> Such doomerism is only warranted within a nihilistic context of "humanity will never surpass X", when a more appropriate "X will help increase the area that h

> Such doomerism is only warranted within a nihilistic context of "humanity will never surpass X", when a more appropriate "X will help increase the area that humanity lives within" could be slotted in. I think it's a lack of imagination. It's hard to imagine the jobs of the future. We assume work is a fixed sum game, but given new resources we would take different goals and make different plans. It always depends on what is possible, not what was possible.