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I could indeed be considered someone with means and talent, and if I follow my colleagues I'll definitely lead a very luxurious lifestyle after moving to SV or

I could indeed be considered someone with means and talent, and if I follow my colleagues I'll definitely lead a very luxurious lifestyle after moving to SV or a tech hub in the US. However I have also witnessed enough suffering in not just India but also in the US to not buy into the "safest wealthiest longest life expectancy" era. Averages can lie and here I think they lie real bad indeed. I don't believe that The majority of the people today in India and Us are better off today than they were say in the eighties. If you include all other countries sure the average might look positive; but my working hypothesis is that this just a metric that's lagging behind trigger events that have already been set in motion. With the erosion of fact-based argumentation and the invasion of climate change induced instability I don't think the world is rosy by any measure compared to what my parents grew up in. Given that I am not someone who can't make a difference, my argument is that I should try my level best to make a difference, which is what you are sounding like you are suggesting as well.

dirtyid 6y ago
QoL for the bottom 90% and top 0.1% are improving YoY, they're grabbing the vast share of gains relative to the 0.2-10% which most of us exist in and have until recently / historically grabbed a disproportionate share. From this perspective things do look bleak because our foreseeable mobility window will remain in this diminishing cohort. >lagging behind trigger events I think so too. Productivity and growth increase YoY, in theory there is potential for net good to be generated if distributed fairly (and in a sense it is for the bottom 90%). But geometric growth is not sustainable, the ceiling feels close (global warming), and eventually growth will slow down to the point where competition for resources and privileges becomes essentially zero sum. Or worse if population outstrips the productivity + 0.1% continues to aggregate a disproportionate share.

dirtyid 6y ago

QoL for the bottom 90% and top 0.1% are improving YoY, they're grabbing the vast share of gains relative to the 0.2-10% which most of us exist in and have until recently / historically grabbed a disproportionate share. From this perspective things do look bleak because our foreseeable mobility window will remain in this diminishing cohort. >lagging behind trigger events I think so too. Productivity and growth increase YoY, in theory there is potential for net good to be generated if distributed fairly (and in a sense it is for the bottom 90%). But geometric growth is not sustainable, the ceiling feels close (global warming), and eventually growth will slow down to the point where competition for resources and privileges becomes essentially zero sum. Or worse if population outstrips the productivity + 0.1% continues to aggregate a disproportionate share.