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Actually, the scale hasn't changed, either. It's just that we are more aware of the scale and complexity. It's not really incomprehensible either, you just ha
by Accujack 6y ago
Actually, the scale hasn't changed, either. It's just that we are more aware of the scale and complexity.
It's not really incomprehensible either, you just have to adjust your expectations toward not knowing everything well enough to predict its behavior.
- mikem170 6y agoThe scale hasn't changed? A thousand years ago there were numerous independent but relatively identical farms and towns, all facing a circumscribed set of similar problems. Life was simplier. Fast forward and now we have the a limited set of large powerful nation states, and groups of nation states, centrally controlling finance/trade/health/education systems that are invented (by politicians and lobbyists!) as they go, and affect everyone. Instead of many simple small similar systems we have fewer larger more complicated systems. More eggs in less baskets. Some politicians in the U.S. decided in the 1990s to allow banks to sell securities, which resulted in an almost collapse of the worldwide financial system not twenty years later, millions of people drastically affected. That was not possible one hundred years ago, because the world was not so complicated and interconnected. Wouldn't you agree that the complexity has scaled up enormously? Or were you thinking of something else?