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Dude's an artist. He should do what his artistic intuition tells him to. I'm a software developer. I'll follow my own experience. It'll all work out.

• esperent 3mo ago
  For some value of "work out" anywhere between "human utopia that spreads across the stars" to "we destroy everything in a ball of nuclear fire and only microbes survive", yes, it will. The universe will keep on going either way.
  • sodapopcan 3mo ago
    "Whatever it is, it's progress, and we're doing it!"
    • nullstyle 3mo ago
      The only way out is through. Unironically
      • sodapopcan 3mo ago
        Don't I know it.
• sodapopcan 3mo ago
  He says exactly this in the comments on his page. This article is specifically about writing/art.
• forgetfreeman 3mo ago
  Roughly a third of the market is digging a $1T-a-year-deep-hole with <5yr amortization schedule on all of it and passing around the same $100B like it's in all of their bank accounts simultaneously. Yeah, shit's going to work out for sure, in all of the same ways that flying a plane into the side of a mountain has a clear ending.
• slopinthebag 3mo ago
  It’s likely it won’t all work out.
  • sevenzero 3mo ago
    Extremely likely. Humanity won't work out. Time is running out and we still kill each other over money and religions.
    • slopinthebag 3mo ago
      I’m more optimistic about humanity but I doubt the west will work out in its current trajectory. If you haven’t read The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter it’s worth a read. It’s not a conspiratorial or even outright pessimistic theory.
      • sevenzero 3mo ago
        Ill check the book out as I am extremely interested in these kind of topics. Although I am extremely pessimistic. You wrote "the west", what system will (in theory) work out? And how much does it value the individual? I know capitalism for example, can in theory, never succeed as its base premise is built on endless growth (which simply wont work out with finite resources). It's a short term system that we need to improve on. All the other systems we had, like feudalism, I'd rather die than live in... Personally I'd highly prefer socialism, but that also wont work out as too many humans highly reject its concept and its also not safe from corruption.
        • slopinthebag 3mo ago
          Tainter suggests that societies collapse because the costs of maintaining complexity eventually outweigh the benefits. “Collapse” in this context is more like a simplification than a catastrophe. And he points out that for a lot of people, the collapse actually made life better for them, as it becomes more local and less totalitarian. I mentioned the west because I’m a westerner with little experience of other systems, but I don’t think Tainter’s conception of a collapse would be limited to the west. Interestingly since you edited your comment to talk about capitalism, I think under the lense of Tainter’s theory it’s the most resilient to collapse since it’s simpler, at least in theory. In practice it’s heavily regulated - in fact I’d say no country really is capitalist, at most you could say it’s “state capitalism” which is very different from free market capitalism. But you’re also not wrong in that it has issues of its own.