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Oh, I see. You just don't underestand how absolutely vital water is to keep our civilization running. No water or sewer installations wouldn't just mean you ha
by dozzie 9y ago
Oh, I see. You just don't underestand how absolutely vital water is to
keep our civilization running.
No water or sewer installations wouldn't just mean you have to endure some
inconveniences. It would mean hygienic catastrophe, with all the diseases
eradicated just by making everybody wash their hands come back. And no easy
access to water would literally kill almost all industry. Industry nowadays
consumes twice as much water as households, mind you. Take that away and you
don't have no production of anything at all. (Agriculture takes twice as
industry and households combined, but I'm not sure if I can pull it under the
same argument here.)
On the other hand, if we make internet disappear, we would go to where we were
just twenty years ago, thirty at best. Most of the information produced and
processed through internet is only useful for working with internet, so it's
not as big deal as you want to paint it.
> However, without Internet access I cannot work, I would have a much harder time acquiring new knowledge.
You'd just land in some other industry. And new knowledge you would just get
from somebody else. People didn't magically become more knowledgable once
internet became common. It's not like an average person today knows more than
average person three decades ago (and it seems it's actually the opposite).
> If the entire Internet were gone for everybody that would be a huge killer for much of our economy,
For our industry, IT+web, not economy. For economy it would be a big
inconvenience, because IT is so big nowadays, but nothing more. Lack of water,
on the other hand, would make impossible most of the production processes,
including agricultural chemistry.