3 ms·
Technology eventually solved every problem by making the solutions cheap enough to be acceptable. Back when every river in Europe was full of human shit, the a
by throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Technology eventually solved every problem by making the solutions cheap enough to be acceptable.
Back when every river in Europe was full of human shit, the air was full of smog and pretty much the entire continent was devoid of timber people were saying the exact same sort of "technology will never solve this, we need to make sacrifices" crap.
I could go on but "making sacrifices" does not work at scale because when you apply that one approach to more than one problem you wind up sacrificing so many things that the standard of living is driven back by hundreds of years.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoTechnology eventually solved every problem by making the solutions cheap enough to be acceptable. Technology created this problem, applying the same thinking that got us into this situation won't get us out of it. All this wishful thinking crap won't get us anywhere. You don't need to drive your standard of living back hundreds of years although if we don't get a handle on climate change that will happen.