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There are two issues with OP. First, is that this optimism is indefinite in words of Peter Thiel. It's gonna be fine but without any directions how to make tha
by blfr 4y ago
There are two issues with OP.
First, is that this optimism is indefinite in words of Peter Thiel. It's gonna be fine but without any directions how to make that future actually happen. Can we just sit and wait?
Second, it addresses factors that just aren't important.
Doesn’t she know that Christian nationalism has largely taken over the Republican Party and that the Enlightenment values of freedom of inquiry, tolerance, and reason are being threatened from the political Right as well as—to a worrying extent—the political Left?
These are downright silly concerns in the world with collapsing birth rates on the verge of a world war with Russia and China trying to use their last gasp for empire building.
Living five years longer in a larger house with AC is nothing to sneeze at but perhaps not quite the win in the world of record-breaking obesity and drug addiction. We're trading biological capital for material comforts. And not even at a good exchange rate.