every purchase is predicated by a quick test of your knowledge of the manufacturing, use and disposal of the item you want to purchase.

Needless to say, this has discouraged many an impulse purchase.

The good news is that we’ve freed up time to spend with our family, now that most of us have stopped wasting our precious hours in shopping queues.

People brag more about their quality family time than about salaries, rarely-worn clothes, underused SUVs or oversized homes.

And it all started because of what you’re doing today, placing value on your selfless devotion to family rather than in idolising objects.