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Substantive. Try this, I'm genuinely curious: if you were going to be born as a random human somewhere on earth, what year would you prefer that to happen?
by senordevnyc 7mo ago
Substantive.
Try this, I'm genuinely curious: if you were going to be born as a random human somewhere on earth, what year would you prefer that to happen?
- cleversomething 7mo agoIf I can choose the US specifically, then sometime in the 1950s. I think Baby Boomers in the US will go down as the single luckiest generation on earth in terms of socioeconomic opportunity.
- senordevnyc 7mo agoYeah, I don't disagree, but if we're talking about how our species (which I took "civilization" to mean) as a whole has fared, I think you shouldn't get to pick the where, just the when. If we care about all humans everywhere, and whether fewer of them are starving or dying of preventable diseases or whatever, then I think you have to consider being born as just a random human, not just a random American.
- gazebo2 7mo agooh god are we really doing this? just ignore the accelerated decline of virtually the entire world because we have medicine and Netflix?
- senordevnyc 7mo agoSo what's your answer?
- MiguelX413 7mo ago1700s Okinawa
- senordevnyc 7mo agoYou don't get to choose where