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To me this comment reads like a lot of bending over backwards to try to the justify a gut feeling of “yea but for sure this time is different right??” Tech eli
by pembrook 2y ago
To me this comment reads like a lot of bending over backwards to try to the justify a gut feeling of “yea but for sure this time is different right??”
Tech elites on HN worrying about the moral fortitude of the unwashed masses in the face of the technological changes they themselves have brought about…it’s all a bit too “self-important loathing” imo.
Everything’s fine and going to be fine.
- immibis 2y agoEverything's not fine, hasn't been fine for at least a decade, and it's not at all certain that everything is going to be fine.
- mvdtnz 2y agoEverything has never and will never be completely fine. Things are better today than ever and continue to improve. Get offline and look around the real world for a while.
- karaterobot 2y agoThings are certainly better overall, but that improvement is not universal, and not evenly distributed. Clearly. Otherwise, we would simply say "everything is as good as it can practically be," which is something few people are doing. One of the ways in which the world is imperfect is that our media—and our relationship to that media—could be better. Anything in that to disagree with?
- immibis 2y agoBy most metrics, things were better about a decade ago. We're on a downward trajectory now. Except by GDP.
- reissbaker 2y agoWhat metrics do you think were better in 2015?
- achierius 2y agoOpioid deaths down 2x, for one
- mvdtnz 2y agoWhat metrics? Do you think the millions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last decade would agree?
- tolerance 2y agoWhat real world?
- StefanBatory 2y ago"Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good… so far so good… How you fall doesn’t matter. It’s how you land!"