Simply put, it's possible. Is it possible in today's society, I personally think no, with no amount of current day technology will be able to perform such a feat, future technology, possibly we'll just have to see.
Money runs the human world. Really, power is in the hands of a very few people already.Those who control the worlds purse strings, have the most power. Even countries depend upon international banking, credit and lending. Right now, the world currency is based upon the US dollar. There are people working constantly to undermine the United States position as a economic power. China is trying to replace it with the Yen, as we speak.
Would they ever hold total world domination? Not in the sense that they will rule every humans entire day, from sun up, to sun down,birth to death, but they can control consumer goods, lending, credit and currency easily. They could manipulate so many things that modern people count on.
No matter what happens,I believe an opposite reaction will always occur. Because,for every action, there is always a related and equal reaction. That is a universal law of nature.
Mmm, I don't think that's possible. If it's done in the wrong way people would revolt and everything would go crashing to the ground. It's just the way of people; they don't like being controlled in that way.
I won't deny inequality is a huge problem, but the rich are far from a ruling class. Wealth is based on an economic system reliant upon the willful participation of everyone. For example, if everyone decided to stop using the accepted currency, then all wealth based on that currency would lose value. Any person intelligent enough to run the system is also smart enough to know how badly the system would suffer if a single person a group gained total control, resulting in failure.
Additionally, rich people are very diverse, just like the rest of us, and have various competing affiliations that prevent them from joining forces to create a powerful enough force to surpass opponents. Even if there were a group of people motivated solely by greed, they would never work together because they'd all know their associates would backstab them. I used to be a conspiracy theorist, then I found out that the ideas behind such theories simply don't work in reality.
well, they got close in world war 2, but that was a group following a really charismatic person. eventually they were stretched too thin and were overpowered.
i don't think it's possible, just as i think world peace is possible. the way the world is you'll always have power hungry people wanting to topple whoever's in power, or hate filled people who despise a group of people. just life. i remember being told as a child by my teacher there was a man somewhere who had a suitcase, inside that suitcase was a button and if he was to ever push that button it would rain down nuclear missiles over the world. scared me when i was little, don't believe it much now, but i'll never forget that.
best to just not worry about it if you are, at this point the world powers are basically glaring at one another saying how awesome they are. i doubt anyone will be able to take over the world, and with the way our global economy works, i also doubt another world war will break out any time soon.
You took the words out of my mouth dahvid. Unless the whole world didnt know they were being taken over in which case it could be happening right now! J.k. Lol. One human? No. Its too much responsibility.
I am sry but i don't think i get it when you say taking over the world what do you mean, enslavement of human race through tehnological meanings and our exploatation for a greater desing, or complete annihilation of our kin and just a meaningless domination over the territories our planet currently have??? :D
I believe someone tried this before! I believe his name was Nepolian or Hitler or something. From a strategic standpoint you don't take what you can't hold. Now there are of course as stated above different kinds of control. Can these be attributed to one person or group I think not!
