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Not old enough to verify anything either, but I'm really curious about why you think this. My impression is that the smart kids from a few blocks would go to N
by ikurei 5y ago
Not old enough to verify anything either, but I'm really curious about why you think this.
My impression is that the smart kids from a few blocks would go to Nasa, and those are the ones we remember. Many smart kids had no access to higher education, or were lawyers and doctors (which is absolutely fantastic).
When I recently watched For All Mankind I wasn't thinking "people did cooler shit then". I was thinking "that particular shit was really cool, overall most people then and there were worse off, including most smart people".
May be it has to do with me being spanish and our specific culture, but Im pretty sure there were plenty of geniuses doing bullshit or evil back then. Why do you think otherwise?
- beefield 5y ago> but I'm really curious about why you think this. I was not discussing whether we as a society are better off now than in the old days. (To me it is obvious that we are better off in most ways) I was discussing why it feels that the technological progress was faster in the old days than nowadays. Why I think this? As said, I have absolutely no data, but only a hunch, that if you compare the incomes of nuclear engineer, aerospace engineer, banker and adtech engineer (whatever that was in the old days...), I would be quite surprised if the relative income has not tilted towards bankers and adtech engineers over time.