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Unpopular opinion: the long term benefits to Japan -- in particular -- of having a virus that mostly kills old people are substantial.
by peteretep 7y ago
Unpopular opinion: the long term benefits to Japan -- in particular -- of having a virus that mostly kills old people are substantial.
- roenxi 7y agoEconomies are for the benefit of the people. The point of the economy is to enable long, comfortable and happy lives as best we can. The system is not perfect but we have none better. Seeing any sort of win in an improvement in the metrics because of mass deaths is putting the cart before the horse. The point of a thriving economy is specifically to prevent that sort of thing.
- peteretep 7y ago> The point of the economy is to enable long, comfortable and happy lives as best we can Comfortable and happy, yes, but I can assure you That nobody who is dead has any opinion on how long their life was
- Razengan 7y agoEven edgier opinion: The long term benefits to the entire planet of having a virus that kills most people worldwide are substantial. The elites who can afford to live comfortably in quarantined bunkers for years will be the only ones left, and they'll remake the world in their image without having to worry about the riff raff. Solitary corporate overlords with armies of AI drones controlled from a StarCraft-like console, to keep the slaves in line until they finish building their personal pyramid spaceships.
- xvilka 7y agoThe Justar Journal[1] book series basically. [1] https://www.goodreads.com/series/169314-the-justar-journal https://www.goodreads.com/series/169314-the-justar-journal
- spicymaki 7y agoThe elites are only elite due to the riff raff. They depend on each other. My take on this is that the uber-elites will move the goal post segregating the elites into a new set of upper and lower classes. The cycle of greed, hatred, and delusion will thus continue ad infinitum.
- paganel 7y agoAfaik the elites already have an average lifespan higher by 10 or so years compared to normal people, am on mobile and so I’m too lazy to search for links but the information is easy enough to find.
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- euske 7y agoThere are more realistic threats to elderly people in Japan: poverty and loneliness. They are lethal and getting only worse.
- Razengan 7y agoLoneliness is a threat to any modern society, after it has conquered basic survival and comforts, for that is when the pointlessness of existence sets in.
- peteretep 7y agoPoverty and loneliness are terrible. Being dead is fine because nobody who is dead is unhappy about the fact that they’re dead.
- Grue3 7y agoA lot of old people in Japan are working their whole life. Farmers tend to be quite old in particular.