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Srsly. Almost every aspect of the world, cultural constructs and the physical realities that underpin them, for the foreseeable future, are going to remain, in
by aaroninsf 11y ago
Srsly.
Almost every aspect of the world, cultural constructs and the physical realities that underpin them, for the foreseeable future, are going to remain, in effect, zero sum.
Right here on Hackernews the top story yesterday was the dead end Japan has reached by virtue of clinging to the fiction of permanent growth.
Worse, in domains in which there has been genuine growth of some kind (e.g. increased returns as a result of higher efficiencies), the story since 1970 has been: _zero sum for everyone but the top few percent, who have seized all gains for themselves_.
"Zero-sum people" are being minted by the millions by our current economy.
When you hoard the upside at historically unprecedented levels, what you get is resentment and an accurate perception that you have been left to fight for scraps.
- taurath 11y agoI wish someone smarter than I could come up with actionable ways to actually change this status quo, so that people could latch onto. It feels like politics is one of the few levers that exist that people can pull, but its so entrenched anyone who looks at it long enough becomes hopeless. Those who work and fight within the system for decades at the end of it seek to protect what they perceive they worked for. Even if you changed the incentives on a local (country) level, those with power are pushing for more globalization and providing havens for anyone already with wealth. Its always been this way, but its now at a larger scale, and I feel that most people wish they had something to do to make change happen.