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It sounds like you’re confirming the parents point.

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• kennywinker 3y ago
  That progress is inevitable? Idk, if progress was inevitable, why did organizers have to be executed to make progress happen?
  • CamperBob2 3y ago
    Progress is most certainly not "inevitable." It takes intelligence, creativity, and hard work to bring about. Sometimes people try to stop it for selfish reasons. Usually those people can be persuaded to back down peacefully, but sometimes they can't. In those cases, force is necessary. That's what government is for. The trick, of course, is to come up with a government that can be trusted to put down Luddite uprisings and the like without going full Soviet with progressive-sounding concepts like central planning, gulags, and collective farms. It all comes down to the problem of defining just what "progress" means. But in general, when a society can feed, clothe, and shelter more people with fewer resources, that's a good indication that things are moving in the right direction. And that's where technology comes in. Maybe there's a better way forward, but the Luddites were sure as fuck not going to find it.
    • kennywinker 3y ago
      > But in general, when a society can feed, clothe, and shelter more people with fewer resources, that's a good indication that things are moving in the right direction. What does it mean when the a society CAN feed clothe and shelter everyone with ease, but chooses not to in favour of enriching a handful of people? Because that’s the world we live in, and it’s the one the luddites tried to prevent.