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Perhaps people who have a hard time paying rent every month aren't so concerned with playing around in VR or rockets going to the moon. Perhaps the millions of
by hotpotamus 5y ago
Perhaps people who have a hard time paying rent every month aren't so concerned with playing around in VR or rockets going to the moon. Perhaps the millions of people who's profession is driving a vehicle are wary of their paycheck once the self-driving car arrives.
Maybe you should look at other statistics to see that Gen X an Millennials are less healthy and less wealthy than their predecessors were at the same ages. Look at the decreasing life expectancy of the US (even before Covid). Read about the effects of inequality in primate societies.
Perhaps the advancements in technology have not served to increase human happiness?
- martindbp 5y agoYou're one of the techno-pessimists. Well, there are two kinds I guess: believing we're stagnating, or believing that tech is actively harmful. Maybe you're both. That's OK, but what are you going to do with that belief? There's nothing TO do but sit moping in a corner. Tech is not going away. We're not going to be hunter gatherers again. The only way is up.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThat's a very dismissive attitude towards someone who's raised legitimate concerns about ways society and the biosphere itself have declined since the 2000s.