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I hate this world. I hate that this is what all this has led up to. We've accomplished at lot of science, empowering tech, and social justice through collective

I hate this world. I hate that this is what all this has led up to. We've accomplished at lot of science, empowering tech, and social justice through collective effort, but it hasn't been enough. I hope for a new destabilizing tech that happens so fast and so rapidly, that those at the top will have no idea how to corner the markets emerging from it, and that the tech is so groundbreaking that it makes the existence of these vampires wholly irrelevant.

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Freak_NL 3y ago
This is not a matter of technology. Any new technology will just get coopted by the rich and powerful. That plucky little startup tasked with making the world a better place will get bought, merged, hedged, stripped, and morphed until it is just (part of) another megacorp. This is a social issue.
sprash 3y ago
Don't hate this world, simply hate central banks. Fiat money is the primary reason the rich get richer and poor get poorer.
- wildrhythms 3y ago
  Why just fiat money? Money as a concept is yet another vehicle of inequality.
- yetihehe 3y ago
  It's a tool, not a reason. If there were no fiat money, there would be other tools. Greed is the reason. If you somehow removed all currently rich people, in 20-30 years you would have another batch of super rich.
  - mlrtime 3y ago
    Greed is just a proxy word for human nature. Humans are the reason. Now you might read this and think "This isn't true, I'm not greedy". I'm guessing 99.99% of people reading this thread have more money and food than the average human on earth. Statistically if you reading this you are greedy relative to the average human. This isn't an excuse to not try better.
saiya-jin 3y ago
Don't worry, you will grow out of it (thats not patronizing, just an observation on both me and many around me over decades). Life is complex, way more complex than you think it is and often a least-bad solution is used and stays around. All you have to keep remembering is that whatever solution to the problem is, it has to work reliably long term on its own on real lazy and greedy folks out there, not some handwavy wishful statements without much substance and utterly unrealistic expectations. Capitalism is fine. You just need to add a bit of inescapable wealth tax or similar solid mechanism. Which is unrealistic in US, hence the inevitable direction its heading towards.
refurb 3y ago
This is a bizarre take. Compared to the past, the average person has more rights and more ability to increase wealth than ever before. Try being a sharecropper farmer. Or just plain not the nobility. Odd one would "hate this world" after so much progress has been made.
- matwood 3y ago
  Yeah, as pointed out in Sapiens the biggest issue now is that we can 'see' what everyone else has.

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Freak_NL 3y ago

This is not a matter of technology. Any new technology will just get coopted by the rich and powerful. That plucky little startup tasked with making the world a better place will get bought, merged, hedged, stripped, and morphed until it is just (part of) another megacorp. This is a social issue.

sprash 3y ago

Don't hate this world, simply hate central banks. Fiat money is the primary reason the rich get richer and poor get poorer.

wildrhythms 3y ago
Why just fiat money? Money as a concept is yet another vehicle of inequality.
yetihehe 3y ago
It's a tool, not a reason. If there were no fiat money, there would be other tools. Greed is the reason. If you somehow removed all currently rich people, in 20-30 years you would have another batch of super rich.
- mlrtime 3y ago
  Greed is just a proxy word for human nature. Humans are the reason. Now you might read this and think "This isn't true, I'm not greedy". I'm guessing 99.99% of people reading this thread have more money and food than the average human on earth. Statistically if you reading this you are greedy relative to the average human. This isn't an excuse to not try better.

saiya-jin 3y ago

Don't worry, you will grow out of it (thats not patronizing, just an observation on both me and many around me over decades). Life is complex, way more complex than you think it is and often a least-bad solution is used and stays around. All you have to keep remembering is that whatever solution to the problem is, it has to work reliably long term on its own on real lazy and greedy folks out there, not some handwavy wishful statements without much substance and utterly unrealistic expectations. Capitalism is fine. You just need to add a bit of inescapable wealth tax or similar solid mechanism. Which is unrealistic in US, hence the inevitable direction its heading towards.

refurb 3y ago

This is a bizarre take. Compared to the past, the average person has more rights and more ability to increase wealth than ever before. Try being a sharecropper farmer. Or just plain not the nobility. Odd one would "hate this world" after so much progress has been made.

matwood 3y ago
Yeah, as pointed out in Sapiens the biggest issue now is that we can 'see' what everyone else has.