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Why have other 'utopian' societies failed in the past?

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The early LDS anti-banking society failed (as forensic audits have now confirmed) because of embezzlement. Without that, it would have succeeded. Orderville collapsed, among other things, because the desire for store bought pants led to cheating (there were other issues, but that was the final straw). read more

We are living in Utopia right now. Democracy, equal rights for men and women, the end of slavery - it was all utopian and crazy once. And here we are. I think the problem with many of the failed ‘utopian’ societies is that they were not created step by step, but that dictators tried to implement them in one stroke. read more

Interestingly, the utopian community had very rigid social class barriers, with the management and skilled workers living in stately homes and the unskilled laborers living in tenements. The experiment lasted longer than many of the other settlements, but ultimately failed. read more

These 10 Utopian cities may have been failures, but they expressed our ideas about what the future of human civilization could look like. And many ideas contained in them continue to influence us today. read more

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