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Exactly. Things that affect everyone fairly equally are now just more expensive. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Housing. Higher education. It's great that our uni
by defterGoose 6y ago
Exactly. Things that affect everyone fairly equally are now just more expensive. Healthcare. Infrastructure. Housing. Higher education.
It's great that our universities are capable of turning out transformative technologies like CRISPR, but it's arguably slowing down, and it's happening at a time when our basic assumptions about what education opportunities should be available to our children. And make no mistake, they're narrowing.
Space travel may retrospectively look in a thousand years like an absolute necessity. But that will be from a perspective of inequality here on earth having exploded. And fewer people will be involved than our collectivity would like.
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