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This should be titled "How I learned to stop being afraid and love the new upcoming mad max world." I wonder what those new and exciting jobs will be in that p
by hristov 17y ago
This should be titled "How I learned to stop being afraid and love the new upcoming mad max world."
I wonder what those new and exciting jobs will be in that post apocalyptic world the author pines for. Sexual slavery? Hunting rats for meat and fur? The technically inclined can scavenge parts from rusting machines built in the magical old times and try to fashion some kind of working vehicles out of them. Maybe the more artistically inclined can try being jesters to the local warlord.
The relative prosperity of our current lives depends on the incredible interconnectedness of society which allows high efficiencies by having people specialise and become very efficient in some very narrow areas of expertise. Just think of an ordinary $600 computer and imagine the tens or hundreds of thousands of engineers whose specialised knowledge went into making it. It is only a highly complex and interconnected society that can come up with something like that.
And if most people start "living off the grid" or disconnecting from society, or if we stop training our children how to live in society (which is what school is supposed to be for), you better get ready for types of poverty that you have never imagined even in your worst nightmares.
Oh and if everybody starts dropping out of school and society, good luck coming up with those "dirt cheap fuel cells."
It is very disturbing how a lot of people are getting a bigger and bigger hard on for some kind of an Armageddon event.
- krschultz 17y agoThat definitely sounds better than raising the top marginal tax rate by 5%.