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I think that these issues are getting a lot of attention recently. A lot of people feel that their jobs are not meaningful anymore and that they cannot find any
by jondubois 9y ago
I think that these issues are getting a lot of attention recently. A lot of people feel that their jobs are not meaningful anymore and that they cannot find any meaningful work that pays well.
Most of the jobs that pay well are zero-sum games. Finance, tech, law. Even medicine and pharmaceuticals are becoming zero-sum games (e.g companies boosting drug prices because it's easier than inventing new ones).
People have become cynical and distrustful towards each other and the system. We have lost touch with our old values.
I'm surprised that society can continue to function under these conditions.
In this zero-sum economy, we are all enemies of each other.
- rtx 9y agoThats why we need space colonization. We as a species are programmed to expand. We have become stagnant in the last 100 years.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoSounds like bacteria or a virus.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoLol. I love how it's so hopeless that the best solution is to move to another planet.
- jondubois 9y agoBased on how humanity is evolving I can extrapolate that if aliens do exist, they are probably malevolent.
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- vkou 9y ago90% of our planet is currently uninhabited. If you want to expand, it's far closer, more hospitable, and economically useful then Mars.
- refurb 9y agoWe have become stagnant in the last 100 years. Are you serious? Do you know how much mankind has accomplished since 1917?
- vkou 9y agoThey should go to India, or China, or Vietnam, or Nigeria, and, with a straight face, tell people there that we've become stagnant over the last century.
- jondubois 9y agoThat's actually a very good point. Globalization has been great for developing countries and terrible for developed countries. People from developing countries have a much better life outlook as a result. As a westerner, I am much worse off than my parents were and so my perception of life is very cynical. The lifestyle that I had in my childhood and the idea of life which my parents projected onto me was so much better than today's reality. It's quite a depressing feeling.
- refurb 9y agoI am much worse off than my parents OK, let's assume you're 30 and your parents were ~30 when they had you. That means your parents spent their 15-30's during the 1970's. What were the 1970's like in the US (yes, I'm assuming you're American)? Absolute crap. Post-Vietnam with everyone wondering whether or not the US was done as a superpower. A humiliating withdrawal from a war that killed 50,000 Americans. Stagflation, with inflation in the teens and unemployment 3x what it is today. Want to buy a house? Sign on the dotted line for a 17% mortgage. Oil embargoes/energy crisis and line ups for gasoline. "General Malaise". Serious crime problems in cities and a decaying inner city. Race riots in recent memory. Watergate scandal and a disgraced President who relinquishes office. I think it's silly to think our parents had it better.
- vkou 9y agoIt was followed by the 80s and the 90s.