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> when the data indicates people are better off today And what "data" would that be? https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-ra

> when the data indicates people are better off today And what "data" would that be? https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-general-advisory-raises-alarm-about-devastating-impact-epidemic-loneliness-isolation-united-states.html https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/05/03/new-surgeon-genera... https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/what-causing-our-epidemic-loneliness-and-how-can-we-fix-it https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/24/10/wha... https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy-Brief-Loneliness-Especially-younger-people-are-feeling-increasingly-lonely.html https://www.bib.bund.de/EN/News/2024/2024-05-29-FReDA-Policy... And what "purpose" are people looking forward to? > Also, the planet is warming, but it's not on fire. Total exaggeration. What does that even mean? It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Because you say so?

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But some billionaire did a TED talk where he said that the global poverty rate has been constantly declining, which is true, even if it is not meaningful if you remove it from the real-world context of purchasing power, social safety nets, support networks and shared commons, and only a positive if you think sweatshops are good because they create job opportunities. > And what "purpose" are people looking forward to? What, you don't find increasing shareholder value compelling? > It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Presumably they think the climage catastrophe is not a big deal. "On fire" is clearly hyperbole but the point is that we're on a fast track to total global economic collapse (to say nothing about the death and destruction itself) as long as the answer is to carefully do some ineffective reductions and give more money to the industry to spend on "carbon capture" technology that creates more emissions in the process of being built, maintained and operated than it could ever hope to capture, but I digress.

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But some billionaire did a TED talk where he said that the global poverty rate has been constantly declining, which is true, even if it is not meaningful if you remove it from the real-world context of purchasing power, social safety nets, support networks and shared commons, and only a positive if you think sweatshops are good because they create job opportunities. > And what "purpose" are people looking forward to? What, you don't find increasing shareholder value compelling? > It's not literally burning, so it's fine? Presumably they think the climage catastrophe is not a big deal. "On fire" is clearly hyperbole but the point is that we're on a fast track to total global economic collapse (to say nothing about the death and destruction itself) as long as the answer is to carefully do some ineffective reductions and give more money to the industry to spend on "carbon capture" technology that creates more emissions in the process of being built, maintained and operated than it could ever hope to capture, but I digress.