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It’s not real in the sense that you shouldn’t need to have to worry about paying for heat in the winter. Our rate of technological improvement has outpaced the
by lawrenceyan 4y ago
It’s not real in the sense that you shouldn’t need to have to worry about paying for heat in the winter.
Our rate of technological improvement has outpaced the ability of our existing economic paradigm to keep up, which is why we’ve ended up in this strange late stage pre post-scarcity landscape.
- leto_ii 4y agoWhile I agree that we could probably support the entire human species comfortably given our current level of tech development, I don't think that can happen without a revolutionary change of the economic/social system, away from capitalism. The problem is that that won't happen in a nice way, if at all. Systemic changes come about after cataclysms, not incrementally. Alas, cataclysms may be due soon...