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Where does your optimism come from?
by davidmurdoch 3y ago
Where does your optimism come from?
- brink 3y agoNot history.
- geor9e 3y agoYes history. If you ignore the clickbait headlines designed to elicit rage, and the news feeds designed to spiral you into a cycle of fear, and just google "poverty graph" to find raw data sources you'll find it's generally a good trend like https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/dataviz-remake-fall-extreme-poverty-best-news-world https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/dataviz-remake-fall-ext...
- brink 3y agoWhat I mean is the problem with wealth gaps is historically they typically get remedied with violent revolution.
- dogcomplex 3y agoOr appeased with a tiny fraction of the total gains - just enough to keep a middle class happily with their basic little toys while wealth inequality grows. This could easily be the same, except the toy is "you don't have to work anymore and here's some houses and robot chefs! Now play nice while the adults go build star fleets"
- geor9e 3y agoThat's a therapist question. Probably from an engineering career, surrounded by smart folks for whom succumbing to "we're doomed" was never an option, and a solution was something you beat your head against a brick wall for the 999th time about. You just get used to things turning out alright. But the topic has a lot written over the centuries by people who can write better than I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment