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The news are pretty depressing these last couple of days. We're marching towards very dystopian future.
by kecupochren 5y ago
The news are pretty depressing these last couple of days. We're marching towards very dystopian future.
- toxik 5y agoWe have had unprecedented growth and development in the world, it's just that bad news sells more papers. Don't let it bring you down!
- jokethrowaway 5y agoThere is not much to rejoice if all that growth will go in the hands of the few friends of the government, leaving a richer 0.01%, a broken middle class and unstable societies.
- ailef 5y agoI guess this is sarcastic?
- rapnie 5y ago> unprecedented growth .. at unprecedented cost
- ekianjo 5y agoSo as long as some KPIs are positive, let's ignore the loss of fundamental freedoms?
- toxik 5y ago"Some KPIs are positive"? I had no idea HN was this backwards. More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. Quality of life is improving in so many places, just not around /you/. Amazingly cynical point of view.
- ekianjo 5y ago> More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. Erm, you are answering with this argument to the wrong person. I am the first person to point out this kind of things. This does not mean you can ignore the erosion of civil liberties.
- tacocataco 5y agoShould we celebrate setting our house on fire to stay warm when the furnace went out? Yes, the house fire is very very hot. Good job.
- cm2187 5y agoIt is astonishing that most liberal democracies are looking at the Chinese system of control on society with envy. In a way, mandatory covid passes to do anything are already a form of social credit system. And with so many people obsessed with virtu signalling, an actual social credit system would likely get some traction.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoSocialism won here, time to move to Mars. The more I think about it and the less distant China and western countries look like. We all drifted towards socialism. China is just a tiny bit more into it that we are and we still like to tell us we have elections to control things.
- marton78 5y agoThis has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.
- thegrimmest 5y agoThis has everything to do with socialism. Socialism is about trading individual liberty, power, and ability to consent for centrally-managed services provided with government authority. This is exactly what's happening here. The ease and comfort with which this trade is made speaks exactly to the trend GP was referring to.
- shigawire 5y agoSocialism is not about centralized authority. That is just how it ends up when you have oligarchs needing a better brand than naked kleptocracy.
- thegrimmest 5y agoIt's basically about surrendering individual power/consent to collective decision making, isn't it?
- mikeyjk 5y agoTake solace that we have failed to address climate change as a civilisation.