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> Maybe a drought of elevator specialists decreases the amount of elevators we can have. We have to walk up stairs more often. Not ideal. Not really, it would

• detcader 8y ago
  I find it interesting where we as makers put our optimism and our pessimism. We post about space exploration and gene editing. We say "just wait for what humankind can do with this! Soon no one will have to have any disease, and space will be ours for the colonizing before some terrible massive event happens. It's inevitable with our abilities!" But when the suggestion arises that we slow down and imagine working with who and what we have, and trying to solution around our human and spiritual problems we have in the present, the tone flips. That's impossible, you'll never get people to do that. The masses are by nature lazy and combative and we might as well ignore it. I think it comes from a competitive philosophy of life. Only some people are good enough to gift the world with their novelty and technology. Most people are fine in menial, alienating service jobs, they're just not good enough. This is inevitably how society works everywhere, and it has made people and life calm, fitter, healthier, more productive...