Likely as guilty as we will when our disposable gadget, data center power hungry environmental mess is left to the next generation. Hard to really get behind s

Likely as guilty as we will when our disposable gadget, data center power hungry environmental mess is left to the next generation. Hard to really get behind such customized moralizing when we’re not really putting ourselves aside as engineers doing grave damage but on a longer, vaguer timeline. Our linear progression towards yearly updates is hardly warranted anymore. Exponential breakthroughs are pushed to the side with our fetishizing stable revenue over R&D, low taxes, unicorns built on cut/paste-able software IP, and mathematical gamesmanship, and eyeball addiction over variety of ideas. Purposefully stimulated chemical addiction to agency of self indulgence and nihilism is generating economic activity, not novel invention. Take some solace that it’s not all your fault: We’re not allowed to assess the validity of many key economic assumptions, even with historical evidence like the pre-80s era of high taxes and strong unions. Just trust that non-gods picked correctly for all time decades ago, and iterate on their meaning! Really having a hard time with the glaring hypocrisy of all first worlders right now. Science! Oh but also yeah just leave economics alone, the physics there has to be read different. Take yourself a bit more seriously first and we’ll moralize about others later.