We live wasted lives
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Once everything has been optimized and runs smoothly, there are no surprises anymore, nothing interesting, you just do a routine that you've specialized in and have gotten bored at 10 years ago. Our quality of life is unparalleled. Our quality of work less so. It's safe and all, but so so boring
i dunno. I mean, the same could be said about the medieval ages. Everything had been figured out. How to grow wheat, how to feed chickens, the people knew everything. It was all just daily routine.
Yet i don't see these people living dull lives. I smell the air and it smells good.
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Imagine this! Before you was adventure, exploration, and danger. Then there was slavery, then there was our period (where there are still millions of actual slaves btw).
Then after you, if anyone survives, and we don't all get put into an I have no mouth and I must scream scenario by our overlords, the youth after us will never know work. They will be far more functional than us, and will simply not understand working to survive. They will look down on us, senile outcasts, who get to watch "heaven" from afar.
where your children are gonna grow up depends a lot on your choices on whether you support Mars settlement or not. if you do, and you go there, i think your children will have a high chance of having to do a lot of work. construction, farming, construction again, taking care of new immigrants and children, construction again, expanding the city ... seems like a lot of work to me.
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it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
Slaves who existed before capitalism was even imagined would dream of this WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
it's good that you think this way, after all, happier slaves are more productive.
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we can have all the "good" things we claim to want from other economic systems within capitalism. It just requires voting for politicians that do their job to progress laws forward instead of dragging their feet.
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What? I love spending my day going to meetings where I’m quizzed about things that won’t matter next week and writing Jira tickets.
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it's good that you think this way, after all, happier slaves are more productive.
please stop using the word slave like this, i live an incredible life, you are diluting the word
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Problem is, instead of someone actively leading for something better for all, we are stomped under a boot, gaslighted, then told the problem is resources/poor people
Same as it ever was
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Ya, totally. You make an obvious point.
The only problem with that is that almost all of the humans that have ever existed ... exist right now. Until we mastered this planet, there were very very few of us. We are now the most numerous mammal on the planet, and that's by a far degree. There's more of us than there are rats.wrote on last edited by [email protected]almost all of the humans that have ever existed ... exist right now
This is wildly untrue. The recent estimation of how many humans have existed is around 100 billion. Half of the total population of humans ever to exist was before the year 0, with the other half since then.
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we can have all the "good" things we claim to want from other economic systems within capitalism. It just requires voting for politicians that do their job to progress laws forward instead of dragging their feet.
Whoever you vote for will be
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Same as it ever was
And that makes it ok? Why are we doing nothing?
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And that makes it ok? Why are we doing nothing?
If you were able to answer that question, I think you would solve one of the eternal mysteries of humanity. We seem unable to escape the patterns that we keep repeating millennia after millennia.
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If you were able to answer that question, I think you would solve one of the eternal mysteries of humanity. We seem unable to escape the patterns that we keep repeating millennia after millennia.
It is multi-faceted, significantly genetic, and dependent on, well, those in-charge teaching new humans pro-social ethics, which is not happening.
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Whoever you vote for will be
bribedlobbied until they don't represent you anymore, assuming they weren't already compromised before even entering office.If I accepted that to be true, then no one can lead the country and its cooked. There are plenty of capitalist economies with low corruption.
