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> What If They Could? Then they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
by breve 6mo ago
> What If They Could?
Then they'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
- therobots927 6mo agoThey’re already at the front of the queue. Attempts to live forever will only further inflame the general population.
- Nasrudith 6mo agoClass based 'revolutions' are made up of a bunch of idiots who would happily destroy everything while being lead by somebody even worse who is qualitatively identical to the people they despise. They have proven that repeatedly.
- ausbah 6mo agoand you would be ok with an immortal class of tech overlords? history ending with one of the worst sets of ppl of our generation?
- lopsotronic 6mo agoMmmm. Not just the worst from a moral perspective - which is still bad! - but also some of the dumbest. Ours are not the Masters of Industry from the Industrial Age[1], or the fission-missile-kings of the Nuclear Age. They're not ready to teach a Physics unit at a community college. The tippity top of the uber-wealthy today are remarkably short on actual formal knowledge. This makes sense in their ideological system: scientific acumen as more of a commodity than a value. In this view, everything should look like the stock market. But this is a profoundly stupid view. It requires not just ideology, but willfully not looking at the universe. I'm probably steering afoul of about 90% of ycombinator here, so I'll just pull the throttles back and stop there. [1] "Isambard Kingdom Brunel . . But Got-DAMN did men used to have some proper-ass names" - Achewood
- therobots927 6mo ago90% seems high. I think there’s a solid chunk of the HN population that is very aware that this industry is run by morons. I, for example, only came to this realization a few years ago. But I believe it’s a growing sentiment. Late stage capitalism / techno feudalism really is a trip.
- lanstin 6mo agoI don’t know. I kind of like a social safety net, unemployment insurance, limits to the work week, free education for all future adults, paid holidays, mass voting, multiethnic democracy, product liability laws, etc. Our modern society owes a lot to the hundreds of years of struggle to empower hard work and education over inherited wealth.
- tim-tday 6mo agoI was just reading about the French revolution. Not sure we should be hoping for anything like that.
- keybored 6mo agoPeople don’t want revolutions because they are pleasant. Edit: they want revolutions because they are peasant...
- guzfip 6mo agoWhy? Would you rather be a starving peasant with less rights that you currently have?
- otikik 6mo agoI don't think OP is pointing to what he "hopes" is happening. He's pointing to what he thinks the rich and powerful are steering society towards.
- roryirvine 6mo agoI suspect that OP may have advanced knowledge of their fate thanks to the copy of a certain encyclopaedia which fell through a rift in the space-time continuum from 1,000 years in the future. Share and Enjoy.
- otikik 6mo agoTo know our future, sometimes it helps to look at our past. And then extrapolate.
- joquarky 6mo agoYou might belong to the group that is benefitting from the status quo.